"The Arabs read a controlled press. What is our excuse? "

[laura888]

Letter to the Editor in today's Washington Post -

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Seventy percent of Americans think Saddam Hussein had a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks . Seventy percent of Arabs think the Israelis were behind Sept. 11. The Arabs read a controlled press. What is our excuse?

THOMAS P. LOWRY

Woodbridge

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63103-2003Sep11.html


Short and concise - go Tom!

[demnan]

1. The thing that surprised me is this guy lives in Woodbridge

His district is really Republican, the Democrats won't even run someone in Congress to oppose Tom Davis.

Wish I'd known more left wing people when I lived in Woodbridge, I always felt like the odd person left out.

[liberalmuse]

2. Because frankly, Americans choose...

to be stupid. Yesterday a co-worker told me and another co-worker to 'leave the country' because she heard us say that we thought 'Patriot Day' was a dumb name to commemorate 9-11 with. I told her I HATED when people used that stupid phrase and that this is my country and I'll stay, thank you. The guy I was talking with was, 'Aw, jeez. You know, a lot of people from other countries were killed on 9-11--the entire Thai embassy included.' We get along fine if politics doesn't come up. This is just one example of how incredibly childish and ignorant some of our fellow Americans are. Like my co-worker, some people love Bush and think he is a great president. Why? You won't get anything tangible from them, just, 'He's a man of god.' or, 'He's moral.' or some other such bullshit having nothing to do with his policies. Ask them to describe his policies or what he's been up to lately and they are mute. I am surprised so many people (70%!) have their heads up their asses.

[laura888]

3. I think FOX is actually one of the main culprits

Just think if O'Reilly was replaced by Howard Zinn as a talking head? Americans would get a whole different perspective.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. To show what we're up against

Here's an except from an article on "NASCAR Dads" from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

NASCAR Dads: GOP’s inside track by Scott Shepard

If "NASCAR dads" are in the driver's seat for the 2004 presidential election, the Democratic Party's chance of recapturing the White House may well be roadkill.

In fact, as thousands of racing fans descended on this small town for the Labor Day weekend running of the Southern 500, it was difficult to find any NASCAR fan, dad or mom, willing to listen to Democrats.

In interviews amid the Confederate flag-flying RVs in the parking lot and infield of Darlington Raceway and among the souvenir trailers lined end to end just outside the raceway gates, only one Democratic presidential candidate got a favorable mention --- Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

This is a bastion of middle- to lower-class white males, mostly from rural areas, who have been lumped together by political analysts as "NASCAR dads." They make up a demographic that Democrats want, much as they sought the suburban "soccer mom" vote in 2000.

Years ago, NASCAR dads might have voted their wallets with the Democrats, who tailor the economic policies to the less-well-off. But not now. As a group, NASCAR dads are not terribly political, but when they vote, they align culturally with the Republicans.

They are people like Mike Eidsen, 55, of Douglasville, a former Atlanta Gas Light employee and father of two, who now follows the NASCAR race circuit as a fan and a vendor, selling T-shirts, hats and jackets bearing the logos of popular drivers.

"My granddaddy was such a Democrat he would have voted for Satan himself if he was on the Democratic ticket," Eidsen said. "So I grew up Democrat and always voted Democrat. But not anymore. That was a mistake."

The last Democrat he voted for? "Jimmy Carter in 1976," he said. "And that was another mistake."


http://www.ajc.com/print/content/epaper/editions/sunday/news_f315391f608162af0001.html