Questioning (Speak softly and carry a big ZOT)

[primer4500]

This is now the 4th Memorial Day since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many people and media outlets are looking back at the war. And with that, comes the criticism. Now, I haven't spent much time on FR, but I am suspecting that most FRers are still in support of President Bush's policies. I consider myself a moderate and am critical of many things he has done since taking office. I don't know whether many conservatives feel it is unpatriotic to protest the President, but keep this in mind:

"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." -Teddy Roosevelt 5/7/1918

Now, before everyone gets all up in my grill about posting this, I will tell you that I also did not support a lot of what Clinton did. He did lie and he did do a lot of wrong. And the accusations against him are true. And the accusations are unpleasant. And if you can't look at both sides of an issue, then you should be criticized as well.

[Spunky]

I missed the ZOT! darn

[Thunder90]

[Republican Wildcat]

Now, I haven't spent much time on FR

And you aren't going today - good bye!

[vigilante2]

Get a life!

IATZ

[chesley]

You know exactly just who "talks like that".

[darkangel82]

Trolls who get zotted, that's who.

[JRios1968]

Now, I haven't spent much time on FR

Seems to me like you got all of 5 minutes.

[chesley]

I was thinking more specifically than that. However, it's late at night, I've just driven about 500 miles round trip to see my new granddaughter, I'm tired. I don't think I'll go into any more detail.

You have a nice Memorial Day, hear. I'll think of you while I'm smoking some ribs.

[chesley]

Which is 300 seconds too long, IMO.

[darkangel82]

500 miles...wow. Around this time in 2000 I went on a trip twice that long, although we split it up, not all at once.
I'll think of you too. :)

[JRios1968]

Well, it was Sunday, and the Mods do need some time off every now and then. They work so hard!

[IrishCatholic]

I give you carte blanche to criticize the President. SO, what are your criticisms exactly? Detail them so they can be objectively reviewed.
I think the President has acted brilliantly in the war on terror. I think he has not done well on fighting the fifth column here at home. The propaganda war by the left is, so far, ahead.
Please be kind enough to list ten things about the war you would criticize as the President's fault and I will respond to each of the ten. Then we can bat it back and forth with me coming up with ten reasons why the President acted in the best American tradition with the cause of freedom in mind.
Wouldn't that be more fun than simply posting nonsense and running away?

[roaddog727]

WOW.

You signd up just today to post that.

You know what you have?

You have ZOT-U-LOSIS.

[NonLinear]

From one to another, thanks guys.
Tonite a toast to all our friends and sons and daughters and fathers and mothers who can't be here today.
We remember.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, 1951 or 1952

[chesley]

They do a good job, don't they?

[JRios1968]

Unfortunately, yes. The bastards...

[chesley]

LOL!

You like to play with trolls, eh? It's much more fun to be one over on DU.

[JRios1968]

I have always wanted to go troll at DU, if only for the ROFLMAO value...I just don't care to give them $$

[chesley]

I never have, although I may this time just for cover. Also, I want to post on their cooking & baking group. Won't give much though, gotta save it to donate to Jim Rob occasionally.

I'm on what I hope will be my 4th major troll. Privily I had posted there under the names of "Chesley" (300 posts), "forgethell" (4500 posts) and "Burning Water" (1200 posts).

[illbenice]

You must not know that freerepublic.com is full of purposefully blindfolded Conservatives that stand at the crossroads of choices and take whichever road the Republican party sputters past. Do not waste your time trying to reason with these mental paupers!