| re: NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast | |
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steven_stuart 06:14 pm UTC 09/17/08 |
| In reply to: | re: NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast - steven_stuart 04:33 pm UTC 09/17/08 |
| And we should remember that both Palin and Obama would not have been allowed to vote in the old days. And European countries had the same kind of limited democracy that America had. Times have changed and political thinking has evolved. Thanks partly to great men like Martin Luther King and the Kennedy brothers. Although I suppose the founding fathers were very advanced for the age in which they lived. > > > The ideas this nation was founded on came from the most > > cosmopolitan people of their day, the founding fathers, > > who believed in science, who looked to Europe for wisdom, > > and who had no use for ignorant hicks like Bush and Palin. > > > > They allowed slavery. European wisdom was often > undemocratic. Britain tried to tax Americans without > representation. I don't agree with their policies but Bush > and Palin would never support the kind of thinking that > existed in those days. I hope that Obama and Biden win but > you can't just dismiss Bush and Palin as "ignorant hicks". | |
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