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VanC

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25 Reasons You Might Be a Liberal
John Hawkins
Friday, August 15, 2008

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if...

* You're sure the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to abortion and gay marriage, but not the right to own a handgun.

* You think Dan Quayle is the dumbest Vice-President we ever had because he believed a flash card that misspelled "potato," but think Obama is a genius despite the fact he believes we have more than 57 states.

* You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party.

* You think the same criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime will just hand them over to comply with the law if guns are made illegal.

* You know that 86% of all income taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earners and you still feel that the rich "aren't paying their fair share of the taxes."

* You put a higher priority on oil pipelines possibly inconveniencing a few caribou than you do on lowering the price of gas for everyone in the country by drilling ANWR.

* You're worried that Osama Bin Laden might not get a fair trial if we capture him, but want George Bush thrown in prison for being too zealous in protecting us from Al-Qaeda.

* You get infuriated when you hear about the CEO of a Fortune 500 company making tens of millions of dollars, but don't see a problem with an actor, basketball player, or trial lawyer making the same amount.

* You're constantly seeing subtle, coded racism in campaign ads, but see nothing racist about blacks being promoted over more qualified white applicants because of Affirmative Action.

* You think it's obscene that oil companies are allowed to make 8.3 cents per gallon in profit with gas prices this high, but would never suggest cutting the 13 cents per gallon they pay on taxes to reduce the price of gas.

* You think George Bush is a chickenhawk because he wanted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite the fact that he only served in the National Guard, but you don't think the same about Barack Obama, who has never served in the military and probably couldn't find either country on a map without help.

* You think protesting outside of abortion clinics is extremism and should be illegal, but carrying around giant puppet heads while wearing a t-shirt that compares Bush to Hitler is just exercising your First Amendment rights.

* You think the case for global warming is proven without a shadow of a doubt, but that we need another century or two worth of evidence to figure out if capitalism and free markets work better than socialism.

* You believe the best way to fix the government screwing something up in the market is with...drumroll, please...more government intervention.

* You think the first thing we should have done when Russia invaded Georgia was to take the matter to the United Nations, where Russia sits on the UN Security Council.

* You spend your days criticizing the use of private jets, SUVS, and luxurious houses that consume enormous amounts of resources and then ride in an SUV to the airport, get on your private plane, and fly home to your luxurious house.

* You have more nice things to say about countries like Cuba and France than you do about your own country.

* You think the war in Iraq is unwinnable, but victory in the war on poverty is going to happen any day now if we can just get the Democrats back in charge.

* You won't even support English as our national language, but can't seem to understand why people worry about tens of millions of illegal aliens changing our culture.

* You think censorship is absolutely wrong; except when it's applied to conservatives on college campuses or on talk radio via the fairness doctrine.

* You get more upset about an American soldier accidentally killing a civilian than you do about a terrorist deliberately blowing up a school bus full of kids.

* You think Fox News is hopelessly biased to the right, but MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS call it right down the middle.

* You think the real hero of the Cold War was Mikhail Gorbachev.

* You couldn't care less about what Americans in states like Kansas or Virginia think of you, but you would be greatly upset if a Frenchman gave you a dirty look because you're an American.

* You think kids in public schools should have to watch Earth in the Balance and read Heather Has Two Mommies, but no piece of literature with the word "Jesus" on it should be allowed within a hundred yards of a school.



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Cal

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Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.
 
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Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:
 

jigs

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as a Kansan, I feel damned proud to be used as a pawn in that statement which shows the elitism of liberals and the unpatriotic stand for which they fight.
 

Cal

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Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:
Well, I'm glad we agree that there are not enough Republicans who are teaching, but if we had school vouchers and school choice I think all of that would change. The way it is now, the atmosphere is more condeucive to that of a leftist. The good teachers and the crappy teachers are making basically the same amounts...which is really less than a good ranch hand....with really no incentives for performance or rationality. But what a coincidence, your Comrade of Color wants to create that situation wherever the possibility exists.
 
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Cal said:
Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:
Well, I'm glad we agree that there are not enough Republicans who are teaching, but if we had school vouchers and school choice I think all of that would change. The way it is now, the atmosphere is more condeucive to that of a leftist. The good teachers and the crappy teachers are making basically the same amounts...which is really less than a good ranch hand....with really no incentives for performance or rationality. But what a coincidence, your Comrade of Color wants to create that situation wherever the possibility exists.

The federal government shouldn't even be involved in the schools- or making rules on what has to or can't be taught- like the current neocon crew has spent 7 years trying to do.....That should be a state and local issue- the same as the decision to give school vouchers and school choice...

We happen to have very good public schools in my area- and I wouldn't want my kids to go to a segregated, seperated, or special school...I think they should grow up in the same type school as the world they are going to have to live in....

