Comments on: If you voted for Bush, are you embarrassed? http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/ Simple living, natural learning & exploring the world Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Arp http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/comment-page-1/#comment-5544 Arp Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:53:44 +0000 http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/#comment-5544 Here's the Gore quote: <blockquote>What politics has become is something that requires a kind of tolerance for artifice and manipulative communications strategies that I just find I have in very short supply. I just don't have the patience for things that seem to be greatly rewarded in today's political system.</blockquote> Not sure why I've had two political posts in 2 days, but I think it's some residual irritation caused by Dolores Umbridge & the Ministry of Magic (I'm re-reading 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix')... Here’s the Gore quote:

What politics has become is something that requires a kind of tolerance for artifice and manipulative communications strategies that I just find I have in very short supply. I just don’t have the patience for things that seem to be greatly rewarded in today’s political system.

Not sure why I’ve had two political posts in 2 days, but I think it’s some residual irritation caused by Dolores Umbridge & the Ministry of Magic (I’m re-reading ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’)…

]]> By: Arp http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/comment-page-1/#comment-5542 Arp Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:37:56 +0000 http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/#comment-5542 That is the really sad part - politics is just bs. I think we'd have better luck with a philosopher king than elected officials. There's a good Gore quote in the latest issue of 'Fast Company' magazine where he admits that being political doesn't jibe with him. I'll have to look up and post the quote - my paraphrasing is not doing it any justice. That is the really sad part – politics is just bs. I think we’d have better luck with a philosopher king than elected officials.

There’s a good Gore quote in the latest issue of ‘Fast Company’ magazine where he admits that being political doesn’t jibe with him. I’ll have to look up and post the quote – my paraphrasing is not doing it any justice.

]]> By: Summer http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/comment-page-1/#comment-5540 Summer Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:15:17 +0000 http://www.tinygrass.com/2007/07/if-you-voted-for-bush-are-you-embarrassed/#comment-5540 Sad, just uttery sad. I can't wait until that man is out of office, though I don't have much trust left that someone better will be next. Sad, just uttery sad. I can’t wait until that man is out of office, though I don’t have much trust left that someone better will be next.

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