I'm a jerk and a hypocrite and a lousy lay

Man alive! Today I became entangled in an innocuous gas passage of an email discussion that ended with two idiots (I, being one of them) realizing that were shouting at shadows on a wall in a cave that nobody gives a shit about...sigh. This all started when a friend, and supreme mentor, started a political email chain over the weekend. The majority of my friends are liberals who lean a little further left with their beliefs. When they send out an email list like this it is only to wave a flag of solidarity and show that they haven't given up the great political internet campaigns of 2004. The rest of the collective are made up of cynics, tiresome oafs, teachers, and philosophical fountains of 'what if's' and 'yes, but's.' It is only when the people in this minority are bored that there is a problem. And, holy Christ, are these people bored off their asses. What follows are brief excerpts from the email thread. I have truncated these down to the basic principles so that you will not befall the bored-ness that seems to have infected this core: Original email: If you read through this it should get you fired up regardless of your position on the current goings-ons. This is attributed to Dr. Robin Meyer, pastor at Oklahoma City's Mayflower Congregational Church (UCC), and professor of rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. "Tonight, I join ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whose actions are anything but Christian." Insert list of terrible things Bush is doing, has done, didn't do, blah,ad nauseum, etc. Response 1: I don’t think generalizing a situation and then blaming someone can gain anything positive. However, I’ll support a President that clearly has a focus on a goal that’s outcome is uncertain and costly, who made his case for War at a time that would guarantee a favorable outcome, and capitalized on his own faith. I am a hypocrite. But even still...Why can’t everybody call bullshit when it’s appropriate and also except that humanity is only fallible, not evil? Response to that response: While I agree with the assertion that opinions are like assholes (we all have one and they all stink), what I managed to garner from the potentially fake Dr Meyer's (she's a doctor, so she must be smart...and Meyer is a hot dog so it must be easy to digest) comments are that, 'if God is your platform, is it the universal God that we have been going to see in church or is it some crazy Greek god like Aries?' I can also assure you, while I am fallible, that when I make a mistake, people don't die and I generally don't get richer. Retort to the response to the first response: I don’t think our involvement is purely motivated by greed and hate and ever other negative human trait. That never sat true to me. I’m not that cynical, and I got fed up with being called ignorant for not being that cynical. I hope that one day the politicians and the media can communicate to us with some degree of honesty, or at least keep secret those facts that will hinder our lives more than improve them. The Middle Finger response to the retort: "I'm not that cynical, and I got fed up with being called ignorant for not being that cynical." What a beautiful back handed slap, delivered with the subtlety and aplomb of jackhammer dentistry. Humbled comedic response to middle finger: I actually had to look up aplomb...i thought it might be something to do with me being fat and gassy. Expression of shame for dressing down: I'm such an elitist cock anymore. For some reason I choose to profess this great vocabulary in email, but in reality, when my boss asks me what I've been doing all week, I stutter and pop like Shemp when he saw a talking skeleton. EPILOGUE COMMENTARY: It's the Civil War all over again, but this time, it's brother vs. brother, brother vs. sister, mother vs. nephew, drunk second cousin vs. guy who bought a Tastycake at 7-11 who looked like that looked exactly like you, dude. Seriously, this whole discussion reminds me what all political conversations equate to: America: Land of the opinion and the home of the offended.