Hey readers!  Bob returned!

We'll see who wins in 2004 kids. The problem with debating liberals is that your point of view is strictly emotional. Republicans tend to deal in logic and fact. If you want to believe the propaganda being passed to you by the ultra-liberal media and ignore common sense, I have no reason to waste my time debating you. When you're a bit older you'll understand and my guess is that all of you will be registered republicans. My anonymity is my right by the way. If you want to host a "public" blog....deal with it kids.

I find this hilarious.  I was in Cup-A-Joe Coffee Haus last week with Trish, the Warren County Coordinator for the Dean campaign, and this guy starts yelling and getting all in our face about how much he hates us liberals because we're all immoral and we're self destructing and yadda yadda yadda.  And I mean spitting mad, and we weren't even doing anything overtly political - we weren't canvassing or handing out fliers or anything, we were just sitting there eating lunch and coordinating calls.  I don't know about you, but I'd call that an emotional response.

But in some ways, Bob is part right - there IS an emotional component to our views, and there SHOULD be!  I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think about how Bush's Department of Labor posted on their site info on how companies can get around the new overtime regulations and essentially cut out overtime pay for their workers by increasing the base weekly hours component of their job.  And I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think about how Bush lied to the American public in his State of the Union about Iraq buying enriched uranium from north Africa - something he had already been informed months prior was incorrect intelligence.  I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think how the No Child Left Behind program forces schools to meet testing criteria at the risk of cutting off funding - funding so minimal (it's called an "unfunded mandate" people) that only the schools in the most desparate areas utterly rely on it - and those schools need the most help meeting the criteria, not just a test of what the criteria is.

And as for your privacy, BOB...  that's true.  But I work for an ISP so I've seen first hand... all they have to do is send me (or your ISP Mediacom or your employer Principal or whoever) a fax summons with your IP, and EVERY bit of your private info gets turned over, lest they get charged with obstruction of justice.  It's good ol' HR 3162 - the US Patriot Act.  And yes, even the idea of being forced to do so for a bleeding idiot like you, Bob, makes me mad.

So I guess there is an emotional component.

BTW - I LOVE the comment about the "ultra liberal" media.  I mean, only that would explain why the worst of what Bush does, the most underhanded, get made back page news while things like "Dean said this about the South" or what not make the front page.  That's why the Clinton blowjob was top of the fold news for months and the Bush WMD issue gets relegated to deeper obscurity.  Oh wait, that's right, while the majority of reporters lean liberal, the vast majority of owners and editors weigh conservative.  And they determine placement and story viability.  But of course, I'm just blindly following rhetoric there, BOB.

Jackass.