Posted on 05/20/2008 9:31:32 PM PDT by RWR8189
Lieberman had a great chance of leaving the Dims and getting a leadership role with the Pubbies a few years back and he balked at the offer. At the end of the day, regardless of his ‘defend America and Isreal’ speeches, he remains a Cult member, plain and simple.
FDR also advanced rule by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats - a dictatorship. I simply can’t put forward a worse president than the fascist FDR.
If FDR had been around in 1776, the founders would have considered him a royalist Tory and hanged him.
"President Clinton and his advisers slowly but surely came to recognize that American intervention, and only American intervention, could stop Slobodan Milosevic and his campaign of ethnic slaughter, Democratic attitudes about the use of military force in pursuit of our values and our security began to change. "
My values do not include bombing people who have done me no wrong simply because they want their property back.
(Or because I need to shift attention away from my own transgressions.)
"President Clinton and his advisers slowly but surely came to recognize that American intervention, and only American intervention, could stop Slobodan Milosevic and his campaign of ethnic slaughter, Democratic attitudes about the use of military force in pursuit of our values and our security began to change. "
My values do not include bombing people who have done me no wrong simply because they want their property back.
(Or because I need to shift attention away from my own transgressions.)
It’s not so plain and not so simple.
Worth repeating.
BTTT!
Ditto.
"only American intervention..."
Riiiiight. It was Europe in the 1990's. They can police their own backyard.
Maybe, but on the other hand, here in 2008, we might collectively gain as it could put a dent in the destructive partisanship that’s causing national problems to lie unaddressed.
I recently read “Common Ground” by Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas, there was a lot to agree with in that book.
Thanks for your post. I recall my late father born in 1918, who was a three war combat vet. His comments about FDR were basically that FDR told Americans- “ sit on your ass, smoke a camel, welcome to the promised land.” That is exactly what I recall.
Sorry I forgot the first part.
F.R. Roosevelt said, “Lay down your shovel, sit on your ass, light up a camel, this is the promised land.”
It has become the vogue in intellectual circles, and thus to the Democratic Party Elite, that Relativism - the belief that there is no ground for moral judgment beyond our culturally conditioned reactions, should dictate our national policy. The Democratic Party is no longer about being pro-American,, as we generally understood up until the past 30 or 40 years. It's rather about changing what pro-American means. It means not being a superpower, it means that patriotism, as it is generally understood, is xenophobia and imperialism (it can work both ways, apparently).
So, to understand why progressives do not see America as a great nation, and why they will sacrifice our national interests, remember they are citizens of the World first. If they think that the World is somehow injured by American power, they will attack it. They are traitors to our national interest. They want power to tear American down, to cleanse it of the evil (that supposedly does not exist in a Relativist world view). They claim we cannot have morality, when, at the same time, they proclaim their own morality to supersede our national interest.
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