Paragraph arrangement and grammar are all hers. I got my popcorn ready for the fun.
Enjoy.
Posted on 05/01/2005 6:17:34 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
America was profoundly changed after the September 11 attacks. We went from a country motivated by hope to a country controlled by fear. For the last several years, feeling neither safe nor secure, Americans have lived in extreme anxiety of another impending terrorist attack. I think that as a result, most Americans sought out their faith and reaffirmed their conviction in God. President Bush and the Religious Right's greatest political weapon has been perpetuating fear. Because of the heightened climate of anxiety coupled with religious fervor, they have been successful in stripping Americans of their personal freedoms, suppressing dissent and winning elections based on moral values. I also think the unfathomable fear of being a victim of another terrorist attack has allowed for the crumbling of the wall between church and state, which is a vital part of our historical, legal and political heritage. By allowing personal religious beliefs to infiltrate our political framework, we have enabled this administration to wage a war on women's reproductive rights, squelch scientific advancement, take away our freedom of speech and fill important positions within government and possibly the nation's highest courts with religious extremists. We must not let fear cripple our democracy.
Bush's actions to manipulate the country using fear remind me of Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant quote "there is nothing to fear but fear itself." The Bush administration, capitalizing on the horror of 9/11, had the perfect opportunity to wage a war under false pretenses and four years after 9/11, get away with failing to properly secure our borders, ports, airplanes and nuclear power plants. I have written before how this administration could have and should have prevented 9/11 by not ignoring all the threats we were given, or even by beefing up airline cockpit doors. The U.S. continues to be isolated from the international community and thousands of young American soldiers have senselessly been killed and injured. Despite all of the Administration's mistakes and shortcomings, Bush was re-elected by the American people (regardless of the many accounts of possible voter fraud). People are unable to recognize they are being manipulated when they are paralyzed by fear because their government is constantly reminding them of an impending terrorist attack. During the 2004 election, every time John Kerry's poll numbers elevated, the government announced a new terror alert and people were once again forced to face the orange color code. The administration has spent more time trying to keep the people frightened, rather than focusing on securing our country. Only last week were lighters banned from airplanes, yet it has been a full 3 * years since "Richard Reed" tried to light his shoe bomb on fire with a match, while aboard an American Airlines flight to Miami. Even though lighters are now banned, matches are still permissible on airplanes. This is merely one example among many of how slow the Bush administration has reacted when presented with an opportunity to make Americans more secure. President Bush continues to maintain that he is doing everything in his power to make America safer. Thus far most of the country continues to accept this fallacy. Bush's actions remind me of Herman Goering's quote during the Nuremberg Trials, where he stated: "...it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism..."
Paragraph arrangement and grammar are all hers. I got my popcorn ready for the fun.
Enjoy.
If Hollywood was a vagina, she would be a yeast infection!
You got to love it, baba talks about losing personal
freedoms but then want's matches banned by the government
on airlines.
Clearly certifiable.
Uh, Barb, using quotation marks means you're quoting, as in verbatim. Your above FDR quote is wrong. Which doesn't surprise me.
Gore Vidal she ain't.
Re 21:8 "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
(NKJV)
GODSSPEED!
Of course what FDR was really saying was,
"Fear the fear, don't fear the government."
9/11 opened people's eyes to the evil of the American left. It's called public opinion, and it drives the left crazy because there's no one they can blame for it, and no one who can put a stop to it. And it's your own sense of shame, dear, that makes you rail so shrilly against it.
James Brolin needs to stick something in Babs mouth to shut her up.
I know James, it is a terrible deed I ask you to do, but after your abysmal attempt at portraying the greatest President of the 20th century, Ronald Wilson Reagan, you deserve the punishment that NO man should receive.
Okay, and how would that person know how anyone that lives anywhere but Malibu and NYCity feels? Has she ever spoken to someone that makes less that $1million a year? Doubt it.
Why, why are these women SO infatuated with killing babies--it seems to be the first or second thing out of their mouths.
She is complaining about threats unanswered--could it be that she was in the White House "entertaining" the Clintons during some of the most telling threats and hints of what was to come?
What these people that complain about what Bush hasn't accomplished don't seem to understand is, Bush has had to fight a war with the bad losers of 2000 for 5 years---it is kinda hard to fight a War on Terror when you are having to fight the press, the dems, the GOP, every single day!!!
If you don't agree with a liberal your a racist, Christian fanatic, stupid red neck etc.. Maybe the liberals are upset because we finally have a medium like FR so that we can talk back and tell them we think they are full of crap.
I think she's gone around the bend (not that this is anything new).
I feel too sorry for her to mount a serious debunking. It's just not fair to put a .44 magnum agianst a pop gun.
We can only hope there is a giant sink whole under Hollywood about to collapse and suck all the scum into its bottomless pit.
I know I'm in a tiny minority, but even as a kid I thought that quote was perfect politics-speak and ultimately meaningless--of course there are things to fear, especially if you're president. Babs and the left are full of fear, as their ooogah-boogah! talk about the eeeeeeeevil Bush and company make clear.
I see the left is standing by this urban myth.
This from the woman who issues directives that employees should not look directly at her. Sounds a little like fear tactics to me.
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