Seriously? This was in the SF Chronicle? I started reading, but after three paragraphs I was certain this was written by a zit-faced highschooler for his A.P. English class, or perhaps by one of the local university's Freshmen on the campus newspaper staff.
I cannot believe such immature tripe would appear in a major metropolitan daily.
OH the Sf cronic is so cute, like a teddybear jampacked with an explosives suicide belt. :P
I popped on over to the source and read the whole thing. What a bunch of puke-level alpha garbage. The caricature painted is so unrecognizable that it's hard to believe that the author is very bright at all. If it weren't so freakin stupid it would be really sad.
LOL, that's hilarious. For a second their I got confused with a real GOP migrant, Kieth Thomson of the SF Gate. I love this piece.
As odd as this may sound, this sort of sarcastic illogic is what many liberals believe when you talk with them. The entire article is based around the question "when was the last time you beat your wife?" (an unanswerable question). Just substitute the "poor" or the "environment" for "wife" and you have the liberal argument.
Sarcasm 101
They look for the Federal Government to solve all their problems, even though there isn't a shred of evidence that their Party has ever done nothing to advance the people who support their platform. The difference between Liberals and Conservatives is clear. Liberals don't trust the people who vote for them to be responsible for their actions. Conservatives expect those who follow them to be responsible for their actions, and understand that handouts do nothing but strip away a persons dignity.
This reads like it was written by one of our trolls.
Any chance we can ZOT the San Francisco Chronicle?
OMG, this article is the greatest. I'm still laughing. I wish Rush would read this.
This is simply another, in a long series of examples, as to why the comical is not to be taken seriously.
It just shows how liberals think about things- it's all me me me me me me me.
I wonder how much he "earns" from that?!
He hasn't grown up at all at age 55. What a bitter creep.
The younger generation realizes this hackneyed, 1960 philosophy that if we tax enough the government will take care of everyone - that this is really a pile of crap.
anti-death-penalty advocate Jeff Gillenkirk of San Francisco
Gillenkirk’s group, Death Penalty Focus
Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=about
We believe that the death penalty is an ineffective and brutally simplistic response to the serious and complex problem of violent crime. By diverting attention and financial resources away from preventative measures that would actually increase personal safety, the death penalty causes more violence in society. We are convinced that when the public is informed about the inherent racism, injustice, and the true human and financial cost associated with the death penalty, the United States will join the growing community of nations throughout the world who have already abolished capital punishment.
What a smarmy, condescending a_hole!
It's precisely because the roads the schools the bridges police etc, etc have been driven to hell in a hand basket by the government that we don't want to give it any more money!!!
Churchill's maxim that "If you're not a liberal when you're 20 you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative by the time you're 40 you have no brain", amply applies to this guy... with 15 years to spare!!
Maybe he can get a gig writing for MoveOn.org.
They accept anything