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"My first amendment rights have not been trampled on because I can still post on Free Republic...."

Just don't plan on speaking out in the general public, 30 days before an election, or for that matter don't plan on seeing messages that are from anywhere but "legitimate" media. Whatever that means! It's great when the red media gets free reign to mold the minds of the sheeple. But then again, this is really helpful to a conservative agenda!

No law should be signed with an expectation that the Court will strike it down!

"Maybe it wouldn't hurt if there were a little more compassion around here towards our fellow man who just may need a helping hand. Someday you or someone you know may be on the receiving end of some of these programs that Pres Bush has proposed to make America a better place to live for all of us."

I would prefer to chose which communities get my helping hand. I would prefer not to pay 50% in taxes so that I can get my garbage picked up once a week. I would prefer to be able to directly assist people in my community, instead of sending money to Washington to dole out to whom they chose. If we didn't grow the budget, we might just have less people dependant on these government programs. The $1.5B marriage support bill wouldn't be necessary if two incomes weren't necessary for a household.
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"I feel very privileged to have been born in America and have the rights of being an American citizen. Many people around the world would give anything to be living in this great Country. That is one reason we have the problems we have today with number of people wanting to come here legally and those that come illegally. If we didn't have such a great Country, people wouldn't be flocking to America."

I feel privelaged to be an American as well. But these rights are continually shrinking and the more Liberty that is taken from the individual, the closer we are to these other failing countries. The difference is that they are harming themselves faster than we are harming ourselves.

The other issue here is that a large portion of these immigrants (legal and illegal) are not coming to America with the intent of becoming Americans. The come here for the better life, then try to bring the same failing attitude and cultural problems here. They want to remain hyphenated, speak their own language and have no interest in issimilation. This is harmful to the American way.

"My Dad's Family came to this Country before the Revolutionary War and settled in Virginia because they wanted a better life. Guess if you were an Indian, you would say that my Family came here illegally!"

I don't think anyone is saying this. The fact is that historically, legal immigration has been nothing but a benefit to this nation. That is with the assumption that those legal immigrants were interested in issimilation and emmersing themselves into the Amercan way of life.

Don't get the wrong idea, I am not turning my back on GWB. However, it is very distressing to think that I have to cast a vote for a domestically liberal candidate to avoid haveing a severely more liberal candidate win the election. I hate having to chose the lesser of two evils and I would prefer to not have to make that choice. Regardless, I am in complete support of the foriegn policy direction (excluding amnesty) that this administration is taking out country. Given that the President's constitutional duty is centered on foriegn policy, I have to cast my vote for the candidate that does the better job in this area. It is very clear what the correct choice is with regards to those duties.

I do understand the frustration of the conservative base and I don't think it is fair to consider GWB to be a conservative at all. I would consider him a Liberal Republican (Domestically left, while strong on security).