--- JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:46 AM 8/13/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote: > >I think Democrats should apologize for not > impeaching these > >incompetent American hating *********s. > > > >Gary Denton > >-- > >#2 on google for liberal news > > Let it not be said on Brin-L that Democrats do not > question the patriotism > of Americans. > > JDG
Now John, you know we've established that rule on this list. If a conservative questions the foreign policy _judgment_ of a Democrat, that's questioning his patriotism. (That was Doug, I think, but he's hardly alone in that.) If a Democrat explicitly says that his opponents hate the United States (too many to mention) or are un-American (Teresa Heinz) or unpatriotic (Wesley Clark) that's perfectly normal in civil discourse and there's nothing vaguely questionable about it. When Michael Moore says that the United States is a malevolent force in the world and Americans are stupid (as he said in the UK) that doesn't mean anything other than that he's questioning the current Administration, but if someone who disagrees with him points that out as perhaps a sign that he's not the biggest fan of the US, that's suppressing dissent. As long as you keep that in mind, list standards and etiquette will be perfectly clear to you... ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
