Comments on: Well, the Left is Wrong about one thing

By: Vivian

Vivian — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:02:17 +0000

#11–ILC, trouble is, many of us have already lived through the Carter era. I’m feeling rather impatient at the prospect of having to do it again because those mushy folks are too lazy to do some thinking. I used to say my retirement plan was to move to Chad as a joke. But..this could become a reality.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:38:51 +0000

Yes, chemically, estrogen is a steroid. It’s just not an anabolic steroid.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:38:18 +0000

And that’s probably it, ILC. We have a whole generation that’s forgotten we already tried pseudosocialism in 1976, and spent the next decade digging ourselves out of it. Retrench, revalue, and recalculate. C’est la guerre.

By: V the K

V the K — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:37:32 +0000

the Carter On Steroids years that are coming.

Is estrogen a steroid?

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:54:54 +0000

Hey, nobody talks too much like I talk too much. Especially on this blog.

To me, a person only need be exposed to and then willing to absorb the teachings of history to learn from past mistakes that are not his own.

That’s true. There is a “mushy middle” though. It’s those people who must learn by experience. And who decide elections.

I was talking to a H-O-T 20 year old at my gym on Monday night. He’s a good guy. In school, seems financially responsible (he is also one of my neighbors – heh). His family is partly Cuban; he hates Che Guevara and Castro and has long come up to me to tell me how muc he loves my “Commies Aren’t Cool” gym shirt. I had him figured for a rightie. Guess what? He voted Obama. We talked about it in between my spotting him, and my trying to get my own, far-more-lame exercises done. He said something like, “I just want the war in Iraq to end. It’s gone on too long, and it’s going to be a mess no matter how we leave, so let’s leave and finish Afghanistan.” I told him that I didn’t think Obama had been completely honest on the campaign trail and would do some surprisingly left-wing things – like peace with the Castro brothers. He blanched, like he knew I had a point. See what I mean? He’s not dumb, he’s not a bad guy, he’s just part of the mushy center that doesn’t quite think long or hard enough and needs to personally live through the Carter On Steroids years that are coming.

By: DinaFelice

DinaFelice — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:49:45 +0000

Ah, but anonnemo, most people in our generation do not have the blessing of parents who teach them history. Many do not even have the blessing of parents who teach them values: observe how many college students, whose parents completely pay for their education and often give them spending money as well, could sneer at Sarah Palin for attending multiple colleges–because she was putting herself through college.

Many pro-capitalism parents inadvertantly teach their children the messages of communism and even more beneficiaries of capitalism don’t like it and so teach their children that feelings are enough.

~Dina, the 26-year-old daughter of on liberal parent and one Classically Liberal parent…guess which one taught me history and values?

By: anonnemo

anonnemo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:31:08 +0000

(That was really long, sorry. You’d think I’d have learned by now I talk too much…here I go again)

By: anonnemo

anonnemo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:30:11 +0000

ILoveCapitolism, I disagree the proposition that every generation must learn anew (at least in the sense that they must learn by committing the same mistake). I’m 23 and know full well what has just been committed upon what was once the Republic/bastion of Liberty. I’ve learned this through excessive reading, being brought up in a Conservative / Classical Liberal household that taught personal responsibility and discussed history, and taking the sparse offerings on history I could (this last one being the poorest of my sources).
To me, a person only need be exposed to and then willing to absorb the teachings of history to learn from past mistakes that are not his own. Too often, whether by ideological bent or ignorance or a feeling it is unimportant or improper, those who should be teaching our children the errors of our predecessors are silent on those failed attempts (or if mentioning its occurrence will gloss over the negative outcome).
I ramble too much, so let me summarize by stealing a quote which (most of you already know and) serves a valuable lesson about history: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15000/15000.txt)

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:15:22 +0000

Republicans only have a little more than 60 days to starve the children, jail the gays, throw old people out into the streets round up all the minorities and cut off medicaid. Let’s go, hurry up!

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:13:39 +0000

I love the youtube clip of the woman who says that Obama is gonna pay her mortgage and for her gasoline. I plan on quitting my job and getting in line with her!

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:34:54 +0000

I think a lot of Obama’s younger supporters have no idea that they just voted for a socialist-fascist candidate and how that will work out in terms of high taxes and regulations, jobs destroyed, compulsory national service, etc. I don’t blame them. Every generation must learn anew, and this generation of young people has been especially badly educated.

I think a lot of Obama’s older supporters secretly know (but pretend not to) that they just voted for a socialist-fascist candidate, and exactly what that means. I blame them.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:32:10 +0000

Dan, are you referring to Obama, McCain, or both of them?

By: PatriotMom

PatriotMom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:44:34 +0000

This is a very historic moment in our nation’s history and I hope that the winner can come to the middle and govern all of us however, I am…

Waiting to watch the disappoint backers not get what they were promised and how they are going to react.
In the meantime, could the GOP please learn a lesson from Bob Dole and John McCain and start grooming a young candidate – at least under 60.

By: LCRW

LCRW — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:00:57 +0000

The Patriot Act is the assault on civil liberties they hated about Bush.

They don’t want the government to know what books we check out but they don’t mind the government having access of our medical records through socialized health care.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:29:35 +0000

Yeah, where’s the martial law they’ve been saying he’d declare for the last eight years? The sad thing is they’ll never even reflect on how insane they’ve been throughout the Bush administration.