I feel like I am a well rounded individual. I love Country music as well as Hip Hop. I am liberal and conservative. I am so fly that the TSA monitors anyone who comes close to me and yet I am such a big nerd that Screech would've picked on me. That's why for the life of me I can't understand how some people can be so blind to think that everything that one group of people decides is always right and always best for everybody else.
I watch these "News" shows and all of the pundits argue to the death over who's right and who's wrong and yet it seems as if they never...ever...agree. Right now Republicans are actually trying to defend Karl Rove and Tom Delay just because they all belong to the same political party. Do they think that regular everyday people like us can't see through that crap? I actually read a blog today that said one of the pros of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is simply that she was chosen by George W. Bush and since he's a man of character and integrity she must be a good choice. Does that make sense to anybody? Even if I was a Bush supporter I think I would be a complete idiot to just blindly go along with whatever he says for no other reason than "just because."
My mama ain't always right! I mean sometimes it seems that way but even she gets it wrong sometimes. Besides she would call me a fool for blindly following anybody including her. A lot of these so called experts appear to be smart people who have an agenda to accomplish instead of just telling it like it is. Some people argue that straight shooters will never get elected to any office because people want to have the ears tickled. I agree with that to a certain extent but nobody wants to be lied to just so your party won't look bad in the press. Rove and Delay did something that they had no business doing. Harriet Miers isn't even remotely qualified for the Supreme Court, the war in Iraq was a huge mistake, and Bill Clinton was wrong for allowing Monica to play a song on his meat whistle. I think everybody would respect pundits and those in the govenment a lot more if they came out and just said what everybody who is watching these things are thinking.
And just so my title is absolutely correct I, The King , will say that today is Jan. 1, 2007. Now someone can say that even I have been wrong before. You're welcome.
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Does the fact that she couldn't even pass the test given to her make you think that perhaps...just maybe...GWB picked her because he's comfortable having people around him that he's known for years instead of qualified people? A romm full of "Yes" men is what got us into the predicament in the first place.
I struggle with people blindly following where the category says they should. What is the result of that? The Democrats have a Rainbow coalition that represents no one effectively and the Republicans have a program that is so narrow it makes a hillbilly wedding look like a cross cultural event.
I was really hopeful that the Republicans would have listened to Colin Powell in 96. No such luck and now we have two disfunctional political parties run by their own special interests
sorry...this one gets me
I myself have never been wrong. There was that one time in 1993 where I thought I was wrong, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I agree with your assertion that blind loyalty is just plain foolish. I'm also with mallory in that I think the main parties have become so polarized that they fail to represent the majority of American Interests.
But you'll never get me to like country music. Metal rules!
@ Mallory- Mallory I think the reason Colin Powell left the administration is because he isn't a yes man. He told Bush things that he didn't want to hear and so he was no longer wanted or needed around the White House. It's really sad that it has come to this.
@ Grant- So you were wrong in thinking that you were wrong. Which basically means I am the last person alive who has never TRULY been wrong!!! LOL!
Sorry cant agree on the country music thing.As for Bill and war you spot on there.
Sorry I guess i shouldn't have said test but "questionnaire". Even Republicans said her answers were incomplete and insulting. I personally don't give a crap where a person goes to college as long as they are qualified for the job and this chick isn't qualified...not even close and it's amazing to me that you and others will fight for her right up until she steps down...which should be in about a week....just because she was nominated by GWB. It's amazing and sad. People are sheep.
@PinkLady trust me PL all Country music isn't bad. There are some very talented artists. Never limit yourself.
You're absolutely right Eddie and you and others like you want to make her seem like she's the best thing since sliced bread because she IS pro life. In reality she might be qualified to be Judge Judy's replacement but nothing more than that.
I'm so tired of the "politcal correct" crap.
How does it work? When we all know it's crap...
No no one is always right. It would be awesome if politicians had minds of their own...if the whole republican democrat thing went belly-up!
I'm just tired.
HA! You are too silly, sometimes!
I agree that people don't constantly want to be lied to, but when trouble seems to face our country people don't wanna hear the truth at first. Everyone wants a pat on the back and a "it's gonna be okay because we're America." Then when we get knee deep in sh*t everyone wants to out the government.
Remember back to when the war first began. We knew that more bad than good was gonna come of it, but folks didn't wanna hear that...they wanted to hear "we're gonna be victorious cause we're America! We doing this because of 9/11"...or whatever the day's excuse was. I used to get sick of watching the news and seeing every single reporter(well most anyway) kissing the presidents behind...hoping to soothe instead of inform the American people. Time goes by, no WMDs, people dying (more Americans than we planned on), bombings in Iraq everyday....now people are upset, now comes the "exposure" of the government...it's hard to find a news story now a days praising the government for the war.
Anyway, I'm diggin this post. 'Cause see, I can't back up folk when they're wrong; not even my best friends and especially not my family....they're usually wrong concerning me, teehee!
Look at both the conservative and liberal media pundants, and it appears that they have to read from the Republican or Democratic script. And sometimes (often?) the parties are wrong.
Heck, in a recent Supreme Court case, 5 of the nine judges said that the government could take your land for economic development. Not to put a highway through your land, but so that someone who wanted your land could develop it to make him richer. And those on the Supreme Court are suppose to be smart. Of course, "things they are a changin'".
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We can only tell what will happen with Miers in time. It is possible that she can be trained to be a strict constructionist like Janice Rogers Brown or Clarence Thomas or Antionin Scalia. Incidentally Scalia AND Thomas dissented on the Kelo vs. New London decision; they evidentally care about property rights. Furthermore, Eddie had a point regarding her level of qualification in comparing it to Justice Thomas's. And in the end, he has shown that he is a good Justice with the ability to be objective AND read the Constitution aptly!
I do think that a pro life position is a good one, although quite polarizing. The pro life stance makes sense to me because there is no implied right (or otherwise) in the Constitution that REMOTELY justifies it!
But you know what DDOT: I do agree that sometimes we follow blindly. Example, all I heard was that Justice Thomas was an Uncle Tom, sellout you name the pejorative term. Then I BEGAN TO READ HIS LEGAL OPINIONS! And I learned to get info straight from the horses mouth, when possible. I wonder what Ms. Miers has to say about all of this!
uhm, ok.
Please Ddot, write something that interest me.
DDot, Man I wrote the same thing on my blog. I'm not feeling Harriet Miers and the Supreme Court is not a place for a lightweight intellectual - which Harriet Miers is.
My take is this, would you want a successful high school football coach hired for the head coaching position of the Washington Redskins. You'd sceam bloody murder. I am as Liberal as the day is long but I'd accept Janice(?) Rogers Brown over Harriet Miers.
And how can eddie say he trust this president (Iraq, government spending, illegal immigration and the list goes on and on).
I'm a loyal Democrat but sometimes I just have to call them out on their BS... Where I'm from its called 'thinking for yourself'. A concept folks need to learn.
By the way, I like the blog.
Ah James, a free thinker...you've made my day sir.
Eddie, I'll have to debate you on your blog about Bush's policies. However, you can take a quick look right here for my views on Bush:
href=http://peaceonthat.blogspot.com/2005/10/bush-good-at-politics-sucks-at.html
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