Hi, Y'all!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I. Hate. The. Republican. Party. 

[bailey1205]

You know, I don't even get angry anymore when I see the kind of shit the conservatives will dish out.
I just laugh, because it is so incredibly apparent that the parents are pushing "their" agenda.

What do they think is going to happen?  After the speech, cards will be handed out asking students
to join the Democratic party?

He is our President.

I seem to remember conservatives getting their panties in a wad when Bush was criticized for his invasion
of Iraq.  Everyone said.... He's our president, you should support him.

 

All this hoopla over a speech to students, which is apparently about how education is essential, and
encouraging students to work hard for their education.

All I can do is just shake my head and wonder how this country can spend time on something like
this when we have growing unemployment and an economy that is in the shitter.

[retropian]

You know, I don't even get angry anymore when I see the kind of shit the conservatives will dish out.
I just laugh, because it is so incredibly apparent that the parents are pushing "their" agenda.

What do they think is going to happen?  After the speech, cards will be handed out asking students
to join the Democratic party?

He is our President.

I seem to remember conservatives getting their panties in a wad when Bush was criticized for his invasion
of Iraq.  Everyone said.... He's our president, you should support him.

 

All this hoopla over a speech to students, which is apparently about how education is essential, and
encouraging students to work hard for their education.

All I can do is just shake my head and wonder how this country can spend time on something like
this when we have growing unemployment and an economy that is in the shitter.

I find it somewhat frightening because these people are not conservative at all. They'll swallow whatever ridiculous propaganda they are fed, and hold any view or belief they are told they should have by their Mullahs. These are the people who would give up their freedoms just to take ours away if they where told to do so by the "right" people. We saw that with Bush and Cheney's near destruction of the Constitution. Habeus Corpus was canceled, (I'm not sure it's been restored yet) something that only happens in dictatorships, but these same people were cheering that. Well they were told they should, so they did.

[Marge_Innavera]

I. Hate. The. Republican. Party. 

So do I.  Have since 1980.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I find it somewhat frightening because these people are not conservative at all. They'll swallow whatever ridiculous propaganda they are fed, and hold any view or belief they are told they should have by their Mullahs. These are the people who would give up their freedoms just to take ours away if they where told to do so by the "right" people. We saw that with Bush and Cheney's near destruction of the Constitution. Habeus Corpus was canceled, (I'm not sure it's been restored yet) something that only happens in dictatorships, but these same people were cheering that. Well they were told they should, so they did.

Of course, Lincoln did that during the Civil War, but, then again, Lincoln was a Republican. ...

[Marge_Innavera]

Of course, Lincoln did that during the Civil War, but, then again, Lincoln was a Republican. ...

The difference was that in Lincoln's case, this was during a declared war between two nation-states and lasted until the war officially ended.  Today, we have the threat of terrorism conveniently defined as the "war on terror" -- in which there will be no official end.  Any and all objections to crushing of civil liberties then met with "well, we're at war", with no end to said war in sight.

Of course, you are hearing this from one of those subhuman childless forum members.....   

[Clyde-B]

When our war on terror is officially over, who attends the peace conference and signs the treaties as our opponent?

If this can't be done, if nobody officially surrenders, then how do we know the war on terror is over?

[Marge_Innavera]

When our war on terror is officially over, who attends the peace conference and signs the treaties as our opponent?

If this can't be done, if nobody officially surrenders, then how do we know the war on terror is over?

Exactly. That's why this "war on terror" schtick is such a con.

[Jeff Wrangler]

The difference was that in Lincoln's case, this was during a declared war between two nation-states and lasted until the war officially ended.

Actually it was done during a crisis caused by a treasonous rebellion, but let be, let be. ...

  

[Jeff Wrangler]

When our war on terror is officially over, who attends the peace conference and signs the treaties as our opponent?

If this can't be done, if nobody officially surrenders, then how do we know the war on terror is over?

I guess it's a little like the "War on Cancer." Remember that? It never ends. ...