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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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ITA!! ITA!!
I am not advocating change for the sake of change but the list of advances is too long to type here - just in my own lifetime. If i step back to the social changes in my mother's lifetime - all the changes we take for granted as status quo today that were pronounced as apocalyptic at the time - it's almost unimaginable. Desegregation, divorce, premarital sex, cohabitation, interracial dating/marriage, birth control, women in the workplace - heck, women in pants - ATM's and internet shopping. i remember all those things being hailed as the end of the world.
And if there is good reason to resist change, then fine. I understand why Clinton's universal health care scared most people. But resistance to change based on illogical and irrational fear is the same thing as living in the Dark Ages.
Bea
Edited 10/28/2008 10:17 am ET by queenbea4
Until the American public can collectively recognize when they are being fed a platter of BS
You mean like the platitude "Change we can believe in"?
apathy and bondage like the personal freedoms we have abdicated to TSA because someone is scaring us into acting like sheep in security lines? letting someone open my underwear and pharmaceuticals to public scrutiny in a busy airport? leaving my computer and credit cards hanging out at the end of a conveyor belt where anyone can access them while someone sticks a wand between my legs in view of every pervert in the terminal? asks about my under wire bra? while i stand barefoot in who-know-what kind of bacteria and viruses the last traveler left on the floor?
we're already there. and it wasn't generated by liberal hope - it was generated by conservative fear.
Bea
I believe there are far fewer Democrats who have been pushed out of their party.
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Those seem to be in short supply, even though there's plenty of raw material! The reality is better than any conspiracy, as the frugal party of family values tries to reconcile its message with the candidates' past extravagant spending of taxpayer money, while it tries to explain that the presumptive first and second families' issues with adultery, gambling, drug abuse, premarital parenthood, nepotism, crime, etc. don't disqualify them on "moral" grounds, although the democratic candidate's past associations do... as Scott says: what a tangled web they weave...
well, i had vinegar in my oatmeal this morning and TSA chaps my hide. i can still hear my own voice ringing through the terminal about the mascara they took while they left matches and nail polish in the bottom of my handbag. plus they have half a sweater set, 3 pairs of sunglasses and countless other cosmetics that belong to me. the only good news is TSA made me stop buying cosmetics at the department store.
TSA is just one example of the log in our eyes while we are looking for the speck that *might* be in the future.
Bea
edit: because i forgot to mention how much i love to have air blown up my skirt.
Edited 10/28/2008 11:28 am ET by queenbea4
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