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Originally posted by AGDee
This morning after I passed, and felt the same sadness that I feel every day as I pass him, I thought to myself "If this feeling means I'm a bleeding heart liberal, then I guess I am". This man haunts my mind and my heart. I'd like to take Bush to see the man under the viaduct and tell him how great the economy is.
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i don't think feeling like that makes you a "bleeding heart liberal"....i think feeling like that makes you a compassionate person who wishes that this wasn't how that man's life was. b/c reading that, it just makes you realize that not everyone has the basic needs of survival, and that is something that def needs to be addressed. we need decent shelters, good health care, more jobs, etc. etc. i think bush knows that there are ppl in this country who are hungry and living on the streets....i think he knows exactly the state of the economy. i don't think he is sitting idly by laughing in the oval office at the poor lower class. i don't think he puts Iraqi citizens above US citizens...i think he is doing what he can for the US as well as for another country's ppl who have been in much, much worse conditions (on the whole) than we have been. he's saving them from saddam (quite possibly the most evil human being in our lifetime), as well as saving
us from whatever plans he has in store for us.
ppl talk about how republicans have no hearts and dems are "bleeding hearts"....does that bleeding heart only go to US boundaries? shouldn't we do all we can for
all mankind? i don't think we always need to meddle in other country's problems, but when their problems have BIG potential to leak into our territory, shoot yeah we need to do something about it. to not only help them, but help
ourselves....i, for one, am glad that saddam is out of power. and if a dem had been in office and done what w has done, i would applaud him, too (and secretly wished it was a repub who had done it
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Originally posted b y Dionysus
What about the people who don't deserve to be where they are….whether top or bottom? What about the children? Not to sound cliché, lol. Some people just need assistance
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and there are absolutely ppl out there who need assisstance.....my b/f's whole family is on welfare for pete's sake. and they
need it....i am not whole-heartedly opposed to fed funded assistance, welfare, all that.....there are glitches within the program, and there are abuses, too. it's just frustrating to me b/c when a republican criticizes the system, they are automatically labeled stingy cold-hearted ppl, when in reality, they just want a
better way of doing things. or at least that's how this repub is.
i'm not about keeping ppl down, i want everyone to succeed. my fear is that ppl assume these stereotypes about repubs and that's why they vote the way they do.....a republican can help out just as much as a democrat. and i know several ppl who are so uneducated about
both parties that they hear these dems say all these untrue/twisted things about repubs, they believe it, and then vote for whatever cracker- jack-richer-than-a-lot-of -repubs-will-ever-be democrat and then there you are (i'm trying to make the point here that some ppl could end up voting for a person that, if they knew the truth, they may or may not still vote for that person....goes for both dems and repubs).....politicians all boil down to the same thing, and we have to really question if they all, repub and dem alike,
really and truly care about the issues....of all classes, races, societies.
b/c there's a lot of dems out there i highly doubt are pissed b/c of tax cuts not really helpin out the lower class....why? b/c these dems are a part of the
upper class....frustrates me the label we get. that's all i'm trying to understand here....how we got the stingy stereotype, when i don't think either party is lacking in stinginess.
the more i ramble, the more my eyes cross and i stop making sense. hopefully y'all get what i mean.....
and my dear damasa: if i tried to argue my death penalty, pro-life thing again, i would just be repetative....someone else pick that one up.
i win!