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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 04:26 AM
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44. Its called, "FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
If you don't like what's on the teevee news, you turn the another channel. Don't like a newspaper, don't buy it, but write a LTTE and tell them they suck anyway. Don't like what someone says in a forum thread, then go to another one. Don't like trolls, don't feed them and they go away. Or stay and toy with them, if that's you thing.

But if you're looking for someplace where everyone marches in lockstep with what a politician does or says, then you have to try the Republicans. Democrats have the biggest tent and there's a reason for that. We need the room to fight each other for what we believe in. In the end, we compromise and close ranks. But before all that, it can get ugly. And you know the old saying about politics and sausage....

If people go overboard with their rhetoric because they're passionate about what they believe, then so be it. That's the price of democracy. And that's also better than the stale, dry-ass, brain-dead Repukes any day. They haven't had an original idea since Teddy thought of the national parks. And he had to shove that down his own people's throats as it was.

This is how the Dems have always worked in my almost 56 years of watching them do it. And its what makes us better than Repukes in the end. Because when its all said and done, we know we fought the good fight. Win or lose. Any candidate we field that has been through the ranks of the Dem party, will be tested and tried by fire. We burn off the impurities, so there is a method to this madness after all.

Hillary may or may not win in the end. But its a long way to November. And she'll have to do it without my support. I haven't finalized upon whom I'm going to support as yet, but I've eliminated 2 for certain. She was one of them. But if she makes it to the end, then I'll cast my ballot for her. But I don't have to like her policies, nor the people who are backing her. And people have a right to say this, whether it sounds hateful or not, its their opinion and no one has a right to even ask that this be squelch. That's the Republican way of operating.

And Hillary is for certain one thing. She's DLC. And the DLC is anti-Progressive. And the DLC is NOT the Democratic Party, no matter how much they might think that they are.....

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