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01-26-2007, 07:25 AM | #1 | |
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A Dysfunctional Democracy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16815916/site/newsweek/
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continued... And this, ladies and gentlemen, is just another reason I hate america.
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01-26-2007, 07:43 AM | #2 |
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Define 'America'.
I am rather unfond of America's government; I love the American people and the American land. Although the American people are capable of rather monumental stupidity (see: America's government).
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01-26-2007, 08:56 AM | #3 |
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Gee...you mean that "Bush sucks" doesn't actually rise to the level of either a viable policy or a political philosophy? Quelle surprise!
The problem with not actually having an agreed upon set of values is that when a new situation presents, there may be no agreement on what to do.
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01-26-2007, 11:37 PM | #5 |
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Very, very true, both of you. But my point remains, no?
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01-27-2007, 01:54 AM | #6 |
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The point, I think, is pretty fucking eroded and now resembles a beach.
Nothing personal, just sandy. The Democratic Party is trying as hard as it can to lose the war as soon as it can -- failing to plan being planning to fail, and they've never dared to envision winning, the donkeys -- that we may be condemned to fight another war in the region, some years down the line, that will be greater and more ruinous. Ibram, you're of an age to get caught up in that war. Better to get the change we want finished up here and now.
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01-27-2007, 10:34 AM | #7 |
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"Let’s face it: when you have to insist so hard that you’re not intimidated, you probably are. All this huffing and puffing about who’s got the guts to challenge a president who’s stuck at 28 percent in the polls! Here’s what was really going on: a group of Democrats supposedly enjoying their newfound majority on Capitol Hill were having a frank discussion, in full view of the world, about whether American government can function properly at all any longer."
For those of you who didn't read the whole article. He actually makes a good point here before going on his Bush bashing rant. |
01-27-2007, 12:45 PM | #8 |
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I thought that was fascinating. I really did. I don't see what about it would make you hate America. Representative democracy is not perfect; it's a fairly blunt instrument. If the mechanisms of state are balanced between different parties and different estates, then there will be times when one or the other in each, has ascendancy.
All that's happening now is a shifting of that balance. The people speaking strongly are a part of those shifts. But it's still early in that process. Or have I misunderstood what it was that had caught your attention about that? |
01-27-2007, 02:40 PM | #9 |
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When did I ever say I hated America????? I thought that quote was much more telling and, as you put it, "fascinating"l - that was my point.
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01-27-2007, 03:36 PM | #10 | |
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01-27-2007, 06:52 PM | #11 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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yesman, my post was directed at Ibram:P
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01-27-2007, 08:14 PM | #12 | |
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01-27-2007, 08:15 PM | #13 |
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And this one, especially for Hip.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Sir Winston Churchill
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01-30-2007, 07:54 AM | #14 | |
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"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
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01-30-2007, 07:59 AM | #15 |
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I HOPE you're not referring to Brianna! You would lose ALL credibility.
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