I guess the reaction to people like you and SOC is a good judgement of how this blog will go.

GITMO should be closed and whether he gets your support or not, closing GITMO is the right thing to do. Unless it is made the new home for Cheney, Rumsfield and Bush.

Comment by Strawberrybitch | 2008-11-19 23:35:15

Yyyup. If they weren’t terrorists when they went in, dimes to dollars they are now. Along with every member of their immediate family.

Not necessarily, there are the tv rights. See the UK Channel 4 Programme on the two released back to the UK!

Nevertheless, Gitmo, Waterboarding, extraordinary rendition are all stains on America, as great as slavery.

Why is ok for one person to have an opinion, but it’s not ok to disagree with it? Or to argue back a rebuttal?

SoC started in with the anti-semite stuff. That cannot be tolerated.

This person is calling themself Soldier of Christ. If you are going to use Christ’s name, then you may not want to be so rude to people. State your opinion all you want…but don’t go telling other posters you know NOTHING about that Jesus hates you.

I could care less what some faceless person whom I consider to be extremely radical says about me on the internet. Sticks and stones. If you think I’m being rude, then go back and read some of his/her posts.

Thanks for pointing out the commenter so he can be ridiculed the way you felt ridiculed?

what has happened to this blog?

Let’s just say that I come closest to agreeing—especially on military matters, the war, the detainees, “war crimes” trials for members of the Bush administration—with an actual soldier who posts here, soldier4hillary. I’m pleased to have found and read her work here, to have viewd her videos, and to know that good people like her are serving this nation. Perhaps she should come back and comment on this article and some of the others written in this vein.

It’s rare to have a forum in which alternate and opposing views may be expressed, discussed, and even argued through passionately without rancor—especially a forum in which there exists as much tolerance for dissenting views as I have seen in this one. Unfortunately, it looks to me like that this forum, as such, is about to expire. I see the death of tolerance here, in this latest series of articles and posts. I hate to say it, but it’s now apparent that the sense of basic unity I observed here earlier, prior to the election, is disappearing. Inevitable, I suppose—the posters here represent quite a diverse group, but mostly to left of center politically, and PUMA’s alternate meaning doesn’t lend itself to longevity as an organized group, anyway. The shared purpose—first in defending Sen. Clinton, then Sen. Palin and Sen. McCain against lies and other attacks, and defeating Obama in the election—is gone. Without that, people here are reverting into partisan mode, reviving old prejudices and old rancor, and just plain fighting and tossing insults.

I was considering supporting this site with advertising, perhaps submitting an article or two, but … I figure that centrist Constitutionalist independent conservatives like myself will soon be persona non grata here. Oh, well. I guess that’s why there’s no centrist third party in America and probably never will be. Too bad. Whether it succeeded in national elections or not, competition like that might keep the Democrats and the Republicans honest, or at least afraid to be too blatant about looting the treasury and redacting the Constitution.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for providing this site, for all the good work you’ve done with it. I have appreciated reading it and participating in it in a small way as a poster.

I leave you all with this one last thought:

The media at which you have been so enraged lately, the media that has lied to you, that has defamed you and the people you have supported in politics this year, didn’t change overnight, didn’t change in the past year, or even in the last several years. This process, this evolution from a supposedly unbiased, ethical, and reliable journalistic tradition has taken place over the past three decades. The process has accelerated in recent years, yes, but that’s how it is done—the frog-in-cold-water, bring-to-slow-boil treatment. That media has formed many of your opinions over the span of years that you’ve been subjected to it. Do you know, any more, what exactly is the truth, and what is propaganda?

I may drop in here from time to time to see what’s going on, but I probably won’t post. I do wish you all well—vaya con dios, amigos.

Beware of throwing stones when living in glass houses.

It’s very simple – You are what you do.

Whatever we do reflects who we are. If you don’t like your reflection, change what you are doing.

Yea, i remember watching a program on PBS that the U.S. had intelligence about Al-Quaeda and no one would listen to the guy. Ironically, he died in 9-11, but i thought the intelligence went back to during the Clinton administration. I’m sure there’s enough blame to go around for all involved.

and 9-11 was the excuse.

I usually hate psyche explanations or imposing therapy terms on politicians, but this was a case of Daddy stuff.

Just my 2 cents.