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November 07, 2006 02:41 AM UTC
22 Comments
Now attacking a newspaper because they didn’t endorse your way??
Look, the Post endorsements were more Democratic, the RMN was more Conservative. I won’t attack the RMN because I disagree with them, I’ll just give my money to the Denver Post instead. it’s just called agreeing. I move on.
I’m sorry, this is a one-sided issue. Conservatives have used the terms “liberal” and “California” and “elitist” and “GAYYYYY” as attacks for too long. We are all AMERICANS.
I don’t hate Christians. Show respect…we are all one people. Enough with the divisiveness.
The attack ad is ridiculous! That is just tasteless and retarded.
“Jesus Christ I Hate Conservatives”
“I don’t hate Christians”.
So which is it? There are a very large number of conservative Christians out there. If you are going to hate you need to be specific or it just becomes directionless anger.
liberal Christians (I would argue that Jesus himself was a liberal–you know hanging with the poor, sick and prostitutes and all–he was sort of a do-gooder that Gecko the poster below seems to be attacking—Jesus would have never said “…sink or swim MO FO”), so it is not impossible to hate all conservatives while not hating all Christians.
“Jesus Christ I Hate Conservatives”……
Well I’m a conservative and fucking proud of it. In fact, I think any one that wears the “liberal” label without being really embarrased is a nut case.
How could anyone want for more government? More taxes? More fucked up social programs? Less defense? Socialized medicine?
I never put a label on myself until I started following this lefty blog a year or so back. But after reading so many screwed up individuals proudly stating how they want to take as much money as possible from the working man and give it to the lazy fuckers, I guess then and there I realized what I really am. A conservative and Jesus Christ I’m proud of it.
My principles are stand on your own two feet, expect nothing/ask for nothing, pay your own way, provide your own godamn medical insurance just as you have to with car and homeowners insurance, in other words-sink or swim MO FO.
What is a liberals principles? Take from those that earned their money and give it to the lazy fuckers down the way…..Don’t they call that Socialism? How is that working in countries that tried it?
A small list:
Social Security is a socialist system which no one in their right mind is curently interested in throwing out.
We have socialized education – do you want to get rid of that?
How about the highway and rail systems we all pay for? Smells a bit like socialism there too. I bet you like toll roads.
Some things require government programs for really big needs we all share.
You may think it’s radical to expect others to share the burden, but I think it’s radical to say we should throw anyone out in the cold because they are too young or too old.
BTW, I understand Jesus was a liberal. Hung out with a lot of prostitutes and poor people and the like. Maybe you should read that book you profess to live by sometime. Here’s a bit to get started with:
If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. [Matthew 19:21]
We don’t live in a socialist state. Far from it.
As you well know socialism is collective, equality on an economic, social and material level – obviously not talking about the US here. Socialism came from the working class, to design a way for leveling the playing field between the haves and the have nots. Think that is what we have here?
The beauty of the US is that we are able to adapt the ways of other governments and make parts distinctly American.
Finally – Jesus wasn’t a liberal, he wasn’t a conservative – he doesn’t fit a label, and shouldn’t. I hate it when people say Jesus would do this, Jesus would do that – give it up.
Your quote, Matthew 19:21 is one of my least favorite. “You will have treasures in heaven”, whatever; do right by your fellow man, respect others as you wish them to respect you and at the end of the day, if you can look at yourself in the mirror – you’re doing just fine.
If you folks are going to call nationalized medicine socialism than Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, School Lunches and Public Libraries are also under that umbrella.
I’m not saying we’re Marxist or anything, just that there are ecconomic socialist systems in place which most of us would never want to be without.
Although I’m not religious, I do have a healthy understanding of the Christian bible, and I’m interested in how you or anyone could argue that the biblical Christ does not share at least some liberal traits.
Here’s what liberal means unless you forgot:
libВ·erВ·al
adj.
1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
4. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
let us not get into semantics or religious topics today – its election day and I’m too busy.
you’re right, there are system in place in our government that resemble those in socialist countries. there are also systems in our government that resemble fascist forms of government but we aren’t fascists.
