I am watching the news and this just INFURIATES me.  Why are we taking this crap??  What do you guys think?  Am I just rebelling against my family's Republican roots or is this guy Satan in disguise?  Honestly people, please explain to me how this happens.  I am not an expert in this field and when I talk to Republicans, they can defend everything.  When I talk to Liberals, they're all pissed about our entire Nation. ??
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The gas prices are absolutley ridiculous.  This is captalism at its worst.  I am not saying I am communist, heck no, but our government needs to change its policy ASAP and make laws that restrict huge, unfair profits for corporations that are making money selling an essential consumer product.  Laws must be made, people NEED gasoline, it isn't an option to most, and it isn't right to have us pay outrageous gas prices, while someone else gets incredibely wealthy.  Unfortunatley, money equals power in this country, and if we don't do something about this we are all going to continue to get screwed over.  Good question!!
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I'm very conservative, right winger and I'm really shocked by some of the things I see the Bush whitehouse doing. They just don't make sense and they lead me to believe that there's something subversive going on with both parties involved.\n\nOur governments weak response to illegal immigration is one thing. It's driving me crazy and they just don't get it. And now this.... The guy was caught with $90,000.00 in his freezer. Honestly, I don't even care if the FBI broke some internal rule.... all the turds in Washington (and every state Capital and City Council) need to be flushed. \n\nSomething very fishy is going on here.\n\nVote the Constitution party because the Dems and Repubs just cannot be trusted. I hope that some good journalist digs into this to shine the light of truth on it.
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Why do self-proclaimed conservatives have absolutely no grasp of history or politics?\n\nIraq has never attacked us.  Ever.  We have attacked the soveriegn nation of Iraq two times completely un-provoked.  The first time we had no alliance with Kuwait and still became involved.  The second we went to war under the pretense that Iraq would proliferate WMD's to terrorists...neither part of that charge makes any sense to an intelligence analyst (myself among them).\n\nWhen those twin towers collapsed on 9/11, the media was immediately handed a culprit within minutes.  The first question that should have been asked from an un-emotional standpoint is "Who benefits?" (que bono?), the "Who did this?" would logically flow straight from this.  Facts are nasty things though, and nearly all "couch conservatives" would rather tout hate speech rather than research an actual fact.\n\nMy favorite arguements:\n1) Bush is big on national security, I feel safer with Bush in power.\n\nFact:  We have over 11 million illegal immigrants in our country and they keep coming and going at their leisure.  Our borders are little more than Swiss cheese.\n\n2) Liberals want to take away our freedoms, they're just like the terrorists.\n\nFact:  The PATRIOTS acts introduced by our Bushie friends have destroyed our constitution by rendering it invalid.\n\n3) Liberals want big government and to waste our tax dollars.\n\nFact:  Under the Bush administration, government spending increased 25%.  This is the biggest increase since Lyndon B. Johnson's administration during Vietnam.  We have also reached a trade deficit with Asia of almost $1 billion just in the first quarter of this year.  Our national debt is now at a record almost $7 trillion.  Under Clinton, we actually had a budget surplus and our national debt was in reversal...wierd for a "criminal" eh?\n\n4) Liberals don't support our troops!\n\nFact:  Veteran's Benefits have been repeatedly cut in the last 6 years to the point where some vets no longer have benefits from Republican introduced bills in Congress that Bush happily signed into law.  Liberals also want our troops to come home to do the job of defending our country, not become psychologically scarred and physically maimed.\n\n5) Bush is "smoking the terrorists out of their holes"\n\nFact:  There are 3 times more "terrorists" in the world today than before 9/11.  Osama himself had been cornered more than once and each time our Special Forces were ordered to "stand down" the moment before capture via mysterious orders from on high.\n\nTo this date, there has only been 1 single (dubious) conviction of an Al Queada member in a court of law for a (potential) terrorist act.\n\n6) Bush is "finding and punishing the guilty party (for 9/11)".\n\nFact:  We spent a total of $9 million to investigate the events of 9/11.  We spent $54 million to investigate Clinton's affair.  ALL forensic evidence (camera footage, building wreckage, financial records, black boxes, etc) has been carted off and sealed and no independent OR government sponsored investigators have been allowed near it.  7 of the 19 alleged hijackers are alive and well in their home countries as of today.\n\nIn short, keep watching your Fox news and your American Idol (the Roman Empire called it the "bread and circuses" approach), save your hate speech for your Sunday school class, and at least do a modicum of research before you spout something you overheard your misinformed parents rattle off.
