Posted on 01/08/2003 8:37:36 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
Sometimes, because my wife is six months pregnant, I must take a cab to work. Today, I had the "pleasure" of having a commie taxi driver. Our conversation started with my referring to the fact that the bank I work for is closing. He told me that you'll see more of that with a Republican administration in office. He told me how Highway 436 was filled with vacant shops during the Reagan Eighties.
I asked him: "Doesn't that fall on the role of the Governor?"
He said: "Ok. Nationally we were left with the biggest deficit ever under Reagan."
I told him: "Only because the Democratic Congress went back on their word to cut spending to balance the tax cuts."
He went on to blame talk radio because "It is easy to push the hot buttons of people."
I replied: "Talk radio is 'right wing' is because left wing shows fail every time."
He changes the subject: "It's like Iraq. We have no business being there."
I said: "He has nuclear and chemical weapons."
He said: "So do twenty-five other countries."
I said: "He's used them on his own people."
He said: "That's their own business."
I said: "With that kind of attitude, there would be no Jews in Europe."
He said: "If Irag attacks Tel Aviv, Israel will take care of it. Besides, that's not why we attacked the Germans."
I said: "Yes, I know that. We joined World War Two because they attacked our allies. Israel is one of our allies."
He said: "It was a different world then . . ."
I said: "It's the same world."
I couldn't look at his face. He had nostril hair long enough to braid. He also had lots of crusties, so that his nose hairs looked like stalagmites (or are those stalagtites?)
He said: "America of today is like Germany of 1930. Our civil rights are being eaten away with Homeland Security."
I asked angrily: "Are you comparing our President to Hitler?"
He worriedly shot back: "Uh no, Hitler was nuts."
I asked angrily: "Are you going to comapre the World Trade Center attack to the Reichtag fires?"
He worriedly shot back: "Uh no . . ."
He says: "I am just worried about my civil liberties. There was a case in Florida were a family were held in handcuffs and their dog shot just for being suspected of a crime."
I asked: "Would you rather that a cop gets shot?"
He said: "If it protects my civil liberties, yes."
I asked: "Aren't police officers there to protect you from crime?"
He trailed off: "Yes, but . . ."
He started to praise Clinton and how he was attacked by a "vast right campaign" started by right wing radio, while Reagan was given two presidential honeymoons because he was shot.
I asked: "Are you blaming him for that?"
He said: "No, It wasn't Reagan's fault. But he left this country a mess and Bush Jr. is taking away the rest of our civil liberties . . . "
We got to my destination. He is ranting on about his civil liberties and how Bush is taking them away. I really need to get to work. I pay him. (Yes, I did give him a tip even though he's a commie.)
I asked: "Do you like Lincon? Do you think he was a good President?"
He said: "Yes, He was pretty good."
I asked: "Did you know that during the civil war he suspended Habeus Corpus?"
He had no answer but kept on his Bush bashing rant. I told him: "Save your arguments, I've heard them all before." I got out of the cab and wished him a good day.
Horrible eperience.
I have yet to be saved by one.
Still waiting for you to answer my question concerning partisanship: Would you be as zealous for war if Gore had been elected?
-And at what point do you admit that a trampling of our rights is underfoot?
Much sooner, I'm sure, under a Democratic administration. The first time someone's 17 year-old daughter was fondled by airport security, freepers would be marching on DC with pitchforks and torches. Under Bush, we simply turn a blind eye, don't we?
Hardly so. I merely brought your words to the attention of the owner's agents because you had spouted off Democratic Party talking points, and the incongruity of such anti-American ideas on a conservative website impelled me to note the event in case you needed any help or directions.
No one is zealous for war. This war was brought to us on 9/11, and we will win it. And Gore lost, so try to get over it, and 'move along.'
This is typical of the whining, bed-wetting coward liberals. They are all mouth and no balls. We MUST confront these gerbils at every opportunity. I'm sick of talk! I'm TIRED of all the mental masturbation on this and other websites! I had all the erudition ( bullshit! ) I could stand in college and corporate america. It's time to take the country back from these wimps.
So true.
I have a job, where I actually work for a living. I guess I have to do my share to help pay for Bush's bombs. I don't have all day to sit around and go goo-goo on your "Day in the Life of President Bush" threads, or cheer on the invasion of an oversized sandbox that somehow "threatens our liberties." Pointyheaddexter is doing a good job of that.
The only bed-wetting cowards I see around here are those who look to the government to "do something" to prevent another 9-11 level attack - when THEY are the ones who gave the terrorists a free pass to attack us in the first place. Almost a year and a half later, NOTHING has changed in our foreign policy or border security - for fear of being politically incorrect. The Bush administration is FULL of liberals.
It's time to take the country back from these wimps.
I couldn't agree more.
Could it be that Bush wants to invade Iraq because he can't find the real perpetrators of 9-11?
A handy distraction right out of Clintoon's play book. Wag the Dog II is underway...
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