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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 3:32:53 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

Dizzy yet, Ken? thepeoplescube.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 3:34:44 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

That's an AP report--can't be trusted until there's official word. The AP is no longer a credible news organization.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 4:02:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

To be a Good Democrat: 1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand without any restrictions whatsoever. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists. 4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding. 5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth’s climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s. 6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural. 7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding. 8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex. 9. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do. 10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it. 11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only. 12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution. 13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high. 14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. 15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not. 16. You have to believe that Michelle Obama loves the US and is a very nice person. 17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it has been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge. 18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail but a Democrat nominee, talking out both sides of his mouth on every issue, belongs in the White House. 19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal. 20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest of the United States. 21. You have to believe that it’s okay to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas Day but it’s not okay to say “Merry Christmas.” 22. You have to believe that this message is part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 4:12:03 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

Better yet Kenneth, it worked which is a real bummer for the empty O.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 4:18:06 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

Left Loses Trust in Obama FISA FALLOUT \| Is this 'change we can believe in?' Senator has lost the trust he had among liberals July 16, 2008 BY MARC ASH, Chicago Sun Times Dear Sen. Obama: I just slogged through a lecture by the New York Times about how the "far left" is most offended by your vote to ratify retroactive immunity for the U.S. telecommunications companies that provided aid and comfort to the government's program of domestic spying. They implied "mainstream Democrats" take a more mature and pragmatic view. The piece seemed to read like public relations material. But that's silly, it was news, of course. In fairness, the political center moves around more than your stances on Iraq. So, the relevancy of the argument has a limited shelf life regardless. The real issue is twofold. Let's assume the time has come to limit the scope of your campaign signs to the word "Change." The tag line ". . . we can believe in" has outlived its credibility. You may indeed change some things, but there won't be much to believe in. It will pretty much be on a case-by-case basis from this point forward. The difference is trust. Before you had it, now you don't. Entire article at chicagosuntimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 4:32:43 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

Dem Civil War:http://www.dontbeagooddemocrat.com/

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 5:36:51 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224755

Q. What do Obama and Osama have in common? A. They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 5:48:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Obama's ignorance of terrorist motivations Michelle Malkin: IN all the brouhaha over the New Yorker's cover cartoon satirizing Barack and Michelle Obama, a truly "tasteless and offensive" passage in the magazine's feature article got lost. The piece quotes Obama's recommendations for how to stop jihad, which he had previously published in a local Chicago newspaper eight days after 9/11. It's a self-parody of blind, deaf and dumb Kumbaya liberalism: "We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. "Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair." Is this man for real? Osama bin Laden's murderous legions are plenty able to "imagine" the "suffering of others." Go watch an al Qaeda beheading video. Just Google it or surf YouTube. Imagining the suffering of infidels is covered amply in basic Jihadi Training 101. You'll note, too, that Obama's fresh instinct in the week after the 9/11 attack was to diagnose it as a "tragedy" stemming from lack of "empathy" and "understanding" - instead of as the deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged Islamic war on the West that it was. Then there's Obama's continued delusion about the "climate of poverty and ignorance" that supposedly breeds Muslim terrorists. Can American politicians ever rid themselves of this unreality-based trope? The same idiocy leads the State Department to embrace "spa days" for Muslims to "build bridges" with the Arab world and President Bush to open up our aviation schools to more Saudi students to "improve understanding." ... It is not lack of education or opportunity that motivates terrorist. Most of the worst of them are the most educated and well off. The driving force behind terrorism is religious bigotry. Islamic religious bigots are responsible for terrorism and they are motivated by their bigotry. Liberals need to get out of their liberal skins and look at the world as it is and not as they think it is. There is probably not one person in Haiti with the wealth and opportunities bin Laden had, but not one of them has since others off to explode and practice mass murder. While it is true that most mass murders have an empathy deficit that is a by product of the driving force behind their actions. In the case of Islamic terrorist that driving force is their religious bigotry and it is not limited to non Muslims. It also motivates their murder of non combatant Muslims who they deem not sufficiently Muslim. Posted by Merv prairiepundit.blogspot.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (34988)	7/16/2008 6:50:49 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

One congressman calls it the "Post Office Congress," noting almost 30 percent of legislation passed by lawmakers in this 110th Congress "has been naming federal buildings." "Today, I see we will be naming two more post offices," observed Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, referring to the Bishop Ralph E. Brower Post Office and the Minnie Cox Post Office Building, both approved this week. "Almost every morning I talk to my parents who are both in their 80s and are very inquisitive about what goes on in Congress," he said. "I tell them we are working on postal legislation. I don't really go further and tell them the legislation actually is just naming post office buildings throughout the vast plains and prairies of America. After all, we have named 72 federal buildings in [the current] Congress." As for insult to injury, the congressman added: "Today Mom said she can't even afford gas to get to the post office."