Originally posted by kappa
AkIron wrote:
"How many lies do ya have to tell to be a liar? "
Please, objectively apply that rational to our president...
300 some odd American troops are dead as the result of presidential lies.
We are fighting a war with no forseeable end because our president lied to the american people...
Our national debt is more horenduous now than ever because of our president’s lies to the american people.
Kyote??
Peak Oil???
Oil for Blood from the Chenney-Bush Junta
Enron and Bush/Chenney energy policies....
Huumm.. ahh.. nevermind... nothing to see here.. move along...
k
AoM
Ahhh....the truth comes out. If you don't like him and think he sucks, that's cool....just call it like it is and stop hiding behind this air of fairness.
Here's a snack.....
Liberal
The modern definition of liberal is one who believes in more government action to meet individual needs.
Originally, liberal meant one who resisted government encroachment on individual liberties.
The present-day usage of liberal came to prominence during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR defined it this way during his first campaign:
"...say that civilization is a tree which, as it grows, continually produces rot and dead wood. The radical says: 'Cut it down.' The conservative says: 'Don't touch it.' The liberal compromises: 'Let's prune, so that we lose neither the old trunk nor the new branches.'"
Milton Friedman calls himself a liberal. But a liberal in the "true meaning of that term: of and concerned with freedom." Friedman says that he is not a liberal in the current "distorted sense of the term - people who are liberal with other people's money."
On the other hand, even liberals sometimes lampoon their own philosophy. Adlai Stevenson once described a liberal as "one with both feet firmly planted in the air."
Conservative
Conservatives are defenders of the status quo who, when change becomes absolutely necessary, prefer that it come slowly and in moderation.
Today the more passionate conservatives generally oppose governmental regulations of the economy. They favor local and state action over the federal authority, and emphasize fiscal restraint and balanced budgets.
William A. White, the editor, described this type of conservative as:
"a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick."
Modern conservatives have also adopted a social platform to include opposition to abortion, pro-family issues, and advocacy of religious tenets. They like to point out that conservatives are actually liberals who have been "mugged by reality."
