THE DEBATE! DID YOU SEE WHAT I SAW?

Dad / Chef / Author, CookingWithCarlo.vom ^ | Sept 12, 2003 | Carlo3b

[RicocheT]

The part staytrue wrote about the audience lapping up the hate because it was mostly Morgan State students and teachers I agree with. But, I don't buy the generality that African-Americans as a whole buy into the hate.

A lot of Black kids get sent to all-Black colleges to connect with what they and their family think is their heritage. Many are middle and upper class and live in the suburbs or better areas of town. They have had good lives but feel they need to connect with their poorer brothers.

The connection is to adopt most of the bad and little of the good, hip hop clothes and speech, a tough attitude and hate for the "man." Colleges are the refuge of the 60's radicals and the ones at Black colleges have some of the worse Black Panther types. Put them and gullible kids together and you get an audience ready to cheer John Dean and his ilk.

Hopefully, when these kids graduate they return to their middle/upper class lives and see that making a buck and being good to family gets them the good life. Some may even see the light and vote Republican.

[MHGinTN]

While you watched the 'debate' (what a stretch to call THAT a debate), did you catch the asinine responses from some of the 'candidates'? Rush touched on these yesterday, the response by Kerry, for instance, that 'we need a president who will not write laws that ...'; if Kerry doesn't realize the president writes no laws, what will Kerry try to dictate from the Oval Office?

[RicocheT]

Howard Dean, can't even name those unknowns properly.

[RightOnline]

I think Rush Limbaugh actually nailed it. The Democratic Party these days is little more than a loose confederation of angry, nasty, hate-filled, anti-American, just plain loony groups. These candidates must sell their souls to appeal to such hatemongers..............hence, what you saw.

It's an incredibly sad statement about the status of the Democratic Party. They are SOOOOO far out in left field......so incredibly disconnected from "mainstream America".........that one can only pray that they become increasingly marginalized as more Americans truly begin to understand what these 'people' stand for.

[carlo3b]

I recall the debates in the 80's when Mondale came clean and stated he'd raise our taxes, to the applause of the worshipers.
He said it so he could cement his base. HA! He cemented more than his base, he sunk the Rat. party. When they lost, the same people the clapped at the thought he would soak them in taxes.. blamed him for the stunning defeat.. Go Figure.. LOLOL

[Neenah]

The dems lies are driving a wedge between families.

I'm sorry to hear of your sad experience. You are right in what you say, however.

One thing that stood out to me about the "debate" {cough} was that because it was broadcast on FOX, ..NONE of the other networks that I could see, in thier nightly news, even mentioned them ! It carried over to the next morning. I could have missed some, but searched back and forth, and found no one even mentioning the debate.

When you consider WE are paying attention, almost to excess, MOST of the country are not. Rush, Glenn Beck, et all are basically preaching to the choir, and if the press, both media and print, in magazines, newspapers, and local stations along with network and cable tout the Rat line, and say it over and over and over enough...those that are occasional viewers/readers/ grab onto the sound bite, and claim it.

The Rats are smart. They are unified. They are relentless...and sometimes we eat our own.

Keep standing for what is right..and keep loving your Daddy.

Carlo..listening to you brings calm to many. It's like wrapping up in a warm bathrobe and curling up in front of a fire on a crisp autumn day. Thank you.

[MegaSilver]

It isn't all that new. Remember during the Clinton "regime" EVERYTHING was a CRISIS.

Given Clinton's loathing of absolutist vocabulary in general, anything could mean anything.

[bluewater bird]

Thank you again Carlo - you have wonderfully expressed what I could not articulate about my disgust with the participants in the debate.

[carlo3b]

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
-Thomas B. Macaulay

[SquirrelKing]

Great post! BTW, I would rather chew a jumbo-sized ball of tinfoil than watch these slack-jawed yokels "debate" each other. If one of them somehow gets elected the suicide rate will go through the roof everytime the state of the union address pre-empts regular programming.

[carlo3b]

 I loved the quote from Plato.

Hey cute stuff! He was one smart cookie, and so was this little Dude:

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
-Albert Einstein

[Mo1]

And I, for the first time in my life, believe that I understand the pre War mentality. Stop it early, or suffer the regret, forever. I think I can see road signs, red flags, omens of history, beckoning us to beware of the danger ahead.

THANK YOU CARLO

Your words spoke of the many things I feel.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I believe that the election is likely to be rather thin (I don't know whether razor thin, but rather thin). We are two nations living in one geographical area. We no longer maintain common beliefs, goals, principles or aims. There is nothing left in common between the two major lines of thought, represented very roughly by our political parties.

We are very much as divided, and over a broader range of issues, as the country was prior to the Civil War -- it's just that the geography is not as clear, with the split being largely based on more-urban vs. less-urban areas.

There is half of the population that simply does not believe in the historical America, that is much more attuned with modern euro-socialism than traditional American free enterprise. That half does not believe in the right of nations to defend themselves from "freedom fighters" (terrorists) by taking offensive action. It does not subscribe to the idea of individual responsibility, nor does it wish to protect the freedom of individual action (unless that action relates in some way to sex). It's beliefs revolve around the general ideas of environmentalism, diversity, world citizenship, and the inherent "fairness" of socialist principles.

Because they are so close to half of the population, the days of overwhelming victories (like Reagan's in '84) are gone for the time being (until, perhaps, generational change swings the pendulum the other way, that is the hopeful thought anyway).

[Mo1]

The dems lies are driving a wedge between families.

I've noticed this in my family. For now I biting my tongue and trying not to get into a screaming match with them.

A few of my family member went at me one night .. I tried to have a rational discussion, but it didn't work

Finally I just said .. You keep waging that finger and believing the Dem lies and you'll end up with more then a BJ

[Ditter]

God Bless people like you & Carlo for keeping weaklings like me informed LOL. We NEVER forget to vote. In fact, we always vote early just in case we should meet with an accident before election day. If dead democrats can vote....... ha ha

[Ditter]

Smart kids, foul mouthed, but smart. LOL

[Eva]

The Best of the Web has been running famous sayings by Democrats, such as Roosevelt's, "You have nothing to fear but fear, itself." Rush paraphrased this yesterday, "The Democrats have nothing to offer but fear, itself.

[Charlie OK]

Just curious,
but why
do you format
all of your
posts
this way?

[kitkat]

***Oh great! Now we must
puzzle out if everything
Thomas Jefferson

wrote was as stupid
and totally off the mark
as this one, dumb quote...***

I suppose you think that the Declaration of Independence was "stupid."

When speaking about newspapers, Jefferson also said that he loved the sound of freedom. Do you object to that, too?

[stanz]