And what are these? Saints??
Posted on 05/17/2007 4:09:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
While studying psychology in college, I read about an experiment on the pressure to conform.
Several people sat around a long, rectangular table. The "instructor" and all but one person seated at the table were confederates in the experiment. The instructor held up a sheet of paper with a line drawn exactly six inches long. He then handed the sheet to a seated confederate and said, "Guess the length of this line."
The man, as previously agreed, said, "About two inches." The paper then went clockwise around the table until it reached the only person not in on the experiment. Until then, each person "guessed" anywhere from two to three-and-a-half inches, even though the line was obviously much, much longer.
When the paper was slid to the final person -- the only one not in on the ruse -- he, too, said, "About three inches."
Perhaps this explains a recent poll put out by the "non-partisan" Rasmussen Reports. A mind-blowing 35 percent of Democrats believe the president possessed prior knowledge of the 9/11 terror attacks that killed over 3,000 Americans. Another 26 percent of Democrats said that they are "not sure." Thus 61 percent of Democrats believe or consider themselves uncertain about the assertion that the president knew in advance about the terror attacks of 9/11, yet did nothing to stop them.
Now I've long since accepted that many Democrats flat-out hate the president. Democrats, for example, far more so than Republicans, believe in the idea that government must "level the playing field." So Democrats oppose tax cuts that "help the rich." I strongly disagree, but I get it.
Because Republicans -- more so than Democrats -- believe in limited government, they stand accused of selfishness. This argument, too, I at least understand. Never mind that in the recent book, "Who Really Cares?," Syracuse University Professor Arthur C. Brooks found Republicans gave more to charity -- in both time and money -- than Democrats. It turns out that if one supports smaller government, he or she is more likely to feel the need to step in and help the needy by donating time and money. Also, the more religious the person, found Brooks, the more likely he or she gives to charity. Religious Democrats gave as much as religious Republicans, but Democrats as a whole were less religious than Republicans. Some secular Democrats feel uncomfortable with a religious president, whom they feel "gets his guidance from God." So I can understand the discomfort of the Democrats with the president's religiosity.
On the issue of global warming, many Democrats side with Al Gore, who believes the "debate on global warming is over." They find it obscene that the president objects to a worldwide accord to deal with the "crisis." I believe they're wrong, but this, too, I get. If the scientists all agree, why this leaves only the dissenting global-warming-denying, gas-guzzling, smoke-stack-belching capitalists.
Health care is a "right," so says former presidential candidate John Kerry. Most Democrats nod in agreement. Never mind that of the 46 million people in America who lack health-care insurance, about half go without health care for only a few months, while they are between jobs. About three-quarters go without health care for less than a year. And 10 percent have high-paying jobs, but choose to pocket the money they would spend on insurance premiums. Millions more without health-care insurance came here illegally. But at least I get the Democrats' objection to government "failure" to provide health-care insurance.
As to the war in Iraq, most Democrats oppose it. Most Republicans, however, still support the war, and still think victory possible. Only two House Republicans supported the war-funding-with-troop-withdrawal-deadlines legislation passed, at the end of April, by Congress. In the Senate, two Republicans voted for it.
This complicated war now approaches its fifth year, with nearly daily headlines of setbacks and American military deaths. We awaken nearly every morning to headlines of American military deaths and Iraqi sectarian violence. The current Iraqi government appears confused and ineffective; and the international chorus calling Iraq a "blunder" grows louder and louder. Thus, I get the Democrats' anger towards Bush's "stubbornness" for continuing to prosecute the war despite near worldwide opposition and the dwindling number of allies, including the British.
But do 61 percent of Democrats "honestly" believe the president "allowed" 9/11 to occur, taking no measure whatsoever to stop it? Please tell me this reflects an insincere desire to simply conform rather than a sincere belief that the president willingly allowed over 3,000 Americans to perish. Tell me you say this with your fingers crossed.
Please.
Larry Elder is host of the Larry Elder Show on talk radio and author of Showdown : Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America .
Sixty one percent of democrats is a bit more than one quarter of the population as a whole. South Park was right, at least one quarter of the population is retarded.
“Democrats to Bush: You Are Evil”
In this case, evil is in the eye of the beholder.
I remember Senator Hillary Rodham (a.k.a. Mrs. Bill Clinton) standing on the Senate floor holding up a newspaper with the bold headline “BUSH KNEW” on it. She was demanding an investigation.
Funny, how we are never shown the picture of Clinton doing that.
And going to hell.
By definition, one half of all Americans have IQs below the median.
Keep that in mind when dealing with Liberals...
You have to catch Larry’s radio show.
Truman abandoned South Korea in 1949, pulling out almost all our troops against the advice of military men and Republicans, who said the region would be ripe for invasion
In 1950, North Korea's army invaded and occupied most of the South.
In 1950, Truman sent troops back to Korea, to rewin South Korean freedom
In the remaining 30 months of Truman's administration, 30,000 Americans died fighting in Korea
Democrats pulled out of South Vietnam and want to pull out of Iraq.
Democrats are stuck on stupid.
And what are these? Saints??
LLS
New survey: Sixty percent of Democrats are devil’s spawn - makes about as much sense.
Democrats abuse the logically challenged, the morally challenged. They and the DBM ride herd over these folks with their PSYOPS operation. Create a malady/falsehood, amplify it with a spokesperson/con artist, elevate the believers to the noble status of “victim”.
The Dems are doing the same as they did in the last 2 elections: Not dealing with reality, trying to create a Utopia, and working themselves into a frenzy.
By 2009, the Dems will have lost 3 presidential elections. At that time, their frenzy and hatred of Republicans will get worse, they will start civil disorder, which is why they must be stopped, AGAIN.
Acts of evil are wishing for American military defeat and actually working towards this goal which encourages the enemy to continue killing American military personel, talking the economy into ruin so you can point at the Bush Administration and say “They did it!”. Neither worked.
“Some secular Democrats feel uncomfortable with a religious president,”
What about the every Sunday picture of Willy Boy carrying his bible from attending services. I don’t remember seeing one picture of the President attending church. Yet the press paraded this morally bankrupt hypocrite carrying his bible from his house of worship.
It would appear the wjc was portrayed as more God fearing the GWB.
Hypocritical slime media!.
Right now, betters are wagering the Dems will take the ‘08 Pesidential election. The accuracy of this indicator is great. I hope it’s wrong.
http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes/Pres08_Quotes.html
Democra#s and the MSM knew that was just for show, so it did not bother them. The ignorant a##hats also think that Republicans are a bunch of backward bible-thumping dolts who could be fooled by those images into thinking Clinton was a man of God. Remember, to most of the Godless left, belief in God is a sign of stupidity and backwardness. That's why they blasted that image all the time.
Question: Which had did he carry the bible in?
Answe: The one nearest the TV camera.
had = hand
Not only are they wishing for American military defeat, they are about to hand our country over to criminals who silently invaded our homeland. They are spitting in the face of every single one of us.
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