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Posted By: Joann

Yes - the country is very split today. It even causes trouble between me (almost 100% liberal) and my much more conservative family that thinks GWB is doing a great job, and any thinking to the contrary is a result of the liberal media. I have yet to have any one of them state an actual fact. "We're doing well in Iraq" is an opinion, not a fact. Not one person can state one fact. I can state one fact (more actually). Eric Shenseki, then Chief of Staff of the Army, recommended we go into Iraq with 400,000 troops, give or take. But that was completely contrary to Rumsfield's vision (founded on ... what expertise ... I don't know)of a small and agile conquest. That was the end of Shenseki's career. Now he's on the golf course when he's not watching kids get their a$$es shot off on CNN.

But the split of the country is kind of interesting to me. I remember not all that long ago - a few decades - when people didn't vote at all, and polls overwhelmingly showed that they didn't think it made any difference at all who you voted for for President. Because both guys were the same. Really. I know some of you remember too when it seemed like there was very little to truly distinguish two Presidential candidates.

I don't like the split, but I think the genericism of 20 years ago was also unhealthy.

Joann