Prowling with Protesters (Can Liberals be Patriots?)

GW Hatchet ^ | Rich Murphy

[KantianBurke]

First the author has a point. Dornan's speech was rambling and really strange. I had a great time with everyone and I was really impressed with all the work and labor that Kristin and everyone else put into the rally. And almost all of the speeches were great but "B1 Bob" was too much. I can't get his screech of "the WEEEEEEED" out of my head :>

That said I think the author of the piece forgets that it was CONSERVATIVES who set up the rally. Where might one ask were the Demorats or the DLCers?

[KantianBurke]

ping for fellow DC protestors :>

[KantianBurke]

ping

[KantianBurke]

ping. I don't think we made the Hatchet edition :>

[Rutherford]

The absolute low-light of the rally was "Battling" Bob Dornan, former California congressman and all-around fascist

Do you know what a facist is stupid?

[KantianBurke]

Yeah that remark of his was a low blow. What can one expect though? Its a college newspaper :>

[Gritty]

"Can someone be a liberal AND a patriot?"

A qualified "yes".

The qualifications are only if Liberals are in complete control and their policies are the only ones being implemented!

[End Times Sentinel]

Bob Dornan, former California congressman and all-around fascist, who blamed liberals and Democrats in general for all the world's ills.

Poor fella seems a little confused as to exactly what a fascist is. Logic might enlighten him to the fascists’ love of central government and control or at least involvement in all aspects of people’s lives. Sorta like the libs and democrats.

...was "The Patriots Rally for America." At last, I thought, I felt I had found a cause I believe in. I purchased a button, but soon I noticed that I was not welcome here.

Some people take Patriotism a little more seriously than just purchasing a button. Maybe you should have stayed a while and saw if you could learn something, expand your horizons. Oh, but that’s right, you’re a liberal first and foremost and that would go against your core values wouldn’t it?

I reflected on what confusing times we live in.

I’d guess there’s a lot of things that must be confusing to a fine fella like this. Deciding that you already know everything there is to know and then not seeing the connection when things aren’t as you expect them to be.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Richard Axtell]

Well, yes... but not for long. If you are a patriot and not a phony, you will begin to perceive the fact that the basic liberal agenda in its present day incarnation is fundamentally anti-American. Oh, you can play games pretending you hearken back to the Hubert Humphrey days of New Deal "compassion", waving the old 48 star flag under a State Capitol Dome painted in social realist murals by WPA artists, you can have read John Steinbeck and actually know who Adlai Stevenson was, you can even have marched with Martin Luther King, but you cannot honestly call today's American leftist-liberal movement anything but anti-democratic, anti constitution, anti capitalist, and therefore... anti American. Sorry, but we all have to grow up sometime.

[Richard Axtell]

Ooops, left off the first line.

."Can someone be a liberal AND a patriot?"

Well, yes... but not for long. If you are a patriot and not a phony, you will begin to perceive the fact that the basic liberal agenda in its present day incarnation is fundamentally anti-American. Oh, you can play games pretending you hearken back to the Hubert Humphrey Days of New Deal "compassion" waving the old 48 star flag under a State Capitol Dome painted in social realist murals by WPA artists, you can have read John Steinbeck and actually know who Adlai Stevenson was, but you cannot honestly call today's American leftist movement anything but anti-democratic, anti constitution, anti capitalist, and therefore... anti American. Sorry, but we all have to grow up sometime.

[Jzen]

I think the problem in America today is that most people are dumbed down. They no longer know what it means to be patriotic because they don't know what it means to be American. "Posterity-You will never know what it has cost our generation to ensure your freedom, I hope you use it well."

[boris]

"Can someone be a liberal AND a patriot?"

No.

[ppaul]

REMEMBER:

Today is Earth Day, and, Lenin's birthday too!

You won't see many of these images in the mainstram media either, but in most of the Palestinian demonstrations (terrorist attacks actually) in Israel, the protesters are carrying red, hammer & sickle flags. The PLO is a Marxist organization, with Arafat at the helm.

Earth Day 2002

[Hail Caesar]

I tend to agree with your assessment of Dornan's speech. I thought it was a bit strident and a rather eclectic combination of rants. And I AM a CONSERVATIVE.

[Hail Caesar]

"Can someone be a liberal AND a patriot?"

Yes, but only if in the "classical liberal" sense. Also, IMHO, one must a constitutionalist as well, in order to be a true patriot.

[Hail Caesar]

whoops...

meant to type: "one must be a constitutionalist as well, in order to be a true patriot."

[KantianBurke]

bump

[ned13]

I don't think we made the Hatchet edition :>

I guess not - However I didn't have hope after seeing the ANSWER press badge on her. Maybe she was offended by my comment about GW being too liberal? I'm glad the Hatchet has "fair and balanced" news to report.

[Fred Mertz]

I thoroughly enjoyed Bob Dornan's speech but I can understand how a leftist wouldn't like it.

[VaMarVet]

Me too.