O/T Political Rants & Raves - Page 33

Jurdon I have done my fighting. I have got even shot. What about you? I also know that you would not call me a coward in my face. Nobody ever did.
Bob McKown I agree with you. But that is not going to happen. And even if it would it would then be just another party. We need to vote (Yes I can vote)  for good people in the parties we have now and keep them accountable or vote them out if they do not keep their word.  And voters need to educate themselves about the constitution, bill of rights and freedom and liberty and tyranny and Magna Charta and about history of Communism and history if independence and oppression. And about the topic they vote on. Government can not mess with us if we are knowledgeable. Ignorance is our worst enemy.
And stand for your rights and rights of the others. Do not expect any government to take care of you. Take care of yourself and help others take care of them selves.  People in Government have no interest in taking care of you. They just say that so that they will  get your votes and then they use your votes to get more power/money for them selves. They will never have true interest in taking care of individual people. Our founding Fathers knew that.  Look , for example Dems are saying that they are all for blacks. Well show me where they helped them? That is decades of them claiming that. Lincoln was republican. The great MLK must be spinning in the grave. What happened to : I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.? That would be disaster for most politicians if we would get along.
There is more division in this nation then ever since WW 2. That is what the politicians strive on. Divide and impera. Divide and rule. Old Roman truism. Anyway I am tired.
Prager(Hans)

Here is one pastor's method of dealing with the "imposter" president.

"On August 16th, Anderson delivered a sermon titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama". In it, Anderson admitted he prays for the president's death."

Perhaps one of the Christians can explain how this can be reconciled with the Christian faith.

www.abc15.com/content/news/southeastvalley/tempe/story/Tempe-pastor-reiterates-wish-for-President-Obamas/MX2Vzd4unEi9n8PschT50w.cspx

Maggie is right about one thing -- over 90% of the people in this country who have Ph.D.s voted for Obama.

So all those misfit valedictorians (the ones who actually got the answers right on all those tests year after year) "fell" for Obama, while everyone else (the ones who made a lot more mistakes) voted for McCain.

Is this too subtle?

Educated idiots.
Prager

My acid test for whether or not you can function as a mentally functional citizen in a free society is how you react to this:

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/hunting-wolves-and-men/?ref=

Who wants to bet that the same people who think Michael Vick (black) didn't pay enough of a price serving his time in prison for fighting dogs, think shooting wolves (by white guys) is a grand idea, and joking about assasinating a (black) president is ok, just meant in good fun?

And then those same people will tell that they are not racist.  In fact, they will tell you that calling them racist is race-baiting.

I read those recent posts with trepidation for my country!

"Dems are saying that they are all for blacks".  REALLY?  What is a statement like that even supposed to mean?  In this country,  both the Dems and the Reps are supposed to be  "for" all people, regardless of color.  As a matter of fact,   Martin Luther King would be pleased to see we have made great strides with regards to civil rights and equality, though obviously we still have a ways to go.  We all know Lincoln was a Republican.  Do  you know what the Republican Party and  Nixon's "southern strategy" was and why when in the south he campaigned hard on promises of "states rights"?  Are you aware that it was President Lyndon Johnson, democrat,   who championed  Civil Rights?  Things change, people evolve.

I am confused by the view that Obama is somehow less concerned about freedom than Bush -- is that what some people believe? Obama taught constitutional law at the U of Chicago and according to any objective criteria appears to have a deep and abiding understanding of and respect for the Constitution. He even angered leftists by his nomination of comparably centrist judge (Sotomayor) who moved the Supreme Court demonstrably to the RIGHT.

Bush on the other hand -- through Cheney -- advanced a theory of the unitary executive. This is what Jefferson -- the founding father so many of you think you love -- called "monarchy" and when he saw it in Alexander Hamilton he condemned it -- and insisted on the First Amendment (which some of you don't like, either). Bush sought to vastly reduce the power of the people and their legislative representatives and vastly increase the power of the president -- in part through manipulation of the OLC in the DOJ.  Obama does not even exert enough pressure on Holder (his AG) to hold off on investigations of misconduct with respect to the torture memoranda - investigations sure to backfire politically and hurt the Dems and Obama.  But they are going ahead because unlike Bush, Obama does not seek to "own" the AG of the US. 

Obama is obviously inclined to give back freedom to the American people that was taken by Bush/Cheney, and quite intentionally in both cases.  He could have merely held onto the power and no one would really have blamed him.  But instead he turned back his power to give us back our constitutional rights.

Sometimes people here seem like bulls in the bullring, but in this case someone only has to waive a red, white and blue flag for people to charge around with blood in their eyes.

By the way, if you believe in real freedom you should petition your congressional rep and ask that we create a move to independently elect our US Attorney General.  This is a completely non-partisan issue.

The president should have no power to create a mini-me (Gonzales) or even the appearance of a mini-me (Holder).  We need independent law enforcement capable of controlling illegality in the White House on down.  The Bush years showed us that an appointed AG is a terrible mistake.