preparing for the future

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Registered: 10-26-2003
preparing for the future
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 11:20am

this is from the AP and appears in several news sources besides Fox. it gives an interesting "heads up" on what kind of smears to expect in the next few weeks.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Oct24/0,4670,ChristianRightAttacks,00.html

Among the claims:

_ A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to "hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys." (In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).

_ A series of domestic and international disasters based on Obama's "reluctance to send troops overseas." That includes terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that kill hundreds, Russia occupying the Baltic states and Eastern European countries including Poland and the Czech Republic, and al-Qaida overwhelming Iraq.

_ Nationalized health care with long lines for surgery and no access to hospitals for people over 80.

The goal was to "articulate the big picture," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action. "If it is a doomsday picture, then it's a realistic picture," she said.

Bea

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Registered: 10-26-2003
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 12:49am

it was a nice try :o)

Bea

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Registered: 01-12-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 1:00am
LOL! A nice try is right. Although I do appreciate the more respectful ladies here, I think I'm going to have to take a break for a while to prevent insomnia from the other nastiness. I have a lot of restraint, but it wears me down to see the same negative stuff over and over again.

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 2:25am
>Well yes we should definitely close the barn door after the horse has left. That would be more of the conservative family values I suppose. I have often wondered why they are so concerned with the not-yet-born while so easily disregardful of the actually born.<

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 2:30am

>Look, generalizations are pat and comfy and take away all that pesky critical thinking and throw in a steaming hot cup of judgment on top and some folk have their day made.<


Sounds like you are 'pat and comfy' with the poster's generalization in post 4671.26 where you said

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:09am
And everyone would be happier if conservatives were nicer to the already born.
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Registered: 06-17-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:34am

Because that point to ponder is not one I have yet seen proven wrong when it comes to those who trumpet what everyone *else's* values ought to be.

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Registered: 07-23-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 8:20am
I agree - I stated plainly that it was my opinion (at least the last half of my message), but the part about the women's suffrage movement is factual - and the arguments against it were largely based on non-logical positions (see my other post in this thread about logical fallacies). Giving women the vote was also considered widely liberal at the time - and now, I would imagine (or we wouldn't be here), that we're all pretty glad that this particular far-left-wing idea was made a reality. Just sayin.




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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 8:56am
lol!
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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 8:56am

That, my friend, is an excellent point.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 9:03am

Actually, I wonder if we will see a third party spring up from the centrists, in general.