The Republican Party claims the high moral ground again

[Tom Araya]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_ ... n_politics (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_el_ge/corruption_politics)

[Tom Araya]

One thing this article points out is that Democrats are lousy strategists. If they had a clue, they'd be running Willie Horton-style commercials in every closely contested district. Like it or not, mud-slinging is what wins elections.

And the fact that Dems threatened a filibuster over 527s certainly doesn't make them look angelic.

[oldtimer]

"I don't know of any member of Congress who's lost because of something another member did or didn't do," said Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

I think this gus comment,,,,,,,is he living the world that I am....

However, I go to have to flow a flag........to much thinking prior to coffee.

NOTE: I have a picture of the flag being thrown, but, not enough coffee to find it.

[Tom Araya]

One of my hobbies is lexiconography (that is, searching for original word meanings). This morning, in reading Joe Ellis' "Founding Brothers," he talked of the terms "American" and "democracy." Both were originally derogatory terms Brits used to impugn the colonists as a "lesser, inferior, provincial creature." The term "democracy" carried extra baggage: it's meaning was "pandering to the crude and mindless whims of the masses." Thus, the key problem with democracy! :lol:

[oldtimer]

One of my hobbies is lexiconography (that is, searching for original word meanings). This morning, in reading Joe Ellis' "Founding Brothers," he talked of the terms "American" and "democracy." Both were originally derogatory terms Brits used to impugn the colonists as a "lesser, inferior, provincial creature." The term "democracy" carried extra baggage: it's meaning was "pandering to the crude and mindless whims of the masses." Thus, the key problem with democracy! :lol:

I do that for my sunday school lesson. The Greek language (it was all there was to use) falls short in translating Hebrew into english.

I amazing what some of the words we us today get there meaning from.