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Old 06-13-2007, 12:02 PM
 
Location: wrong planet
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You have to be against a woman’s right to choose, but support the murder of thousands by air strike.
You have to believe that a shopping mall is better than a backyard, as long as it’s not YOUR backyard.
You have to believe that guns in the hands of drug dealers and gang-bangers are less of a threat than countries that have never fired a weapon at Americans here in America.
You have to believe that there were no airlines before Federal funding, tax breaks and kickbacks.
You have to believe that global temperatures are more permanently affected by natural changes in the earth's climate than billions of tons of waste gasses pumped into the atmosphere by coal and natural gas power plants.
You have to believe that the sex of someone else’s spouse is actually your business, but your adultery isn’t anyone else’s business.
You have to believe that the AIDS epidemic cannot be slowed with the assistance of the Federal government.
You have to believe that the teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is doing a great job.
You have to believe that hunters care about nature because the 10-point rack on the wall shows their commitment to it.
You have to believe that things magically happen even if you have no self-esteem.
You have to believe that Mel Gibson made The Passion Of The Christ because Christ died for our sins and not to gain notoriety.
You have to believe the ACLU is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, but the NRA is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
You have to believe that taxes are too high and the deficit, trade gap and unemployment levels are too low.
You have to believe that Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, and Thomas Edison.
You have to believe that standardized tests are not racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are.
You have to believe that George W. Bush is normal and is a smart, well-spoken person with no hidden agendas.
You have to believe that a representative democratic republic will work for everyone, regardless of belief, history or ideology and that it’s okay to kill a considerable percentage of them to bring it to them.
You have to believe that a President having consensual sex with another adult is far worse than a President who’s eager to send our children off to get killed in a war that isn’t a war to find weapons that didn’t exist.
You have to believe that Christmas and Easter were originally Christian holidays and not co-opted seasonal festivals of Pagans.
You have to believe that changing the rules of the Senate and the Ethics Committee to protect Republican Senators is somehow in the best interest to the United States.
You have to believe that we actually went to war in Iraq to find WMDs because they were a clear and present threat to the United States.
You have to believe that Republican backed special interest groups didn't finance The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they got the idea and money on their own.
You have to believe Bill Clinton getting a blowjob in the Oval Office is appalling, but Newt Gingrich serving his wife with divorce papers on her deathbed is A-OK.
You have to believe in defending the sanctity of marriage except when it’s a husband trying to fulfill his wife’s wish in ending her life.
You have to feel that marriage is sacrosanct and inviolate while ignoring the fact that 61% of Catholics get divorced and another 7% get their marriages annulled.
You have to believe that what John Kerry did 30 years ago is important, but what George W. Bush didn't do 30 years ago isn't.
You have to believe that this message was authored by a left-wing pinko socialist bleeding heart liberal.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Holly Springs, NC USA
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That's the spirit!! LOL
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:09 PM
 
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here are a few more....

1) Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an illness and needs our prayers for your recovery.

2) You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.

3) You have to believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.

4) You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the wrong gender.

5) You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.

6) You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to Allah or Buddha.

7) "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their
jobs to India.

8) You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.

9) You have to believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that Jesus shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.

10) You hate the ALCU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it to the country to bail out Oliver North.

11) You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to praise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.

12) You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can only be purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.

13) You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.

14) You have to believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate our allies and then demand their cooperation and money.

15) You have to believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMO's and insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.

16) You have to believe that providing health care to all Iraqis is sound government policy but providing health care to all Americans is socialism personified.

17) You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are "junk science", but Creationism should be taught in schools.

18) You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in Vietnam but right in Iraq.

19) You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a we-can't-find-Bin-Laden diversion.

20) You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and censoring the internet.

21) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about the adulterous affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a private matter.

22) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages from the Congressional 9/11 report because you just can't handle the truth.

23) You support state rights, which means ******** telling states what locally assed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.

24) You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital national interest but what Bush did decades later is stale news and irrelevant.

25) You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy

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Old 06-13-2007, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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All these things seem very reasonable because Bill O'Reilly said they were true.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:27 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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I would add "You have to pander to the religious right and agree that the earth is only 6,000 years old even though you know your golf club has hazards older than that"
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:41 PM
 
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Default Great job!

Katzenfreund,

NEVER have I seen the American predicament so comprehensively and accurately portrayed in such a small space. Without doubt, these two posts of yours are the best I've seen in ANY forum in literally years with regard to where this administration is taking us!
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:44 PM
 
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Katzenfreund,

NEVER have I seen the American predicament so comprehensively and accurately portrayed in such a small space. Without doubt, these two posts of yours are the best I've seen in ANY forum in literally years with regard to where this administration is taking us!
Well, thank you ....
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Old 06-13-2007, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Tolland County- Northeastern CT
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Whatever Bill O'Reilly says is newspeak ala 1984 and Orwell.

Demagoguery at its best. Fox news is big brother- spewing out the daily 'hate'. And yes the endless war against 'Oceania' goes on perpetually.

Shall I buy my groceries or heat my home or cool it- such great freedoms - OR buy my meds?

American democracy gives me that 'choice'- ah yes the free enterprise system- incredible; where old people make these hard choices; while CEO's of drug companies and Insurance companies get 100 million dollar plus bailouts and their greedy rich shareholders make lots of $$$$$- ah yes the wonderful nation we are!

Goes to prove this country is as primitive as it was 150 years ago.
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Old 06-13-2007, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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Just found these online...


* You think "proletariat" is a type of cheese.
* You've named your kids "Deduction one" and "Deduction two"
* You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were just allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.
* You've ever referred to someone as "my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend"
* You support the "war on drugs" but think Rush Limbaugh is being prosecuted unfairly.
* You support sending disadvantaged American kids to Iraq while yours go to college.
* You are more upset about Brokeback Mountain than Abu Ghraib.
* You've ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.
* You're a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.
* You think Huey Newton is a cookie.
* You believe trial lawyers are evil except in the case of the 2000 election.
* You think CNN is biased but Fox News is neutral.
* You think HMO is a cable channel.
* You believe God is everywhere - except your motel room.
* Monopoly is much more than a board game.
* You think it was more important to locate Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress than to locate weapons of mass destruction.
* The only union you support is the Baseball Players, because heck, they're richer than you.
* You believe judges have become political activists - except for the Supreme Court.
* You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.
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Old 06-13-2007, 02:43 PM
 
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great ones... jeremy
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