Have any of you that don't like your schools jumped in and served on the School Board- and saw it from the inside out- and worked to change it.... :???:

Incidentally- Obama has said he is open to school vouchers if they'll help..

Senator Obama said this week that he is open to supporting private school vouchers if research shows they work.

"I will not allow my predispositions to stand in the way of making sure that our kids can learn," Mr. Obama, who has previously said he opposes vouchers, said in a meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "We're losing several generations of kids, and something has to be done."

Education analysts said Mr. Obama's statement is the closest they have ever seen a Democratic presidential candidate come to embracing the idea of vouchers. Vouchers are taxpayer-funded scholarships that allow families to opt out of public school and use their government-allotted education dollars to attend a private school instead. They are despised by teachers unions, powerful players in Democratic politics.

http://www.nysun.com/national/obama-open-to-private-school-vouchers/71403/
 

Sandhusker

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"Obama said this week that he is open to supporting private school vouchers if research shows they work. "

Don't bet a nickel on it. In the Illinios State House, he said that he would support a bill that would require doctors to care for babies that survived abortions if there was language that protected the right to have an abortion. That language was included in the bill and this time he didn't vote "present", he voted "no". Thus, not only did he break his word, he's on the record as supporting infanticide. A real piece of work this Obama is.......
 

Hanta Yo

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Cal said:
Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:
Well, I'm glad we agree that there are not enough Republicans who are teaching, but if we had school vouchers and school choice I think all of that would change. The way it is now, the atmosphere is more condeucive to that of a leftist. The good teachers and the crappy teachers are making basically the same amounts...which is really less than a good ranch hand....with really no incentives for performance or rationality. But what a coincidence, your Comrade of Color wants to create that situation wherever the possibility exists.

In our little part of Montana, a majority of the teachers are democrat. Why? Because of the teacher's union. If I was a teacher, I would refuse to pay into the union, and then I wouldn't have a job.
 

aplusmnt

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Oldtimer said:
Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

We are too busy making money to pay for the Democrat kids free lunches! :wink:


Besides who would pay to build the schools if Republicans became teachers? :wink: :?
 

CattleArmy

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Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:

It doesn't pay enough for Republicans to want the job.
 

CattleArmy

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* You're sure the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to abortion and gay marriage, but not the right to own a handgun.


~~It's a woman's body and to me it's her choice. I support adults who want to make commitments to each other in this day and age. Honestly people packing handguns scare me.

* You think Dan Quayle is the dumbest Vice-President we ever had because he believed a flash card that misspelled "potato," but think Obama is a genius despite the fact he believes we have more than 57 states.

~~~This point scares me and I infact posted a utube site that showed it.*

You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party.

~~~Wouldn't bother me abit. I respect and live around some NRA members.
* You think the same criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime will just hand them over to comply with the law if guns are made illegal.

~~~No I don't think this. I just think more guns out there make for decisions in anger with a gun and more guns not responsibly handled available for children to get their hands on.
* You know that 86% of all income taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earners and you still feel that the rich "aren't paying their fair share of the taxes."

~~~I feel there are flaws in the current tax equation. I feel it's more the middle class that get screwed then anyone.

* You put a higher priority on oil pipelines possibly inconveniencing a few caribou than you do on lowering the price of gas for everyone in the country by drilling ANWR.

~~~~I'm for lower gas prices about anyway we can get them.

* You're worried that Osama Bin Laden might not get a fair trial if we capture him, but want George Bush thrown in prison for being too zealous in protecting us from Al-Qaeda.

~~~Bin Laden doesn't deserve a fair trial.

* You get infuriated when you hear about the CEO of a Fortune 500 company making tens of millions of dollars, but don't see a problem with an actor, basketball player, or trial lawyer making the same amount.

~~~If it's on the up and up not due to insider trading yeah for them.

* You're constantly seeing subtle, coded racism in campaign ads, but see nothing racist about blacks being promoted over more qualified white applicants because of Affirmative Action.

~~~I look at people as that people not black, white, brown, red, or whatever else. Racism is to easily a card to play and I'm not for that.

* You think it's obscene that oil companies are allowed to make 8.3 cents per gallon in profit with gas prices this high, but would never suggest cutting the 13 cents per gallon they pay on taxes to reduce the price of gas.

~~~I'm for lower gas.

* You think George Bush is a chickenhawk because he wanted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite the fact that he only served in the National Guard, but you don't think the same about Barack Obama, who has never served in the military and probably couldn't find either country on a map without help.


~~~I don't really think any of that.

* You think protesting outside of abortion clinics is extremism and should be illegal, but carrying around giant puppet heads while wearing a t-shirt that compares Bush to Hitler is just exercising your First Amendment rights.

~~~ Most public displays of anything I'm against. People often act extreme and never think of the younger audience that is watching.

* You think the case for global warming is proven without a shadow of a doubt, but that we need another century or two worth of evidence to figure out if capitalism and free markets work better than socialism.

