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Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out!!

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When Barack Obama won Florida last November — the first Democrat to take the Sunshine State since FDR — many saw it as a sign of centrist GOP Governor Charlie Crist's moderating influence. But lately, Florida's disgruntled Republicans aren't looking very moderate. This week, in fact, the peninsula's GOP registered arguably the loudest outcry over the education speech President Obama plans to deliver to U.S. primary and secondary students via webcast and C-Span next Tuesday. In perhaps the most over-the-top performance, state Republican Chairman Jim Greer called it an attempt to use "our children to spread liberal propaganda" and "President Obama's socialist ideology."

Thanks in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls. On the surface, Obama's intentions for Tuesday seem nothing more threatening than a presidential pep talk about taking education seriously. But some ill-advised prep material from the Education Department — like suggestions that teachers have students write letters on "how to help the President" and recommendations that those pupils read his books — has left the door ajar (and that's all it seems to take these days) for Republican charges that Obama "wants to indoctrinate our kids," as Clara Dean, GOP chairwoman of Florida's Collier County, puts it.
(Read Joe Klein on Barack Obama's August to forget.)

The public school systems in both Collier and next-door Lee counties, a conservative pocket in southwest Florida that includes Naples, announced Thursday that their students won't be seeing Obama's speech. In a statement, Collier County Schools Superintendent Dennis Thompson cited "the logistics of making a Webcast available during that time of the school day." But his office also acknowledged that he'd been hearing from the community and its fears about Big Brother Barack. "We tend to be very conservative here," says Dean. "This President is extremely liberal, and we worry that he's leading us to socialism." Thompson did say his school district will post the speech on its website after Obama delivers it. But Collier Democratic Chairman Steve Hemping says it's the Republicans who are using students for cynical political gain. "No one should ever turn communication between a President and young people about what you can aspire to in the future into an ugly us-against-them exercise," Hemping argues. "This is a lost opportunity, because [Obama] is a role model who raised himself from a poor, single-parent situation precisely through education."
(Read about the shrinking state of Florida: what's causing the exodus?)

School districts in at least half a dozen other states have made similar decisions not to air the President's talk. In one of those states, Minnesota, Republican Governor and possible 2012 presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty called the speech "uninvited" and voiced concerns about its "content and motive." One school superintendent in Arizona, James Murlless, while calling Obama's education advocacy "well intended," said he preferred his students see it "in their own homes under the supervision of their parents." The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a fiscal watchdog group that has become a sort of clearinghouse for conservative grievances since the anti-health care reform movement began, has revved up a campaign called "Hall Pass On That," urging parents to have their kids excused from watching the speech. In Oklahoma, state Senator Steve Russell rivaled Florida's Greer for hyperbole, calling Obama's talk "something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

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  • Chique
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      Chique  
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    • GOP 'cranks' dominating debate . . .

      (Excerpt) Joe Wilson’s outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it drew winces from Republicans worried that their party is becoming known less for the power of its ideals and more for the pettiness of its vitriol.

      “Neither party has an exclusive on wack jobs,” says Republican media consultant Mark McKinnon. “Unfortunately, right now the Democrats generally get defined by President Obama, and Republicans, who have no clear leadership, get defined by crackpots — and then they begin to define the Republican Party in the mind of the general public.”

      Turn on the TV, and you see what he means.

      Here’s Orly Taitz, insisting that the commander in chief was born in Kenya. There’s a flock of angry protesters chanting “Just say no!” and carrying signs depicting a Democratic congressman with devil’s horns. Former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin warns darkly that Obama is planning “death panels” for senior citizens. Georgia Rep. Paul Broun equates the president’s plans with “Nazi” policies. Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt — last heard calling John Murtha a “coward” — tells a birther: “I agree with you, but the courts don’t.”

      And then, in the midst of all the catcalls, hand-held signs and “I’m not listening” BlackBerrying, Wilson interrupts Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress by shouting, “You lie!”

      “The president was helped more by the optics of House Republicans than by his own speech,” says former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.). “It’s not likely to do any long-term damage, but they need to be very careful how they oppose this president.”

