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Professors are bright people who read books and actually know what they are talking about. While neoconservatives are people who don’t read books and their only quality is executing the politics of fear.
The fact that a conservative right politician as Hillary Clinton is considered left in America says something about the overall lean to right conservative values.
Its sad to see that the opinions of higly bright professors are less influential then the redneck opinions from people as Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
Any organisation or country cannot move forward if they lack the ability to criticize the government and see the consequenses of their behaviour.
Good Luck Voting America
Well said, Frank! An uneducated voter is a dangerous thing. All I really want is for people to make informed decisions, especially in choosing how to vote.
Hope we can make it happen.
An educated voter with blinders on is also a very dangerous thing. Believe it or not, Frank, conservatives also read books and are intelligent. Critics of the government are of no use unless they also have the intelligence to offer a better solution, and that’s what this election is really about - who offers the best solutions to the problems. That may be a liberal, or it may be a moderate conservative, or it may be a neoconservative. Or it may be someone who wears no label at all, and wouldn’t that be refreshing.
Frank and Michelle,
Wow, you are both bigots. Congratulations on furthering the traditions of tolerance and acceptance that is the foundation of liberal thought.
Mike,
You’ve had much better arguments. Saying that businesses and the military offset the extreme liberal bias found in our nations schools is a reach…a very long reach. First of all, businesses do not preach to their employees when it comes to politics. Most large corporations make a point of staying out of that argument. When they give donations to Republicans it is usually in an effort to keep taxes low. For example, the thousands of people that work at say..GE have no say in who the board of directors will give money to. You are saying that a few people at the top of a company speak for all of their employees. This is where your lack of business experience is visible. In any company you will find a healthy mix of Republicans and Democrats.
Secondly, I think it is very naive to think that students are not affected by the constant barage of liberal talking points. Kids that are 18-22 years of age are still impressionable. Furthermore, it is unfair to conservative students to constantly have to deal with the liberal bias. It is literally exhausting. I can’t tell you how many arguments I got in with some of my professors. All my English teacher wanted to teach was lesbianism. He threatened to kick me out of class because I questioned the idea of raising a kid without a father. You don’t think this affected my grade? Even my German teacher couldn’t stay on point. Instead of teaching German, she would constantly slip into her liberal lessons which usually was a tirade against the German people.
It is good to be exposed to all points of view, but what is happening in our nations schools is an all out assault on conservative thought.
Stalin, the point on business and the military was Juan Cole’s (a professor of history from University of Michigan), not mine.
Students might be affected by liberal teaching between 18-22, but statistics show that this preference does not stay.
Josh,
For an academic you make a very pitiful argument. You might want to consider a different profession.
Babs,
you are absolutely right that ideas form progress come form all sides. The problem that i have with the neocons is the fact that not agreeing with your government is considert unpatriotic wich leaves no room for sane discussion.
The last 7 years have made me really anti conservative while before i had just as much problems with liberals as conservatives.
Frank,
Maybe you should try my option. Throw away the labels and just look at the person. Labeling candidates is unfair, it doesn’t matter who they are - to assume McCain is like Bush because they’re both republicans is unfair. To assume that Obama is like JFK because they are both young democrats is unfair as well. Stop labeling and comparing, and look at the candidates as individuals. You’ll be happier, and make more informed decisions.
Babs,
You are absolutely right that putting labels on candidates is bad. But the ‘war is not a bad option label’ i put on Hillary en McCain is correct i think.
Mccain and Hillary will do much better dan Bush ofcourse and Hillary would be an excellent internal affairs secretary. The reason why im pro Obama is the fact that he has judgment when it comes to foreign policy.
Without discussing the fact that leaving Iraq would be good or bad for the safety of the USA, its a fact that we cannotr afford the war. So wanting to continue it shows very bad judgement from McCain’s side.
Hillary voted for the war, wont talk to leaders who dont agree with America and supports her husbands period of bombing and nationbuilding.
When itcomes to America im tied between Hillary and Obama, but when it comes to foreign policy (and thus its indirect influence on America) Obama has the best knowledge and judgement to be President.
Oh dear, Frank, you need to do some more research on foreign policy. McCain doesn’t want to continue the war, he simply doesn’t want to jump out of Iraq irresponsibly. And Obama has almost no knowledge of foreign affairs, despite what he says his record indicates otherwise. His wisdom is very flawed in that area, and flippant promises to end the war are campaign rhetoric even he believes he probably can’t pull off. Does experience in foreign policy not weigh into your decision at all? And by the way, Obama also voted in 2007 - just last year - NOT to pull out of Iraq.
McCain wants to win and then leave in Iraq beceause if we lose, they will follow us home. So he plants to stay there for a while.
Obama wants to be ‘as carefull getting out as Bush was careless getting in’. If you read his speech in 2002 his exact words became reality. Also the fact that he will meet with leaders who dont agree with America and that he realizes that Americas support for Pakistan is very hypocritical.
His vote in 2007 showed that he doesnt want to leave Iraq uncarefully.
McCain had foreign policy expierence but al his decisions on the issue are bad ones.
I respect McCain and hes a far more capable guy then Bush but Obama is far more intelligent and has better judgement.
‘His wisdom is very flawed in that area, and flippant promises to end the war are campaign rhetoric even he believes he probably can’t pull off’
America can attack a country in a month and conquer the capital in that period. If they would want to they can get out soon.
Fact is that retreating would be bad for Israel and their Oil interests so they stay.
I have a question for you Babs,
America cant afford to be in Iraq. Every year they spent billions lent form China in their military operations.
Do you agree that this cant continue this way?