Pres Bush speech mistake?

[pzarquon]

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While the "articulate versus honorable" and "what makes a southerner" debates continue here, I think the introduction of the Iraq War merits its own conversation. So I've gone and started a separate thread where we can debate the wisdom of invading Iraq, how the occupation has gone so far, and where we should go from here.

[Kilinahe]

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Make your case, then, and we can debate this, Southerner to Southerner. Why is Bush a redneck, in your opinion?

He's a hateful bigot. This is what gets me about him--there's nothing Christian about hate, and I think that's what he stands for.

But, I am way off topic. I apologize. I sincerely think brains are important in a president, and Bush's keen lack of speech skills bugs me because to me, it signifies a lack of intelligence.

And I don't like Kerry either. But I really don't see things going particularly well under Bush, and I think we need to give Kerry a try, questionable combat record not withstanding.

[pzarquon]

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And I don't like Kerry either. But I really don't see things going particularly well under Bush, and I think we need to give Kerry a try, questionable combat record not withstanding.

Um... I'll take "where was he and when during the war and just how hard did he work to earn those medals" debates over "did he even show up for domestic duty" any day.

[Karen]

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While I'm glad there's no debate on the fact that "one is more articulate than the other" (which, really, was what this thread initially focused on), you can see that there's lots of room for disagreement on whether one "stands on a more immoral platform" or "supports the wrongs in everyone." Your candidate may support your moral views, but those views are not absolute. Your candidate's party may best fit your definition of "honorable," but again, the definition (or rather the interpretation) is pretty subjective.

One being more articulate than another remains no big deal. Study any forum like this one, and you will find the more and less articulate posters on either side of any issue, just no big deal, while you may wish it to be.

Hitler was ARTICULATE. Hope you aren't choosing the president of the most powerful nation in the world, on "articulate!"

You can gray any area of immorality you wish to, it doesn't make reality. The platforms of the two parties are like black & white in comparison. The Dem. party will never get a dime of respect from me because it embraces every wrong, and wishes to not only give people rights, but their sicknesses.

I will not play Clinton's game of redefining words, they say what they mean and mean, or should mean what they have since Webster first wrote them down, and honorable men and women of that age were using them.

[Karen]

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Taking your points specifically... because I believe in and support a woman's right to choose (and yes, that includes the right to choose to not believe in abortion), gay rights (though ideally I'd like the government out of the marriage business altogether), social services (given abuse or corruption on both sides, I'd rather "giveaways" go to help a brother/sister in need than to a corporate behemoth), and do not support the party favored by big business and evangelical religious groups, it is Bush's opponent who I find a more compelling moral choice and a more honorable person.

You & I are the antithesis of each other, that is what you are describing here. I believe in the baby's right above the woman's right to kill it, torturously, quite often, no pain killer given to this baby.

I do not believe in welfare for anyone but the proven ill, a leg missing, etc. Since welfare began, the welfare rolls grew faster than the population. My common sense sees that this is because if you support someone for years, you weaken them. (again, keeping in mind I mean everyone but the obviously, honestly disabled) You make people dependent upon you giving them the fish for many years, and not the fishing pole. It still exists that women have multiple births by multiple fathers every few years, to still be able to get welfare. I know of one that isn't 30 yet.

Oh there it is, the class warfare the Dems incite! Yep, don't give to big business, but penalize them for making a buck just like Hawaii does, discouraging businesses from coming to this state, such stupid policy. Make people without money jealous of those with it, and put as many of them on welfare as you can, instead of giving big business incentives to HIRE more of them! Oh yes, I've seen the truth behind the Dem. party on this one since I was barely 18.

You see, business, doesn't have to be BIG business, pays the paychecks of the worker, yet the Dems. keep the worker jealous of business owners, instead of encouraging harmony between them. Sure, there's good and bad in everything in the world, so there's good and bad business owners. Cap gains tax...was always a theft in action! many good business owners, some I know, when having lower cap gains tax, they reinvest IN their business, hiring more people, giving their employees BONUSES, etc. Voters that vote Dem, salivate with hate and resentment for business owners are actually shooting themselves in the foot. Leaders of the Dem. party sit back, like Jesse Jackson keeping hate alive, and feed off of this hate they create, getting more votes, while buying votes with welfare.

