You say this, but in reading your reponse, you post this: Pathetic. I find you to be just incredibly angry Batman. You are angry because you lost. Dean was your man. Period. He is gone. Toast. This upsets you. Greatly. You have a burr in your boot and you can't shake it. Face it, the Republicans were successful in tearing Dean down. He couldn't handle the heat. He got emotional, said things he regrets and now is left with the consequences. It sounds like your BBS persona in many respects actually. Your reponse to my post was severely lacking in content, character, and substance. I did not feel that it merited a response. At some point a debate must end. I did not feel it was worth my time responding to things like the quote above. You didn't *earn* my reponse. You got your panties in a wad, because all emotional that someone would dare challenge you, and then spewed forth your typical left wing lunacy. Sorry, champ, but I just don't feel compelled to answer to every one of your crazy red-faced rants. This clearly has gotten under your skin because you have felt the need to bring this thread to everyone's attention so often. I make you insecure of yourself. As I stated, you are not accustomed to being challenged. You don't handle it well when you are.
First off Jorge, you're right. I am upset about what's happened to Dean. A lot of people are. I'm not ashamed of that. I'm not ashamed of believing in something nor am I ashamed of being disappointed and, yes, angry when things go wrong with that. But that's got nothing to do with any of this. It's just another one of your deflections (or bubblegum psychological 'warfare' LOL). You listed ten reasons which were almost entirely misrepresentations. Aside from that poll (which, having read hundreds of polls on various subjects over the last month, I'm highly unlikely to find), I googled for actual transcripts to put the lie to your most egregious accusations and you sat silent because you knew there was no argument to make against the facts. If you want to obsess over that first item, go ahead. Since the time you abandoned this thread David Kay has said there were no WMD's. That's more damning evidence that Dean was right than an opinion poll anyway. You lied about the harmless question from the old man, you lied about the confederate flag, you lied about the Osama thing, you lied about the 9/11 thing and you failed to provide any documentation of the Bosnia thing so I could figure out exactly how you were misrepresenting that one. (I provided various links and transcripts to back up my positions and asked you for one in return. You didn't provide it.) The rest of your assertions (the Georgia thing, the Christian thing, the wanting to destroy the economy thing) were silly matters of opinion, but I addressed those too. And all you can come up with is that I'm angry (yes, I am, lots of Americans are, regardless of their feelings on Dean) and that I don't like to be challenged. If I didn't like to be challenged I wouldn't hang out on this board. You challenged me, I rose to it, you ran away. Again.
To be real honest with you, I got it second (maybe even third) hand. I wasn't there when it was first spoken. But I first heard it attributed to Plato on television, then searched on it and saw it attributed to him on the net. (Disclosure: I don't actually know the TV guy or the internet guy -- they could be wrong.) Do you know something I don't? Time for a new one anyway. Have also heard this one attributed to both Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. I'm going with Sinatra though.
