Comments on: Why So Extreme?

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:23:32 +0000

Good one. Sounds like something Yogi Berra would say.

By: mary

mary — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:06:19 +0000

and a statement about Republicans I read this am. "One thing about being lost in the wilderness, you lose your sense of direction."

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:25 +0000

Thank you Andrea, and also Tom B, for your insightful comments.

Like Steven Colbert says…."facts are known to have a liberal bias."

By: Tom B

Tom B — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:31:10 +0000

Excellent post.

I was raised in a very traditional Christian and Republican home. For the first 35 years of my life I was a Republican. I agree that the GOP has morphed itself into something unrecognizable to the party it once was. I left the GOP for a variety of reasons. The primary one was the fact that as a gay man I was demonized by the GOP. I also have issue with a party that seems to base its platform on hate and negativity. Isn’t it interesting that his attitude is paired with alliances to “Christian” beliefs and values. If only they could see that these values are far from the intent of the Word as it is given in the Bible.

It is time for those in the GOP who adhere to the fundamental principles of conservative to take control of the party and restore it to the party it once was. I doubt I will ever return to the GOP but I have hope that they will return to the point of playing a constructive and not destructive role in government.

By: Da King

Da King — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:31:10 +0000

Andrea,
Thanks for proving my point. You think it's perfectly fine for Obama to criticize Bush every single day, but then you have a problem when the Bush administration responds to the criticism. That's nuts, and is not consistent with free speech.

Please tell me about all the times Bush criticized the Clinton administration, because I don't remember that happening, and if it did happen, it was nowhere near to what Obama is doing.

Then you pick out radio as your example of the media. I wonder why you didn't use television or newspapers as your examples, which are the places most people get their news. Never mind. I already know why, and so do you. It's because they are mouthpieces for the Democratic party.

Good luck convincing me that the NY Times, NBC, MSNBC, or CBS is just "reporting the news." Is it even possible that anyone in the country still believes that ? They aren't paying much attention if they do.

And I can tell by your comments that you don't watch Fox News. You're just regurgitating the liberal spin.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:08:02 +0000

I think the republicans thought they had to appeal to their radical right wing religious base. By doing so they lost many in the middle. Christians fundamentalists who believe the worlds coming to a end and the future of our planet is irrelevant, because it has no future is wacko and most people know that. Some might have thought Obama was a radical lefftie at first , but now I think we can see he's taking the party more to the middle.

Da King when in history have we ever had a out going president or VICE president criticize the new President so soon?
I cant remember Clinton doing so . And the news media is not in the democratic corner. The news media reports the news ..but the republicans want half truths. They want to hear spin that FOX noise gives. So they say it is a liberal media. Listen to the radio how many are speaking to the left ?
It is like having real wrestling and wrestlemania and people complaining , when they just dont get that wrestlemania is fake and they think it is real. You want a tabloid you got it on the right wing radio and FOX ..they are your fake news channels.
They are your noise.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:48:32 +0000

The only way our government can be fixed is through public campaign financing laws.

The only way conservatives can be "fixed" is for them to quit lying and start accepting reality.

Both seem like impossible tasks to me.

By: mary

mary — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:51:05 +0000

Why is it that the anti-Obamas seemingly always insufficiently research their rhetoric? I always get the impression they do not read to the punchline before they start stating their case. That said I can often see the same with anti-conservatives That tells me they are defending their preconceived positions and not really interested in improving our situation. Americans are sick of lousy and corrupt government — period. How do you fix that if all you do is bitch about what the other side is doing?

By: larry d.

larry d. — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:51:07 +0000

Conservatives criticized the "Bush gang" all the time, Reverend. I haven't heard a politician on the right say a nice thing about Bush in the last two or three years.

Even though his Iraq "boondoggle" looks like it might be paying off a decade before anyone had a right to expect.

By: Da King

Da King — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:30:51 +0000

btw, I never have been able to understand what "post-modernism" means. If modern means "current, up-to-date," what does post-modern mean ? It seems like it should mean "the future."