Comments on: Notes From The Fifth Column

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:49:49 +0000

Fantastic post; thanks for it. The only thing that disturbs me is that everything I read online like this seems to me to be preaching to the choir. The folks that really need to read and understand posts like this never will. It’s too dangerous to their way of thinking.

By: The Critic

The Critic — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:13:09 +0000

This woman I used to work with at my last job was a fairly rabid conservative. She loved herself some George Bush all right. She thought Bill O’Reilly was clever. She was a huge supporter of the war in Iraq and thought anyone who wasn’t hated America.

In 2003, when we had the great American blackout, as we were trudging across a street filled with traffic, trying to get to a parking lot to get our respective cars, she said to me,

“You know, in a way, this is so much worse than September 11th.”

I just looked at her for a minute. I couldn’t think of what to respond to such a blatantly selfish statement like that. Finally, after much internal hemming and hawing about calling her out on the carpet for it, I said, “Yeah, except for those 3,000 dead people.”

We haven’t spoken since that day.

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:33:07 +0000

Not only did I already own a flag, I observe the proper guidelines for display (only show it at night if illuminated, etc.). But now that I have a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my car, I must be a terr’ist?!? Damn, when did that happen?!? You’d think someone’s friends would do him a favor and take him aside, and say something…

By: Alex Fradera

Alex Fradera — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:06:16 +0000

great post.

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:25:08 +0000

Remember how everyone went running out to buy a flag. This unpatriotic flaming liberal who hates America didn’t have to because we already owned a flag. I recognize that I am a deficient American because I only display it occasionally, during the day and when it is not raining. I don’t have flag underwear, t-shirts, bandanas or flip flops — further proof of my disloyalty to the stars and stripes, the official logo of George Bush.

By: Robert McClelland

Robert McClelland — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:17:51 +0000

Are you still harbouring the illusion that the right whingers want to have a two way dialogue? They don’t. They only want a one way narrative and anyone who stands in the path of that narrative is their enemy.

By: John

John — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:45:08 +0000

Thanks, Greg.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:55:10 +0000

You may care, but someone doesn’t!

“So I don’t know where (Osama bin Laden) is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you … I truly am not that concerned about him.”

George W. Bush
March 2003 interview with Kelly Wallace of CNN