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02-29-2016, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by spence
So I'm watching the republican front-runners on the stump this week. Primary campaign issues appear to be bottled water, spray tans, pathological dishonesty and hand size.
WTF is wrong with the GOP?
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I suppose it doesn't compare to non stop pandering for the black vote .
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02-29-2016, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by buckman
I suppose it doesn't compare to non stop pandering for the black vote .
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Spence accidentally stumbled into one truth, that teh debates aren't about ideas, or why one person has a better vision than the other. Until Super Tuesday, it's desperation tactics to take Trump down.
We're probably on the verge of nominating a punch line instead of a real candidate.
Spence woul dhave us believe that the Democrats are on the verge of nominating someone as competent as Eisenhower. Not exactly true. By his own admission, she has trouble remembering whether she was shot at, or whether she casually worked a rope line, shaking hands and posing for the camera.
Our choices...(1) An amoral, serial liar, who was a disaster as Secstate (inherited a stable Iraq, left office with Iraq ablaze), with zero integrity..or (2) a narcisstic, flip-flopping, horse's ass of a reality show host with zero integrity. What a choice. At a time when we are on the edge of an abyss.
What the hell is wrong with all of us? How can we not demand more?
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02-29-2016, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by buckman
I suppose it doesn't compare to non stop pandering for the black vote .
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The Repub. appeal so little to blacks anything that is said about them is considering "pandering"
Last edited by PaulS; 02-29-2016 at 10:55 AM..
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02-29-2016, 12:29 PM
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The Repub. appeal so little to blacks anything that is said about them is considering "pandering"
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Tell me what the Democrats do for Black people.
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02-29-2016, 12:39 PM
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Tell me what the Democrats do for Black people.
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They cripple them for life, a form of cultural genocide, by destroying their desire to succeed, and getting them addicted to welfare. I htink it was Lyndon Johnson who said "if we give these 'people' (he used the n-word) some free stuff, they'll vote for us for a hundred years. "
I cannot help but wonder if Democrats do this deliberately. The evidence of cultural destruction is so overwhelming, I don't see how any well-meaning person could fail to acknowledge it, unless the cultural destruction is actually the goal.
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02-29-2016, 12:49 PM
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Tell me what the Democrats do for Black people.
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They show some compassion for those that need a helping hand.
How is that?
What do Repub. do for Black people?
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02-29-2016, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
They show some compassion for those that need a helping hand.
How is that?
What do Repub. do for Black people?
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Let's see...they ended slavery...then, they ended segregation...we would prefer to see black babies being born to seeing them slaughtered by the thousands...today, they want to help black people improve themselves, rather than expecting them to merely postpone death while living on $500 a month.
Here's what I don't get. Bill Clinton is a hero to blacks. Am I the only one who remembers what he actually did? He kicked millions of them off welfare. They didn't starve, they went back to work. Which, if you are able to work, is what you need.
Paul, it looks to me, that what the Dems do, is pat blacks on the head (no matter what they do) and say "there, there, it's not your fault".
Republicans (as a group) have no problem helping blacks. The difference, is that conservatives seem to get the idea, that sometimes saying "no" is the best answer, and that tough love is still love.
Oh, the other thing that Dems do, is (1) ruin urban schools, and then (2) deny black parents the ability to choose to send their kids to schools that actually work.
Which is funny, because don't liberals pride themselves as being "pro-choice"? I'm fairly certain I heard that somewhere. Apparently, not when it comes to being able to choose a better school for their kids.
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02-29-2016, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
They show some compassion for those that need a helping hand.
How is that?
What do Repub. do for Black people?
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And if you think your side has a monopoly on that compassion, please look up a study called "Who Really Cares", which showed that conservatives are actually slightly more charitable than liberals, despite earning less money on average. Interesting. If you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe the New York Times, not always known for having a conservative bias...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/op...stof.html?_r=0
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02-29-2016, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
They show some compassion for those that need a helping hand.
How is that?
What do Repub. do for Black people?
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For government, law, to be dispensed equally, it must be dispassionate. Compassion is a fellow feeling of people for other people. Dispassionate government is not "other" in relation to a free people. It is, at least it's supposed to be in our system, The People. The government doing things for people is people doing it for themselves. That is not compassion. That is self-reliance.
True compassion, person to person, is not a guaranteed, permanent relationship. True compassion does not reduce the beneficiary to dependence.
When government acts, as it does in dictatorial or tyrannical systems, as a separate person in relation to other persons (outside the government), those other persons are no longer beneficiaries of the kindness of other persons, on whom they cannot permanently depend. Instead, they are reduced to dependents. And when government has the power to reduce the people to the status of dependents, it derives and maintains its power as a dictator or as a ruling class of people who dole out favors (contrived compassion) to those who choose to depend on it and withholds favors from those who oppose it.
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