# President Bush and Civil Rights. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! (Super long) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686 "2004-10-22T21:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686/41 "2004-10-26T10:17:26Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Well, Lib, if your complaint about “independent bipartisan” being a stupid term wasn’t a hijack, then what was it? It’s what I said it was — a _comment_, an expression of opinion. One post does not constitute a hijack anymore than one speaker constitutes a dialog. It’s no different from someone stopping by to point out that a poster made a factual error, or spelling mistake, or in this case, an unfortunate oxymoron. It may be tangential to the topic, but it is not altogether off-topic either. If you can find a thread that has stayed absolutely on-topic of the OP without veering to any other subject, and that isn’t a trivial 2 or 3 posts, I’d like to see it. Meanwhile, if you had just left the comment alone, it would have been an isolated post, espressing an opinion, and people could have gone on their merry way fretting and handwringing over the topic of Bush and civil rights. Instead, you have written (so far) five posts addressing my comment. If hijacking were your concern, one would think you would be all over several other posts that came way before mine, such as #2 from Blackacre that consisted entirely of: > [@](#): > > Yawn. Liberal. > > BA What is it that made you decide not to peck at the keys when you saw that one? Or #6 from GaWd: > [@](#): > > Wait, you think he actually read your post? > > This guy has black marks all over him. He’s whinging about political threads, poking fun at everyone he takes for a “librul”, and generally making himself a nuisance. Oh, and he’s openly admitted that he’s an attorney! > > I’m not sure you’re fitting in here, BlackAcre > > Sam What does _that_ post have to do with Bush or civil rights? It’s all about BlackAcre and what a nuisance he is. Why didn’t slap the keys to censure GaWd? There is something afoot here other than a concern over hijacking. And you might want to look in a mirror because what the hell have you _yourself_ said about Bush and civil rights? If I’m the gander, then you’re the goose. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686/42 "2004-10-26T10:32:06Z")
**Liberal:** \* It may be tangential to the topic, but it is not altogether off-topic either. If you can find a thread that has stayed absolutely on-topic of the OP without veering to any other subject, and that isn’t a trivial 2 or 3 posts, I’d like to see it.\* **Lib** , I wasn’t **complaining** about your minor hijacking. I was just saying that you did not make it clear that you **were** minor-hijacking, i.e., expressing a slightly off-topic opinion. Instead, it looked as though you were erroneously correcting **stpauler**. _Meanwhile, if you had just left the comment alone, it would have been an isolated post, espressing an opinion_ Except that you didn’t make it clear that it was “an isolated post expressing an opinion”: we, or at least **stpauler** and I both, thought you simply didn’t understand his/her use of the term “independent bipartisan”. - Instead, you have written (so far) five posts addressing my comment.\* Well, I’ve written one post directly addressing your comment and (so far) five subsequent posts responding to your subsequent responses to me. If you feel that the issue has now been adequately clarified, I’m perfectly happy to drop the subject. _If hijacking were your concern, one would think you would be all over several other posts that came way before mine_ No, as I said above, I wasn’t criticizing you for hijacking. Sorry if I didn’t make that clear. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686/43 "2004-10-26T13:51:31Z")
Is a minor hijacking anything like a minor crisis or a minor miracle? 😉 We can drop it if you like. Despite our history of contention, I’ve always liked you and repsected you. This ain’t the hill I care to die on. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686/44 "2004-10-26T14:37:51Z")
Oh now, where’s a hug smiley when you need one? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686/45 "2004-10-26T20:25:28Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > No, you smarmy little shit that tried to pass off a staff draft as a bipartisan ‘report’, I _have_ backed my claims with cites and facts. It is you that based your OP on BS. The honorable thing to do would have been to admit the fault with the document, but I doubt you know the meaning of that word as well. Besides, you’re just all hurt and insulted because like some nujob, you typed out so much of the thing, right? Here’s an idea: why don’t you try disputing the claims and facts made in the document instead of attempting to immediately discredit it by claiming that the people who wrote it are partisan or liberal, or that the OP is a “smarmy little shit?” And until you can do that, why don’t you shut your fucking cakehole? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-civil-rights-what-you-need-to-know-super-long/270686.md?page=2)