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Old 05-07-2009, 06:54 AM
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Kerry, why do you hate America?
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:28 AM
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Kerry, why do you hate America?
To which America do you refer? The one I inherited from my father or the one my children will inherit from me. Here is a little quote from Obama you might be familiar with.

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Obama, on 100th Day, Says He Is ‘Remaking America’
By Edwin Chen and Roger Runningen
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office by telling Americans that “we’ve begun the work of remaking America.”
I was doing just fine in the old America and I don’t like my prospects in the “new” America. However, your question misses the point. It isn’t about what I like or don’t like, or what I even want to happen. It is what I think will happen that I have to plan for. Do you know of any plan to pay off $12 trillion in debt? You do realize that to pay off the debt the government will have to collect $12 trillion more than it spends. If you taxed every dollar above $75,000 at 100% you couldn't even pay the interest on $12 trillion.

How long to do you think the country can last when it can't pay its bills? Forever? It hasn’t happened in Human history yet. 42% of Americans rely on federal dollars for food and housing and other basic necessities. What are these people going to do when the government declares bankruptcy? Just go peacefully into that good night? I don't think so.

So let me ask a you question – why do you and Obama hate America that you think it needs to be remade?
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:24 AM
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Kerry, we never lived in the mythological America you refer to.

You never step in the same river twice and you can't move the clock backwards.

No amount of distaste for the modern world will make it go away. Ted Kaczynski tried to remake the world a strategy as similarly radical as sessecion would be and it worked about as well for him as it would for the America of your fantasies.

Similar to those Kaczynski maimed or killed in his attempt to turn back time, I'd prefer to live the present and continue moving toward the future for as long as possible and with all my limbs intact.

As for your extrapolating doom from an insignificant political homily, you assume I agree with or endorse everything Obama does.

I don't. There are many things I'm not certain of which have happened so far. At the same time, I'm not wetting my drawers in a panic because of anything that may or may not change because of Obama policies.

I tend to be optimistic even when politicians I disagree with are in power. As a result, given a long enough frame of reference, my wishes always come true.
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:59 AM
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Kerry, we never lived in the mythological America you refer to.

Fantasize about all the revolution you want, but you never step in the same river twice and you can't move the clock backwards.

No amount of distaste for the modern world will make it go away. You can adapt to it or grow increasingly bitter that the world does not conform to your standards.
Yes it did exist - and not very long ago. It was the America I grew up in so don't tell me it didn't exist. I sang Christmas carols in 6th grade at a public school during a Christmas play. What hasn't existed before is the brave new America you and Obama envision - hence the "remade" requirement.

BTW - it seems the government is also providing cars now.

Free cars for poor fuel road rage - BostonHerald.com
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Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.
Remember that crazy lady from the Obama rally prior to the election that was so happy she didn't have to worry anymore about paying her mortgage and putting gas in her car? I guess she was correct after all.
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Old 05-07-2009, 11:22 AM
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Ok, good luck with that.

Let me help you out with your Chritmas Carol deprived modern life:
You don't need a 6th grade school play to sing. I dare say you might run into some legal problems if you tried that strategy. Perhaps that's why you are so bitter?

Try singing at the church or your choice (Obama can't change that), your home (Obama can't change that), your car (Obama can't change that), or elsewhere that people who want to sing them sing them(Obama can't change that either).

This is what what my family and I do now and what my family did back in the 1960s when I was in the 6th grade. We sing a lot so I'm absolutly certain my children don't lack for Christmas tradition.

Perhaps this never occured to you.

As for what happens in Boston, this has to do with me and the President how?
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Old 05-07-2009, 12:12 PM
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Edmond Outsider - that was just one example of what you said never existed. Say you were wrong and we can move on.
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Old 05-07-2009, 12:29 PM
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Ok, you are right.

You see the past as a romantic ideal the big bad liberal government took away from you and long to live in a simpler time when all America looked like a Norman Rockwell painting, June walked down the stairs and said, "Ward, don't you think you were hard on the beaver last night?"

I live in the 21st century.

Now we can move on. Or, at least some of us can. Others are stuck in the 6th grade.
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Old 05-07-2009, 12:47 PM
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June walked down the stairs and said, "Ward, don't you think you were hard on the beaver last night?"
ROFLMAO! That's good stuff right there!
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Old 05-07-2009, 12:58 PM
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Yeah, old joke. It's still funny though...

What's the dirtiest thing ever said on TV?
"Ward, don't you think you were too hard on The Beaver last night..."
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