This is what bothers me most about you Drew. You're so flippant because 1) You refuse to admit it's wrong, even though you know it is, or 2) You just don't care as much as you want everyone to believe.
No, the biggest thing you fail to see is that you've never seen me touting his photo-ops as ANYTHING, much less pointing out how cool or uncool they are. If I didn't care enough to point out his super-sweet photo-ops that drive you to the brink of insanity, how on earth did it ever get into your head that I cared if they were staged?
When backed into a corner, forced to justify your support of what should be a criminal act, you just throw unsubstantiated charges at the other side.
Backed into a corner? I'd have had to have actually SHOWN support of what you feel is a criminal act to be backed into a corner. I merely pointed out that you sound as if you believe there to be NON-staged photo-ops, and used my local communist as an example. Give you proof? Playing the naive little waif doesn't suit you well, as even you couldn't be so stupid as to think the "town meetings" that are all the rage in politics lately AREN'T staged. Does it help you if I say "BY EITHER SIDE".
Or are you just so incapable of defending the actions of this administration that they only thing you can do is say, "I bet the Dems do it too"?
Are you so incapable of common sense that you believe both sides DON'T do it? What is it you expect me to say? How about this. When John McCain and Russ Feingold hold their travashamockery they call a "town meeting", it's ALL a staged photo-op designed to produce some sort of sound bite, news snippet, picture of them glad-handing some sap, or some other "destined to make the news" item. Does it help you to see me throw a Republican in there, or are you so close-minded as to think I believe ONLY Dems do it or it's some effort to "cover up" what Bush did?
Please, for the love of Pete, show me the mouthful of words you seem hell-bent on shoving down my throat as if I said them.
Look, I'm not naive enough to think that there isn't some element of PR in absolutely everything a politician does. But, the levels to which this administration has taken it goes well beyond any normal PR effort, and into something wholly sinister and unAmerican.
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But you're willing to act naive and pretend for your argument about why I should be working to cut Bush's heart out with a dull spoon, and then turn around and tell me I need to give you some proof, when you JUST ADMITTED I'M RIGHT?
I don't feel the need to defend ANYTHING Bush has done. It's not going to matter to YOU one way or another. "Sinister" and "unAmerican" are words that can't even begin to be taken seriously, and the level of your rhetoric is what makes you someone to be looked at askance, and shake our heads while we walk away. Hyperbole isn't a tool you like to leave sitting in the toolbox. We've all just seen it far too often for it to be effective anymore. You'll just keep sitting in front of your drum set, banging first one, then another as the story of the week changes. Meanwhile, the rest of us are willing to invest our time when something meaningful happens, instead of paying much attention to the "OMG TEH STORY OF DA WEEK IS HERE" you provide us.