Rep vs. Dem Differences

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:54:33 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

We train for instinctive reactions to emergencies. If an engine fails on
takeoff, we admire the pilot who, almost without thought, can pull the
throttle, feather the engine, put the proper rudder pedal in, and set the
proper airspeed while chewing gum and telling the tower he needs to come
around for an emergency landing.

Bush projects exactly that kind of smoothness, assurance, and decisive
response. It comforts the voters and makes pilots, especially those who do
a
lot of emergency drilling, say, "My kind of guy."

Well Roger, lucky for us we have film of exactly how "Dubya" reacted
when told the news of the attacks on the WTC because he was being
filmed at the time reading to kids in a classroom in Florida when an
aide approached and gave him the news. There it is in cold hard film,
the actual reaction of the big guy when told of the worst attack upon
the United States since Pearl Harbor.

His smooth assured and decisive reaction? He sat there stunned for 8
minutes on camera until someone came and hustled him out of the
classroom.


Baloney. He continued reading. What was he supposed to do, run out of the
classroom screaming? Kerry himself admits to sitting stunned for 40 minutes,
so I suppose 8 minutes is five times better than Kerry.

Seriously, what is it that you think a President could have done? No one
knew whether it was a terrorist attack or just another airline accident. I
would be very interested in knowing what magical powers Presidents have.

Martin Hotze opined

"C J Campbell" wrote:

Well, aside from all the Canadians and the Europeans that is. grin

Hardly. The Canadians and Europeans depend on the US for their security.
They provide token forces, but nothing anywhere near what they would have
to do if they were fully responsible for their own security.

Aren't we clever? We let other idio^W^Wour allies pay for it, so we don't
have
10% of our population in poverty.

That is a good plan, right up until someone stops providing your security.
Then you start having a problem. Luckily you have 10.6% of your population
unemployed, so there are lots of peopole that can be conscripted into your big
new army.


-ash
Cthulhu for President!
Why vote for a lesser evil?

Wdtabor wrote:

The Nazi Party was the National SOCIALIST Party, fascsim is a left wing
philosophy, it never has had anything to do with the political right. It is
only characterized as such by entertainers with no knowledge of history.

Someone doesn't know the definition of right and left.

Right wing philosophies tend to be conservative, want to retain
traditional values, and often advocate the establishment of an
authoritarian political order.

Left wing philosophies promote political change, and generally promote
greater freedom and well being of the common man.

Fascism, and by extension Nazism, are clearly right wing philosophies.
They cannot be characterized as being "liberal" by any stretch of the
imagination.

"Brian Burger" wrote in message

It's part of the problem, I think, with international relations - US
politics is skewed so far right that the rest of us just can't relate
anymore.

My wife likes to remind me that America was founded and raised by religious
types who were so weird and to the right that they felt a need to escape
Europe to exercise their religious freedom. The Quakers, the "puritans"
(as we call 'em now)...

We were doing alright until the Republicans and the Democrats got their
hands on the controls. Now, the house is divided by two groups who are not
interested in American democracy, but in seizing power and money for select
constituents.

-c

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:17:10 -0700, "C J Campbell"
wrote:

Seriously, what is it that you think a President could have done? No one
knew whether it was a terrorist attack or just another airline accident. I
would be very interested in knowing what magical powers Presidents have.

"Sorry kid's got to cut this short, I'll try to come back sometime
soon" Comes to mind.

Corky Scott

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:

Hardly. The Canadians and Europeans depend on the US for their security.
They provide token forces, but nothing anywhere near what they would
have to
do if they were fully responsible for their own security.

Perhaps the amount they spend on security is quite adequate. Who's going
to attack
them?


Each other. With the exception of Canada, of course, who'd want it.

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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jawilljr wrote:


"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Wdtabor wrote:

The Nazi Party was the National SOCIALIST Party, fascsim is a left
wing
philosophy, it never has had anything to do with the political
right.
It is only characterized as such by entertainers with no knowledge of
history.

And what was East Germany's actual name?

- Andrew


Deutsche Demokratische Republik... or German Democratic Republic.

So it was a democracy?


Yes and everyone had a vote. The limiting factor was the candidates.

generally promote greater freedom

Unless that freedom happens to involve saying that abortion is murder,
women are often happier as housewives, or that most poor people are
lazy and won't work...

....leftists are the most close-minded people I've ever met. Very, very
few can discuss "hot button" issues rationally. In fact, I've never met
a true leftist who was able to logically and reasonably defend his
position.

....I think that G. W. B. has made some VERY serious errors during his
first term. John Kerry, however, has a long history of not changing his
position. He's been an advocate of increasing Johnson's "Great Society"
from every avenue. He's been a class warfare hypocrit from before his
Vietnam Service.

I read some statistics yesterday that made my skin crawl: Most poor
households in this country have:
air conditioning,
hot & cold running water,
eat more meat (per capita) than the US RDA (and considerably more
than MIDDLE CLASS Europeans!),
have 1.5 cars,
1.5 color TVs
and own a VCR or DVD player.

Most poor households are single parent with an absentee father. Most
poor households work less than 15 hours per month.

Our "poor" live better than the middle class in Europe and considerably
better than Asia. We won't even talk about Africa!

The "Great Society" hasn't worked, instead of decreasing, the
percentage of "poor" has increased. By paying people to stay in
poverty, the bureacracies continue to justify their own existence.

Only by making poverty "undesirable" will we be able to motivate our
so-called "underclass" to better themselves and rise up out of the
station to which they were born. The GREAT NEWS is that here in the
U.S. we have the ability to do that! We're not bound by society to stay
among the lowly and despised! We can educate ourselves and rise up
beyond the reach of our fathers!

Hallelujah!

Flying A Mortgage...
....is descended from poor, black watermen in DelMarVa's eastern shore.
He thanks God that his ancestors were born in this great country where
they were able to steadily improve their lot in life until now he gets
to CHOOSE to pay off his mortgage early instead of buying a Skyhawk!

In article , Martin Hotze
wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote:

Well, aside from all the Canadians and the Europeans that is. grin

Hardly. The Canadians and Europeans depend on the US for their
security.
They provide token forces, but nothing anywhere near what they would
have to
do if they were fully responsible for their own security.

Aren't we clever? We let other idio^W^Wour allies pay for it, so we don't
have
10% of our population in poverty.

feh - if you want poverty look at Haiti or Columbia.

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

In article , "Roger Long"
wrote:

I'll have to confess to being mystified the overwhelming appeal among
pilots
of a jet jockey who hid out in the National Guard over a GA pilot like us
who had the conviction to put his ass in the line of fire.

Waffle is "like us"? guess again.

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.