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Audacity of Truth
Flyswatter in Chief:
"He had this fly that was persistently buzzing around him during the interview...he swatted his hand and he said ‘I got the sucker’...it was a, you know, Dirty Harry ‘make my day’ moment."- The NYT's John Harwood, describing Obama's killing of a fly - 6/16/09
Quite possibly the most ridiculous poll ever
I’m sure the results of this poll will absolutely shock you. It will take you the entire weekend to recover. The shocking details:
An overwhelming number of people say critics of the Iraq war should be free to voice their objections — a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines.
Nearly three weeks after a grieving California mother named Cindy Sheehan started her anti-war protest near President Bush’s Texas ranch, nine of 10 people surveyed in an AP-Ipsos poll say it’s OK for war opponents to publicly share their concerns about the conflict.
"Part of the Constitution is the First Amendment," said Mike Malone, a salesman from Odessa, Fla. "We have the right to disagree with the government."
Somebody round up all those people calling for dissent over the war to be stifled!
If you can find anyone who actually advocated that sort of thing, anyway.
Sarcasm aside, the polling folks (like so many others, mostly on the left) have mischaracterized the issue of dissent during war as being one of stifling it completely, when no one who is thinking clearly has advocated for anti-war folks to just shut up (of course they may have said it one or two times out of frustration, but that’s understandable). I’ll say once again that the issue is not about the right to say anything, but whether or not it’s right to say it in the way it’s being said (re: anti-war protests). Big difference.
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- Sam – Leave it to a Liberal to completely ignore the point of a post and try to twist it off into another area. Its basically impossible to engage in debate with people that have their heads firmly implanted in their utopian “denials”.
Jim -
- In another post you went off on a braggathon citing several government “programs” to try to point to Liberal/Democrat successes. In fact all of the areas you listed are in one way or another, basically “bandaids”. neccessary in many cases, to shore up a disasterous economy, under the mis-guidence of those same Democratic leaderships. To wit:
“You mention being a fan of ‘classical liberalism’. I’m not familiar
with that term, but i would infer that you’re talking about the ideology
that led to formation of public school system, social security, FDA,
USDA, TVA, OSHA, EPA, etc… all of which sprang from liberal minds as a
means for protecting american citizenry in its entirety.”
The list of shame:
- Public schools – In such bad shape, record numbers of parents all across the country are opting for private schools. Mismanaged, and more about teachers rights and self serving Unions than educating our children. Unacceptably costly, outdated ineffectual teaching standards, and out of control discipline and poor leadership.
- Social Security: Only a Liberal would be against greater “ownership” of the money a person earns by the sweat of his/her brow. Much better to redistribute it among others. Thats a great nessage to send to people. Hey don’t worry about working hard or trying to contribute to things. Just sit back and let Big brother take care of you. Aside from that ludicrious idea, everyone knows the liberals froth at the mouth at any atempt to rescue the bankrupted future of SS because its the main porkbarrel they fund all their givaway programs from and they panic at the idea it will be scotched for a better, truly fair system.
FDA/USDA/OSHA/EPA – All ineffectual government boondoggles that are forever “protecting” people and environments after all the trees are burned down, the medicines have killed a bunch of people, and the food is contaminated. Mostly lap dogs of the industrial hands that feed them.
- Government make work programs like TVA – After the last shovel of dirt goes in the people go home to the same problems they started with. The high unemployment, weak economy, and deep recession that only was fixed by the WWII industrial explosion. All under Democratic/Liberal admins.
No…. the real truth is even in the case of the civil rights movement where the southern Liberal/Democrat caucus did everything it could to block things, it was the Conservative leadership in congress that forced through the neccessary legislation, while the Dems went on vacation.
- Our political history is a series of the same governmental processes. The Liberals propose utopian, unworkable, impractical ideas, never actually legislate anything worthwhile, and when it gets bad enough the conservatives finally act to pare those ideas down to reality and pass legislation.
- Thats just one of the many reasons the Liberals are in the political wilderness right now, and so out of touch with mainstream America. If they don’t stop wasting eveyones time with their immature, misguided attacks on ChimpyMcBush and start forming a true set of ideas, a viable plan instead of polysci 101 rhetoric, they have generations of the same thing to look forward too.
- ST – Politics aside, for those that havn’t been able to keep up with the news. Hurricane Katrina has been elevated to a category 5, with sustained winds exceeding 165 mph, with gusts to over 175. Considering that the central winds generally accelrate even more as a storm reaches a coast line, thats going to make Katrina the strongest storm ever recorded in Gulf coast history. Louisiana and Miss. have been decalared in a state of emergency, with over 100,000 people still trapped in New Orleans, the point of expected landfall. Everyone should say a little prayer for the people of the area. This could be a real disaster, owing to the below sea level topography of several places in the path of the storm. President Bush is working with the Governors of the threated states and is expected to enlist the National Guard and other available emergency services from neighboring uneffected Regions. Some people are being checked into the superdome to ride out the storm, as many as 45,000 people may take shelter there….
I pray that there are enough National Guard forces on hand to deal with the looming crisis on our own shores. They won’t be able help to the storm ravaged US coast while stationed in Iraq.
- Thanks Stemcell – Just like a Liberal to never miss a chance to politicize even human suffering. Edited.
Now closing this thread. Please direct all non-political comments about Hurricane Katrina here. –ST