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Chique:

      yeh, i think that those repubs who don't set themselves apart and are busy playing footsie with the prez are complicit. This is evident as many of them just gave a yes nod to cass sunstein despite the new czar's desire to eliminate certain amendments from the bill of rights.
      They took an oath to defend the constitution and if they can't do that because of peer pressure or are concerned about appearing disruptive, then they have no place in congress and will be broomed.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Chique:

      well hammy since you asked this question which is not really the point of my post. The point is that they approved a czar with said desire.
      Czar whispers in obama's ear that gun's should be outlawed for certain purposes, obama whispers into pelosi's ear "get your bulldozer and ram this down the throat of the people, congress obeys pelosi and reed and said law is written regardless of constitutional concerns. Much like the healthcare bill is being forced on us, by using the same saul alinsky tactics.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Chique:

      hammy, i know this scenario i gave seems wacky, but thes are wacky times.These people don't care about the constitution. Consider the power this new czar has-----

      The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) “reviews and alters regulations created by federal agencies,” according to Congress Daily.

      Sunstein, who has published 15 books, would have broad powers to review, recommend changes and possibly engineer changes in all federal regulations, including those about dog ownership, farming, hunting on federal lands, and enforcement of gun control laws.

      In his published writings and speeches, Sunstein has advocated:

      * Giving animal rights groups the power to file lawsuits on the behalf of animals against their owners.

      * Very strict regulations about animal ownership, farming and hunting.

      * The elimination of hunting.

      * The elimination of the individual right
      to keep and bear arms.

      * Moving toward a vegan vegetarian society.

      * Rewriting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

      * And restrictions on free speech.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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    • Chique:

      Seems wacky because it is wacky. Black helicopter, tin foil hat wacky. Fake moon landing wacky. Elvis is still alive wacky. Obama was born in Kenya wacky. Nobody will take anything you say seriously ever again wacky.

      You are right about living in wacky times. It's a time where scare tactics and conspiracy theories are all the right has to offer. Sure it's wacky, but more than that it's pathetic and lame.

    • 2 years ago
  • Chique
  • krag2112
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    • Chique:

      Don't hold your breath Chique. All this czar talk is about an inch deep. All you have to do is ask how any czar is going to do anything that circumvents the constitution and they don't have an answer. The reason is, there isn't one. That or you can mention that Bush appointed 35 of them.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Chique:

      hey fag i don't give a shit how many czars bush had as he is not the fucking president
      And yes i know how an ammendment to the constitution is accomplished, but if you read my post above you will see that is not the point.
      Im not here to spar over these mattters especially with unarmed nitwits.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • Chique:

      Clearly you're not equipped to spar if all you have at your rhetorical disposal is bigoted slurs and expletives.

      But it's not you incredibly limited verbal skills that makes you so obviously impotent...it's your inability to answer a simple question. Want to try again? Use whatever language you feel you need.

    • 2 years ago
  • Chique
  • montesooma
  • krag2112
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    • Chique:

      I'll take that lame response as an admission that you can't answer the question. What a shocker.

      Easiest way to shut up a bigot is to ask a direct question. Works every time.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Chique:

      just because i observed that you guys are fags doesn't make me a bigot, simply pointing out the obvious.
      You think that by butting in on the conversation i was having with hammy and trying to difuse it with elementary basic questions that have nothing to do with the post is going to steer away from the topic.
      If you need an answer to your question just go to www.mynoseisupobama'sass.net and ask some of your friends.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
  • Chique
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      Chique  
    • Chique:

      You're pointing out the obvious? One of us is female so you even got your name calling wrong.

      Besides, I thought "butting in" was kind of the point on Current.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • So here we are a couple of days later and lets see where we stand.

      The president gave his address to the school children of America to almost universal acclaim. He received praise from both sides of the aisle including from Laura Bush and Newt Gingrich. Many of the school districts that caved at first and refused to air the address are now showing it to the students who were shielded from "socialist propaganda" like personal responsibility and stay in school. Leaving many to wonder what is wrong with the people who protested this speech.

      Next, the President delivers an emotional and powerful speech where he lays out his plans for health care reform. In the speech he not only calls for bipartisanship, but at several points demonstrates his bipartisanship by praising Republican ideas and pointing out Republican leadership (Senator McCain specifically). The Republican response came off desperate, childish and bitter. Including Rep. Joe Wilson's unprecedented outburst. Once again, the president is seen as passionate and committed but at the same time reasonable and willing to work with legitimate opposition. The Republicans come off as shrill, unreasonable and unstable. And again, leave the huge majority of Americans who fall in the political middle wondering just what is wrong with these people.

