"But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be."
"Mother,
I should have listened to you. Always chew your pretzels before you swallow."
[Ouch!] — George W. Bush(isms) -
January 14th, 2002
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twan
"It is not the function of the government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep
the government from falling into error."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert H. Parker
KARL ROVE, Bush's long-time political
guru and White House advisor:
"As people do better, they start voting like
Republicans... ...unless they have too much
education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good
thing."
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great
and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at
last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
(Below) Written by a Republican about a "Republican".
Charlie Reese writes for the Orlando Sentinel. He's a Conservative Republican who is anti-abortion, anti-tax-and-spend, loudly critical of legislation by the judiciary, doesn't think much of multiculturalism or secularism, has suggested Clinton "turned the Oval Office into a whorehouse," thinks Ronald Reagan is the greatest thing to come down the pike since canned beer, and voted for Bush in the last election. So, take a look at his article which follows.
Americans should realize
that if they vote for President Bush's re-election, they are really voting for
the architects of war - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the
rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers. I
have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a front man, an
empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his administration. Bush has the
most dangerously simplistic view of the world of any president in my memory.
It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away
his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an
Arab King (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English
than our own President at their joint press conference recently.
John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to think and
who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than Bush's comic-book
world of American heroes and foreign evildoers. It's unfortunate that in our
poorly educated country, Kerry's very intelligence and refusal to adopt
simplistic slogans might doom his presidential election efforts.
But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he observed that
people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will
be.
People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display their
stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. Bush is as far
from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me once, but he won't
fool me twice.
It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly increase
the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of
law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for
them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should
not know what their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the
most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration leans
dangerously toward the authoritarian.
It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted a few Arab-Americans of
supporting terrorism. What would you do if you found yourself arrested and a
federal prosecutor whispers in your ear that either you can plea-bargain this or
the President will designate you an enemy combatant and you'll be held
incommunicado for the duration ?
This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but because
Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's almost restarted the
Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race. America is not only hated in the
Middle East, but it has few friends anywhere in the world thanks to the
arrogance and ineptness of the Bush administration.
Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found us, Israel, North Korea and
Iran as the greatest threats to world peace.
I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a man in the
White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us with it.
Go to Kerry's Web site (http://johnkerry.com)
and read some of the magazine profiles on him. You'll find that there is a great
deal more to Kerry than the GOP attack dogs would have you believe.
Besides, it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey, windsurfs, ride
motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and speaks French. And . . it would
be good to have a man in the White House who has killed people face to face.
Killing people has a sobering effect on a man and dispels all illusions about
war.
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"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1730
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