Posted on 10/27/2008 8:19:15 AM PDT by TSchmereL
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--that's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--that's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
Don’t sweat the candle chat. It should taper off.
Frank Marshall Davis taught Obama....
You notice how he just wants to snuff it out.
Negative liberty
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The concept of negative liberty refers to freedom from interference by other people. According to Thomas Hobbes, “a free man is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do is not hindered to do what he hath the will to do.” (Leviathan, Ch. XXI, [2])
The distinction between negative and positive liberty was drawn by Isaiah Berlin in his lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty.” According to Berlin, the distinction is deeply embedded in the political tradition. The notion of negative liberty is associated with British philosophers such as Locke, Hobbes, and Adam Smith, and positive liberty with continental thinkers, such as Hegel, Rousseau, Herder, and Marx.
In Berlin’s words, “liberty in the negative sense involves an answer to the question: ‘What is the area within which the subject — a person or group of persons — is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons’.”[1] Restrictions on negative liberty are imposed by a person, not by natural causes or incapacity. Helvetius expresses the point clearly: “The free man is the man who is not in irons, nor imprisoned in a gaol, nor terrorized like a slave by the fear of punishment ... it is not lack of freedom not to fly like an eagle or swim like a whale.”
The distinction between positive and negative liberty is considered specious by socialist and Marxist political philosophers, who argue that positive and negative liberty are indistinguishable in practice, or that one cannot exist without the other.[2]
Interestingly enough, Frankfurt School psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher Erich Fromm drew a similar distinction between negative and positive freedom in his 1941 work, The Fear of Freedom, that predates Berlin’s essay by more than a decade. Fromm sees the distinction between the two types of freedom emerging alongside humanity’s evolution away from the instinctual activity that characterizes lower animal forms. This aspect of freedom, he argues, “is here used not in its positive sense of ‘freedom to’ but in its negative sense of ‘freedom from’, namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions.”[3] For Fromm, then, negative freedom marks the beginning of humanity as a species conscious of its own existence free from base instinct.
As my grandfather would say, Obama is an “EDUCATED IDIOT!”
Jibber jabber, jibber jabber, jibber jabber, jibber jabber...
A lot of times a currently read post is used to reply on a thread, especially a long thread, I do it frequently, welcome to the digital jungle, you will learn more here than anywhere else, and, your input is going to be a part of that experience for others
He must be burning it at both ends.
Stop being hysterical! We’re doing GREAT! Don’t make me slap you. LOL.
“Ask Not what your govt can do for you ... Demand it!”
Mark Steyn
Besides, the “top 5%” floor is $175k, and the top 5% already pays between 55% and 60% of federal income tax revenues.
His numbers simply will not add up. I doubt Obama is bright enough to even know this.
It's the demagoguery, stupid!
Obama will be to the U.S. what Germanicus was to Rome: The Beginning of the End.
uh-oh, now you’re burnt up!
I was trying to explain to someone over the weekend just how obammy would mangle the Constitution. I didn’t convince them. *SIGH*
this reminds me of my law professors.
true refugees from the real world were desperate to justify their hippie radical protesting past.
I believe that if we could get our hands on his thesis, this would be his subject.
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