Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> On his own I don't believe George W. Bush capable of keeping a
 WC> Burger King in the black for a year let alone keep his oath of
 WC> office to protect the principles of the U.S. Constitution.

 WC> I've got to stop watching the news it's really beginning to anger 
 WC> me.

 RJT> Hey,  that's the reaction I get to this stuff all the time.  One of the
 RJT> major reasons I've kept this echo going over the years.  Now if
 RJT> _enough_ people get to feeling that way,  maybe something will happen
 RJT> to change it for the better. But most people aren't going to care,  or
 RJT> don't want to make waves,  

 WC>  That's why I am so fond of the expression "sheeple."

Depressing,  isn't it?

 RJT> or figure that if they just "work the system" as it stands 
 RJT> currently they'll do okay...

 WC>  And thus become part of the problem.

Exactly.

 WC> You know even from the beginning of this administration though I 
 WC> was certain it would be a disaster I also fostered a small hope 
 WC> that there would be a backlash to that disaster and some of the 
 WC> sheeple might begin to employ some critical thinking for a change.

That's not something you can just figure out,  you have to be taught how to
do that,  starting real early.  I just hope that I've gotten enough of that
into the heads of those grandkids...

 WC> I'm beginning to see a little of that going on now,  not enough by 
 WC> half but close, maybe it will make a difference?

Only time will tell.

 WC> V.P. Dick Cheney was on the news this morning and the political 
 WC> doublespeak he employed in the interview was stunning.

He's good at that.

 WC> Cheney is still certain we'll find weapons of mass destruction, 
 WC> maintained Iraq had a nuclear weapons program that could have 
 WC> produced a bomb in months to a year, this despite he spoke only 
 WC> of parts to a centrafuge and "plans."

 WC> The interviewer got a few pointed questions in but quick on his 
 WC> feet Cheney managed to reply with impressive sound bytes the 
 WC> meaning of which eluded me entirely, it seemed clear to me it was 
 WC> simple obfuscation.

Probably.  It's a political skill,  doncha know...

 WC> Cheney just kept repeating the same unsubstanciated claims and 
 WC> answering with babblespeak when hit with a pointed question 
 WC> addressing the facts.

I saw that coming this morning and decided that I wasn't gonna watch it.

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