Posted on 06/15/2007 1:58:34 PM PDT by oblomov
President George W. Bush delivers remarks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 16, 2005. "In America, people of faith have no corner on compassion, but people of faith need compassion to be true to the call to "Ame al projimo como a sí mismo," love your neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself. That's a universal call," said the President. White House photo by Eric Draper
When laws are enforced on an inconsistent basis or ignored all together when elected officials and judges feel like it, the whole system is worthless
He is not JFK speaking German to the people of Berlin;he is speaking to U.S. citizens in the U.S. and ought to be speaking the predominant language.Language helps unite a people.If the population of a nation cannot even understand each other's spoken word how can they co-operate on other things?
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, Republican President
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is
morally treasonable to the American public.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to
the American Defense Society in 1919
ty.
Bumping Teddy Roosevelt!
You start first, Mr. President. Empty out your pockets to the illegals. And at the orders of someone else.
Take it DU where you belong. Spark hole
Ping on Patriotism
“The war is not over yet. There is still resistance in the Sunny heartland. Therefore, I am asking Congress to approve a surge of 20 million illegals...”
“Take it DU where you belong. Spark hole”
Really - so those who, from a position of Conservatism and little-l libertarianism, who are angry with the Administration for going out of his way to
-Kowtow to international institutions and anti-soverignty treaties after mocking Kerry for describing a ‘global test’
-Call those of us who don’t support his deadly open borders policy ‘nativist’ and suggest we are racist
-Billions here and billions there to wasteful ‘foreign aid’ programs such as the recent promise of $30 BILLION for ‘AIDS money for Africa,’ as if more money will make a difference, or the previous money did either
-Called those of us who didn’t support Harriet Miers ‘sexist’
-Is going to send more weapons to the Palestinians, after the 15,000 rifles we already sent are now in the hands of Hamas, and the Fatah ‘moderates’ masquerade as al Aqsa gunmen at night anyway.
-Can’t find his veto pen
-Proposes huge domestic program increases, and increases the size of government rather than shrinking it.
-Treats Ted Kennedy better than he does his own base, after Kennedy does nothing but crap on him, and his base has been supportive - until now.
Meanwhile you are the one who called me “Spark hole,” which has a rotten sexual connotation as opposed to ‘sparky’ which I called you because you were a little too excited to ping the owner of this forum because you were upset that someone might deride your BIG LIBERAL HERO BUSH - and then have the gall to tell someone who called you on it, who is mad that Bush acts like a liberal, to “take it to DU.”
Bush supporters in mid 2007 are the ones who belong in DU. After all, he’s doing 90% of what they want. It’s his new base, only they aren’t smart enough to realize it yet - and neither are the Daily Dosers on FR.
“I hope that we here at Free Republic can still respect a person we disagree with. But if you want derision of the President, you will find it at DU.”
Respect is EARNED, not AUTOMATIC.
Violate your oath of office, and it evaporates.
Derision is the most powerful weapon we have to get him to ac right.
“I am sure you will find many at DU who will agree with you on this subject and on the subject of holding the President up to ridicule.”
He went out his way to earn it - expended more political capital on crap like this than he ever did on a single Conservative move like judicial appointments, which he caved on. Like reducing the size of government, which he never started on.
Don't you mean "ak right?"
” Don’t you mean “ak right?””
meant act.
caffeine has not made it’s ways to fingers yet.
No it is not. It is the weapon of choice in a battle of the minds between the witless.
Jorge says:
“This thing I’m standing next to on this stage is not a speaker’s podium. ... It is a full scale model of the amount of fence we’ve built so far. Pretty solid, huh?
” No it is not. It is the weapon of choice in a battle of the minds between the witless.”
Tell us, Oh Wise San Franciscan, what would work better?
Undying support for the President and his leftist policies?
There is a long and honorable policy of political derision in the US - going back to the War for Independence, and the arguments between the Federalists and Antifederalists, never mind the Imperial King George.
We’re throwing his Ted Kennedy’s Amnes-Tea into Boston Harbor.
i wonder how many of you who are so “eloquently” using all the sarcasm and ridicule you can muster towards our President actually think about what Jesus’ heart would be toward those who seek the sanctuary of the free in the land of the brave, like we have here in America?
As a believer in Christ, there is no law higher than the laws of God — His heart of compassion for people should always reign paramount in our hearts and in our actions.
I truly believe that President Bush seeks God’s will at the highest level in his heart, without compromising the laws we have in place. Whether you agree or not, he is acting on conscience, while seeking peace among those from the opposible aisle, to bring about a solution to a megaproblem that has plagued us for years.
The solution is never as easy as most of you in here make it out to be. Building a wall 20 feet high and throwing 11 million people out of the country is ludicrous and impractical. I know i’ll get eggs and rocks thrown at me, but i just see this whole thing a different way.
You all are eager to find the “traitor” among us, especially at the top levels of leadership. You put your faith, i think, in a man MORE than you put your faith and hope in God. That may sound harsh and judgemental, but i’m only learning from all of you in here, listening to the venum with which you all speak.
I trust that President George Bush is truly keeping his relationship with God in first place, and knows he may appear to be letting down his party and his people. But i think his motive is righteous. I really do. I don’t agree with every decision he’s made either, but I think he wants God’s will for this country more than he wants to be popular.
My two cents...now come rocks, eggs and tomatoes.
Go for it.
I knew you meant act. I was just making a stab at humor, however feeble.
“No it is not. It is the weapon of choice in a battle of the minds between the witless.”
You’ll have to take it up with the Commander in Thief, after all he’s the one who derided those who opposed Miers as sexist, opposed Dubai Ports as fools, opposed Amnesty as nationalist racists yay-hoos, and now Trent Lott his buddy says it’s a problem that ‘talk radio runs America’ and they need to ‘do something about it.’
Sit down, shut up is for SUBJECTS. If we expect to be treated like free men, then we need to stand up top these latter-day Mandarins and act like it!
“Hi everybody. I got into office by posing as a conservative but now I can say that I’m not. I fooled you all!”
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