Posted By: fencerider rob  on Monday, October 13, 2008

We all can't be equal if we are allowed to think freely.

Posted By: Good Life  on Monday, October 13, 2008

"required equal time for different points of view"  OK, how do you warp this idea into one of limiting different points of view?  Obviously, it did just the opposite.

Posted By: R Willson  on Monday, October 13, 2008

This election is "Star Wars On Earth."  The Empire is poised to strike.  If they win, the United States Of America will be ground into the dust.  We are poised to deliver our great nation to the famously and historically corrupt Chicago political machine in the midst of cheers from those who apparently hate liberty and justice for all.  We have been tested before, but this one is The Final Exam.  If you believe in us, read "The Secret Destiny of America," by Hall.  It tells who we are.

Posted By: Mary  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Not that I disagree with your major point, but in the interest of truth I feel the need to point out that the Saturday Night Live video in question is in fact still on the NBC webpage.  In fact, a banner is still on the main page.  The video is well worth viewing, and the direct link is:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/c-span-bailout/727521/

Another great spot for an explanation of this crisis is NPR's "Giant Pool of Money Broadcast:

http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2008/05/the_giant_pool_of_money.html

Posted By: Chad Steele  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

"The Coming Obama Thugocracy"             Excuse Me???



I would question how it could compare to the bush/cheney thugocracy, with the presidential orders, loss of privacy, spying on the homeland, TSA retards, NSA spying on USA soil, FBI spying, CIA cretins, Presidential decree for US troops to be deployed in active duty on US soil.



The travesty list is endless yet lemming like mental cripples blissfully wander joyfully towards the bright shining light of McSame Cain and the Pain.

As completely gullible as any admitted rebubbalican must be, I am sure we have some bridges to no where, that haven't fallen down we could sell them to make up the deficit.  



Do not for one second think I am liberal, the democrats are just as culpable in the crimes being committed against the general population of the USA.



"One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices  545 human beings out of the 303 million  are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country."  Charlie Reese



Republicans and Democrats need to damn well wake the hell up and stop acting like baboons at feeding time. Quit stealing for a couple of minutes and look around.

You are fighting over scraps!

The corporate wonder boys with the full cooperation of the clowns and criminals in government have gutted our country.



We need accountability first.

Without justice there is no life, only the evil prosper.

Posted By: dave  on Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Let's run this through the BS filter: "Now that everyone who isn't a freaky reactionary is starting to call us on our BS, we're scared. So we're going to whine that our freedoms are being curtailed, even though we've dished out the same bigtime ourselves while we were in power. Otherwise they'll discover our crimes and we might actually get held accountable for grinding the country into the dirt."

Posted By: Larry Schafer  on Sunday, October 19, 2008

Once elected Barrack Obama will out law guns.  It's a foregone conclusion.  That will leave us with only bows and arrows to defend ourselves.....soon they too will be outlawed.....too stealthy.  



Next we will loose the right to use a kitchen knife to fend off an intruder and be reduced to throwing rocks.  Then rocks will be outlawed when found to to be too plentiful and owned by the home owner...."an unfair advantage against a thief."  



Finally when all we have left to throw are words that right will be lost as well......it's far too dangerous.

Posted By: Trapalon  on Sunday, October 19, 2008

This is the basic mindset of the Democratic party because they are made up mostly of lawyers. Rather than cater to the will of the people they want to litigate whatever they can to force the outcome hey prefer.

This piece was around during the primary and I don't have a citation, but it points out the fundamental difference between a party of lawyers and a party of professionals.



The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife, Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at the Democratic Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.



The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and, **** Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.



Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.



The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers'Party, grow.



Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.



This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.



Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming. Some Americans become 'adverse parties' of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.



Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.



We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform, or real hope in America. Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789.



Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.



Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.



Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

Posted By: Trapalon  on Sunday, October 19, 2008

I also believe neither side is blameless when it comes to usurping our freedom. We have lost a lot of freedoms in the last 8 years in the name or national security. Like taxes, once the government has your freedom it is not likely to give it back.

Decentralization may be our only hope for the future. The government machine is too large and powerful to be controlled by one person or even one party. If more power were properly distributed to the states our nation would be stronger. The Constitution would still be the overarching document directing the states from the federal but all of the little laws that look good in DC but bad in Utah or Arkansas would be put away.