Re: OT- the state of the union




Pat Flannery wrote:

Sadly - of course - the distance of history will recognize that the
threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.

Ah, yes. Fearmongering at it's finest.


We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed
to Benjamin Franklin that "those who would give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Is this a rant against gun control laws? Somehow I think not.


God Bless You, Mr. Olbermann

God Bless You.


Snort.


Let me know when Bush sends FBI assassins to kill Americans living on
thier own land and harming nobody, and not even suspected of being
involved in criminal activity... as Clinton did.

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