Posted on 08/06/2004 6:47:56 AM PDT by mhking
There they go again. Devoid of ideas, running from the record of failure on the economy and national security, President Bush and his campaign are going negative again, trying to label John Kerry rather than level with Americans.
Now the refrain is that Kerry and Edwards are too ''liberal'' for America. Democrats tend to duck when such charges are leveled. Clinton dressed up as a ''New Democrat,'' trying to separate himself rhetorically. Reformers now call themselves ''progressives,'' trying to avoid the label. Frankly, I think it's time for people to stand up.
Think about it: A conservative Christian is a contradiction in terms. Christ wasn't a conservative. He fed the hungry simply because they were hungry. He didn't require that they go to work first. He healed the sick, simply because they were sick. He didn't push them into an insurance company, or let the drug companies gouge them on prices. Jesus was a liberal; Herod was the conservative.
Moses was the liberal; Pharaoh was the conservative. Abolitionists were liberals; slave owners were the conservatives. Mandela is a liberal; the South African apartheid leaders were the conservatives. That's why conservative Dick Cheney supported apartheid over Mandela, and approved of keeping Mandela in prison.
The Suffragettes were liberals; those who opposed the vote for women were conservatives. Martin Luther King was a liberal; the segregationists were conservatives. He wanted to end racial discrimination; they wanted to conserve it.
Advocates of national health care are liberals; George W. Bush, the HMOs and drug companies are the conservatives. They profit from the current system and want to conserve it from reforms that would make health care affordable for all Americans.
America was a liberal idea. Washington and Jefferson were the liberals; King George was the conservative. America was founded on the proposition that ''We the people'' were endowed with inalienable rights -- including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And when oppressed by an unjust ruler, we had the right to declare our independence and establish our own form of government.
And America was built by liberals -- by dissenters, by those persecuted for their religion or their race. The Statute of Liberty doesn't say, ''Send me your privileged, your wealthy, your powerful yearning to conserve their fortunes.'' It says, ''Send me your tired, your poor, your humble yearning to breathe free.''
Today the choices are equally clear. Bush and Cheney argue for tax cuts for the wealthy; they want to consolidate the wealth and power of the ''have mores'' that the president calls ''my base.''
Liberals are for rolling back tax cuts for the rich and investing in education so every child gets a fair shot. Conservatives would conserve the two Americas: one system of education, health care and retirement security for the powerful, and one for the rest of us. Liberals would make certain that everyone has the right to a high-quality education, to affordable health care, to a decent retirement.
Bush wants to cut guaranteed benefits under Social Security while privatizing it; liberals want to save Social Security so that all Americans have a basic floor beneath their feet.
Bush is against a minimum wage; liberals want to raise the minimum wage. Bush wants to weaken the 40-hour week and reduce those eligible for overtime; liberals want to make certain workers get paid overtime if they have to work more than 40 hours a week.
You can pick your side -- liberal or conservative, for change or for the status quo, for the poor or for the privileged. For me, I stand with Christ against Herod; Moses against the Pharaoh; the abolitionists against the slaveholders; King against the segregationists, the Suffragettes against the male politicians; the many against the few, and liberals against this crowd in the White House.
But whatever you choose, the next time Bush and Cheney rail about Kerry being too liberal, remember that America was a liberal idea from the start.
Don't know what he was, but he wasn't a Democrat.
You could hold that as an axiom.
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Begging desperately for a reality that does not exist causes that... to lose soul and mind.
He also lost sense of ownership and has no respect for Jesus' own sense of ownership in his own messages, which need not his distortions and views.
Liberals have no shame. "To spread the wealth the liberal is willing, he'll take YOUR dollar and keep his shilling."
Would Jesus vote for partial birth or ANY abortion?
I wonder how many liberal Orthodox Jews Jesse knows.
WHAT A CROCK!!!
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
"Christ wasn't a conservative. He fed the hungry simply because they were hungry. He didn't require that they go to work first. He healed the sick, simply because they were sick. He didn't push them into an insurance company, or let the drug companies gouge them on prices. Jesus was a liberal; Herod was the conservative."
The biggest point this idiot misses is that Jesus did these acts of compassion via his own free will and with his own resources. He did not use the force of government guns to steal from others so that he could confiscate their resources for redistribution.
The secondary points are that "being pushed into an insurance compay" is an action legislated by government and enforcable by force and that "being gouged by the drug companies" is actually caused (mostly) by the FDA. Both of these negative consequences are a result of government interference in individual's freedoms to chose and individual's responsibility for the consequences of their choices.
He forgets that God created man with a Free Will. That means man has the freedom to make choices and the expectation of assuming responsibility for their choices. As a result the idiot author of the article has made it clear that his position maintains the fact that the Government should take on the choices of man and the responsibility of man, therefore eliminating the Free Will bestowed upon us by God!
Pure evil, that needs a sound defeat!
babies against the abortionists...
Wait, I must have misread. That's not in there.
I gotta get new glasses.
You have no idea how absolutely terrified I just was until I looked closer and realized I had mistaken YOUR name for HIS. (:0)
Jesus hung around with prostitutes and tax collectors but that doesn't mean that he justified the actions of either. Jesus did not petition government to tax the citizens higher so that the poor could be taken care of.
We are called up to tithe 10% of our gross income (before taxes). It isn't charity if you give money to the poor through government under threat of imprisonment.
Compare the donations of conservatives to liberals (Al Gore had given, what $6,000(?) in 1999 or 2000).
Moses was the liberal; Pharaoh was the conservative. Abolitionists were liberals; slave owners were the conservatives. Mandela is a liberal; the South African apartheid leaders were the conservatives. That's why conservative Dick Cheney supported apartheid over Mandela, and approved of keeping Mandela in prison.
Uh, Mandela is a communist, not a liberal.
Why doesn't Jesse Jackson discuss Teresa Heinz-Kerry here? She GREW UP in South Africa.
"To spread the wealth the liberal is willing, he'll take YOUR dollar and keep his shilling."
I humbly request the use of this phrase in my tagline.....I promise to bestow credit to the worthy!
Anyplace else and that "rolling back tax cuts" would be called "raising taxes".
"From each according to his ability, To each according to his need." - Karl Marx.
It's hard to believe Je$$e got that much crap into only 656 words.
"Uh, Mandela is a communist, not a liberal."
What's the distinction between the two?
So the Egyptians were all consevatives?
If Jesus was a liberal and the liberals were abolitionists, why wasn't Jesus an abolitionist?
"Last I checked, my Lord and Savior stayed outta politics. He is Lord of us all, liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat, black and white, Jew and Gentile, logical and moonbat."
Beautifully put!
Communist is one step left of socialist and one step right of anarchist.
Liberal is one step left of Conservative and one step right of Socialist.
PolySci 101
What year was the printing of your text book? They are not so far apart any more!
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