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thats quite unfair no? Is it the color of his skin? Just curious where all this animosity for him derides from?
Is there anything that O'Bummer could do WRONG in yours?
I think its possible to completely disagree with the president, but also respect his position as the president.
Thank goodness for people like you--I feel this is also the right way to be. I respected Bush as our president while he held the office, and I even agreed with some of his more unpopular moves (like going to war).
The thing about the left that really gels with me is that they are more open to these complex ideas and digging deeper. Republicans want everything taken at face value for the most part--if you get too complex they flat out shut down. Despite that I have strong friendships with many republicans, it's just unfortunate that their response to being challenged to a difficult question about their beliefs is to become defensive and stave off any further complexity in the argument. They want shit to just be the way they think it is all of the time.
I wish it could be that way--that none of us ever had to be wrong, but it's not that way.
Ol Prescott Bush. Interesting fella. couple of excerpts from Wikipedia.
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Union Banking Corporation
Bush was one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation, an investment bank controlled by the Thyssen family.[2] In July 1942 the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.[3] A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations, but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.[2]
Joe Conason said that Bush's involvement with UBC was purely commercial and that he was not a Nazi sympathizer.[4] The Anti-Defamation League[5] and historian Herbert Parmet[6] agreed with that assessment.
Friedrich "Fritz" Thyssen
Thyssen himself claimed to have donated 1 million marks to the Nazi Party.[2] Thyssen remained a member of the German National People's Party until 1932, and did not join the Nazi Party until 1933.
Once the Nazi dictatorship took hold, however, Thyssen began to have second thoughts. Although he welcomed the suppression of the Communist Party, the Social Democrats and the trade unions, he disliked the mob violence of the SA. In 1934 he was one of the business leaders who persuaded Hitler to suppress the SA, leading to the "Night of the Long Knives". Thyssen was horrified, however, at the simultaneous murder of various conservative figures such as Kurt von Schleicher.
Thyssen accepted the exclusion of Jews from German business and professional life by the Nazis, and dismissed his own Jewish employees, but he did not share Hitler's violent anti-Semitism. As a Catholic, he also objected to the increasing repression of the Roman Catholic Church, which gathered pace after 1935: in 1937 he sent a letter to Hitler, protesting the persecution of Christians in Germany.[3] The breaking point for Thyssen was the violent pogrom against the Jews in November, 1938 known as Kristallnacht, which caused him to resign from the Council of State. By 1939 he was also bitterly criticising the regime's economic policies, which were subordinating everything to rearmament in preparation for war.[4]
Meh no one said they were honest, or I didn't at least.
What I said is I believe their ideological setting represents a better starting point than the right. I said I want a tea party thing which is democratically minded and about "getting back to the roots" of government by and for the people. We've seen already this can be a powerful force, I want to see it happen when crazy people aren't the ones taking office.
somewebsite said:A small group of men -- supported mostly by artisans, mechanics and laborers -- mobilized the colonial discontent with England's rule. Without their efforts, it is highly doubtful that the Revolution would ever have happened. The Sons used every conceivable method available to them to achieve their goal of independence. These methods included galvanizing the masses into action. They organized demonstrations, forced officials of the Crown to resign, circulated petitions, published newspaper articles and distributed handbills - they did not hesitate to employ force when necessary.
somewebsite said:The Sons of Liberty made their first appearance in late 1767. Although their origins are obscure, as the Sons were a secret organization, they were formed in some of the colonies in opposition to the infamous Stamp Act. Ten years earlier, in 1755, some "True Sons of Righteous Liberty" formed a political club in Connecticut to defend religious and personal freedom. It is probable that this group was revived as the Connecticut Sons of Liberty. A group of New Yorkers organized a group which called themselves the "Whig Club" in 1752. This club was formed for the same reasons as the Connecticut group and held weekly meetings. Each of these meetings was opened with a toast to "the immortal memory" of Oliver Cromwell, leader of the rebellious faction during the English Civil War. Some of the Whig Club members were later connected with the New York Liberty Boys.
How about mind your own fucking business?IBTL...
Hey Squggly...folks like you like to say its a woman choice..because its their body.
mr scientist,
Does one body have two beating hearts?
how can you be so blind?
When you stop the beating heart of a human fetus...your killing a human being.:mad:
lets talk about growing weed. :)
The System is B R O K E N and will remain so until the available opportunities for and temptations TO corruption and the exercise of GREED are removed.
I think its possible to completely disagree with the president, but also respect his position as the president. We live in a great country where we have the freedom to speak and not be persecuted. Although we have the freedom of speech, I think it does no good in this country to show utter disrespect for our president. I say; disagree all you want, but do it respectfully, when you're disrespectful to the position of the president, you're being disrespectful to our country. The president doesn't represent one political party, he represents US as a nation.
And of course the demonstration of the usual Liberal Race Card bullshit. Care to have me put up a rather large list of " Minorities" who are thoroughly and completely against O'Bummer?
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