      Like I said before, Obama is playing the increasingly fringe right wing in this country like a Stradivarius. So to all of you who were so angry about this speech five or six days ago, keep playing your game of checkers...Obama is playing chess.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • krag2112:

      joe wilson was right on, in the midst of untold number of lies by the prez, he was the only one with the balls to call him out on one of them. He will be reelected with a majority for actually doing his job.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • krag2112:

      he he he you think media matters has facts.
      Actually the prez lies, he is caught on record as saying he will veto any bill that locks out the illegal alien.
      That my friend IS a fact.
      Media matters has proven that it carries the water for progressives. it has no validity here.
      We all know that it was started by clinton and moveon to try and confuse the public about facts.
      don't be a dupe!

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • krag2112:

      So...you've provided no citation at all. And you're only defense of the citation I provided is that you don't like who posted it. Even though it references the bill itself.

      Really? That's your response? I think checkers is too complex for you. I think you're playing Chutes and Ladders. How 'bout I get you a juice box and put you down for a nap.

      Fail.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • krag2112:

      Sec. 59B, Pg. 170, Line 1—“Any NONRESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes.”
      This is a well known, and the fact that you demand a citation for it because your ignorant, is a juvenile game intended to muddy up the issue.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • krag2112:

      Um...didn't you say something about Obama being caught saying he'd veto any bill locking out aliens? Are we just supposed to take your word for that? Funny how when someone asks you to back something up...you just change the subject. And by funny I mean sad and desperate.

      If you could back it up you would. The fact that you can't speaks volumes. Maybe Chutes and Ladders is too complex. Maybe you should try finger painting.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • krag2112:

      A Non Resident Alien is not an ILLEGAL Alien. Make sure you know what the law defines as a Non Resident Alien before you start tossing terms around as if you now what they mean.

      Furthermore Subtitle C section 246 prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving this care. Are you sure you actually read the bill? Here is a link to the Bill MONTESOOMA, peruse it yourself. I did a search using your own cited search...to which you posted no PDF link. In all the search engines I typed it into, it always refered me to a conservative talking point. In no instance was I linked to the text of the bill, in fact I have looked at the bill, and can find no such section unless the titles and sections have been rena,ed and/or re-numbered.

      In any case, I posted a link to the actual Bill, and you are free to look up the section I cited. Otherwise you have shown no evidence whatsoever to support your accusation.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • krag2112:

      "Under H.R. 3200, a 'Health Insurance Exchange' would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange."
      CRS also notes that the bill has no provision for requiring those seeking coverage orservices to provided proof of citizenship.

    • 2 years ago
  • Chique
  • michail77
  • kstein
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      kstein  
    • Hammywill is right, as of today There is no more communist countries that I know of. And communist policies are very good ones and properious. Hilter was refer as a genius, and did bring a very poor country, extreme wealth at first. He just couldnt hold on to it with out blaming the minority {rich} races, stealing, killing, If he could of done that it would have been great.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • Watch the media coverage. It's already turned. People are already wondering what all the right wing angst is about. Starting to question the motives behind it. Starting to wonder what kind of person protests a positive message like this. Even the former first lady has come out in support of Obama on this. Those four choices a coming into contrast for most Americans.

    • 2 years ago
  • krag2112
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      krag2112  
    • Watch the media coverage. It's already turned. People are already wondering what all the right wing angst is about. Starting to question the motives behind it. Starting to wonder what kind of person protests a positive message like this. Even the former first lady has come out in support of Obama on this. Those four choices a coming into contrast for most Americans.

    • 2 years ago
  • Zurama
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      Zurama  
    • Castro, Che, Lenin, Chavez, Stalin, called themselves communists-by their own admission, so save yourself the lesson!

      Communism only works on paper-taken into practice it has never worked and you end up with a USSR, a Cuba, a Venezuela, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc, etc.........It never works because communism attracts loosers!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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    • Zurama:

      Hitler called himself a freedom lover, did that make him one? Please..if you can not create a coherent argument against Communism, then you have no idea what you are talking about.

      Again, please make a case as to WHY Communism = Misery?

