I'm sure that I won't change your feelings on Jackson, and it isn't as if he is a personal hero of mine either. He is quick to jump to conclusions and throws out possible accusations before all the facts are in, from time to time. I just wanted to pose the possibility that you are putting more weight on Jackson's negative aspects than on his positive contributions which are numerous.
It doesn't f***ing matter what you or I think about the author. No-bid contracts, congressmen taking advantage of this disaster to push through their profit-hopeful agendas, Bush issuing an executive order to lower reconstruction workers' wages.....unless you have something to say about these facts mentioned in the article, then you come off as a babbling partisan who cares more about his team winnin' than the country itself. Some of the other posters here (both libs and cons) tow their party line and attack the other side just out of playfullness, to polish up their debating skills, or perhaps out of sheer boredom. But you actually seem to believe all this neocon crap you're being fed on FoxNews. Rupert Murdoch's focus studies could not conceive of a more ideal zombie to actually buy into all this political party schism bullshht. They got you so focused on helping your team win that you've become completely blind to the actual issues and what is really going on. And by the way, the author doesn't even mention race in this article. Funny how nonetheless, race is the exclusive theme of your post.
Riiight.....so if JJ says that Clinton's buddies are "advising their corporate clients" on how to get a piece of the Katrina pie, what he really means is that black people from coast to coast need to unite and overthrow their white oppressors
I have not been critical of Clinton. It is your distorted world view that seeks ways to paint Bush in a bad light.
Wrong, it is facts such as the one stated in the article I posted - in which Bush issued an executive order to lower reconstruction workers wages - that already paint Bush in a bad light without my 2 cents being necessary. But you will defend this jackass to no end regardless of what the facts are before you. This is because you are mindfrozen zombie parroting your party's line day after day, oblivious to raw deal you are getting yourself from the effects of the holy matrimony between the federal government and big business. And this goes for Clinton or Bush. With slightly upgraded reading comprehension skills, before you replied you would have realized I was not defending Clinton but in fact calling him out on the same lack of ethics in his service to the electorate.
= For the life of me I can't come up with any kind of response to the facts in the article that I've chosen to ignore......so now I am going to just label this guy as condescending, even though just a few minutes ago I called him an imbecile with a distorted world view.
nope. I painted with a broad brush. I didn't single out a poster as an imbecile. You have gotten personal. The closest to personal I have been was talking about your distorted world view. I shouldn't have said that. No two views of the world are the same so they, mine included, are by definition all distorted. Let's back off this conversation. You got your feathers ruffled when I said my opinion of Jesse Jackson. I got mine when you went back to Bush's cronies getting no-bids. It's just a hoops bbs.
Just to clarify, I'm not even much a fan of JJ myself....it's just that you were attacking the author of the article without taking up any of the actual points in the article. And one more thing.....it's not "just a hoops bbs".....this joint is like the Palace de Versailles of cyberspace real estate
To be fair, Max is definitely conservative, but in case you hadn't noticed he has disagreed with Bush's policies regularly in the past two years or so and IIRC expressed regret wrt his vote for Bush recently. While basso wears his GOP colored glasses, yours definitely resemble an ass.
Chill, pippendagimp. I disagree with much of what Chance has to say on this subject, but the way you are trying to make your point just gives ammunition to those who denigrate this forum. I think you owe Chance an apology. He's been man enough, in the recent past, to apologize when his emotions got in the way of the discussion. You should be as well. Having said that, Bush's executive order regarding wages during the reconstruction of this disaster is simply abominable. It does nothing but enrich his contributors, insure a lower standard of living for those working on these upcoming projects, hurts their families, and bumps up the bottom line for those getting the contracts. Is profit everything at a time like this? Shameful, just shameful... and illustrates everything wrong with Bush and his cronies. KEEP D&D Civil!!
