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Nobody Was Listening
The Ornery American ^ | August 10, 2008 | Orson Scott Card

Posted on 09/03/2008 11:51:06 AM PDT by Bushwacker777

"In the election coming in November, we face the kind of choice that shapes the future of nations. On the one hand, we have an irascible Republican who is wrong as often as he is right, but at least has the courage to act according to his conscience often enough to earn the enmity of party hacks.

On the other hand, we have a candidate who has shown himself to be a complete captive of the intellectual elite, voting their party line in Congress, sneering in private at ordinary citizens that he does not even try to understand, wrapping himself in ersatz victimhood, changing his mind whenever it seems politically prudent while denying that he ever had any other view.

We are at the great political divide, and most Americans -- especially the young, who have been so grossly miseducated by the intellectual elite -- are getting their news from comedians who parrot the slanders of the elitists. "

(Excerpt) Read more at ornery.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; iraq; mccain; obama; orsonscottcard; republicans
Take into account that Card is a Democrat. The article provides great analysis of what is facing us this year. Spread the word!
1 posted on 09/03/2008 11:51:06 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777
On the one hand, we have an irascible Republican who is wrong as often as he is right, but at least has the courage to act according to his conscience often enough to earn the enmity of party hacks.

What was it Bill Clinton said, about voting for the person you agree with 50% of the time, but who can deliver on that 50%?
2 posted on 09/03/2008 11:53:20 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Bristol Palin's pre-born baby has the same amount of executive experience as Obama & Biden COMBINED)
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To: Bushwacker777

Are you sure he is a Democrat? From something else I heard, I thought he was a conservative.


3 posted on 09/03/2008 11:55:29 AM PDT by Kay
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To: Kay

Yes he is Democrat but being Mormon he is a moral issues conservaitve it seems.


4 posted on 09/03/2008 11:58:44 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777
I liked this part:

"Obama doesn't even have the courage to admit that he was wrong about Iraq, and that his long-touted plan to withdraw from Iraq immediately was insanely self-destructive all along. Now he adopts exactly the position that President Bush has always had, and pretends that he has not changed his mind."

"And the media, supposedly the guardians of truth, let him get away with it. President Bush is constantly called a liar when they know he did not lie; Obama is never called a liar when the comparisons between past statements and present ones are there to be seen by anyone."

Are you sure this was written by a democrat?

5 posted on 09/03/2008 12:00:30 PM PDT by An Old Man ("The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." Douglas)
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To: Bushwacker777

... and on the other hand we have a dummycrap candidate who is wrong about every thing.


6 posted on 09/03/2008 12:04:23 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Kay

Card’s an old-school Southern populist Democrat, I guess. He’s somewhat rightward of the rest of the party on moral issues, and very much for our involvement in Iraq because he sees Islamic terrorism as a major potential threat. But he still proclaims himself a Democrat.

}:-)4


7 posted on 09/03/2008 12:10:05 PM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: Bushwacker777

he’s going ‘bezerker’ on NObama


8 posted on 09/03/2008 12:37:23 PM PDT by jbp1 (be nice now)
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To: Bushwacker777

he’s going ‘bezerker’ on NObama


9 posted on 09/03/2008 12:37:20 PM PDT by jbp1 (be nice now)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

“On the one hand, we have an irascible Republican who is wrong as often as he is right,”

According to the American Conservative Union, McCain has been right 82.16% of the time during his 25 years in the Senate. He only got 65% in 2006 but was rated at 80% 2007.


10 posted on 09/03/2008 12:55:51 PM PDT by rwa265 (Christ, My Cornerstone)
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To: An Old Man
Hahahahahaha!!!

"the media, supposedly the guardians of truth"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 posted on 09/03/2008 12:59:03 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Prole
"the media, supposedly the guardians of truth"
Do you mean to say the MSM is not our friend?

You do remember Joe, don't you? He told the whole world what the truth was back in the 30's and got away with it for awhile.

12 posted on 09/03/2008 1:32:48 PM PDT by An Old Man ("The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." Douglas)
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To: rwa265
According to the American Conservative Union, McCain has been right 82.16% of the time during his 25 years in the Senate. He only got 65% in 2006 but was rated at 80% 2007.

But when he is wrong, he doesn't go halfway.

13 posted on 09/03/2008 6:13:30 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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