Thread: Where Do We Draw The Line?

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

a more engaged citizenry might be useful to ensure the proper representation of the majority interest.

I don't think there is any evidence that higher percentage of voting citizens would change the outcome of the elections.

But really, I am not buying this 'poor stupid redneck' thing. As far as I remember you graduated college (english degree?) I presume at least partially on the taxpayers dime. And, as far as the 'high horse' I'm pretty sure you're the record holder of 'Wow, Really! (these people are so stupid, ugly, classless, uninformed, etc.)' posts on this forum.

What I have a problem with is the blatant mischaracterization of the video you posted. I viewed it and it sounds to me like a simple common sense, and if anything Obama's point is more conservative than liberal. When you only have that much money and if you have to choose between paying for grandma's cancer surgery that will extend her life by another six months, or paying for the dialysis of 12 year old kid, I think the priority is pretty clear. The insurance companies have been making far worse choices for years (preexisting conditions, dropping people's coverage).

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Since liberals seem very engrained with the victim mentality

Wow, I hardly remember the war on christmas, the war on religion, the war on gun owners, the war on white protestant males, the war on common folk, the war on old people, the war on real america, the war on american values, the war on the job creators, the war on marriage... Or how about that lame street media?

And let's not forget that most of those ancestors who fought the tyranny of King George thought that freedom is just for the white protestant males. The contortions George Washington went to in order to keep his personal slaves while holding the POTUS office in slave-free Pennsylvania are well documented.

Things in life are not simply black and white, so when somebody starts preaching to me all about tyranny and freedom I get pretty skeptical.