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A Few Thoughts on Anti-Americanism
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| 4/16/2003
| Donnel Jones
Posted on 04/17/2003 1:59:42 PM PDT by forty_years
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I couldn't have said it better: This guy notes that Liberalism had its time, but has been left behind by the new Conservatism--e.g., conservatives are the ones who are engaged nowadays (not just demonstrating with anti-Semitic placards--i.e., throwing tantrums).
To: forty_years
Good article.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:03:32 PM PDT
by
MEG33
To: forty_years
You get the picture. It's all about Bush. In smart aleck mode, I'll call this "Bushophobia," a collective and terrible fear gripping the minds of people who aren't turning the pages as history's book goes into hyper-overdrive these days. My quess would be the victims of "Bushophobia" have very little perspective political history.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:05:11 PM PDT
by
eskimo
To: forty_years
Bushophobia -- I think this needs some attention. Perhaps these liberals need therapy.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:07:31 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Beware the Fedayeen Rodham!)
To: forty_years
Is it possible that the left hates Bush as much as I hate Klinton? I find that very hard to believe.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:08:28 PM PDT
by
jim_trent
To: forty_years
Don't misunderstand, the Bush groupies seem to have even less perspective of political history.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:10:23 PM PDT
by
eskimo
To: forty_years
Undoubtedly, the loyal opposition can, and should, offer their constructive criticism of how to deal with a post-war Iraq. Instead of berating Bush and seeing the invasion as sheer opportunism, patriotic Liberals can offer their perspective that can prove quite useful and necessary in the months ahead. Oh, I can just see their useful input:
Blocking oil exploration along the scenic Shatt-Al-Arab waterway.
Guaranteeing rights to gay Iraqis
Blocking cleanup of a chemical weapons site because an endangered newt lives there.
Instilling the same level of excellence in post-Saddam public schools that we have here in the United States
Yep, liberals can do so much for Iraq!
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:12:41 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(The White House can have my DNA when they pry it from my ... eh, never mind, let's not go there...)
To: forty_years
"The war was lost in VietNam.." Horseshit!!!! We quit!!
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:14:37 PM PDT
by
caisson71
To: forty_years
Good Article, and I have bookmarked it.
The lefties below are wearing out our tolerance in America with their anti American Mantras 24/7/365.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:15:10 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
To: forty_years
I agree. I would be more likely to take the left seriously if they actually said something. It's easy to be against everything, but a lot more difficult to come up with tangible solutions.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:18:45 PM PDT
by
Desecrated
(A nickel of every tax dollar should go toward the defense of America)
To: All
It would be good to remind liberal dems, that Vietnam was a Democratic Presidents war, uh...failure , (so was Korea and others)
Liberals need to "understand" Vietnam better. They need to "understand" a lot of things. . .
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:18:50 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Get the U.N. out of the U.S, and get the U.S. out of the U.N.)
To: forty_years; hellinahandcart
interesting read.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:26:39 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...)
To: eskimo
Don't misunderstand, the Bush groupies seem to have even less perspective of political history.Whatever that means?
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:28:43 PM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
To: forty_years
You get the picture. It's all about Bush. In smart aleck mode, I'll call this "Bushophobia," a collective and terrible fear gripping the minds of people who aren't turning the pages as history's book goes into hyper-overdrive these days. Perhaps those who are turning the pages of history books consider "Bushmania" more destructive than "Bushophobia".
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:31:37 PM PDT
by
eskimo
To: Mister Baredog
Whatever that means? That means the same "read my lips" group that was assembled under old Bush is now assembled under junior Bush and their direction then was tax and spend and prop up the UN and I'm not so sure that will not be the final result this time.
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posted on
04/17/2003 2:43:45 PM PDT
by
eskimo
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To: dirtboy
You left out their desire to export abortion on demand to the 'suffering' Iraqi women. That assumption, broad and twisted and so blind to the value system of Iraqi women, is a symptom of the 'liberalism' infesting America. Let's look at that for a moment.
