[sydney smith]

Thanks for your gentlemanly answer. I asked a question. And received invective for the most part, mixed in with quasi answers. No wonder the MSM has a field day with tea-partiers.

[nina0113]

I asked a question.

In a very snarkey way and you got back what you gave out. Cry me a river about the invective.

[usurper]

No wonder the MSM has a field day with tea-partiers.

Well its easy to see where you get you news and information, the very fact that you had to ask what the Tee Parties believe in indicates your sources are limited.

Yes the MSN has been having fun mischaracterizing the Tee Parties, President Bush, the war on terror, the economy, Islam, racism, global warming and every other “cause” to the point where their market share looks like a deflated tire already running on the rim. Their print media is all but dead, the nightly new casts have lower ratings than a light night comedian pretending to be a newsman. Tens of thousands of former network news employees are laughing as they reach into the dumpster for their next meal.

A big part of the Tee Parties movement is mocking and exposing the MSM along with corrupt government. No one cares what the MSM thinks anymore, what remaining credibility they once had was sacrificed in their zeal to elect theirchosen one.

The fact that you found Free Republic is a step in the right direction of freeing your mind.

[Excellence]

I am learning, also. After 9-11 I purchased a set of the Great Books of the Western World because I knew instinctively that the attack was one on Plato, Aristotle, and all of the philosophers as much as it was an attack on the buildings themselves. This Tea Party Movement has the feel of pre-independence sentiment, that has been reinforced by what I have learned by these lectures. They are not on sale anymore, though you can sign up to be notified when it does come on sale again. I wrote to the Teaching Company today begging them to put it back up again. The speaker is unequivocal in his passion for the intellectual pedigree of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. He even spoke of the true meaning of “Happiness,” which means, from the original Greek, “a happy spirit” (happiness) and “to flourish,” which should not be confused with “prosper.” Indeed, to flourish means to grow in every manner, physically, spiritually, and in maturity. Our language has been degraded; happiness has been conflated with pleasure.