Reply #34: Yeah, god forbid a candidate explain the issue... [View All]

[Atman]

...to people as if they were grown-ups.

The free-speech angle CAN be explained to the Wal Mart Nation. It really can. Pandering and giving in is NOT the answer. As long as we never address what is behind issues like this, and just keep going with the flow, we wind up going where the flow takes us, instead of thoughtfully mapping out a course.

This is lunacy. Free speech or not? that is the simple question.

We are talking about burning a piece of cloth, nothing more. I find it equally offensive when I see American flag neck ties and do-rags, but is Dean advocating raiding the trailer parks and arresting people for bad taste?

I am completely serious...I find American flag underwear, do-rags, all that crap, very offensive. But hey...there is no constitutional amendment against being offensive, is there? So I mumble my contempt for the jerks, and live my life.

Why can't the GOP get this simple concept? Why?