Kerry preferred over Bush 5 to 1!

Survey of 18 people in our folk dance group last night. I just wanted to see something to my liking on the list of recent postings on the home screen. Bye.

John Bear
Teacher of Dancing

 

Were there intoxicants provided at the folk dance?

 

We dance at the Hillside Swedenborgian Church, an alcohol and drug-free location.

John Bear
http://www.circledancing.com

 

Ah! The usually quick-witted and almost always humorous Dr. Bear didn't appreciate my humor, sorry.

 

Kerry preferred over Bush, 5 to 1?

In Berkeley??

Bush is making some very impressive gains!

 

Swedenborgians? Those dances would probably make our theologians dizzy.

 

Sounds like that says more about folk dancers than it does about Kerry or Bush.

BLD

 

Kerry 5 to 1 over Bush?

There must have been some people from Massachusetts at that dance!

Rich Hartel

 

HA! At the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC, Bush preferred over scary kerry 20,000 to 1. That's right 20,000 bad-ass paratroopers prefer Bush over Kerry. I think the "1" figure was a Taliban sympathizer.

 

30 million Canadians prefer Bush over Kerry as well. Since Canada doesn't have an army (at least some boy scouts), we need to depend on Bush to protect us.

 

And we will defend you til the end, for you Canadians are some of the nicest people in the world

 

Any idea how many Canadians are currently in the U.S. military? There was a fair number during Vietnam.

 

decimon: Any idea how many Canadians are currently in the U.S. military? There was a fair number during Vietnam.

Roy: The numbers have dwindled since the 70s and 80s. Our latest numbers show us at almost 55,000 infantry including 80 F-18s, a dozen ships, 120 tanks and an undisclosed number of support apparatus.

javila5400: And we will defend you til the end, for you Canadians are some of the nicest people in the world.

Roy: Your comments are much appreciated. Thank you. It's unfortunate that we cannot fight for ourselves. The jack-asses who run our country would rather spend our tax dollars on useless social programs than beef up our military.

 

Separated by a common language indeed, eh?

In the U.S. military.

 

And in the world of higher education and the college educated, it's not even close. Kerry is overwhelmingly the choice over Bush. That's right, among the intellectually inclined, Bush is seen for what he is...Alfred E Newman in a bombardier’s jacket.

 

We'll just have to wait and see who wins in November.

 

Just more condescending nonsense from the left. Many who are highly educated favor Bush. In fact, if someone truly is educated and still votes for Kerry, you've got to wonder how much good their education did them

 

Well, it still looks like a very close race. Less than two months to go and both sides are getting meaner. I wonder how many undecided voters will actually vote?

What amazes me about this go around is the amount of money KERRY raised. We Dems can't blame lack of money if we lose this time. I even contributed a bit myself, something I never did before.

I expected Bush to do well in fund raising, of course, because he's the incumbent and because, as he himself joked, the ultra rich are his base. Still and all, both sides have received a LOT of comparatively small donations, as I understand it.

I also expect a higher turnout this time than in the recent past. There seems to be less apathy lying around than usual.

 

I don't know about your education. Mine taught me that I am not the center of the universe, and that things that improve life generally for everyone are worth paying for - things like schools, libraries, hospitals and medical care. These are concepts that are lost on many conservatives whose mantra seems to be, "just make my life comfortable no matter how many forests you have to chop down, how much oil you have to drill, and how many countries you need to bomb into oblivion."

A crude generalization, yes. Nevertheless, at the most fundamental level, conservatives think about themselves, liberals think about themselves AND the world around them.

Ultra right wing conservatives then try to wrench the discussion into an unnatural position by making the absurd argument that "whatever is good for me must be good for everyone else in the world (Reagan’s trickle-down theory one of the more glaring examples of this philosophy)." And when that argument becomes untenable, they try and deny that problems exist: AIDS, homelessness, racism, increasing poverty, global warming, elimination of the rain forest, increasing terrorism, wars gone bad, deficit spending, urban decay etc.

Because, after all, "those things take money out of my pocket, and in my comfy world, I'm either unaffected by those problems, or I can avoid them without too much hassle. Therefore why should I pay for them? I have a God-given right to pollute, consume, and otherwise push out of the way anything that stands in front of my quest for a comfortable life."

So does the classic liberal position sometimes smack of condescension? Yes. Is it a morally and intellectually superior position? I think so. Do liberals try, at times, to make the ultra right wing feel stupid? Some probably do; most I know just try to point out ignorance, not stupidity. Does the ultra right sometimes come off as having a colossal chip on their collective shoulder? Yes.

 

I'm taking it that was an attempt at humor??

On another note, could you tell me the difference between:

*Ultra Right Wing
*Radical Right Wing
*Right Wing of the Right Wing

Thanks,
BLD