I didn’t assume that everyone on the list
was a Democrat.
There are those moments in history that
are defining moments. I could be wrong Susan, but I think this is one of them. It
is kind of the end of an era and so I sent the email as one commenatator’s (not
my) statement of what has become evident. Take it for what it’s worth, but
consider that this is a turning point in American politics and that the debate (the
one that will never end) will now be carried out on a different basis.
I didn’t send the message as a Democratic
commentary, but as news.
Herman
From:
oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Susan Fertig
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
1:21 PM
To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A good
reflection on Romney
First, I find it
offensive that there is an assumption that everyone on the listserv is a
Democrat or espouses that party’s platform. Look up the definition of
“group think”.
Second, I find it
offensive to perpetuate negatively distorted characterizations of one candidate
(and I’ve often found that this listserv also perpetuates characterizations of
others that are just as distorted through bias on perceived positives).
That’s the Kool-aid part.
And yes, the
Kool-aid analogy could be attributed to all of us, myself included, who
participated fanatically in something called the Spirit Movement that came
pretty close to being a cult. You’re right.
Susan
From:
oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Walters
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
1:05 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A good
reflection on Romney
Susan
You need to explain what our collegue Herman has said that
has offended you.
As one who is retired, pay no federal income tax, plus
in two months from today I will qualify for Medicare - I am proud to
say that I am part of the 47% that Romney spewed so much contempt for in the
video referenced in Herman's comment.
I didn't know that Herman was in the Kool-Aid business,
although if Joe M athews was with us and still teaching RS-1, he certainly
would be accused of such.
-David Walters
Just for the record, not everyone on
this listserv has drunk your KoolAid, and I’m offended by your language in the
message below and the one that succeeds it.
Susan
Jonathan
Chait says
the hidden
camera video that
went viral yesterday exposes Mitt Romney "as a far more sinister character
than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a
series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized
his party. He believes that market incomes in the
"The revelations in this video come to me
as a genuine shock. I have never hated Romney. I presumed his ideological
makeover since he set out to run for president was largely phony, even if he
was now committed to carry through with it, and to whatever extent he'd come to
believe his own lines, he was oblivious or naïve about the damage he would
inflict upon the poor, sick, and vulnerable. It seems unavoidable now to
conclude that Romney's embrace of Paul Ryanism is born of actual contempt for
the looters and moochers, a class war on behalf of his own class."
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