[loveliberty2]

"Ideas have consequences"

- Weaver

Americans who, in 2008, voted for abstract, fill-in-the-blanks concepts of "hope" and "change" might have dug a little deeper into the philosophy upon which those concepts were based. They might have explored the associations and the voting record of the one who promised, instead of substituting their own hopes and dreams for his illusory promises.

The ideas of Mao, Marx, and Lenin, implemented with the strategies of Alinsky, cannot be expected to yield liberty, opportunity, and plenty. On the other hand, a pledge of return to the principles of liberty expressed in America's Declaration of Independence, the 1787 Constitution, and the 200-year history of American freedom, accompanied by a record of study of those ideas and a voting record which supported the promise, would have been a better foundation for measuring a leader worthy of the role.

"I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing by every device the public debt on the principle of its being a public blessing." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:77

[oldbrowser]

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, campaign contributions by government-sector unions, collected through mandatory dues, help elect the public officials who are then supposed to negotiate with them: "The unions sit, in effect, on both sides of the bargaining table."

Outlaw public sector unions.

[x_plus_one]

The great hope of the anti-western world is that the great satan will be destroyed from within. Obama is their best hope. 0bama is knows that in chaos there is opportunity for stronger forces to prevail. Stir the pot and the only clumps left will be the muslim brotherhood. The christian community is too fractures to stand up to an islamic cultural behemoth.

[loveliberty2]

“Yeah Johnny I understand your dad has been out of work for over a year and lost his house, but they want me to pay 5% of my pension! I’m willing to sacrifice as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me.”

This should be on billboards in every state where public employee and teachers' union actions are bankrupting state budgets.

[Kartographer]

“THE RED DIAPER DOPER BABIES ARE COMING! THE RED DIAPER DOPER BABIES ARE COMING!”

[JPG]

Barry is in high heaven. All of this mayhem is Community Organizing 101 and it's right in his wheelhouse. He's trained, plotted and planned all his life for events such as these and is now revved up to bust some chops and stoke the fires of agitation and hate. He will also live to regret this.

[Vaduz]

Obama’s change is here and it’s real ugly,two more years of his spreading of misery.

[NTHockey]

Who will be our Francis Marion? That’s what it will take. No squyshiness, no regrets, no prisoners.

[NTHockey]

Who will be our Francis Marion? That’s what it will take. No squishiness, no regrets, no prisoners.