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Jimmy Carter: American Revolution Was 'Unnecessary'
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Posted on 10/20/2004 10:18:10 AM PDT by lnbchip
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To: lnbchip
I like Jimmy Carter as a human being, but to suggest Canada is a free country is silly. It doesn't have a BOR and firearms ownership is under heavy attack.
To: angkor
Do you know I didn't know that! All RIGHT, Monsieur, er, I mean MISTER Lafayette!!
To: freepertoo
It's an argument that doesn't hold water because the founders obviously considered every option before taking the course of action they did. I don't think the war met the criteria for a just war, specifically "right authority," "last resort," and "proportionality." You're entitled to your own judgement.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:18:48 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: lnbchip
The Revolution was necessary, it was PRESIDENT Carter that was unnecessary.
To: lnbchip
Carter is the worst pres. EVER. he cost me my job of twenty years and I BECAME A Reagan dem./REPUBLICAN and have never looked back.
His double digit int. rate bankrupted many companies.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:21:52 AM PDT
by
grounhog
( grounhog)
To: lnbchip
Ever notice how, according to some, it's OK for Carter to say "nucular" but not for W?
Dear Jimmah: some would say you're unnecessary. But I think you were a great object lesson in failed leadership.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:21:52 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Phantom Lord
And werent WWI and Vietnam far bloodier? How about Korea? WWII. Don't know about Korea and Vietnam, as far as deaths as a percentage of the population goes. See my reply above.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:22:51 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: lnbchip
LaFayette: An American born overseas.
Carter: An anti-American hatched at home.
Goes to show, what immigration problem? Immigrants are great!
Random notes: Over the years, I've come to change my opinion on the Canal treaty; it was definately gunboat diplomacy at its worst. Giving it up fixed one of the biggest mistakes we made (even if everyone benefited from it, how we did it was wrong). However, my flexible morals say "no" to reversing the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Some things are too broke to fix, that Zimmerman guy notwithstanding.
I can't take blame for Jimmy; I was only 14 when he was elected.
And in a manner of speaking, Ford was right, insofar as Poland was concerned. Which was the first Soviet state to defy the Russians? Poland, in '81(?) with the formation of Solidarity. (Whoops, no, Hungary, 1956. *Rumble* sez the tank. Ok, the first to get away with it, then.)
Of course, that requires a Kerryesque stretch to believe...
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:24:05 AM PDT
by
ubu
(puncturer of balloons--usually my own....)
To: lnbchip
I can't understand why my girlfriend still thinks Carter was our best President.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:27:47 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
To: lnbchip
Not only that, but Sam Adams and John Hancock lied - it wasn't a war for liberty, it was a war for whale oil.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:27:53 AM PDT
by
Argus
To: RockinRight
Was she around when he made us set our thermostats to 68 degrees in the winter?
To: lnbchip
Technically, he's right.
When the Revolutionary War broke out, the Brits had some folks on a ship on their way to colonies to discuss a fix for the "no taxation without representation" issue. IIRC they were prepared to give the colonies representation in Parliament and possibly roll back some of the more onerous parts of the Navigation acts.
However, it was still a GOOD thing.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:29:16 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(John Ffing sKerry: Just a gigolo!)
To: freepertoo
Well, she was born in 1979.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:29:19 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
To: lnbchip
Watching Jimma Carter last night on TV, I got to thinking that something reeks to high heaven----he's insane---why does MSM keep showing us this lunatic loser nightmare of a president?
Could it be that 'someone' wants us to equate 'Carter' with 'Kerry'? ie. that Kerry equals the WORST PRESIDENT in U.S. History?! Who benefits from such a strategery?
Hhnm...
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:29:37 AM PDT
by
reagandemocrat
(I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only by the U.N.)
To: lnbchip
a little more sensitive
Oh jeez - back to the FEELINGS again???
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:30:43 AM PDT
by
cgk
(Teresa Heinz Kerry: ``The Democratic machine in this country is putrid.'')
To: Little Ray
Perhaps if Paine hadn't written Common Sense it might have gone a different way. I'm not a great admirer of Paine, but thank the Lord he wrote that pamphlet! (saying thank the Lord and Paine in the same sentence just made Mr. Paine roll over, I think).
To: Sthitch
Will boiled peanuts do? They're ALMOST as nasty.
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:32:30 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: RockinRight
Ah-HAH! :-D You hadda be there.
To: talleyman
what a maroon?
He was purple?
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posted on
10/20/2004 11:50:43 AM PDT
by
Ptaz
To: lnbchip
The lunacy and disaster of the Carter presidency, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan could have been completely avoided - if Reagan had been nominated by the GOP in '76.
Minus the Soviet invasion of Afganistan...who knows...maybe 9/11 never would have happened. The Cold War might have ended sooner as well.
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