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
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    • Zurama:

      That Zurama has actually lived under communist oppression (and I venture to say that you have not) she does in fact speak with the authority of experience.
      What is there to fear of communism one has asked?
      Pray that you may never have cause to find out, as the legions throughout this past century have lived through the horror of its oppression have gave their very lives to either combat it or escape it.
      Tell me please, if you find the concept of communism so appealing, why do those who live under its subjection attempt to escape it and those who utilize it restrain them from leaving?
      Tell me, what is GOOD about communism?

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • Zurama:

      There is NO Communist government on Earth today, nor has there ever been. So again, please explain to me how COMMUNISM is bad, not how STALIN is bad....I already know that. But Stalin, Castro, Mao, these men never ruled a Communist nation. Since in a COMMUNIST setting, there is NO RULER, they could not have been Communist. Instead they simply called themselves Communist in order to appeal to the masses. They were in Fact DICTATORS.

      So if you insist on bringing up the tired argument of Soviet Russia, and Red China, then perhaps you should do some studying before you come back.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Zurama:

      hammy please stop with the bullshit that there has never been communism -- unless of course you know far more than encyclopedias.
      yes ussr system was communist.
      Communism leads to bread lines, unemployment, starvation and ultimately the demise of its hosting country. That is what is wrong with it! the usa had a form of socialism during the colonies which proved to be a failure this is the reason we have property ownership and capitalism -- thank God because it ultimately helped the poor and downtrodden the world over. Please get a book u are insufferable.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • Zurama:

      You go to Encyclopedia Britannica and then say you have done your research? Please, Communism is the idea of NO STATE at all. Have you even read the Communist Manifesto?

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
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      akamaial [removed]  
    • Zurama:

      Below is one of myriads of descriptions of communism as understood by world academia at large;

      *communism:
      ~ An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals . *{In practice, a single authoritarian party} controls both the political and economic systems. In the twentieth century, communism was associated with the economic and political systems of China and the Soviet Union and of the satellites of the Soviet Union.

      But what do they know, right? Being that you've so adamantly and obstinately claim that those who've spoke in opposition to it do not know of what they speak.
      ...please be so kind as to enlighten us with your higher intellectual plane of understanding and reveal to all academia what communism really is, after all these decades of time it is imperative that this delusion and ignorance no longer prevail...Hmmm?

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Zurama:

      akamiel is right. and you think that by arguing to technical meaning of the word communism that you will detract from the fact that Obama is in fact a statist and progressive who uses social justice and class envy as mechanisms to advance the power of the progressive elite. This may work on the obamatrons and koolaid drinkers but it doesn't work on us as we know how the man was raised, who he associates with and his statist philosophy.
      Today he gave a speech to students telling them to work hard to succeed, but at the same time instituting policies that will make success frowned upon and maybe even impossible.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • Zurama:

      "under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals."

      Thus Communism has never been realized, it has been used as a rallying cry by those who wish to obtain uncontested power, but not by people who wish to see a Communist State enacted. So NO, Communism has never been seen on any national level EVER.

      I agree with your assessment of Obama by the way. I do not believe he has the "people's" interest at heart at all. He is a STATIST, and not a Communist. Despite all the claims to the contrary. A Statist and a Communist are two different entities. Though one may claim the other.

    • 2 years ago
  • Sdizzle
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    • Zurama:

      True communism is more like anarcho-syndicalism then what is called communism today.

      You can't blindly accept what a book says even if it is a dictionary. Just as an example Merriam-Webster defines a skinhead as 1 : a person whose hair is cut very short 2 : a usually white male belonging to any of various sometimes violent youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs

      even though the skinhead movement started with Jamaican reggae artist such as Toots and the Maytals, and the majority of skinheads aren't racist.

      I realize that was a bit off topic but It was the first example i could think of.