Jesus wasn’t political – that’s all I’m saying.
I know what a liberal is, and in regards to #1 and #2 of your definition, I would say, based on the posts from many self described liberals in the last week, that those points may not be as big a cornerstone to the liberal foundation anymore.
Now it is election day damnit, this is supposed to fun. Fun dammit!
Good post.
As for the bible quote, there is a difference between a person voluntarily giving to the poor, and having the government take your hard earned money and distribute it to the masses via a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy.
Happy Election Day!
Repubs have been in charge for six years now, and though taxes have been cut, spending has increased and the size of government has grown drastically. We now spend much more than we have since the last time ther was nothing but republicans controling congress and the executive branch.
Replublicans talk about small government while continually making it larger.
Republicans talk about tax cuts while spending more and more than anyone before them.
“Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush?s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton?s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush?s first term.”
http://www.cato.org/…
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TAX CUT WITHOUT A BALANCED BUDGET, IT IS JUST A TAX DEFERMENT.
So, when the dollar gets so weak because of the national debt causes foriegn currency investors to look elsewhere, inflation explodes, government bonds become junk bonds and your paycheck can’t cover your expenses, you can look at your short term tax deferment and your voting choices and realize that your problems are of your own making.
What is very interesting right now, is that if you are fiscally conservative, you should vote for a democrat, this is not a new trend, repubs have outspent dems for more than 20 years.
http://zfacts.com/p/…
If you don’t want to trust me on this, trust the republican and former Nixon speech writer, economist Ben Stein who said:
?We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day ? every single day ? we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.?
Those of us who are Republicans because we want small government and low taxes are digusted by the spending, earmarks, and special interest waste. I like the Republican Congressman in Arizona who calls other Congressmen on the carpet for the numerous and ridiculous earmarks that are hidden in bills and mostly written by lobbyists. We need more like him in office.
Lauren, read the charts in my previous post and stop clinging to the idea that republican means what it meant in 195x. Republicans are not small government, they have not been for a long long time. Supply side economics are the economics of BIG GOVERNMENT.
The government shrank under Clinton and Carter and grew under Reagan and the Bushes. IF YOU TRULLY LIKE AND WANT SMALL GOVERNMENT, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT THE PARTY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE. There are plenty of facts that demonstrate that the democratic party has been the small goverment party for a long time. FOrget the rhetoric and look at the record.
NEW POLL RESULT:
RITTER: 60%
Flip Flop Bob: 40%
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With bloggers and vloggers and other alternative media adding new dimensions to the political discourse, the power of the print media is no longer what it was. Maybe the dictum is no longer to fear those that buy ink by the barrel, but to fear those that can increase their bandwidth by factors of ten.
I don’t ever catch grief when I read the Newspaper while slurping on a bowl of Cheerios but man bring a laptop to the table and I’m Mr. Rude guy! So I guess I have to keep the printed subscrition for morning readings even though I prefer to read on line.
Everything I ever need to know about my candidate and his / her opponent I learnd in a 10 second TV / Radio ad.
For those who fall into that catagory they deserve the vote they cast upon themselves.
LOL!
It will be interesting to see if this catches on and if so, will it have an effect of Editorial boards?
Really it is the same tune just different lyrics. Wait until these people find out that the majority of newspapers and radio stations are owned by just a handful of companies.
And with editorial boards, I think the greatest impact on a community does not come from a big daily like the Post or the News, but from the smaller papers. They are more intouch with the pulse of the community, and I bet their readers will let them know if they dont like the direction the paper is heading.
I think the point is the newspapers are owned by big media giants that want to influence the endorsements. I don’t think it true, but that’s what I got from the ad.
I think you’re right – more people in my neighborhood were concerned with who the local newspaper endorsed – and they rely on the big dailies for the news, not direction on how to vote.
We have waaayyyyy too much media collusion in this town for an ad like this to make it on the air. These “partnerships” between media entities means that no checks and balances exist in our area – there is no watchdog media outlet willing to question or take on any other media outlet over their coverage of issues/candidates/news events. It is the worst of all worlds.