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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Christina[/i] [br]Here's an important column that ran in the Detroit Free Press, written by Mitch Albom, who happens to work for my same newspaper corporation. This is an important column, folks. It shows the stupidity of all the taking sides and the labelling and the finger pointing that has been going on both before and now after this election. Read it and think about it, folks. Just because the guy or woman next to you voted differently from you or thinks differently from you doesn't mean they're bad. We're a big, big country with a lot of different beliefs and attitudes. We need to learn to live with that fact, or this little experiment in Democracy will have failed big time. We have seen the enemy _ and it's us}< (NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR KRT NEWS SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION. See purchase information below)< By Mitch Albom< Knight Ridder Newspapers< (KRT)< Remember that kid in ``The Sixth Sense''? He saw dead people? America, based on the election, has become that kid. Only we see enemies. Wherever we look. And they frighten us.< Straight people see gays and fear they will turn their boys into sissies and their girls into Ellen DeGeneres. Gay people see straights and fear they want to ``change them back'' or legislate them out of existence.< The religious fear those less faithful will smash the Ten Commandments. The nonreligious fear those more faithful want to shove the Ten Commandments down their throats.< Conservatives see liberals and fear they want the whole country barefoot, communist and living on welfare. Liberals see conservatives and fear they want the whole country to look like ``Leave It to Beaver.''< Poor people see rich people and figure they must have scammed the system to get all they have. Rich people see poor people and think they must be scamming the system to get their tax dollars.< The pro-war crowd fears peaceniks will invite terrorists to our shores. The anti-war crowd fears hawks create new terrorists every day.< The pro-Bush crowd thinks the other side wants to destroy a faithful, honest public servant. The anti-Bush crowd thinks voters are being duped by a former frat boy who uses religious hot buttons to license his cold heart.< And around we go ...< Straight people fear that ``activist judges'' will turn our country into a Key West toga party. Gays fear that if they can't go to judges, they'll never undo the discrimination locked into our system.< Religious types fear stem cell researchers are on a slippery slope to baby killing. Stem cell researchers fear religious types are on a slippery slope to the Crusades.< Conservatives see the ``liberal'' media as a place where minorities get jobs because they are minorities. Liberals see the ``conservative media'' as the home office for white males over 50.< Poor people get mad when rich people find ways not to pay their taxes. Rich people get mad when poor people don't have to pay taxes.< The pro-Bush crowd thinks his critics can't stand a man who is firm in his convictions. The anti-Bush crowd thinks his supporters are morons who admire stubbornness because it's easier on their brains.< The white majority fears that minorities are multiplying so fast, they will take over the country. The minorities fear the white majority will deny their existence to keep control of the country.< The people who never travel think the rest of the world can take a hike _ who needs 'em? The people who always travel think the rest of the world is ready to take a hike _ and that's what scares them.< Gun lovers see their critics as nerdy, liberal girlie men who only want to take away their rights. Gun critics see the gun-loving crowd as yahoos who would rather fire than switch.< Evangelical Christians feel the country was started by people like them, and it ought to stay that way. Evangelical critics feel the country was started by people escaping relig [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.