I’ve read liberals on this blog speak in reasoned and intelligent tones. But they will NEVER be able to explain to me the course of inept diplomatic humiliation upon which this administration is hellbent, nor can they explain the traitorous treatment they are making our allies–spelled ISRAEL–suffer as a regular matter of course–the absurdity of tying further aid to Israel with clear advances in talks w/the Palestinian Authority is as abjectly moronic as it is inane. President Obama will have as much luck speaking w/Iran as Israel ever could trying to broker peace w/Hamas–one would think, for someone so supposedly brilliant and insightful, the pointlessness of trying to broker peace w/those who want you DEAD would be self-evident. This president has stopped at nothing to humiliate and weaken the U.S.

I truly believe, as this continues, in 2012 we will do the right thing and vote him OUT.

Your previous comment confuses me: “Yeah, it would be great if programs like Medicare and Medicaid worked. But guess what? They don’t. And socialized health care seems to work great for most of the nations that have it. Sure, it’s not perfect, but at least it functions better. A little kid in Canada doesn’t have to die from a treatable form of cancer just because he’s poor, when sadly, here in America he does.”
Exactly what do you think Medicaid and Medicare are if not socialized medicine? And what makes you think ‘IT’ would work when by your own admission, they don’t? I also just recently retired as a government social worker and I don’t recall ANY poor children dying because they couldn’t get medical care. I can’t recall them not even getting free eyeglasses. But to hear you and President Obama speak it seems they’re dying in droves.

I do consider myself “liberal” in the proper (non-leftist corrupted) version of the term but it’s generally not a term I use casually when describing my ideological leanings.

Don’t you think that you throw some people off when you refer to yourself as being liberal… especially in this current political climate ?

I assume that you’re liberal in that you believe that the government should stay the hell out of people’s private lives, but NOT liberal, in the sense that you think people should take responsibility for their own lives, and not expect government to take care of them…

Am I wrong…?

I refer to that as being “socially” liberal, and being fiscally conservative….

Perhaps Libertarian is a better term altogether.

Try reading the US Constitution as well…

But I doubt it..

I didn’t generalize you my friend. I just asked a question which you answered properly – by distancing yourself from Hill.

So, I’m a threat to you? Just like Obama is a threat to you? You think that “the left” wants to enslave you just by raising your taxes? Well, in that case, I’m a salve too!

You think you have the RIGHT to FORCE me to pay for a war I don’t believe in?

You think you have the RIGHT to FORCE me to pay for roads I don’t drive on?

You think you have the RIGHT to FORCE me to pay for the education of a child I didn’t give birth to?

You think you have the RIGHT to FORCE me to pay the salary of a man who risks his life every day to fight crime or fires?

You think you have the RIGHT to FORCE me to pay for the reconstruction of a city that was damaged during a disaster?

Oh, Woe is me! I’m so oppressed! I have to pay my taxes! Just like everyone else!

The only thing you said in that whole statement that made any kind of sense, and could even be confused as a “good argument” is when you said “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” Dare I be bold enough to say you might actually have a point there? But guess what? We all pay taxes, so by your definition your already a slave! And as a slave, you get to enjoy such things as public roads, public schools, public parks, public libraries, public transportation, police and fire services, the military, and soon, public health care!

Your not tolerant of other people’s ideas. Your just a bitter and cranky because you don’t like the guy who won the presidential election because he doesn’t fit into your limited range of acceptance. Your completely intolerant of any idea that doesn’t work with your own, and your respond to such “Threats” as you call them with undue anger and borderline insanity.

You say that I’m a threat to “real” Americans? Well, from where I’m standing, your the real threat; an intolerant and selfish fool. There are a lot of other people on this boat, and your just going to have to learn how to play nice or at least learn to express yourself in some way that doesn’t make you look like a raging lunatic.