Timebuilder: I must go on the record *ONE MORE TIME* and inform you that I consider your previous post in bad taste and generally ill informed.
I'm not surprised, but I will ask you to do something. I want you to refute what is "ill informed" in my post. Without going into another long historical tome, I
can say with 100% confidence that I know the homosexual movement inside and out from my broadcasting experience. When you work next to people every day, and see the political handouts and newspapers, and have the endless conversations, and listen to the specialty radio programmming with titles like "Sunshine Gaydream" and (get this one) "Amazon Country" you can speak, as I do, with a certain degree of authority on this subject.
But hey, if you disagree, let's hear it. Or just call me some names. I certainly don't expect any substantive debate from 350, but I do expect one from you, ol buddy.
Just because the frickin' thread is titled "Political Threads" does that mean you can just arbitrarily pick any topic that flies into your head?
Last time I checked, this is still a country where free information and discusssion is the bedrock of freedom.
and before you know it there's this feeding frenzy of collective opinion based on nothing more than a group of fears/prejudices/hates or just sheer laziness.
If you want to do a James Carville impression, you'll have to try harder. Runabunchawordstogether like you're tlaking really fast, and stick a few keywords like "y'all" in every once in a while.
But right now, all you are doing is throwing stones at people, people who are talking about issues, which is a completely American thing to do.
But speaking for myself I have always maintained that we are individuals first. The very first sin in critical thinking is to begin from a position of generalization.
It's not a sin, it is the very heart of how humans think. It is a neccessity to separating ideas out of chaos.
Certainly, it is a very small element, but it is something we need. For instance, if a street attack is reported by the victim to be a small asian man with a knife, you don't go out and make a sweep of tall black men. Generalizations have all kinds of importance in issues, too, becuase we are social animals, all of us, and birds of a feather DO flock together.
Generalization a "sin"? No.
Free from tradition
Freee from dogma
Free from fear
I don't know what kind of a liberal you might be, but in over 23 years as a liberal democrat I saw nothing of this mantra.
There is a tradition of separating people from their money for liberal programs.
There is a dogma of worshipping government as a "god".
There is a fear that people will stop voting for them if they truly learn to be self sufficient and productive.
They're right. They will probably become republicans.
But don't take my word for it. Read Zell Miller's book. A demoract all his life, and a senator. If that isn't good enough for you, than I don't know what will satisfy you.
If you're conservative, well, then that says to me you're happy with the way things are and you'd prefer them to not change.
Horse hockey. When have I every given you the idea that things need not change?
Kids go to school in gang colors?
A tweleve year old girl gives head to a thirteen year old boy in a Texas science class, and their mothers want the whole thing covered up and painted over?
Our proponents of a "colorblind society" agree to the idea of "race being used as a factor" in college admissions? Is that racism or did I miss something in Dr. King's speeches?
You want a bigger list? I could go on...
Spew disrespectful nonsense and use language that diminishes a fellow American and I'm sorry but I must retort.
I'm calling. Ante up. You have no cards. You must fold.
I'll tell you why. I never bet unless I have the cards.
I'm old enough to remember when the republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility and smaller government. These days, we have Clinton with a budget surplus, and Bush with record deficits, while engineering the largest increase in the size of government in US history. How times have changed.
Not only have times changes since I walked to the polls with my father, wearing my little "I like Ike" button on my jacket on that chilly November evening, but extraordinary events have happened to our country.
The Clinton budget surplus was based on a peacetime economy that was set to go "bust" because stock prices were based almost 100% on their speculative value.
The 9-11 attack meant that we had to not only give back tax money to stimulate the economy, which I predict will improve even more than the recent ecpouraging numbers, but it also demanded that we we spend a lot more in old areas and even create some new areas. "Providing for the common defense"
is a primary function of government.
This spending isn't for a meals on wheels program for elderly illegal aliens, it is to defend our freedom and our very nation against terrorism.
Deficits for now? Yep, they're a neccessity. We'll get over it.
Honestly, I vote Libertarian more than any other party. I truly believe we need a third party in this country.
Even as a liberal, I thought the idea of a third party was a good thing. I still do. However, in its current incarnbnation, the third party tends to draw off more people from the republican party that the democrats. I'll cite the recent Bill Clinton victory over Bush when the little general ran as a third part candidate.
In other words, the third party is a
spoiler party.
I really could care less about who will get the nomination for the democrats.. Wdumbya has turned this country into a complete discrace and a laughing stock.. It is sad that we are currently in the state that we are in and you will still have people who continue to slurp that oh so bitta kool aid and believe that we are "safer" and in better shape. What a joke in itself and they they will come back and say "well by golly if we had a democrat in office during 9-11 then who knows what would have happened." Come on.... 04" will bring change.
The laughing stock days were the Clinton days.
But you knew that. I have met Al Gore, and he is a very nice man, not nearly as wooden as he
always appears on camera.
But president? No, we are far better off with George Bush than any other current contender for the White House that I have seen. That's an opinon based on my experience in politics, and draws heavily on my experience as a democrat.
Do you have as much experience as I do, 350? I don't think so. Have you seen the inner workings of both major parties?
I have.
While not "safe" (how can anyone be truly
safe?) we are far more secure due to the actions taken by our president and his administration.
I can say this because I know that the democrat approach would be to take American security and sovereignty and turn it over to the United Nations, where the enemies of America sit on comittees that are a best, a
joke. The democrats would seek to coddle, talk, coddle, plead, coddle, beg, pacify, appease, placate, and mollify our enemies, enemies that have their only goal being our destruction.
Now, ask yourself: has any of this worked before with this bunch? Did it work for Clinton with the North Koreans? Sadaam? Osama? No. It didn't.
You're right, 350. I love it when people confidently, with an all-knowing tone in their voice, say "What if Al Gore had been President instead of Bush"? Did I miss the part where Al Gore was given a trial run as President?
Thankfully, we ALL missed that part!!
I'm waiting for people who once said the president should not be blamed for the troubles in the economy to start saying, "see, our president is restoring our economy."
Bush inhertited a failed economy built on stock speculation. The accounting fruad at Arthur Anderson and Enron was already fully underway during the Clinton administration.
There are two paths we could have chosen: one without tax rebates, and one with them. We chose the second path, and the results are showing up right now, in the recent economic numbers.
We would not have those gains if we had not returned that money to Americans, particularly those Americans who pay over HALF the taxes in America.
That's about as simply as I could put it for you.