~~~The jury is still out on this.

* You believe the best way to fix the government screwing something up in the market is with...drumroll, please...more government intervention.


~~Depends on the situation.

* You think the first thing we should have done when Russia invaded Georgia was to take the matter to the United Nations, where Russia sits on the UN Security Council.

* You spend your days criticizing the use of private jets, SUVS, and luxurious houses that consume enormous amounts of resources and then ride in an SUV to the airport, get on your private plane, and fly home to your luxurious house.

~~~ :D My SUV is the economy model and oh yes I'm flying my private jet flitting around to my many luxurious houses. :D

* You have more nice things to say about countries like Cuba and France than you do about your own country.

~~~I think i'm pretty opinionated on my own country.

* You think the war in Iraq is unwinnable, but victory in the war on poverty is going to happen any day now if we can just get the Democrats back in charge.

~~~I think no matter what wars are won or not we will always be a target for terrorism. It scares me to think like that but they attacked us on our own soil in an unthinkable way. We as a country were unprepared.

~~~There is always going to be poverty.

* You won't even support English as our national language, but can't seem to understand why people worry about tens of millions of illegal aliens changing our culture.

~~~I fully support English as our national language. If you can't speak then learn it to live here.

* You think censorship is absolutely wrong; except when it's applied to conservatives on college campuses or on talk radio via the fairness doctrine.

~~~Not so much to much crap is out there for the younger audience to take in.

* You get more upset about an American soldier accidentally killing a civilian than you do about a terrorist deliberately blowing up a school bus full of kids.

~~~Nope I'm more upset about the school bus full of kids.

* You think Fox News is hopelessly biased to the right, but MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS call it right down the middle.

~~~I think about all news is somewhat biased.

* You think the real hero of the Cold War was Mikhail Gorbachev.

~~~Nope.

* You couldn't care less about what Americans in states like Kansas or Virginia think of you, but you would be greatly upset if a Frenchman gave you a dirty look because you're an American.

~~~Pissy Kansas people bother me just as much as pissy frenchmen.

* You think kids in public schools should have to watch Earth in the Balance and read Heather Has Two Mommies, but no piece of literature with the word "Jesus" on it should be allowed within a hundred yards of a school.

~~~I actually looked into sending my children to private school which has a deep Christian base so nope not my statement there. I have no problem with my children being exposed to both forms of literature.




Since many on here call me liberal I thought I'd go through and respond in bold to my feelings on each topic then I will go prepare myself to be torn apart by the masses. Glad I've got broad shoulders I think I'm gonna need them. :? [/b]
 

Texan

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CattleArmy said:
Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Yep, and it's about that time of the year when we send our kids back to school so a certain number of teachers can spoon feed them this crap.

Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:

It doesn't pay enough for Republicans to want the job.

Maybe Republicans are too busy paying most of the school taxes that keep the public education system afloat?
 

TSR

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Hanta Yo said:
Cal said:
Oldtimer said:
Does it ever make you wonder why there are not enough Republicans dedicated to kids betterment enough to want to be teachers :???:

Or could it be when folks get educated, many can see thru the bull and proganda promoted by this current neocon Republicanism- and switch :???:
Well, I'm glad we agree that there are not enough Republicans who are teaching, but if we had school vouchers and school choice I think all of that would change. The way it is now, the atmosphere is more condeucive to that of a leftist. The good teachers and the crappy teachers are making basically the same amounts...which is really less than a good ranch hand....with really no incentives for performance or rationality. But what a coincidence, your Comrade of Color wants to create that situation wherever the possibility exists.

In our little part of Montana, a majority of the teachers are democrat. Why? Because of the teacher's union. If I was a teacher, I would refuse to pay into the union, and then I wouldn't have a job.[/quote

Say those Union officials step right in that voting booth with them huh?/lol]
 

Cal

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TSR said:
Hanta Yo said:
Cal said:
Well, I'm glad we agree that there are not enough Republicans who are teaching, but if we had school vouchers and school choice I think all of that would change. The way it is now, the atmosphere is more condeucive to that of a leftist. The good teachers and the crappy teachers are making basically the same amounts...which is really less than a good ranch hand....with really no incentives for performance or rationality. But what a coincidence, your Comrade of Color wants to create that situation wherever the possibility exists.

In our little part of Montana, a majority of the teachers are democrat. Why? Because of the teacher's union. If I was a teacher, I would refuse to pay into the union, and then I wouldn't have a job.[/quote

Say those Union officials step right in that voting booth with them huh?/lol]
If they're anything like some of the uaw quasi-thugs, that's pretty close to reality.
 
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