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Stupid Liberals, I hate them so much. Hey Libs, do me a favor, visit http://www.hannity.com, and also give his show a listen or watch sometime, and see if your not convinced, that your old way of thinking makes absolutely no sense. Go Bush!\n\nHaha, I love reading the answers to this question. Why are liberals so mad all the time? Look, I would much rather have my phone lines tapped, than see 2,000+ people die a fiery death, on US soil any day. In order to preserve freedoms, we must concede some lesser freedoms. It's a shame that people so quickly forget 9/11. It bothers me that people are so against the war, even though we are taking the fight to the terrorists, there haven't been any further attacks on US soil, we are establishing a democracy where others can share in the freedoms we have, where so few are dying for such a great cause (no one is not to many. I would gladly give my life for 100 others to live their life free of an oppressive dictators rule.) and when a dictator that has killed 100,000's of people.
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First of all, dumbasses, I don't think nitai777 is from our wonderful country or he/she would not be saying "Why are you", or saying "Mr. Bush" as opposed to "President Bush" or spelling Iraq in a non-English manner.  Did you know that in other languages they use other words?  Idiots.\n\nHe or she asked a legitimate question that deserves an honest answer instead of getting on a soap box to bash liberals or conservatives.\n\nThe answer is they are trying to help.  Right or wrong, whether we agree with them or not, they are trying to help, and no matter what political side we are on, or how we feel about the President (I personally think he's a greedy idiot) or war in general, the young men and women are just trying to help the people over there.
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Hey hey fuck you man. In case you didnt notice, its a bunch of right-wing Neo-cons running this government, not peaceful, bud-smoking, lovable people like the ones youre talkin about. Besides, who really cares who fucked up this country...I mean, besides Bush, cause hes just gonna keep fucking up...But seriously, look forward instead of backwards. And quit pointing the finger at everyone else for how messed up the world is, cause in the end its all your fault you conservative nazi! hahaha\n\n\nPeace
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The media does have information to most things, for example I read books 4 years ago about reprecussions of certain policies that look as if they are prognosticators, some of this stuff is not a seceret. I agree that people's information is limited more than we think through the media. Conservatives complain about the liberal media and liberals about the conservative media. What Bush is doing is no comparison to the crimes that Sadam commited? Well, I don't fully agree with that and I could  engage in a discussion about that if anyone wants to email me @ bennymokey2001 on yahoo, but with that argument someone could say well Hitler was horrible nothing else matters crime wise, oh Bin Laden did this everybody else gets off free. "Americans are so stupid in general thinking that their civil liberties are being violated by allowing the patriot to continue?" How is the government looking at what you check out from a library not neoMcCarthyism? I serisously doubt that any library has any materials that preclude that you are a threat to the state. I don't have anything to hide either. But I wouldn't want to be followed around and watched because I read some book or had a conversation. The President is above the law but should not be as the role of the executive branch is to reflect, not dictate the temper of the people.
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Where is all that "political capital" he claimed to of had? Support from the left? Please, he's burned, actually torched any bridge from that side of the aisle. He better worry about his base. There is nothing conservative about this administration. This guy loves to spend, borrow and spend more (mostly on industries and cronies that have helped his political career along). Just look at the national deficit! Is there no end to this groups madness and incompetence? Does anyone honestly think he has one bit of concern (other than their vote) for the common American citizen? He did say "Some call you the have & have mores... but, I call you may base". He sure wasn't referring to the person that punches a time clock!
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I'm angry because our political system is horribly broken and people are too busy attacking each other as dirty Libs or filthy Neocons to see this. It needs fixing. I don't have the answers but want to help. And yes, you detect anger. Is the Republican party imploding? Don't know.
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You know, we Republicans could say the same thing. The liberals, or as I like to call them, the Socialist Party of America, likes to bring up Vietnam everytime we turn around. Or like your "Got oil?" picture. If he was after oil, do you think prices would be so high right now? He would be shipping it out of there so fast, it would make their heads spin. No. All the Socialists can say is that we are after oil? What about the thousands who died under Hussien's rigime? And now they are trying to dig up dirt on our military members caught in the middle of a firefight after their vihicle blew up and their buddy they went through basic is dead, roasting in the burning vehicle they had to get out of, and you want to whine about them killing a few civilians who unexpectedly charged into the middle of it? You put yourself in the middle of all that, and then tell me about it. War is Hel#, and if your gonna win, you have to be willing to take the risk to stay alive. If all you can offer our troops is slander about our Commander in Cheif, think about how moral of the troops is. And Byrd? KKK? True, but he's one of the Socialist heroes. And Bill? He lied to the nation. He lost all trust. Has bush flat out lied? No. He has acted on what the security council has told him. You put yourself in that chair, and listen to a board of directors, military men, and other people, and the only thing you know is what they are feeding you, and when their stories match up, thats what you have to go on. Also think about what is good for the people, not only of your party, not only of your country, but the good of the world community. So, "Dead horse"? The liberals do the same thing, comparing this war to Vietnam. And other instances. Here's why Vietnam fell apart. The nation lost all faith in the troops. The troops heard this and their moral took a plumet. They lost all will to fight. But I still beleive. God Bless America and Her Troops!! Thank you.
