mmccarty12 Loc: Zionsville, Indiana

Is that not what I said? Are you trying to call me out as siding with one or the other? Or are you affirming what I said as valid?

Your response makes no sense in any context I can figure out.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Of course you can call me Archie. May I point out that you forgot to mention the private jets that delivered them to the limosines? I cannot disagree with you on this. I would prefer not to have a label. I'm just me. We should help the poor as much as we can as long as they are trying to help themselves. It seems like we have a completely dysfunctional system with a bunch of huge egos running the show. No common sense.

rumitoid

Totally agree. Thank you, Archie, nice to be on a first name basis. You can call me rumi or Tom, my given.

mmccarty12 Loc: Zionsville, Indiana

There have been times in the past when we have disagreed most vehemently. Those times have gotten heated. Sometimes one or the other of us has crossed the line, and the other retaliated in kind.

I preface with the above because you have said something with which I have to agree with you. I have said in other posts of mine and seen others do the same and finally realize that my first impressions of you may have been biased based on previous postings. There are i***ts on both sides, here and in Washington. Those of us who try to be rational are constantly inundated with the irrational rants of the nuts on both sides. Unfortunately, we are outnumbered.

Thank you for submitting a post that allowed me to reevaluate my understanding of you and I hope that while we will still disagree, we can do it in a more amicable manner than has been done in the past.

At first I was not going to reply to this because while I agreed with you, nothing more, at that time, needed to be said. Upon reflection, regardless of which side a person is on, if they deserve kudos from you, you should give it to them.

Greetings and salutations, and I hope that while we will disagree in the future, this will begin the foundation of a bridge upon which both of us may one day stand within arms reach to shake hands and call truce.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Democrats can't really help the poor or b****s at this point, it would show that for the 40 years they didn't givea damn.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Thank you Rumi! There has to be some middle ground here. Everyone wants to be right. We're losing our country is all I know.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

you must be BloJobster's boyfriend

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

that is good....touche

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Yes...yes I am! We do meet up ocassionaly and exchange blows. :hunf:

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Archie, I wouldn't admit that even in jest.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Context!!

rumitoid

Wow, thank you very much. but talking about kudos, you really should have them all. Being the first to reach across the aisle is, to me, a great show of character. God bless. Of course we will disagree in the future but your gesture makes this an American debate: a respect for and appreciation of the differerneces that helped to make us stronger. Nicely done, my friend.

rumitoid

God, yes, archie. It is really painful. So very different when I was young.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

After a bit of thought..I still think I'm good because we all know Bo has no male parts. :-P

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

:P