    • 2 years ago
  • michail77
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Zurama:

      on this page there are 10 dictionaries with different defs for communism. for the record the "communism" we don't want here is the one that killed the ussr -- you know the communism that barak's mentor frank marshall davis was a member of. We don't want statism or marxism either as all these things are contrary to the idea of freedom and individualism.
      http://www.answers.com/topic/communism

    • 2 years ago
  • Sdizzle
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      Sdizzle  
    • Zurama:

      I myself do not ascribe to communist ideals, but you obviously do not know what those are or care to learn. Social programs aren't all evil many of them benefit you daily without you even knowing it. I personally believe there can be a healthy mix of business and government, we have just yet to find it. Having a conversation with you is like bashing my head repetitively into a brick wall. That website proves my point about looking things up. Just type in skinhead it has the exact same fucking definition I put up. Reading a small summary usually leaves out the majority of information on a subject, and it allows you to jump to conclusions based on pre-existing biases that you might have.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Zurama:

      sdizzle - first of all, we never did have a conversation so something else must be causing you to bash your head against the wall.
      Maybe it's the crazy idea that maybe fascism would work if it were just given a fighting chance.
      This is the same rationale that the progressives give when their policies fail, they always blame it on something else as the reason it didn't work.
      Like when barney frank used regulation to force banks to make bad loans and now we are in a recession because of it -- his excuse is we need more regulation (which is what caused it to begin with)
      Or when govnment regulation of oil industry causes high fuel prices, the blame is put on a lack of regulation. Do you see a pattern here? The progressive uses his failures as excuse why he should be given more power.
      Or statists like obama who badmouth lobbyists and corps to the public, but who strike deals with them and appoint them to high positions behind closed doors. GOVERNMENT lies at the heart of the problem why these economic situations will not ever work. and smarter men than you and me figured this out a long time ago.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • Zurama:

      Why do you say WE Montesooma? What about what I want? If you believe in freedom, then you should support my own decision as to what sort of society I wish to live in as well.

      Also, smarter men have not PROVEN anything, only the men and women that YOU have read. I like to be open to all sides. Have you ever read anything written by Communist or anarcho/syndicalist economists? If you have, who were they? Also, I do understand that it takes an evolved mindest to be COMMUNALY minded, and a lot of people do not have what it takes. Perhaps we should allow certain areas of the US to form their own Communal governments and you may live your own community of similar minded people. Does that sound fair?

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • hammywill
  • hammywill
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  • hammywill
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    • Zurama:

      Like I said, Ignorant. Have you heard of the Menonites? Do some research into their Communal life before you claim a brainwashing murderer is the only way who had a succesful commune, or that his way is the ONLY succesful commune. You're an idiot who has no concept of the issues we are discussing.

    • 2 years ago
  • Sdizzle
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    • Zurama:

      The theory that the CRA caused the recession that we are in now is laughable. I myself am not a fan of the law. I think some people, like myself, can live rather comfortably in an apartment. That being said though, it never forced banks to make bad loans and only half of the subprime loans were made by banks regulated by the CRA, and even then the majority were only partially regulated by the Community Reinvestment Act.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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    • Zurama:

      sdizzle --nobody is laughing about the CRA as the failed loans are being payed by the taxpayer and now the govnment owns the mortgage industry. This did in fact cause the recession and the trustworthy govnment(barney frank and cris dodd) were all the while taking kickbacks and assuring us everything was fine and now they are back and given even more power(see my previous post to you) as this is exactly what im telling you about the progressives.
      They are doing it again wit the healthcare plan- telling us they are going to protect us from the "evil" corps. This is the same govnment who looted trillions from the social security to pay for pet projects, they are the ones we need protection from.
      How are we to trust one crook over another? most likely they just want to make sure that the money and power ends up in their filthy hands.

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
  • akamaial
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    • Zurama:

      hammy, the CRA was not the absolute key piece of legislation that CAUSED the collapse, but a major COMPONENT that attributed to the destabilization of the ethereal house of cards upon which it was built... you need to do a TON of homework to tackle this subject...months ago here on current I've done just that....been there and done that!
      ...with the scars to prove it...

    • 2 years ago
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  
    • Zurama:

      If by major component you mean one of the numerous components that had an equal cause in the collapse, then I would agree. But, there was a NUMBER of components...the biggest of which was greed. (by consumers as well as bankers)

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • Zurama:

      In order to put the fiscal situation of the United States into some context, a basic understanding of several factors is necessary. The CRA, Federal Housing Enterprises Regulatory Reform Act of 1992, ACORN, The Cloward-Piven Strategy, the Government Sponsored Entities (GSE’s) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and their relationship with Congress are all significant gears in the machine that stopped the economy in its tracks.

    • 2 years ago
  • StandaboveUnderstand
  • Zurama
  • hammywill
  • michail77
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      michail77  
    • "ah yes, another socialost* sop, accuse the opposition of using the very tactics which they themselves employ... pathetically so predictable.

