Posted on 05/19/2008 5:33:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There once was a time where liberal men were tough and would fight for their positions. Think FDR standing up to Hitler and Hirohito, JFK staring down Khrushchev or even LBJ with the creeping communism of Soviet Russia.
Juxtapose that with what we have today. We have Obama who whines so incessantly as to seem like more of a woman than Hillary. We have potential VP nominee John Edwards sending his cancer-stricken wife out to fight his battles as well. These are the faces of the liberal movement today. The opposition throws statements they've made back in their faces and they scream foul. We point out their shady associations and they cry racism.
On the right we have John McCain who spent years in a POW camp and refused to leave when it would have meant a propaganda coup for the Vietnamese. He was a war fighter of the highest caliber.
I imagine that the reason so many young people are drawn to Obama is the simple fact that we've become a nation of pussies who have been raised to shift responsibility for their actions to others and who have lost the spirit of what makes America great. It's a sad day that the manliest person in the democratic party is a woman.
Manly Liberals - post modern oxymoron.
What happened to manly liberals?
I don’t understand the question. A manly liberal, huh I am confused.
Goldwater didn’t think much of JFK’s ability to stand up to Krushchev.
If they were alive today with the same positions they took in 1941 and 1962, FDR and JFK would be considered extreme rightwingers, not liberals. Liberalism has moved so far into leftism and decadence that its previous adherents wouldn’t recognize it.
Yes, this is another difference between McCain and Bambi. One is a man, the other a metrosexual.
The answer is that they got CASTRATED by their wives who are the 'men' in the liberal group.
That’s because they aren’t really liberals.
Thomas Jefferson was a liberal.
What we have today are democratic socialists/Marxists.
Everything is striving for a nanny state and feel good emotions.
“I don’t understand the question. A manly liberal, huh I am confused.”
Well, Woody Allen would certainly be considered among them.
Love the title. Great take on the issue. Obama could not be more of a little old lady, with his prissy mannerisms and constant insistence upon apologies. No way I can respect the guy — and I’m a female. The anti-male feminists would love him did they not love Hillary more.
Liberalism is nothing but socialism which is nothing more than to substitute government for your mommy. Therefore there has NEVER been a “manly” liberal.
Three words about how “manly” JFK was: Bay of Pigs.
the gloss a great # of FReepers put on JFK is one of the best demonstrations of leftist academia propaganda triumph that there could ever be. Republicans have been running uphill against that phony Kennedy mystique for 45 years now. Anyone wailing about what a saintly man of the people that lizard RFK was on the 40th anniversary of his death in a couple weeks will be a troll to my way of thinking.
Money quote!
Their mothers and the school system estrogenated them.
Well, let’s put it this way. I wish I had bought some stock in that company that makes those testicle lockboxes.
Actually, I think FDR was very weak concerning the Axis before Dec. 7, 1941, preferring not to rock the boat on his approval numbers.
And Khrushchev plainly stated that it was JFK’s weakness that enticed him to put missiles in Cuba to begin with.
Liberalism today is of a far more insidious and destructive variety than that of FDR. The type of liberalism that arose in the sixties is culturally Marxist. It’s based on the destruction of all the normal survival instincts in society, because ultimately it’s a death ideology. Thus the desire to feminize men and to steer women away from their role as wife & mother.
Manly Liberals?
Lesbians?
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