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Originally posted by wonderwench
I'm a registered Democrat who agrees with Zell Miller that the party has gone downhill.
Kerry is of the unfortunate new Democrat model in which class politics and divisiveness are played up in high relief - to the destruction of civil society.
Small example: Kerry's statement that Bush is "opening firehouses in Baghdad and shutting them in the United States of America" in his acceptance speech.
The cynisicm of this statement is almost indescribable - and poses a mock choice. Fire stations in Iraq and the U.S. are not mutually exclusive.
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Indescribable cynicism? Are you kidding? Are Democrats allowed to criticise Bush at all, or does that qualify as hate speech? And liberals are accused of hyper-sensitivity....sheesh.
Since when have politics not been divisive? Class warfare? Most freakin' Democrats won't even admit that there is a class system in this country. Jesus, do we have to become total mouthpieces for our parties? I'm not even a Democrat, but I find myself in the uncomforatable position of defending Kerry just because these attacks on him are so furious yet baseless. I wonder where all of those who cried "politics as usual" in the July surprise thread have gone. It seems that that sentiment is missing from this thread.