Posted on 06/12/2008 12:07:07 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Saw that... proof positive!
I agree 99%, or thereabouts with JB on this one, but I do believe he mispoketh with the bit about McCain “paying the ultimate price”.
I won’t dwell upon it as it’s simple to THINK of what JB meant. McCain suffered tremendously at the hands of the North Vietnamese during his imprisonment, so I shine on JB’s statement as one of those “oops’” that happen to us all occasionally.
Well, they are products of the public school system. IMHO the two most long term destructive changes in my lifetime were the institution of teachers unions in schools, with the right to strike, and the requirement that teachers must have a special degree in eduction to teach. That ensured that schools would be run by overwhelmingly female teachers, who studied little but the latest liberal theories about eduction, and were generally lowest scoring students themselves. Most of the problems we see now go back to those two changes.
Compare the yearly deficits between Bush and Clinton, or the yearly deficits between Reagan and Carter.
When the Democrats are in charge the Republicans act as a check on spending, when the Republicans are in charge the spending goes out of control.
Keep it up and watch what life under a Marxist Black Muslim is like, with a Democratic Socialist of America controlled congress, press and court.
Can anyone say Zimbabwe? Why do you think that the dollar has fallen so precipitously? Are you honestly going to try and tell me that the Republicans are fiscally conservative? Do you have any idea what happens to the M3 when the Feds set and hold the rate at 2%?
Zimbabwe is starving because of hyper inflation, we are entering a period of hyper inflation. The only way the government can pay off its debts is to massively inflate the currency.
If you think the author does not know this, you don’t know this author.
I’m amazed how hung up a few are on this line....
No comments about the real subject of the column? Just hung up on this point? Are you suggesting that McCain did not pay an ultimate price for freedom, as opposed to Obama? That was the context of the statement...
How petty... not to mention self-defeating.
I keep a link to this old FR thread on my about page. You may have to hit refresh several times to get it to load.
Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record
Culture/Society Miscellaneous Keywords: COMMUNISM
Source: Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
Published: Jan 10, 1963 Author: “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen
Posted on 09/24/1999 11:21:44 PDT by dls442
Communist Goals (1963)
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
(If American voters were not so ignorant and lazy, the communist movement which includes the DNC and RINOs wouldn't stand a chance, but they do.)
I don’t think American voters are as stupid as this writer insinuates. A recent poll showed that less than 20% of Americans believe that high gas prices are the oil companies’ fault. And this is despite the recent charade investigation into ‘excessive’ oil company profits. Congress is no longer able to pin this one on Exxon. They may be taking the blame in the Fall.
(Simple-minded conservative...)
Simple minded, clearly. Conservative? Not so clear...
Still trying to come up with something intelligent to say?
Clearly...
Myopic, childish, self-defeating banter amongst conservatives allows socialists to advance without opposition.
Simple is as simple does...
Well, I guess he could have went with the much more politically correct term, 'mulatto'.
Thanks!
I have run out of tolerance for foolish infighting while the real enemy advances unopposed.
You got caught in the crossfire...
You stepped out and used socialist talking points to accuse someone of being “racist” for pointing out just how “racist” the Obama campaign really is...
You didn’t think those were conservative talking points, did you?
Bachelor.
Bachelorette.
Yeah... there are more Stupid voters than a standard Bell curve can account for.
I’m just gald you didn’t use the dreaded words “socialized medicine...”
We don’t want anyone to know...
Can they figure it out then?
You are right about McCain, but wrong about Obama. He's no liberal.
Unless conservatives come to grips with that reality, moderates never will.
You got it!
Funny how when 20% of white voters would never vote for a black man, it’s called racism. But when 92% of black vote for a man only due to the color of his skin, even though he is only “half-black,” it’s not racism...
Obama spent 20 years in a church based entirely on racism and nobody sees a racist. This writer points that out and he’s a racist?
Only in Marx logic!
No they are not.
This Democrat Congress approval rating is less than 11%, lowest in history.
“Are American Voters as Stupid as Democrats Bank On?”
Yes, at least half of them. Proof? Democratic nominee, Barack Hussein Obama. Enuf said.
Here’s an explanation from the Patriot Post. Makes sense to me.
Leftists politicos tend to be chronic overachievers because they have suffered significant loss — often the result of the disconnect with their earthly fathers. They subscribe to rigid doctrines and “nanny state” regimes to satiate their persistent insecurity, the result of low self-esteem and arrested emotional development associated, predominantly, with fatherless households or critically dysfunctional families in which they were not adequately affirmed.
Obama manifests all of these characteristics, and clinically speaking, there is a diagnosis. Leftists are pathological case studies of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — the standard reference used for psychiatric evaluation.
Of course, there are many conservatives who were raised by a single parent or in critically dysfunctional or impoverished homes. However, somewhere along the way, they were lifted out of their misery by the grace of God — often in the form of a significant mentor who modeled individual responsibility and character. As a result, they have the courage to internalize their locus of responsibility.
Leftists, on the other hand, externalize responsibility for problems and solutions by holding others to blame for their ills, and by bestowing upon the state the duty for arbitrating proper conduct — even proper thought.
A footnote: It’s no coincidence that conservative political bases tend to be suburban or rural, while liberal political bases tend to be urban. The social, cultural and economic blight in many urban settings are Leftist breeding grounds for legions of the disenfranchised, those who are largely dependent on the state for all manner of their welfare, protection and sustenance.
These legions identify with Barack Obama. That is the substance, the essence of Obama.
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