Reply #19: Okay, everyone, drop the partisanship!

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It's terribly unbecoming!

We must all be fair and balanced.

Fair and balanced, in the face of the faux hype that there is a "war on Christmas", when we are surrounded with--no, buried in-- the trappings of yet another commercial Christmas.

Fair and balanced, in the face of assertions by Tweety and (snicker) Tucker Carlson, that "all the politicians of both parties are equally corrupt all the time", as we watch the Republican senate majority leader under an SEC cloud, and the Republican house majority leader under indictment(s), and numerous Republican congresspersons and senators all being revealed as having willingly taken part in Jack Abramoff's dirty games, and Republican Duke Cunningham having taken $2.4 million in bribes, forcing him to resign after his FELONY conviction, and Irving Scooter Libby, member of both Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's staffs, being indicted for FIVE crimes, and the Republican VP being credibly accused of war crimes by a man who once worked in the same administration with him, and Republican Gossip/Verbal Assassin Karl Rove's misdeeds becoming clearer by the day, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Fair and balanced, in the face of Hyper-Christian Pat Robertson advocating the death of a fellow human being who has committed no crime.

Fair and balanced, in the face of Madman-Pervert O'Reilly advocating the bombing/destruction of a whole American city, because that city had the TEMERITY to try to protect its CHILDREN from being recruited to a war where they would likely die solely to protect rich men's profits.

I was a republican voter for many years. I was not anti-war. I ceased to hold these beliefs when I realized that our republican president, for whom *I* had voted, was taking us into a totally unjustified killing spree in a country which did NOT present a threat to our safety. My "epiphany" (to use an expression currently popularized by the highly confident Donald Rumsfeld) occurred in early 2003. I have seen both sides of the partisan coin.

And I maintain that it's ABOUT FRIKKIN TIME we heard SOMETHING, ANYTHING besides the constant state-sponsored propaganda that "republicans are all good and are the epitome of what is Christian". And I don't give a tinker's damn if someone whines that it's "partisan". They INVENTED "partisan".