WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? ~ A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.
Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on Campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'
Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's Office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.' The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back,
'That's a crazy idea, and how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!' The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'
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By: BettyJean Downing It’s time for Conservative and Independent voters to
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I Voted for Democracy Today
In America Party loyalty is not what Democracy is all about - our right to choose who we vote for is. And our right to petition the government and our right to free speech and your right to unsubscribe to my newsletter if this upsets you is what Democracy is all about. With Obama you may not have those rights much longer.
Joe the plumber no longer has privacy. They rumaged with impunity through Joe's records just for asking a question when Obama came to Joe's House! The telecom companies will also be able to give up all of your privacy too if Obama deems it necessary. Several news anchors no longer have the right to interview Obama or Biden. The Washington Times, The New York Post, and Dallas Morning News, endorsed John McCain, on Thursday, October 30, 2008, the reporters for these three top American newspapers were all kicked off Obama’s plane.
Immediately after Sarah' was nominated VP, the DNC had a slew of investigators flood Alaska checking her entire family out and she was charged, judged and found guilty of some trumped up charge in 5 weeks flat. A son of the DNC higher up broke into her Email account and distributed her personal information all over the internet.
Yet you nor I can convince the courts, it appears after having filed well over 15 suits in numerous states including Hawaii. We have a right to request proof of his citizenship. He can stall the court for over 2 years over this but Sarah’s case was over in 5 weeks.
He has sealed his records from Occidental, Columbia and Harvard and only releases that which can not be authenticated.
His many long term associations Let me name a few- Jeremiah Wright, ‘Tony’ Rezko, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Kwame Kilpatrick, Meeks, Pfleger, Khalid Al Masour aka Donald Warden, Rashid Khalidi,. Farrakhan, Percy Sutton, Frank Marshall Davis, and his yet to be fully determined association with ACORN
are dubious at best and when uncovered he casts doubts aside with ridiculous lies as if we are fools – apparently many of us are. I will not bore you with the details – suffice it to say he has lied to us!
It is not even the friends he has and the places he has been and the list of associations that are out there that bothers me – it’s that he lied about it all, and when he was caught - he plays us for fools and brushes it away while putting American Citizens under harsh scrutiny and investigations that he will not face himself and yet wants us to trust him with our precious country?
All week long, I have been loosing readers in droves- I lost about 47 readers this week. A few women decided Sarah was no Hillary therefore I was stabbing Hillary in the back to which I replied – It was not I that stabbed Hillary in the back it was the Democrat Party did that!
One gal said she was a teacher with a master’s degree and based on the nearly illegible letter she wrote demanding a VP be at least smarter than she, claiming Sarah was brainless, I replied that anyone who could not put a sentence together ought not to brag about a master’s degree. I also told her she ought not to be a teacher not only because of her lack of writing skills but because a good teacher would never make a judgment on intelligence without qualified basis.
I reminded her too- that although I disagree with Sarah on many policy issues, I can’t help admire her strength and tenacity. She is a mother of 5 who worked her way from a council member to the Mayors office to a Governor of a state to the VP Candidate of the United States of America based on her own merits without benefit of the Chicago Mafia or any political machine to prop her up. Not too shabby if you ask me, and a far cry safer as a VP than this unknown socialist that would take away all our civil rights and clearly has an anti women agenda.
Several wonderful readers wrote and said something like I am a Democrat- I can not become a Republican – take me off your list RIGHT NOW! I wrote back and said something like – please reconsider – “I did not leave my Party – they left me I do not have a Democrat to vote for this year.”
We chatted back and forth and most of them did reconsider and decided to stay. A few will not vote republican, but THANK GOD they will also not vote Obama. I am not asking anyone to become a Republican. Several – more than several actually wrote back in a few hours and said,
“you have convinced me by saying Don’t think of it as voting for a Republican – think of it as voting for democracy since we do not have a Democrat to vote for this year so BJ- I am going to vote for Democracy since I can’t vote for a Democrat this year.”
Thank you to those folks who turned those words right back on me- I grabbed my purse and headed straight to my voter office, asked for an emergency absentee ballot and I voted for Democracy yesterday – since I did not have a Democrat to vote for! And I am not alone.
Finally- Let me end by repeating what I started with. In America that is what Democracy is all about - our right to choose and our right to petition and our right to free speech and your right to unsubscribe if this upsets you. With Obama you may not have the right - Joe the plumber not longer has his privacy- several News anchors no longer have the right to interview Obama or Biden. A few newspapers are thrown off the Obama plane because they lean right. What are you willing to give up just to be able to say you never voted for a Republican in your life? Maybe the better question is - Are you willing to Vote FOR Democracy this time? Democracy crossed all lines Democracy has no party! If you have not voted yet and you are a Democrat – do not despair if you do not have a Democrat to vote for tomorrow – just go to the Poll and pull the Republican Lever and send a message to the DNC that you voted for Democracy this year! Thank you!
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/obama-lied-to-america/
Am new to blogs and am looking for a place to state my opinion of campbell brown. Hope this is a good start. I've watched cnn and hence ampbell brown through the primaries and up to this moment. I'm amazed that she is so popular and considered an excellent tv journalist. First of all, i don't like the obvious result of voice coaching...her mouth looks really awful when she pronounces certain words. She's so mainstream, wasp; when are we going to have a black or hispanic or asian or mixed race anchor??? they are out there. also when hillary went down, she and also candy crowly looked as if a nuclear bomb had fallen up the united states. i just don't get why she's so well liked. i tune her out; go to another network and then tune back in for anderson cooper..
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