The term 'liberal' used to have a quite different connotation. It used to be applied to those wishing to ease restrictions in our culture. Applied to the assimilation of other nationalities entering this country and our fellow minority citizens, it defined those willing to accept and assimilate 'others' as fellow citizens. Too quickly that willingness shifted to embracing 'immigrant' languages in such fullness that programs which used these 'other tongues'had to be instituted for minority comfort, instead of requiring they learn and apply correct English as the primary language of America.
The resulting shifts, from being liberal in acceptance of others, too quickly turned into liberalism, with resulting denegration of the culture in place, seeking to alter the culture to empower all manner of minority views, corroding the collective culture in favor of radically changing the culture, to reflect some ghostly 'bigger tent' filled with special interest groups easily manipulated for voting blocks. The result was a loss of the original culture, the inability of the culture to change slowly so that the values proven to work no longer gave worth to the changing paradigm.
Liberalizing America, as if acquiring a comely tan, mutated quickly into liberalism, an insidious cancer that now threatens the life of the nation as we slide toward all manner of immoral and, in some cases, inhuman practices.
What caused this mutation?... Political correctness, as an imperious tool that served to stifle opposition in the slide toward immorality/amorality. As example, what did the clinton defenders use to stifle voices opposed to the continuance of a moral degenerate in our White House?... 'He who is without sin, cast the first stone' and 'Judge not that you may be judged'. It was demonically brillaint, but just as incorrect for application to the reality. It was a gross manifestation of political correctness run amok! Think: what if the same standard were applied to judges and police and ... well, to any elected representative tasked with writing law? And, after all, who is the sovereign of this nation? Is it not We the People? Do we not have the right to demand moral behavior from our elected representatives? Of course we do, and without being perfect in our own moral stature! It's the fundamental right of the sovereigns to establish the limits of behavior beyond which we the people will not be tolerant.
With Liberalism, tolerance is the whoring bedfellow of political correctness, applying sleazy assumption regarding intent for the partnership.
Will America re-assert a demand for morality, in our elected representatives, in our public servants, in our cultural icons, and in our own behavior as fellow citizens? If we don't, this nation as so conceived by our Founders, will not much longer endure.
As we seek to operate on the basis of a new paradigm of pre-emption and/or regime change for endangering terrorist sponsoring states, our international posture will fail to hold that which our honorable Soldiers have achieved, if We the People do not learn to value a higher moral stature than what we've slipped to under the guise of tolerance and 'liberal civility'. Never miss the reality that Liberalism has a totalitarian aspect to it, an intolerance where demands for morality and humanity are raised. Abortion on demand is the classic example of this totalitarian mindset; 'choice' is applied only to a woman, never to the alive babies waiting to be born ... and therein rises a holocaust. and one last example, regarding Islam as a major religion in America: we the People are called to be tolerant of Islamic practice ... as long as that practice does not serve to seditiously and violently undermine our Constitutional and moral rights. Freedom of religion does not demand that we be tolerant of religious practices that threaten OUR Republic's survival.
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posted on
04/17/2003 3:12:45 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: jim_trent
But Clinton did bad things to deserve our hatred or at the very least our lack of respect for him. "W" has done NONE of the terrible things the Clintons did. The Left are just whiners and they won't be happy until we have a Hussein in office right here. Then they still won't be happy, but they think they will.
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posted on
04/17/2003 3:15:04 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Freedom is worth fighting for! America, Land of the Free! Home of the Brave!)
To: jim_trent
The Liberals HATE it that we have an ADULT in the White House, an adult who isn't into drugs, cigars, interns, and kinky sex.
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posted on
04/17/2003 3:16:01 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Freedom is worth fighting for! America, Land of the Free! Home of the Brave!)
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Ping
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posted on
04/17/2003 3:18:37 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
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