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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

You're use to the politics of the later half of the 1900s.  Early politics 
included polticians dueling, standing on opposing street corners and 
screaming at each other, having people in the audience egg them.  And so 
forth and so on.

I think folks who are so sensitive and touchy about anyone asking questions 
or calling a politician, including the president, on his/her b.s., should 
nightly read the entire quote from Roosevelt:

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public 
servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is 
warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency 
in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a 
whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full 
liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly 
necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does 
right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are 
to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and 
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the 
truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more 
important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about 
any one else."  Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, 1918

Lynda
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we 
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and 
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theodore 
Roosevelt, 1918.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>


> It's a real shame. I did see Wilson being interviewed and you could hear 
> the
> crack in his voice.
> Now I recall people hooping it up when Bush got the show thrown at him. At
> least that was not done by a US citizen. I thought that that
> was definitely a punishable offense.
>
> Decorum is a thing of the past. Politics have always been nasty, but at
> least politicians tried to appear above it all and people in polite 
> company
> tried to stay away from politics. Now we roll in the mud proudly.
>
> The Internet has created a new medium that's like fuel to a fire for these
> rumors and crazy ideas, it's a shame, the Internet was such a great thing 
> 10
> years ago.
>
> I remember days when I read more treads than I deleted from this list. I
> even remember when people saved treads form this list as something useful.