Free Republic

I just became a member after lurking since before the Bush-Gore race. This is my first attempt at posting so be gentle. I am so angry at Brian Williams it forced me to finally sign up!! He actually ended his evening news with a story of how the local news media has banded together..they are in hot offices with no running water etc..he then said "they pray together"... something..something..then said " they complain about the president together" No media bias there huh??? My wife said she doubted they prayed to the same entity we do! Well anyway it made me...

You folks would consider me a liberal, and I am not embarrassed at the label. I certainly believe in a safety net for society and helping minorites who otherwise would not be given opportunities. I had heard about FreeRepublic and expected this site to be a sinister plotting device for crazed right wing freaks. It's really not that at all. It is mostly a chatty mix of simplicities and Bush hero worship. It's actually rather timid here, you might even say banal. I guess it's the sort of intellectually challenged place that you would expect from red state denizens who...

Some of my friends, family members, and co-workers wonder how I could be a political liberal in the midst of this new swell of conservatism the United States. The answers to that are all too simple. I am a liberal because the system originated by liberals called Social Security has made my parents' retirement more possible and comfortable than it would otherwise have been. I am a liberal because the system originated by liberals called Medicare paid for my mother to have two knees and a hip replaced at a cost that otherwise could not have been born by all...