It Isn't Easy Being A Democrat Today

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Things you have to beleive to be a Democrat:

1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative talk show host.

2 . The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.

3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the potential for abuse, but should pass new and unConstitutional anti-gun laws because of the potential for abuse.

4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."

5. "It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.

6. Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists and other thugs.

7. Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists, convicted murderers and rapists is BAD.

8. Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as that religion isn't Christianity.

9. The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.

10. Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.

11. Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.

12. Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist; women are blameless for the hatred of the rapist; but America is entirely at fault for the hatred of Islamofascists.

13. Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are typically U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.

14. The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "reasonable precautions."

15. We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.

16. Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.

17. Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.

18. John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").

19. Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."

20. A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.

21. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.

22. "The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Ninth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Tenth Amendment means The People; but "the People" in the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791) means the National Guard (created by an Act of Congress in 1903).

23. You support a woman's "right to choose" to kill her unborn child, but don't believe that same woman is competent enough to homeschool the children she bears.

24. Proven draft-dodging is irrelevant, but baseless claims of AWOL status is crucial to national security.

25. Threatening to boycott Dr. Laura's and Rush Limbaugh's advertisers is exercising Freedom of Speech, but threatening to boycott CBS's "The Reagans" and Liberal actors over their asinine anti-American remarks is censorship and McCarthyist blacklisting.

[phee]

Proof that both parties Suck Donkey

[Soulrev]

aye. I'm voting libertarian for senate and republican for everything else. Indiana doesn't have a democrat running for senate if you can believe that. We've got a republican and a libertarian running. And our republican choice sucks balls.

[BrassFusion]

Proof that both parties Suck Donkey

Not really true. I think what we've seen in this post is a broad generalization of the Democrat voting base, not actual party politics. Vis the Clinton scandal, for example. I'm not going to the polls today to vote whether I think Clinton was an asshole for getting a blowjob. It's a non-issue.

Oh wait, did I just say that a two-termer who got head in the office about ten years ago is a non-issue? I must be a bleeding heart or something.

[HipsterDufus]

Edit: Whoops, Phee already posted my response in another post. My bad.

[Shade Everdark]

Wow. Completely troll-eriffic.

If you're quite finished making sweeping generalizations, and spouting hypocrisy....

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

With all the tension today... your being pissy about a few jokes meant to lighten the political mood?

How is this Completely troll-eriffic but phee's post is only borderline? Bias much?

hypocrisy? It's a joke.

[phee]

I apologize for any tension I may have caused... It was all in fun... as the response from Gaf was...

Not meant to make anyone upset...

Delete the thread if you feel it is necessary

[Soulrev]

Heh. Gimme a break. Oh wait, that's right, we're all supposed to bow down to the far left views of things, and if we don't then we'll be forcefully shut up.

Sieg Heil!

[torn asunder]

With all the tension today... your being pissy about a few jokes meant to lighten the political mood?

How is this Completely troll-eriffic but phee's post is only borderline? Bias much?

hypocrisy? It's a joke.

without a remark saying something to the effect of "hey, look at this funny joke i found!", i also thought it to be a bit antagonistic. while i did find it funny, i didn't see any clarification that it was in jest, and that's why i didn't think twice about phee's "response" post, because it was a form of balance. gaf - when intent might even possibly be in doubt, it would really help to let others know you're being funny! that's why we have these little smilie-thingies!!

[torn asunder]

With all the tension today... your being pissy about a few jokes meant to lighten the political mood?

How is this Completely troll-eriffic but phee's post is only borderline? Bias much?

hypocrisy? It's a joke.

and now that i think about it, bias? hipocrasy? you can't be serious, are you?

[BrassFusion]

without a remark saying something to the effect of "hey, look at this funny joke i found!", i also thought it to be a bit antagonistic. while i did find it funny, i didn't see any clarification that it was in jest, and that's why i didn't think twice about phee's "response" post, because it was a form of balance. gaf - when intent might even possibly be in doubt, it would really help to let others know you're being funny! that's why we have these little smilie-thingies!!

I think phee's post was first and this thread was in response. that said, THIS thread is inflammatory and phee's thread is NOT because i agree with phee and i don't agree with mark.

also, there's just something about phee when he waxes political that's... strangely alluring...

mark, on the other hand, is more alluring when he talks about religion alone.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

As much as I hate to agree with BF on anything.. she's right. Look at post times. phee posted his 20min before I posted mine.

and no, I am not kidding. I beleive shade is bias. I don't think he has ever tried to hide the fact that he dislikes me and therefore lets phee ride on things that he would not let me ride on. Hence calling my post hypocracys and not phees.

[torn asunder]

As much as I hate to agree with BF on anything.. she's right. Look at post times. phee posted his 20min before I posted mine.

and no, I am not kidding. I beleive shade is bias. I don't think he has ever tried to hide the fact that he dislikes me and therefore lets phee ride on things that he would not let me ride on. Hence calling my post hypocracys and not phees.

perhaps shade, like me, didn't notice the timestamp. i apologize for assuming yours was first. still we need to all be aware of how aour posts come across, and actually state if we're making a joke or not, to avoid exactly this kind of confusion...

[BrassFusion]

As much as I hate to agree with BF on anything..

WHY? You know I'm right most of the damn time, so just knuckle under, defect to the dark side, admit you're a secular agnostic, we'll all be good.

she's right. Look at post times. phee posted his 20min before I posted mine.

So his was a joke that probably wasn't directed at anyone in particular, but nonetheless, offended someone who decided to retaliate in a manner that was *probably* intended to get a rise out of some people. Which really wouldn't bother me if I had any say about it (and I don't expect you to admit to it either way). Still, you deserve the right to make fun of us godless bleeding-heart hippie pussy crybabies in a general kind of way if we get to rag on you for being a heartless machine bent on world domination and profit, profit, profit!! In a general kind of way.

and no, I am not kidding. I beleive shade is bias. I don't think he has ever tried to hide the fact that he dislikes me and therefore lets phee ride on things that he would not let me ride on. Hence calling my post hypocracys and not phees.

Do you think accusing him of disliking you is going to positively affect his opinion of you? Me and my rhetoric... It probably won't, anyway. In fact, it probably doesn't do you much good to assume he dislikes you, unless that motivates you to treat him with cordial respect.

All that said... it was extremely easy to be a Democrat today.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The gang mentality is very frustrating and counterproductive when trying to get at "the truth".

Becasue somone or something is associated with a particular political party / ethnic group / whatever does not make them automaticly right or automaticly wrong. Nor does it mean they all have identical thoughts about broad subject ranges.

From a historical standpoint we all know this isnt totally meant as a joke.