7 Responses to “It’s Time!!!!!!!”

1. # charleson 12 Aug 2008 at 2:39 pm

   The Republicans will NEVER represent the people of the United States and I can not figure out why. If a republican is elected to the office of the President a new war will be started somewhere. Just look at John McCain’s comments about Georgia and Russia. Of course no one need to forget about George Bush and the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If a Republican is elected to the Senate or Congress, they will begin exporting the jobs and prosperity of the citizens of the United States to the third world. Last winter Henry Paulson was babbling about the economy of India and how the United States should support and invest in this economy because the economy of India was a developing economy. Never mind that mortgage industry was falling apart in the United States and people were losing their jobs here. If you think for a minute that Mitch McConnell would take care of the Citizens of the United States, in some type of an international crisis, you are a fool. Of course George bush has elevated himself to the level of “decider” and I really can’t see anything about an office of a “decider” in the United States Constitution. The price of a barrel of oil has gone from $28.00 a barrel in 2000 to WELL OVER $100.00 a barrel today. Of course Mitch McConnell thinks that this is a good thing because it shows an increased demand for oil world wide and an increased standard of living for the people of China and India. Gee, I thought that the people of the United States elected Mitch McConnell. Perhaps Senator McConnell should renounce his citizenship of the United States and run for some type of office in China or India. THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE YOU VOTE IN NOVEMBER and remember you get what you elect. Really, I do not think that Barack Obama or Bruce Lunsford can wave a magic wand and make things better immediately. George Bush and Mitch McConnell have made a mess of this country. If McCain and /or McConnell is elected the cover up will continue until the entire United States economy comes tumbling down unless there is a super majority of Democrats elected to the Senate and Congress. Personally, I don’t want to see this country fall and be given to foreign countries on a silver platter. I will not vote for McConnell or McCain.

2. # percy moraleson 13 Aug 2008 at 6:36 am

   -To Charles
   Let’s be truthful about the war. If you look back in history, it’s the Democrats that have who have advocated war. Don’t forget about WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Kosvo, Somalia, and bombing Iraq the second time. All these things were done under a Democratic President. Your claims are preposterous about Republicans. These are NOT Republicans who are advocating war (i.e., Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel), they are neo-cons. George W. Bush ran on a platform that said we as Americans are not the world’s police. This was a Republican ideology throughout the 90s. The Democrats believe an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere, thus comes war in diverse places.
   In recent memory, these two ideas have (somewhat) switched party lines. When Obama is elected as POTUS, war is not something he is taking off the table. Let’s look at his policies in the Middle East. The senator from Illinois simple wants to move troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, how is that not advocating war? He backs Israel’s genocide of Palestine. He says he will do everything within his power to make sure Jerusalem is not divided, but under sole control of Israel. Senator Obama is not taking going to war with Iran off the table, if they pose a threat to Israel. Obama will not be a President who seeks peace. Obama will be better than McCain, but so wouldn’t be? McCain is describe as worse than Dick Cheney.
   There is only one peace candidate in this election—Ralph Nader. He wants to reverse the policy in Middle East by withdrawing troops from Iraq AND Afghanistan within the first six months in office. Promote peace between Hamas and Israel and stop the slaying of Palestinians. Go to http://www.votenader.org for more information.

3. # charleson 13 Aug 2008 at 8:43 am

   Nader? Nader destroyed the Chevrolet Corvair with his lies and damn near destroyed the Volkswagen Beetle. Nader wants to control what you eat and how you think with his organization “Public Citizen”. The thing that Nader said that impressed me most was that when he was a young person people would sit in his parents coffee shop and talk about the honesty in the old country. I am an American. My ancestors came from Wales and Ireland. Because I am an American I really don’t give a hoot about England or Ireland. The United States is my country. If Nader is so impressed with the old country of Lebanon maybe he should return. My loyality is to the United States. Also since you are talking about the middle east and the wars there, if you will remember Henry Kissinger signed the “memorandum of understanding” with Israel in 1975. This is what amounts to a five year plan of support for Israel that renews every five years. Since I am not a holy roller I do not believe that Israel is holy. I believe that there is no difference between and Arabs and an Israelis in God’s eyes. I can not see why these people (Arab ans Israeli) can not ignore their false religious teachings and live in peace and brotherhood. I reject the teachings of Earthly Zionism. If the people in the middle east would learn to live together a lot of problems would be solved. When I lived in Smyrna, Tennessee I had many friens who were Thai, Laotian, and Arab. No, I can not support Nader.

4. # Percy Moraleson 13 Aug 2008 at 3:32 pm

   Lies about the Corvair? You sir are disillusioned and xenophobic. Seat belts are lies? More regulations in having safer vehicles are all lies? Freedom of information act was brought about because Ralph lied? Come on… I
   Below is a story about Ralph talking about his childhood. Where is the talk about lebanon? You can find the article here: http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/1356-Independence-Day.html
   One day when I was about eight years old, my mother tossed one of her frequent “out of the blue” questions at me:

   “Ralph, do you love your country?”

   “Yes, mother,” I said, wondering where she was going with this.

