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To: sandintoes who wrote (149138)	8/6/2007 10:07:18 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

You must be a liberal if … jewishworldreview.com By Dave Weinbaum jewishworldreview.com \| I must admit, I've been surprised by the amount of vitriol coming from supposedly intelligent rational people when it comes to what they believe about our world and how we should live and govern. They seethe when talking about President George W. Bush. Their hate for him is inexplicable. Those people are known as Liberals, or as some refer to themselves, "Progressives." Below are traits of the above. You can believe in one or two, but if you identify with 3 or more you get the Liberal medal around your neck or as I look at it, the albatross. You must be a liberal: If you voted for the Iraq war when it was the popular thing to do, then claim you were hypnotized by Bush's "lies" when it became unpopular. If you say Bush is "dumb" even after he beat you in two elections you were positive you would win. If you believe your Democrat controlled congress should spend it's time investigating and impeaching the president in wartime even though there's no evidence of any crimes. If you hate Dubya more than you love America. If your idea of free speech is to shut down talk radio. If you don't want profiling for terrorists even though evidence is overwhelming that most are Middle Easterners. If you think personal attacks will ingratiate you to the voters. If you think the war on terror has nothing to do with the war in Iraq. If you think that more than ½ of the country is brain dead because they aren't in lockstep with everything you're sure is right. If you're for abortion but against the death penalty. If you voted for General Patraeus and the surge, then call it a failure well before he had the troops needed to perform it. If you think capitalism should be replaced by Socialism, despite hundreds of years of evidence that our economy is number 1 in the world. If you think we have to dumb down our economy because of the man-made Global Warming scam. If you think it's our fault terrorists attacked us. If you think everything will be "hunky dory" if we just talk to the terrorists. If you think the war on terror is just a bumper sticker. If you like higher taxes, when all evidence shows that lower taxes benefits everyone. If you think all American corporations are evil. If you think government can end poverty. If you think you can't have a view about foreign policy if you haven't served in the military…that is…unless its' your opinion. If you believe there is no liberal bias in the media. If you believe there's a vast right wing conspiracy. If you believe George Bush had the levies blown up in New Orleans. If you equate Republicans with Nazis. If you believe Bill Clinton was impeached for covering up sex. And finally, you're stunned and dismayed that fellow Liberals, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack, are claiming they see success in Iraq, via their article entitled "A War We Just Might Win." If you think I'm unfair, I challenge you to write how you characterize a conservative. I'll be on the golf course…

To: sandintoes who wrote (149138)	8/6/2007 10:43:41 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

First Family wins and wounds By Suzanne Fields jewishworldreview.com \| How different our politics might be if presidents and presidential wannabes were like priests, sworn to celibacy. Bill Clinton might still be in Hot Springs. We're forced, among other things, to listen to what wives and children (and maybe soon a husband) say and watch what they do. Families are sometimes assets, occasionally liabilities and often casualties. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Teddy, was a natural for Washington, and ravaged friend and foe with her tart tongue. "If you haven't anything nice to say about somebody," she famously said, and even embroidered it on a sofa pillow, "come sit next to me." Not all presidential children are so effectively armed. Some get attention by embarrassing their parents. Patti Davis, daughter of Nancy and Ronald, still angry and rebellious in 1994 at the age of 41, posed nude for Playboy magazine. Harry Truman's most memorable domestic moment came when he fired a letter to the music critic of The Washington Post who wrote that his daughter Margaret could not really sing very well. "Some day I hope to meet you," the president wrote back. "When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below." Hillary Clinton primly defended her choice of an expensive private school, rather than a public school, for first daughter Chelsea Clinton. She blamed the press — and not just the vast right-wing media conspiracy — for making her choose because reporters could not be prevented from harassing their daughter at such a public place. This was nonsense, of course; she couldn't bear identification as another Washington liberal who talks being democratic but walks elitist. The New York Times reported with breathless excitement the other day that if Hillary is elected president, Chelsea will be a presidential child again. Vanessa Kerry, whose father lost in 2004, described the dilemma that an adult child of a candidate faces: She can hide to live a normal life, or give up privacy altogether. Either way, the paparazzi will be there. Al Gore's adult son, who apparently wants to drive only in the fast lane, having been arrested again for speeding, invoked his daddy's name when he was arrested and busted for possession of marijuana. But he has to take a drug education course, anyway. If the toll of politics is hard on the children, it's even harder on the wives who must endure the slings and acid-tipped arrows of a voracious and sometimes vicious press. Kitty Dukakis, whose husband lost in 1988, confessed to being addicted to both drugs and alcohol. So did Betty Ford, who then established a clinic for drug and alcohol abusers like herself. The victims of a presidential husband's power are considerably more sympathetic than those merely greedy for power. When President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in office and was seriously incapacitated, Edith Wilson stonewalled press and public about his condition and became the acting president. Hillary as first lady was pilloried for her health care scheme, but surmounted the ruins when she ran for the U.S. Senate. Whether she will be haunted for that failure next year is not yet clear. Mrs. Fred Thompson, whose husband hasn't even declared his candidacy, is taunted unfairly as a trophy wife because she's a looker, she's smart and she's a smart dresser. Mrs. Mitt Romney, a Mormon like her husband, enjoys the distinction that, among the top-tier Republican candidates, she's the only one who's the only wife her husband ever had. No one knows what a first man might be like; we'll avert our eyes for now and not go there. Jackie Kennedy affected demure feminine ways, and achieved for Jack Kennedy in his death what he never could in life. In his book "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution," James Pierson credits her for designing JFK's perfect funeral. She was beside herself when the assassin was discovered to be not the expected right-wing fanatic, but a one-time defector to the Soviet Union and a proselytizer for Fidel Castro. She bemoaned the fact that her husband "didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly communist." But a state funeral modeled on that of Abraham Lincoln created the Kennedy legend as a martyr for civil rights and liberal idealism. She contributed much to the idea that modern liberalism is based not on reason, evidence or intellect, but on the spurious claim to superior virtue. Like ancient Camelot, the Kennedy Camelot was only a pretty myth. jewishworldreview.com