Political Quotes

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Tao, I can see why this song's never been covered by Cliff.

s.

Well this is the politics thread

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

The countless deaths, the multitude of grieving families dont matter!! Ok I see where you stand.

Actually you dont know anything about me.. but its ok if you think you do.

This life is vapor compared to eternity... what is 75 years on this earth compared to ETERNITY. No.. none of this matters.

So people keep blaming all the worlds problems on George Bush and the republican party... Go ahead. Easier to do that than to blame the real source.. if you did that you might have to agree with someone like me.... How horrible!!!

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

Whatever.. Ultimately its to GOD he has to give account to.. All of this other stuff doesnt matter.

It does matter. Pull your head out of your ass.

Pardon, that's ugly. But so is your attitude.

Let us, brothers and sisters, think on these things:

Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Is God an American?
Are foreigners less human than Americans?
Is George Bush really a man of God? Whose God? What God? Where the hell is the rest of humanity's God?

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

Actually you dont know anything about me.. but its ok if you think you do.

This life is vapor compared to eternity... what is 75 years on this earth compared to ETERNITY. No.. none of this matters.

So people keep blaming all the worlds problems on George Bush and the republican party... Go ahead. Easier to do that than to blame the real source.. if you did that you might have to agree with someone like me.... How horrible!!!

I replied to your stated position. And I think mine is clear to you. I can approach death with a clear conscience knowing I have never ever supported a mass murderer.

Tao

[Pathless]

And, to get us off this digression, in a way, let's have some more actual political quotes, rather than this dichotmous bickering. We all know how war ends, anyway, if it does.

Here's a bumper sticker I saw yesterday:

READ 1984

Wish I could find an actual picture of it on the net, but oh well. I did find this link which has a bunch of great stickers pictured. I like the one that says, "May the fetus you save be gay." HA!!!

[Faithfulservant]

And what was Saddam Hussein?? Get over yourself..

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Pathless

And, to get us off this digression, in a way, let's have some more actual political quotes, rather than this dichotmous bickering. We all know how war ends, anyway, if it does.

Here's a bumper sticker I saw yesterday:

READ 1984

Wish I could find an actual picture of it on the net, but oh well. I did find this link which has a bunch of great stickers pictured. I like the one that says, "May the fetus you save be gay." HA!!!

The best car sticker I ever saw was on the back of a Morris Minor. In very small print it said "DIE FORD SCUM"

s.

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

And what was Saddam Hussein?? Get over yourself..

I don't understand the point you are trying to make. Is it that because I don't support the "War on Terror" and because I don't support our current president's policies in Iraq, I must--logically, of course--have been a supporter of Saddam Hussein?

That is not the case. Once again, dichotomous thinking: either/or; either with us or against us.

I don't support war, I don't support terror. I advocate for peace. It's so much more fun than bombs, fear, and men and women who cannot let a grudge go.

I am over myself.

EDIT: Ooops, it looks like I took one for the team. I think the "Get over yourself" barb was directed at Tao.

[Tao_Equus]

lol some good ones there.
I like
Dubya Dubya Dubya
Dot Liar Dot Con

and

Our Next President Should Be Fluent In At Least One Language

[Pathless]

"Awakening to love can happen only as we let go of our obsession with power and domination. Culturally, all spheres of American life--politics, religion, the workplace, domestic households, intimate relations--should and could have as their foundation a love ethic. The underlying values of a culture and its ethics shape and inform the way we speak and act. A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well. To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change. At the end of The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm affirms that 'important and radical changes are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.' Individuals who choose to love can and do alter our lives in ways that honor the primacy of a love ethic. We do this by choosing to work with individuals we admire and respect; by committing to give our all to relationships; by embracing a global vision wherein we see our lives and our fate as intimately connected to those of everyone else on the planet."

--bell hooks, in All About Love

[Tao_Equus]

It will take time to restore Chaos


Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.


We are getting more and more imports from abroad

[ardenz]

great quote, Tao

from any great leader we know?

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

And what was Saddam Hussein?? Get over yourself..

An ex-CIA stooge who got sick of his puppet strings.

And Osama? An active CIA stooge still on the payroll.

There are NONE so BLIND as those that will not see.

[Pathless]

"For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature. There is no smaller package in the world than that of a person all wrapped up in himself."

--Reverend William Sloane Coffin
American social justice activist (1924-)

[Pathless]

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

--Maya Angelou
American poet (1928-)