Ken wrote:
>Judging from the reader comments left
>on CNN, Fox, etc. very few people,
>on either side, got the point of the presidents
>speech last night. It is time to dial down
>the rhetoric. There is so much bullshit flying
>back and forth the real issues are getting lost in the splatter.
I didn't listen to Comrade Bambi last night. The hypocrisy of a close friend of *unrepentant* bomber Bill Ayers and 20 year member of Jeremiah Wright's "Church of Hate Whitey", telling me to eschew violent rhetoric, would just be too much to bear.
But the rhetoric has ALWAYS been hot. These folks wishing for calm, measured tone in a civil debate from times gone by aren't remembering clearly.
Every age has had it's verbal violence, and sometimes it's physical violence as well. The country was born in a violent revolution. Since then, people have been attacking each other verbally.
Look up some of the rhetoric employed by Jefferson and Adams when they were competing for the Presidency. Then moving forward from there, throughout our history.
I'm not condoning or excusing it, I'm saying it's human nature, and that's the way it's always going to be.
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