Gay rights....Dems again. Gays already have EVERY right every other citizen has. It is their Illness that does not have rights. Yes, homosexuality was written in medical books as the mental/emotional illness that is *IS* until the early seventies, then it was political pressure that changed that, not reality.

Even here in Hawaii, a majority Democrat state, we have voted NO to gay marriage! amazing that common sense prevailed on this one when the Dems. platform is to support the wrongs in everyone. Misery loves company, and so does immorality. It's the old I scratch your back and you scratch mine, I look the other way, no matter what wrong things you indulge in, and you look the other way when I indulge in wrong things, THAT....is a pretty accurate way to sum up the Dem. platform.

[pzarquon]

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Hitler was ARTICULATE. Hope you aren't choosing the president of the most powerful nation in the world, on "articulate!"

Ah, Godwin's Law. That was quick. I think I'm done here.

[Karen]

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Bush is hateful? how do you know this? can you see inside his heart or mind? No? of course not. Well then, can you tell me where to find video, or even just tell me when he exemplified HATE, while speaking, so I can go back and try to see what you see? Jesse Jackson has sounded hateful. Some on Olelo tv, when speaking for sovereignty have honestly exemplified HATE/resentment to the max, but bush? I can only suspect that at this time, I sound hateful and a lot of people sound hateful to you, when they oppose your views.

Just for point of reference, I have a lot of faults, am totally unworthy of heaven, and I am as of this day, still NOT saved, per my own beliefs, but hate? You can't truly hang that one on me with all of the duct tape in the world, because it doesn't exist in me. I don't see it in Bush, either. I haven't yet seen it in Kerry, either, just phoniness that wreaks. Bush seems real, not phoney, he seems to me like he doesn't care if he seems like a hick, or what, but what I like about Bush's presence is that he is NOT phoney, what you see is what you get, and he is nonchelant and down-to-earth. Clinton, as dishonorable as he was, was not phoney at times, either, while Hillary is an actress at phoney, at least bubba was just being himself, as I discerned, quite often.

Give Kerry a try? people gave hitler a try, too. It is very dangerous when you are so tired of one leader that you are willing to "let something questionable in" just cuz you tire of the other. I know what to expect from Bush, while not appreciating some of his spending, and his lack border control. Kerry not only stands for much of what I find he should be embarassed for, instead, but I don't know what to expect from his phoney act, so I sincerely fear for this nation if he wins election, and win, he may, for just as my bible claimed, it is so, that as we surely get nearer the end of the age, good is called evil, and evil good, and the populace is being lulled to sleep by too many comforts, flavors, and legal rights to wallow in pleasures, no matter how gross they actually are, or not. The Dem. platform supports the right to be as wrong as we wish, so as society degenerates, I expect the Dem. party will become a majority, of course to the demise of this nation, and each person's own well-being, but you can't show someone they are headed for harm, quite often, until they are deeply harmed, if not dieing from some disease, etc.

[Karen]

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Ah, Godwin's Law. That was quick. I think I'm done here.

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Yes, it is quick to state truth, succintly, when it is something so obviously true.

[Karen]

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Um... I'll take "where was he and when during the war and just how hard did he work to earn those medals" debates over "did he even show up for domestic duty" any day."

LOL Kerry's war experience, oh boy, is this one biting him in the butt! He took movie cameras and used them a lot, but not to film the atrocities, and his friends, etc. Oh no, he was filming his run for high office that many years ago. Thank the Lord so many were there, alive today, and willing to speak out. He is described as a loose cannon, having an actual bandaid injury for one medal, and being ASKED to LEAVE the war by officers in his command. Oh yeah, we want a loose cannon with his finger on "the" button.