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"through the use of fear, societies gave up their rights under the guise of security."  i think this statement sums up best all the uproar over what the bush administration is or isn't doing to 'protect' us as americans. there is a fine line being walked (and not very delicately if you care to notice the details) between "security" and "loss of freedom". and the culture of fear and separation noted in the article is all too apparent today... after all you're either a "patriot" or you "support the enemy". \n\n"those in power are of a smaller segment of society, but they hold the wealth and control" is an accurate description of where america is today. a minute percentage of people possess the lion's share of the wealth: the inequality has always been present but never to this degree. if this is indeed a part of the definition of fascism, you could argue that we are getting closer...\n\n"fascist nations... typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections." let diebold reign! here's to florida, and to ohio, proud supporters of the winning side!\n\n"governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion...." and how often to religious leaders echo the sentiments exactly of the us government? do you watch the 700 club?\n\nwhere did the platform for intelligent discussion of the issues facing the US go? why are people (being manipulated?) becoming so polarized? where has 'the beauty of the gray' disappeared to? isn't it funny how so many things in life are suddenly black and white, like apples and oranges?\n\nif you deceive often enough and use the proper (official?) channels, one of two things will happen. they will come to believe it as gospel ("this is a delicious orange! when did they start growing stems?") or they will use the knowledge they already have to resist ("THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!" -jean-luc picard) the lies. \n\nare you really willing to doubt that this is in fact an apple? and will we be reluctant to let go of a moniker we've worn proudly for over two centuries? stay tuned...
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Are you kidding me? As a Yankee liberal living in a Southern Red state I can relate to what your saying. My only saving grace is that I work in a field where there is an abundance of liberals. When I'm with my liberal brethren, the air is sweeter, the sun is brighter, food is tastier...you get the idea. Some criminal republicans can be a downer at times trying to make you (liberals) feel as if we're some sort of subversive counter-culture when the opposite is the truth. Just tell your favorite repug. to put the tin-foil back on their head as FoxNews and newsmax. com is calling their name.
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You are truly a moron. All your questions are attacking "liberals". How about attacking the corruption which is coming to light in Dubya's admininstration?\n\nRepublicans are in trouble, big time, so what is your typically Republican response? Attacking liberals and questioning our patriotism.
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It's people like your friend, should he join, to whom we own thanks for being free in this country. He must make a decision to go or not. It's not like trying a new hobby and saying, "no, I don't like this after all." \n\nWhy do Americans put down the very institution that has given them the liberties they enjoy? Asinine.\n\nP.S. anything from MSN I tend to question. Their a media megaphone for liberals\n\nto DJ: I am not implying anything such as you have put on me! Don't put words in my mouth.
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I'm glad to see everyone coming to the defense of the US Military.  \nThis guy is not worth replying to....\nClick on his name and you will see he asks the same type of questions over and over.  The old guy can't seem to get it up anymore so he takes his abuse out on people this way.\n\nI doubt he reads any of your replys.  He's too far gone to change his mind, whatever is left of it.\n\nDon't give him the satisfaction.  Just cut and paste this answer on all of his open questions so we can all get our two points from him....
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Our Country is more divided that I have ever seen it. With the illegal immigration problem now, that divides us even more. The Republicans have instilled all the fear with their politics and methods. The people are growing farther apart everyday because of their party preferences. I am getting real sick of Republicans bashing and being cruel to Americans. It's way out of control, and they are teaching their children to hate people. I think it's really sick and dysfunctional behavior. It's pretty bad when you have a 12 year old saying your trash because you might have voted for President Clinton. It's happening on these pages, right here, everyday now.
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Yea and I'm not sure why. A real gut feeling that something is wrong with this picture. All the things he has done wrong and all. It must lay in the back of his mind how he avoided the call to service. But I understand it is tradition. For those of you who criticize this question I suggest you walk the walk first. Unlike our Pres.