I'm,sure if Clinton died ...

[bushgottago]

That Bush would take the week off to mourn .....

Yeah right!

Why are Democrats always suckers?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Are you kidding? If Clinton died, the Repukes would re-enact "Ding Dong

The Witch Is Dead" musical number from The Wizard of Oz.

[vi5]

2. I'm being cynical about it.....it's a good move...

politically speaking. Its shrewd it gives the pundits and the right wing echo chamber nothing. And it gives Kerry a break and a rest on both his body and his pocketbook at a time when nobody would be listening anyway. Why waste the breat or the $$$?

[Cannikin]

3. I call it 'taking the high ground'.

I thought Kerry's move was very appropriate.

[demnan]

5. I'm glad Kerry looked Presidential and took the high ground

however I'm not running for anything and I can dish the dirt on the old son of a bitch as I please.

[CO Liberal]

9. It Will Be Interesting...

...to see if Pretzelboy follows suit.

[Ilsa]

4. I'm not a sucker

and I won't be suckered into this period of mourning. RR has taken enough of my time. Every time they mention something wonderful, I'll be reminding myself about all the unChristian-like policies his administration implemented.

I'm not going to bad-mouth him (excessively) this week while others are mourning him. It's just the way I was brought up, it's not anything I judge others by because I know alot of other people were hurt much more by his policies, and I'm happy for their joy. (I don't know if this makes any sense to others.)

The morning news shows are predictably insufferable, so I'm watching Simply Quilts on HDTV instead. Katie and Phil McGraw are acting like everyone loved the doofus and no one else has had to deal with the real pain of having to take care of someone with Alz. They conveniently forget that Nancy & family have had every advantage in RR's home care, no one has had to quit their job, give up their family home, or actually lost their relative to wandering off because there was no one to watch them.

You are so right, though. When The Big Dog dies they'll probably hold a special convention to celebrate and rub it in our noses.

[Senior citizen]

6. If Clinton died

we would be inundated with the Monica story.

Not that it killed anybody.

Not that it did any real harm.

But when you hate somebody, you need something to justify that hate.

When I was a kid I used to get hit a lot. My folks liked to hit me. And I had done something wrong. I never had an allowance and wasn't allowed to have or spend money (I was a tax exemption), but somehow, over the years, I had managed to find pennies, usually on the ground at school, and save them up until I had 17 of them. And one day we were at the supermarket and my folks weren't looking at me, so I took my pennies and started putting them in the gumball machine. Of course they caught me and I got punished. But I was about 7 years old at the time, and until I was 14 and they stopped hitting me because I was big enough to hit back, every time I got hit, which was usually more than once a day, I would also get screamed at for putting seventeen cents in the gumball machine. I thought my parents were the cheapest tightwads in the world (well, maybe they were, but that's not the point). It wasn't until I was well into middle age that I realized that the real reason they kept screaming about the gumball machine every day for all those years, was that all my other "sins" were those of omission, i.e., I had failed to do something they felt I should have, or failed to do it quickly enough, but the gumball machine was a "sin" of commission, and I had never really DONE anything else wrong. When you're beating somebody up, it helps to pretend to have a reason.

Ray-gun's sins of commission are so numerous that even after listing page after page of them, people are still remembering more. The people who suffered, who died, who were harmed in some way by Ray-gun policies, may have forgiven, but they haven't forgotten. But the bandwidth used to recount so many of the bad things Ray-gun did will not amount to a fraction of the bandwidth that will be devoted to the blowjob when Clinton dies. Because that is all they ever managed to find that he did wrong. And it will drown out whatever he did that was good, and all the bad that was done to him. Trust me, I know.

[Shopaholic]

8. That was a very eloquent post Senior Citizen. . .

so true, so true. . .

[wndycty]

7. Its called class. . .

. . .just because the Republicans don't have it does not mean we shouldn't.

[mopaul]

10. so, we are the polite class?

and only they can be the insulting class?

[wndycty]

11. Evidently not. . .

. . .you are proudly sinking to their level. I know that you are more than happy to get in the mud for no reason other than to get into the mud. Go for it. . .I would not expect you to behave any other way.

[Senior citizen]

12. To say something bad about the deceased

if it weren't true, could be called mudslinging. To counter the puke spin with some factual data is merely the responsibility of an enlightened citizenry to set the historical record straight by speaking truth to power.

Hey! They just set off a big fireworks show down by the bay. Guess I'm not the only one celebrating RR's demise in this town.

:toast:

[theboss]

13. Clinton would be treated the same way

It's the national tradition. We are going to get the same thing for Ford, Carter, and Poppy.