      *socialost=obfuscating socialist demoncrat"

      I never said I was a socialist. I'm registered without party affiliation. I don't fear socialism or communism either but I believe in a free market. I've even read Ian Rand.

      Communism is nothing more than a political ideology that doesn't work because of human nature. So why be so fearful of it?

      I find the left and right extremists similar, they both can be blindly ignorant and narrow minded. They both don't understand that they are. They both resort to name calling. Right wing extremist tend to have more of a paranoia streak. It's even been shown in studies that conservatives are more prone to paranoia and are mistrusting. (Just to show I'm not being biased these same studies also show liberals tend to be unorganized and sloppy.)

      However, the right wing extremists worry me quite a bit more. The worst the left wing might do is chain themselves to a tree and bring some attention to their cause. When the right wing goes off they start stockpiling weapons and explosives.

      I'd much rather politics be driven by logic, reason and the "Golden Rule" not fear and paranoia.

      I'll also reserve the right to admit anything I've said could be wrong. Another characteristic of extremists is they can't change or evolve their views.

      So there you go. Do you want to call me a communist, socialist, muslim, nazi?

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
  • michail77
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    • michail77:

      Well, I believe the liberty of individuals is sacred. I believe in a balanced budget. I think the government should stay out of the gay's lives. I believe in separation of church and state. I believe in science. I believe other people have the right to offend me. I believe in protecting our environment and resources.

      I believe in personal responsibility and I think that we all need to work together towards progress.

      I don't believe in fear and paranoia. I'll risk my own life before I live in fear.

      So if all those things make me liberal. I'll be proud of it. However, I've never labeled myself. So thanks for giving me a label.

      So are we to be liberals and conservatives or communists and fascists?

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
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    • Paranoia and fear tend to be strong personality traits in extremists of all types.

      Mix paranoia and fear with false patriotism and then people start dying "for the greater good".

    • 2 years ago
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  • akamaial
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    • Ihatethemall:

      ihta, covert indoctrination is the sop of socialist demoncrats....of course they can't possibly see any "harm", because leftist believe the ends justify the means because victory is necessary at all cost, to hell with what people think, after all, only the leftist elite "know" whats good for the common people...right?

    • 2 years ago
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    • Ihatethemall:

      "ihta, covert indoctrination is the sop of socialist demomcrats....of course they can't possibly see any "harm", because leftist believe the ends justify the means because victory is necessary at all cost, to hell with what people think, after all, only the leftist elite "know" whats good for the common people...right?"

      And you're trying to say the right wing extremest aren't like that??? They are much worse but, much like mentally insane, they aren't aware of the fact.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Ihatethemall:

      Wow...I can't tell you how much it hurts to hear you say that. Your opinion is so important to me.

      Look, I get that you're bitter because you now look like such an idiot, but you can't say I didn't warn you. Oh...right he changed his speech. He was going to deliver the communist manifesto...good thing you stepped in. lmao. Like I said...stupid, hyper-partisan, unbalanced, racist or all of the above. It's a pick 'em.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Ihatethemall:

      akamaial,

      What makes you think only leftists believe "the ends justify the means because victory is necessary at all cost"?

      When I was little I heard Gordon Liddy say that It was justified to kill innocent people for the greater good of the country.

      I know he wasn't speaking for all conservatives but at the time I was young and it made a lasting impression of the Republican party on me.

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
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    • Actually that looks like a good "change". It refocuses more on the students.

      At least this administration can adjust and make changes. It's a welcome from the stubbornness and secrecy of the previous administration.

    • 2 years ago
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    • michail77:

      I wasnt saying it was a bad change. I was just pointing out the change happened after the parents bitched.
      I am pretty sure his actual speech was changed also. He had to "tone it down" because of the concern.

    • 2 years ago
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    • michail77:

      no, he didn't have to do anything. he could have left it exactly as it was, but he chose to re-write, which shows me a president who is responsive to the voice of the people, interested in what they have to say, and paying attention.

      now where have we NOT seen that before?

