Reply #32: Yo, dweller. It's time to switch to decaf. [View All]

[The Backlash Cometh]

Here's a recap of what just went down: You dropped some acidic remarks without leaving clues to let us know what side you were taking. Sarcasm & exaggeration weren't my first guesses because, well, this is not a british newsgroup and for some cultural reason, only the brits seem to know how to do sarcasm right, without offending.

On the other hand, if it wasn't sarcasm, yah, you would have had a fight on your hand. That would have been grounds for a vigorous debate. The "Blame Clinton" strategy seems to be one that the media used because it paid so well back in the 90s. A lot of journalists and pundits put downpayments on their houses over that one, so we left Planet Reality Base, and we've never really plotted a course back.

My opinion is, that unless we manage to get those pundits to apologize for playing a very ugly role in a very ugly chapter in our country's history, we will forever be destined to be a divided country with two sets of historical versions of what just happened to us in the last ten years.

Otherwise, glad to see we're on the same side on this one.