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Article #1324Re: Call Me A Liberal
From: Dave Thompson
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:42
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:42
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"Colossus Of Liberty" <live.free.or.die@liberty.usa> wrote in message news:uk6l1pcda4hf1a@corp.supernews.com... > > "Name withheld by request" <anon5c6c@nyx10.nyx.net> wrote in message > news:964660956.572137@irys.nyx.net... > > > Call Me Liberal > > > by Rebecca Knight > > > I believe that George W. Bush re-invented himself and his Texas record > > in order to gain the presidency. > > And yet he was overwhelmingly voted for by Texans, even Texas Democrats. > OTOH, Algore did not win his home state. Having lived in Texass - The democrats there are conservatives. Texas dems are what made me realize libs and cons are not dems and reps. As far as AlGore is concerned - he didn't even try to win his state. Too bad. Had he - we would not have had to deal with monkey face as our president. > > > I believe that the United States Supreme Court selected our president > > in 2000 through partisan prejudices and personal interests. They > > stated that their decision had no precedent and could not be used as a > > precedent in the future. > > They had no choice but to stop the activist FLSC from changing the rules to > elect Al Gore. They only smart thing they did was show how dumb Gore was. Otherwise they were criminal in their decision. > > > I believe that George W. Bush meant what he said about wishing he were > > a dictator and Congress makes it easier for him to behave like one. > > I believe what you said about wanting to kill Jews. I believe you are a pinhead. > > > I believe that the Bush administration is responsible for failing to > > protect American citizens by connecting the dots of intelligence > > information and warnings given about impending terrorist attacks on > > U.S. soil. Why else would Bush wait eight months to acknowledge that > > he had been given a briefing on the possibility? > > Considering Bush's appointees were barely getting into their offices, I'd > say the fault was with the former department heads of the Clinton admin. The > head of the FBI took office on 9-6-01 because the Dems held him up so long. If you can show that the previous policy of the Clinon administration somehow had any effect on 9-11 go ahead. Otherwise accept defeat. > > > I believe that Congress is complicit in knee-jerk reactions to the > > attacks of 9/11 that have given too much power and authority to the > > president and the justice department. The Patriot Act is a threat to > > our civil liberties. The Joint Resolution enacted by Congress on Sept. > > 15, 2001 allows Bush to determine which nations, organizations, or > > individuals are connected to the 9/11 attacks and also determine what > > is the necessary force to use against them. > > Are you connected? Probably to their brain - unlike you. > > > I believe that while a new cabinet level department for homeland > > security may be necessary, it is much more critical to uncover and > > correct shortcomings of the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA. > > The shortcomings of those departments under Clinton will soon be > found.......hopefully. And if theyt aren't W won't haver the guts to accept responsibil;ity. > > > I believe that the proposed TIPS program is fascist and insane. There > > are too many wacko right-wingers who would turn in dissenting > > Americans as traitors. There is no comparison to this program and > > others like community watches. TIPS would have Americans inform on > > other Americans based upon what an individual interprets as the > > meaning of a book read or a word spoken. > > Better to ignore a group of arabs loading TNT into the back of a > van...................... Ashcroft would rather ignore biblethumpers attacking liberals with Anthrax. So far almost nothing has happened wrt the anthrax attacks. Wonder why? > > > I believe that the United States should be a leader for peace and not > > war. When a president speechifies about an "axis of evil" without > > documented evidence of specific evils, it is he who is responsible for > > heightening the dangers of violence against America. > > You'd have to have been asleep for the last 30 years to not know what those > specific countries have been doing. It's been all over the news. > > > I believe that the United States already spends enough money on > > defense, if managed efficiently. Our defense budget is already larger > > than all other nations throughout the world combined. > > If that's even true, it's rightly so. Better for the good guys to have the > weapons. > > > I believe that the missile defense system is a boondoggle that will > > never work and will waste money better spent on more worthwhile > > projects. Oh, but it will accomplish the goal of enriching the defense > > industry. > > What will you do if one of those missing soviet Nukes drops in your living > room? What will you do if it's a domestic terrorist and you supported efforts to hide any activities because they were white, Right, and didn't want to pledge allegiance to the flag? The rest are snips. Just got tired. Go figure. Even odds he only respnds to what I didn't respond to and snips the rest. Any bets?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 1128d6,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gid1128d6,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-27 19:43:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Dave Thompson" <dav13795@wdmdx1.com> Newsgroups: pdx.general,seattle.general,ba.general,la.general Subject: Re: Call Me A Liberal Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:42:21 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <uk6mgga8eo0t84@corp.supernews.com> References: <964660956.572137@irys.nyx.net> <uk6l1pcda4hf1a@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 156