Absolutely. There are sane, rational people who have different views. We need more of them down here, which is why I hope you would post more often.
And then there are the brainwashed people who never stray from their predictable position, and are incapable of independent thought or discussion on different issues. They are the people who are convinced 2+2 =3, and no matter how many times you prove that it equals 4, they won't even consider that fact.
The guys that I can't stand on FOX are the Hannity-O'reilly types, that talk over everyone and are just hateful people. When guys talk about fringe in the GOP they're usually not talking about guys like Hannity, they're talking about the libertarians. The old white guys of the party are shrinking though, in another 10 years the Neo-conservatives will be the fringe like they should be.
I wonder if the maggot sewer rat that started this thread will tout Bruce Bartlett's excoriating of the Democrat party on many issues, but especially it's racist roots?
Wrong on Race uncovers a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national parties. While Nixon's infamous "Southern Strategy" is constantly referenced in the media, less well remembered are Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the entire Federal civil service; FDR's appointment of a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court; John F. Kennedy's apathy towards civil rights legislation; and the ascension of Robert Byrd, who is current President pro tempore of the Senate, third in line in the presidential line of succession, and a former member of the KKK.
Bartlett's chronicle of the Democratic Party's sordid past…offerilluminating evidence that, despite great marks of progress, race's stranglehold on the nation's collective conscious remains as strong as ever. (Washington Post Book World)
Bruce Bartlett brandishes a damning history of the Democratic Party, which for 100 years after the Civil War provided a fertile ground for Jim Crow and white supremacy. Democrats have long acted behind an ethos of racial equality, yet, as Bartlett powerfully illustrates, the reality of their patchy record over the last two centuries in fact lends little credibility to that claim. Compelling and incisive. (Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform)
Wrong on Race is an important contribution to the study of party politics in America. Bartlett offers a thorough, well documented account of the racial roots of the Democratic party. This book should be a required reading for African-Americans of all ages, and especially for the nation's youth. (Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University, and editor of Debating Immigration)
Wrong on Race powerfully recapitulates a twentieth century journey into racial pettifogging and outright confusion, and in doing so shines a light as clear as the meridian sun on the realities of racial politics…Bruce Bartlett has done what no one before him has done, and it is all the more remarkable, therefore, to say that it will probably never be better done. (Professor William B. Allen, Michigan State University; and former chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission)
The Democratic party is widely credited, not least by black writers, as the party that has done the most for civil rights. Yet for most of its history it has been the other way around. As Bruce Bartlett points out in Wrong on Race, Democratic icons like Woodrow Wilson worked to impose segregation on blacks, and even Franklin Roosevelt did little for equal rights. (Michael Barone, syndicated columnist, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Our First Revolution)
Of course the welching, lying, racist, hating, fake religious homophobe can't deal with the actual point of This article, living deeply inside the Brainwashed Bubble that Bartlett accurately portrays as he does, but instead rants about Democrats and race. To answer the sickos question, yes, I agree with the gist of what Bartlett is saying in that book about the roots of the Democratic party. George Wallace and what came before him in the Democratic party were disgraceful.
you know what's funny, how many people don't know the difference between news and opinions
opinionated talk show hosts that hold themselves out to be opinionated talk show hosts are not a problem when it comes to the news
it's the people that hold themselves out to be objective unbiased reporters as they spew their own personal agenda that are the problem
it's the Dan Rather make it up, or Walter Cronkite, who at least was man enough to admit he was biased, that mold public opinion for the democrats. It's the likes of Brian Williams, it's the headlines of NYT, WP & almost everything else in print. They even sold the world that Obama was a brilliant orator for heaven's sake. It's CBS & ABC & NBC that are biased beyond reasonable doubt. It's the double standards they all have. It's the likes of a debate moderator like Candy Crowly working with Obama's team to intentionally misrepresent what Obama was saying in the days following our Ambassador getting murdered on foreign soil, it's allowing only left wing media personalities to moderate debates
it's all so one sided and biased and controlled, the left complaining is just plain asinine
the left can't stand one dissenting voice, pathetic