    • 2 years ago
  • Tyr
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      Tyr  
    • ..My God, you right winger are truly amazing, now that the speech is available to read and it is exactly what he said it was going to be, simply an effort to encourage education....now you guys, without a scintilla of evidence, claim that the original text was subversive in content.
      Ihate offers us a guarantee, what exactly does that guarantee consist of..
      I will say this ihate is consistent, no matter what our president does is unacceptable to him and his ilk. Now, being aware of that, I am choosing to ignore his future post much in the same way I ignore bot messages... his name spells out all that he has to offer ..".I hate them all.".. What an ugly view of the world....why would anyone with a desire for discussion , dialog or even friendship want to waste their time with a person who is filled with hatred?

    • 2 years ago
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    • Tyr:

      I am not a right winger, I hate them all. All politicians that is.
      So a guy who has been posting here for what 6 or 7 days, according to your profile, isnt going to read my posts anymore.....I'm crushed. What will I do know? I used to post here just for you to read and comment on.

      Your name calling does not bother me. I have been here for a long time, you are not the first and I don't think I even need to tell you that you wont be the last.

    • 2 years ago
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      krag2112  
    • Nice conspiracy theory. Keep telling yourself that mall, if it helps you look in the mirror.

      Which of those four categories do you think we're lumping you into? I'm thinking maybe all four.

    • 2 years ago
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      Ihatethemall  
    • Whats guaranteed is he changed the words in it like he did with the lesson plans that were to be handed out by the teachers after his speech. Once the people starting speaking out against his propaganda speech and work programs they were changed. That is guaranteed.

    • 2 years ago
  • StandaboveUnderstand
  • krag2112
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    • I just read the speech. It's exactly what I expected it would be...reasonable, logical and inspiring. And thanks to the small and stupid people who protested this, it's guaranteed that the number of people watch the speech has been multiplied exponentially. More people will watch it, more people will agree with it and more people will wonder about the true motivation of the people who protested it. They'll draw the logical conclusion that they are stupid, hyper-partisan, unbalanced or sadly, racist.

      And of one of those choices they will be right.

    • 2 years ago
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    • And for those who don’t believe that students are coerced in school, put yourself in the place of this young supporter of John McCain being browbeaten by her Obama activist teacher:

      ~ What has really raised the ire of parents is the distribution of so-called “teachers manuals” containing post-speech “lesson plans” to be assigned to students, an unprecedented exploitation of administrative authority reminiscent of techniques used in the Soviet Union, China and North Korea, where schoolchildren were/are required to write letters to “Dear Leader.”

      From the manual:

      As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:

      What is the President trying to tell me?

      What is the President asking me to do?

      What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

      Parts of this “manual” bordered on hero worship and were so partisan that the administration was forced to re-write entire passages, which Secretary Duncan explained away simply by characterizing the offending passages as just being “poorly written.”

    • 2 years ago
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    • akamaial:

      I seem to remember doing this sort of thing when I was in elementary school and Reagan was President. Again in High School when Clinton was President. Is it OBAMA that you have the problem with, or would you / were you as adamant when Reagan was President?

    • 2 years ago
  • akamaial
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      hammywill  
    • akamaial:

      I have no problems with parents taking their children out of school to avoid the President's speech. But I think it is the worst sort of hyperbole to associate Obama's intentions in addressing schoolchildren with those of Stalin and Mao. This is not substantiated by anything, not even the manuals. WHICH, I have read.

    • 2 years ago
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  • Tyr
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      Tyr  
    • If you on the right actually believed that our President was some buffoon who was determined to destroy the very country he presides over then you would have no problem letting your children hear him speak. It would serve to strengthen your teachings, but you know as we on the left know that the man is an articulate, engaging man. Your children would probably like him, and that is what I think you fear. I have listened to Rush Limbaugh on any number of occasions lambast the colleges and universities of this nation as being a nest of liberal thinking etc. What he is acknowledging is that when a higher level of education is achieved most young people reject jingoism and racism, they embrace environmental issues and human rights advancement and that is kryptonite to the conservative cause.
      Believe me, just as Krag said in a previous post we totally get why you don't want your kids to hear him. I've got to tell something, you are creating forbidden fruit, you tell a kid they can't hear something, you create a desire to hear it.

    • 2 years ago
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      krag2112  
    • We get it. You're scared your kid will see that all the bull shit that Dad has been spewing about the President is a lie. Having your kid see you for what you really are must terrify you. Poor montesooma...they're going to find out someday anyway. Sad.

    • 2 years ago
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