Posted on 11/04/2004 9:16:19 AM PST by mrustow
Imagine if a network star said of blacks, "They're believing, not analytical." His producer would cut his mike, before the next sentence came out of his mouth.
Oh, but that's completely different . . . isn't it??? [/sarcasm]
Meanwhile, the Black Church is made up of radical intellectuals whose scripture is On the Origin of Species. [/sarcasm]
You know, this objecting to one person's religious fundamentalism while celebrating the identical fundamentalism of someone else is getting real old real quick.
If Katie or Chris just happens to be reading this...there are actually quite a few of us out here in the red states who have indoor plumbing and we do not handle snakes in our church services.
Don't knock it . . . you don't know what you're missin'!
And I thought Michael Barone did a good job of explaining how the nuts and bolts of the decision desk worked.
Wonderful, as always!
Mandate "The will of the people as expressed to their chosen leader." This seems clear enough to me. President Bush is expressing the will of his followers and thus has a mandate to lead us as a nation. Get it?
They just don't get it. The electoral majority wins, guys...and in this case, the popular majority, too! The country is more UNITED behind this president than it has been behind any of the presidents in 16 years. Join the crowd or shut up and watch us lead.
Maybe not a "mandate" to privatize...but there's sure as hell a "moral obligation" to fix it for our descendents.
If Social Security were a teacher's union pension fund, the NEA would be screaming bloody murder for it to be fixed. It's an underfunded liability to the tune of trillions of dollars. The politician that doesn't fix it should be run out of town.
not bad.
bttt
Absolutely! If Christians would have been voting for conservative candidates all along instead of sitting at home, our country wouldn't be in this mess. What will it take to keep them politically motived until next time?
And this matters to anybody besides a pet rat exactly how?
"Media Stars" only have the power that we cede to them by taking them seriously. If ignored, they are effectively silenced.
BTTT!!!!
Mean-spirited, my left foot. Were you watching Couric when she said this? I was. She wasn't just stating a fact as she saw it. She couldn't have been more bitter and catty in her tone and body language. If she'd had fangs they'd have been dripping venom. Even Chris Mathews had to call her on it, fer cryin' out loud! Get your facts straight, dude, and be careful before you call someone else a liar.
No, actually, I don't watch the TV morning programs at all. Too much fluff for that early in the morning, and I've got to go to work. I hear the woman doesn't like Republicans, though.
I didn't say she hadn't been mean-spirited. I said that people shouldn't say she denied that Bush won when she apparently did no such thing.
No one said she denied Bush won. What the the previous poster pointed was that she said, with dripping irritation in her voice, that his majority was not a mandate.
Of course that's become the new lefty mantra, along with "Bush stole the election".
My thoughts exactly. MSNBC had good info and graphics also, but Ron Reagan is insufferable. It was laughable watching talking heads who in 2000 confidently gave Florida to Gore 45 minutes before the polls closed in the panhandle of FL with only about 4% of the precincts reporting and Bush ahead by 150,000 vote Bush lead, not willing in 2004 to give FL to Bush with 98% of precincts reporting and Bush leading by 300,000 votes [with some strong Repub. areas yet to report].
BTW, WOLF BLITZER IS AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT!
You still have Martin Sheen!
Bwaaahaaaa!
LOL. "Who needs a real preisdent, when we have a virtual one?"
Bumpbackatcha!
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