   “Well, I hope when you grow up, you’ll work hard to make it more lovable.”

   Thus, began my education in the patriotism of deeds, the patriotism of advancing justice. The country was in the middle of World War II and the spirit of patriotism was engulfed by the war effort, by the heroics of our armed forces against the fascists, and, for my parents, by my brother Shaf’s impending enlistment into the Navy.

   Still, having come as teenage immigrants from Lebanon, during the Ottoman Empire and French mandate periods, my mother and father were very sensitive to any monopolization of patriotic symbols—flags, anthems, the July 4th holiday—to induce public obedience. They were wary of how many politicians would use and misuse these symbols to stifle dissent, hide abuses and manipulate public opinion. They rejected both political and commercial manipulation of patriotic feelings for narrow, often harmful self-serving ends.

   Of course, the factory town of Winsted, CT where we grew up had its July 4th parade with marching bands, flags, proud veterans and assorted ceremonies. Its mile long Main Street was perfectly suited for these festivities. Plenty of fireworks in plenty of youthful hands too. We all had a general good time.

   During one such Parade, it suddenly occurred to me that no one had ever marched holding up a large replica of the Declaration of Independence, which was the reason for the celebration that day. Other than being printed in its entirety by some newspapers, this bold Declaration whose eloquent assertion of human rights was heard around the world for many years, still is not front and center for historical recollection and contemporary contemplations.

   My parents prized the freedoms they found in America, and they were alert to anyone who might try to diminish them. At his sprawling restaurant on Main Street opposite the textile factories, my father would always speak his mind. He was a constant critic of power – big business, government, local and national – and readily offered solutions.

   His longtime customers and friends would sometimes say to him: “How do you expect to make a profit if you keep speaking out this way?” He would smile and say: “When I passed the Statue of Liberty, I took it seriously,” cautioning them with this advice: “If you don’t use your rights, you will lose your rights.”

   At the same time, he would challenge attempts to monopolize and debase our country’s symbols of flag, pledge and anthem into an unthinking patriotism by politicians to cover their sins. As Dad often reminded anyone who would listen, our flag stands for the principles embodied in the last words of the Pledge of Allegiance – “with liberty and justice for all.”

   There has always been military patriotism. There is more and more commercialization of the Fourth of July. In our hometown, we were raised to respect and nurture a civic patriotism.

   As my brother Shaf said many years later: “A true love for the community of human beings that is our country is expressed when each one of us helps define that patriotism by our deeds and thoughts working together.” And, he set a wonderful example when in 1965 he founded the Northwestern Connecticut Community College in town.

   Maybe we should start reserving time on the Fourth for assessing the ways forward toward expending those “inalienable rights – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

   Ralph Nader is the author of The Seventeen Traditions (Harper Collins, 2007), a remembrance of the ways his parents raised their four children.

5. # kilowaton 13 Aug 2008 at 5:35 pm

   Percy Morales!! I guess you left out Nixon and wasn’t both Bush’s president when they bomb Iraq trying to blame the dem’s LOL

6. # charleson 13 Aug 2008 at 9:41 pm

   I am not afraid of immigrants so I am not xenophobic. I not like people or their parents who immigrate to this country or if they are born here and are citizens of this country that start trying to force their values on people who do not ask for their help. This includes the lawyer Ralph Nader. No we do not need mandatory seatbelt laws as I see nothing about “keeping medical costs down” or “public acts being exempt from the United States Constitution” in the United States Constitution. I have a REAL problem with the medical and insurance lobbists. Send Nader to Shepherdsville and I will show him my center digit about two inches from his face. I do not care if people immigrate to this country from another country as long as they do so legally. I do have a problem with know-it-alls whether their name is Ralph Nader, Mitch McConnell, or Ernie Fletcher whether they are citizens or not. If it came right down to it and the only choices were Ron Paul and Ralph Nader, Ron Paul would get my vote.
   My friend Ipahn was born and raised in Laos. His entire family was separated and almost killed when they escaped to Thailand. Iphan and his wife do not act like Nader, they are good decent people and good AMERICANS. They may have the appearance of orientals but I assure you that they are AMERICANS and they don’t meddle in other people’s business without being asked to do so the way Nader does. I am tired of the authoritarian attitudes of the Republicans and Ralph Nader. The only logical choice is Obama for President and Lunsford for Senate. Oh, but I forgot I am xenophobic, perhaps I should be afraid of Obama because he is of a mixed race heritage. Get real.

7. # Percy Moraleson 13 Aug 2008 at 10:17 pm

   to Charles,
   Ralph had nothing to do with seatbelt laws. He lobbied congress to PUT seatbelts IN vehicles and make that a mandatory. You need to research before you make stupid assumptions about Nader. The problem with people like you is that you do not research anything that you write. You are afraid of real change so you shut out the progressive agenda.
   to Kilowat,
   Nixon SIGNED legislation. He didn’t work tirelessly to get congress to back an idea or write a book that jagged people’s minds (Unsafe At Any Speed). The bombing of Iraq I was talking about happened in 1998 with Bill Clinton in office here a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Iraq_(December_1998)
   once again we have misinformed people trying to make arguments without research.

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