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Originally Posted by Kinky Jones
are you cross posting from a different thread from somewhere else? i'm not sure WTF you are even talking about, point me to the pro democrat
jargon you speak of please as there isn't any in this thread, just bitching about the current party in power... you seem pretty slanted to the right by the sound of your anti-dem rhetoric
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My tirade was triggered by watching enough antirepublican remarks. Since there are really only two parties in this country that anyone can vote for (due to a rigged system) it isn't a stretch of the imagination for me to figure out what is implied: republicans = evil, democrats = can do no wrong. Truth be told, I hate them both, but the promise of lesser government that republicans pay lip service to does have me usually look more closely at their candidate. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to automatically vote for them.
What really irritated me here is it seems that everyone's running around saying how this administration has given this country a black eye in the view of the world as if they're the first one to do it. Truth is that every administration for the last fourty+ years has screwed up at least once or more.
Want a list?
Kennedy: bay of pigs, Marilyn Monroe, vietnam
LBJ: vietnam
Nixon: vietnam, watergate
Ford: vietnam, pardoning Nixon, trouble walking in straight lines or leaving aircraft
Carter: sank our economy, let a bunch of kids in Iran take our guys hostage for more than a year and bungled a rescue attempt due to the economic cutbacks (the airfilters in the helicopters were so crappy that they clogged and crashed).
Reagan: Iran Contra, scared the hell out of the world by talking armageddon to every world leader, wife consulted astrologers (but money flowed everywhere and he caused the soviets to collapse so we forgive him).
Bush (I): Quale, puked in the japanese prime ministers lap, raised taxes after saying he wouldn't which screwed the economy.
Clinton: do we even have to spell out the list here? It's rather lengthy and includes: Gore, Somalia, nut jobs in the cabinet, a cruise missile hitting an aspirin factory, and a lot of other things that we wish we could forget.
Bush (II): Forget it.
The guy in office now might not be a saint, but he wasn't the first to screw up and simply attributing all evil to a single party isn't honest so why should we be hanging our heads so low? because the media tells us so? Here's a thought: lets not!
Politics is dirty, ugly, and yields some rather stupid results (anyone look at Libya lately?). No one hears about the rest of the worlds error that much (did we all not hear that the French backed out of their commitment to send a peace keeping force to lebanon?) because we seem to be more willing than most to try to help everywhere we can, but that can lead us to make some serious missteps that become public. The sad part of all that is we reap that criticism because we preach from the moral high ground, but if a country known for murder and torture committed far more egregerious crimes no one would bat an eyelash because that is what everyone expected. Come on fellas (and ladies) lets have some semblance of pride in this country and what it stands for because even at our worst (and craziest) we're still better a better place to be (and do business with) than some of the other regimes on the block.
Like I said in my prior post (or actually a little more bluntly here): to hell with the partys! Lets start looking at the people. After all this time Kennedy should've gotten the axe for his share of escapades while in congress, but people just won't part with him because of the party he represents. Stevens is another turd that needs to be flushed too.
I would also like to point out that attributing the solution to our problems is to simply throw one party into complete power completely bastardizes our democracy. The reason why is that it almost assures that no debate will occur on any issue. One party simply gets to steam roll its solution forward and the other can throw rocks at them until it's their time to be in the drivers seat. How'd this become a sane idea?
Here's a better one (or two): have one party control the senate and the other control the house (at the least it'll stop crap from being steam rolled, at the most they'll have to debate each others thoughts). A better idea would be to get more third parties in the loop, but that will never happen.