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To: MikeA
A good counterbalance would be to show that past liberal icons such as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman held socially conservative views. Could you imagine what Truman would have to say about homosexual marriage were he alive today? You could also highlight the positions of current day liberals earlier in their careers. Fore example, when Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, and Dick Gephardt entered public life, they were opponents of abortion.
7 posted on 08/04/2006 1:14:50 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

Excellent point. And Democrats pre-Vietnam were pro-national security from FDR to Truman to JFK. They may have been wrong in so many other ways, and even implemented national security badly, but I have no question of their commitment to the defense of this country. Other than Joe Lieberman, I can't name a single national Democrat who I think has the protection of US national security as a priority. Not one.

But HBO won't make a documentary about that huge change in the Democratic party. No, instead we should fear that religious people exercise their free speech and voting rights by influencing the Republican party. HBO has made its intolerance, contempt and bigotry against religious people, whether Mormons or now conservative religious voters, all too clear. I'll be cancelling my subscription.


11 posted on 08/04/2006 1:31:57 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: Wallace T.
Could you imagine what Truman would have to say about homosexual marriage were he alive today?

Harry and Bess would not be able to contain themselves in denouncing that filth, that is what would be happening.

15 posted on 08/04/2006 1:43:07 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Wallace T.
A good counterbalance would be to show that past liberal icons such as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman held socially conservative views. Could you imagine what Truman would have to say about homosexual marriage were he alive today? You could also highlight the positions of current day liberals earlier in their careers. Fore example, when Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, and Dick Gephardt entered public life, they were opponents of abortion.

Liberalism regards human history as a "budding rose unfolding;" it develops teleologically until it reaches perfection (the "omega point") and then magically stops. And this programming took place without a Creator; in fact, the unfolding universe itself seems to be regarded as the creator.

Anyway, according to liberals, a "moderate," "centerist," "decent" person is one who keeps up with the unfolding of history (from the Tennessee Valley Authority to "gay rights") and a "dangerous radical" is a person who maintains his original position instead of changing with the times.

39 posted on 08/04/2006 4:06:17 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Nachamu, nachamu, `ammi!)
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