Obama Announces Re-election Bid

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Fair&Balanced

Compassionate conservatism?

On a more serious note, I think it was Warren Buffet, in explaining why the US system of progressive taxation is best for the country, who said (paraphrasing) that the wealthy like himself who benefited from the system that provides for the common good have a moral obligation to sustain it and support it so others have the opportunity to do the same (not to get even richer at the expense of the worker poor and middle class)

Or maybe it was Jimmy Buffet or Warren G Harding.

But in any case, I hope you stick around!

Is this where you cry or call me a racist?

You don't know jack shit about me or where I started, which was at the bottom. So stop playing your class warfare card.

I don't owe you or anyone else anything. And you are not entitled to a damm thing, other than your ability to "Pursue happiness", but it is not a Right.

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I don't owe you or anyone else anything. And you are not entitled to a damm thing, other than your ability to "Pursue happiness", but it is not a Right.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

At what point do extremists know more than the rest of us?

Jill - he will reply only when he has insults. Apparently he has a problem with "Truths that are self-evident" when truths contradict a political agenda.

There are only moderates and extremists. Latter driven by a political agenda. So he would rewrite a fundamental American document to promote what?

How dare we seek Happiness. We must be liberals.

[Jill]

Originally Posted by tw

At what point do extremists know more than the rest of us?

Jill - he will reply only when he has insults. Apparently he has a problem with "Truths that are self-evident" when truths contradict a political agenda.

There are only moderates and extremists. Latter driven by a political agenda. So he would rewrite a fundamental American document to promote what?

How dare we seek Happiness. We must be liberals.

It's quite stunning how many of these extremists know so little of our nation's laws and so little about our nation's history, yet bloviate as if not only are they (and only they) right, but that we must be stupid and unpatriotic.

Did you catch Michele Bachman's latest, wherein she attributed to Abraham Lincoln, a (paraphrased) quote actually made by John F. Kennedy?

Michele Bachman: "Will this latest generation, as Abraham Lincoln so famously said, will this latest generation hand that torch of liberty to the next generation?"

John F. Kennedy (in his 1961 Inaugural Address): "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."

Abraham Lincoln: ". . ." Nothing remotely like that.

And the nutjobs eat this shit up! I mean, c'mon! It's not as if Kennedy's Inauguration speech isn't, you know, famous, or anything. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." How do you get that speech mixed up with Abraham Lincoln?

By not bothering to bone up on facts, that's how. And a large portion of our population will hear her speak that quote and will forever more believe that those were the words of Abraham Lincoln, just because Michele -- "[New Hampshire] is where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord" -- Bachmann said that they were. It's stupidity run amok.