"It is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us, and it keeps a person frozen in their seat. It keeps you frozen in your hole that you are sitting in to point up and say, 'That's the reason why I am here.' We need to stop this,"Read more here and here.
"There is a time, ladies and gentlemen, when we have to turn the mirror around,"
"I couldn't care less about what white people think about me at this time,"
"Let them talk! What are they saying that is different from what their grandfather said? What are they doing or trying to do us that their grandfathers didn't try to do to us? But what is different is what we are doing to ourselves,"
"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street,"
John KerryMissile Defense
Says the United States "must launch and lead a new era of alliances. Shredding alliances is not the way to win the war on terror or even to make America safer. We can magnify our power through alliances. We simply can't go it alone."
George W. Bush
Says the Unites States should always see cooperation from allies, but there is a difference between leading a coalition of many nations and submitting to the objections of a few. "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."
John KerryModernization
Would reduce spending on missile defense, arguing it is not a high priority during the global war on terror.
George W. Bush
Vows to develop missile defenses based on the best available technologies, to be deployed at the earliest possible date. Thes defenses will be designed to protect deployed forces abroad, all 50 states and American friends and allies overseas.
John KerryDuring the article, Kerry makes the following statements:
Wants to modernize the military, concentratiting on capabilities required for urban warfare. Priorities would be non-lethal weapons, such as directed energy, and networks and communications gear.
George W. Bush
Supports transformation that stresses unmanned aerial vehicles, precision munitions and digitized communications that deliver information and intelligence to aircraft, tanks and ground troops. Favors a new generation of nuclear weapons and space-based radar and communications systems.
AbortionThis list typifies Democratic thought in this country. First, her list lacks basic items like Roads/Transportation; to complain about my crappy commute I have to select Other. Beyond what's missing, people should notice all the qualifiers after certain issues.
Aids in Africa
Animal Testing
Appropriations
Child Gun
China
Death Penalty
Defense Spending
Endangered Species
Environment
Federal Employees
Genetically Engineered Foods
Gun Legislation
Hate Crimes
Health
Human Rights
Humanitarian Aid
Immigration
Internet Tax
Iraq
Judiciary
Military Pay
Minimum Wage
Nuclear Test Ban
Postal Service
Seniors
Social Security
Space
Tax Cuts
Veterans
Water Quality
Wildlife-Wetlands
World Trade Organization
As an aside, it should be noted that the most famous wall of our era, the Berlin Wall, covered in the source book Talking Walls, is not featured in High Point. But this oversight is arguably a blessing since the Talking Walls author served up the following to her unknowing young readers:You can read the rest here.The Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961 [By whom? We do not learn.], became a physical part of an invisible barrier that had divided Eastern and Western Europe since 1945. [Were the hundreds of miles of barbed wire fences, minefields, watchtowers, armed guards, and attack dogs invisible?] At that time Winston Churchill, the leader of Great Britain, called this invisible barrier the ‘Iron Curtain’ because he believed the Soviet Union wanted to divide countries and take them over. [Thank goodness it was only his opinion.] Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union at that time, thought this invisible wall would protect his country from further invasion.” [And not to trap fleeing East Germans inside a Communist Hell. Insert laugh track here.]
Ann CoulterThe Americanization of Iraq proceeds at an astonishing pace, the Iraqis are taking to freedom like fish to water, and the possibilities for this nation are endless. It's hard to say who's more upset about these developments: the last vestiges of pro-Hussein Baathist resistance in Iraq or John Kerry's campaign manager.
The New York Times ran a front-page news story on Sunday about how life was better for Iraqi girls under Saddam Hussein -- living under Saddam, that is, not the girls who were literally under Saddam, Odai and Qusai while they were being raped. The article was titled "For Iraqi Girls, Changing Land Narrows Lives." True, they don't have to run from Odai's rape rooms anymore. But apparently not a single Iraqi female has been admitted to Augusta National Golf Club since the liberation!
The most important thesis in the book is not one he addresses in full: Anti-Americanism is a new label for the tried and true Anti-Semetism.
John Gibson's writing style is much like my own in college--I used to beat around the Bush making strong parallel arguments but never coming right and saying exactly what I mean.
This is a departure from Gibson's "My Word" on Fox News. Unlike his contemporaries, he speaks with clarity like Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard. The chapter titles in the book are just as straight-forward, but he doesn't connect the dots until the last few paragraphs of each.
The book, like MisUnderestimated by Bill Sammon, is written like an ongoing dialogue; Gibson would make a much stronger argument if he goes beyond saying, "yes they hate us," and saying, "they hate us for the same reason they hate the jews in Europe."
The book is a quick read, and for that I give it 4 out of 5 stars. If you read this book knowing ahead of time that he is trying to draw parallels between anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism you will get more from the book if you are simply reading it to figure out why everyone hates us.
That fact should be clear before even getting past the Preface.
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
--Senator Hillary Clinton, Closet Communist
"Just as we mourn for the victims of Saddam's regime, we also grieve for the Americans and Iraqis who were killed or injured during the liberation or by terrorists determined to hold us back," the letter reads. "We will honor those who have sacrificed for our freedom by building a new Iraq that lives in peace with the nations of the world, without fear of war, torture chambers or terrorism."Moving words:
"Iraq is now at a setback, but it is temporary. We will rise up like mountains, standing firm, and we will protect all people regardless of religion, color and every other consideration. Pluralism should be a factor of progress, not divisiveness," said Iraq's new interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as he took office Monday morning.
Sly Bri of Tomfoolery.
The woman who lost her son in Iraq was a very sympathetic person. Who doesn't feel for a mother who has lost her son? I cannot be the only person who caught this, but I think others have and are afraid to mention it for fear of seeming insensitive. (I myself have wavered over writing this, and I only get 150 hits a day.) The woman who lost her son said that when she was told, "she dropped the phone." I thought I heard that wrong, but a moment later she said she was all alone and had "no one to hold her up." I was outraged. The United States military informs next of kin directly, without exception, no matter where they are. For example, they went deep into the mountains in Mexico to inform a lost soldier's mother directly. I am not calling the woman a liar, but I am sure that Moore intended to leave the impression that our military is completely insensitive.
5. John Kerry: "Yes, 300,000 is nice, but what about REAL jobs for REAL Americans like we had under Clinton. You remember, 25 year olds making $80,000 a year with no real world experience working in boutiques with an inhouse Starbucks with play rooms and all the workers got around on rollerblades. That's the kind of job creation I'm talking about."
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