Quote of the Day!

[PegLeg45]

The Fred Thread is going strong.

When asked about Republicans running negative campaign ads against her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "spend that money, spend that money, pour it in, spend it all".
That sounds familiar... wasn't that the first draft version of the Obamacare bill?
                                                                                                   Fred Thompson 

[PegLeg45]

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same" ~~ Thomas Paine

[philw]

2 Rules to live by.....

Rule No1, Don't worry about the little things

Rule No2, They are all little things.

[tombogan03884]

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same" ~~ Thomas Paine

That's how the Socialists are implementing their system in this country.


Did you ever notice that almost every "Liberal" rule, law, and often statements, start with the phrase, "you can't"

[McGyver]

Our friend CJS3 wins with this line!

"If he was really as conservative as he claims, he wouldn't be a democrat."

 

[Sponsor]

[McGyver]

Uncle Fred Thompson:" During his MTV town hall, President Obama said "taxes are not higher since I took office".

What about the tobacco tax? Someone else must be buying Obama's cigarettes for him."


That's funny, right there!

[PegLeg45]

We may appeal to every page of history we have hitherto turned over, for proofs irrefragable, that the people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous and cruel as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power - All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions. The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.

                                                                       John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 November 1815)

[fightingquaker13]

We may appeal to every page of history we have hitherto turned over, for proofs irrefragable, that the people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous and cruel as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power - All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions. The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.

                                                                       John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 November 1815)

Great quote from one of my favorite founders. Here's another from his son, John Quincy Adams, that should be branded into the forehead of every President. God knows, none since Bush senior have gotten it.
FQ13 who really, really hopes we remember this one.

America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which [32] she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.

[tombogan03884]

Just one question FQ,
Why should we give a crap how other nations are governed , as long as they do business fairly with us, and do not commit acts of war against us ? As long as they buy our exports and sell us what we want to buy, who rally cares if they massacre their entire populations ?
In fact, the worse they are the better the chance that this nation of immigrants will drain off their "best and brightest" through legal immigration .

[fightingquaker13]

Just one question FQ,
Why should we give a crap how other nations are governed , as long as they do business fairly with us, and do not commit acts of war against us ? As long as they buy our exports and sell us what we want to buy, who rally cares if they massacre their entire populations ?
In fact, the worse they are the better the chance that this nation of immigrants will drain off their "best and brightest" through legal immigration .

We should give a crap because we are decent human beings. What Adams the younger was poining out was that there is a difference between caring and wading into someone else's war. Its like Clinton in Kosovo or W in Iraq (once the WMD stuff was revealed to be BS). Yeah the regimes were bad. Yes we'll condemn it. But I still don't see a damn thing in either country worth a single dead Marine. Sadaam and Milosevik were bad men. Still, it wasn't really our problem in either case. We should only fight for our vital interests (narrowley defined). Idealism is nice, but that way madness lies. The ironic thing is that I agreed with W when he lambasted Gore over "nation building" during the campaign in 2000. He was right. Then he turned around and did the same damn thing. BO is doing it today. Its this weird belief that "inside every gook, there's a good American waiting to get out". We saw where that got us in Vietnam. It won't go any further in muslim countries. Adams said to set a good example and let other people fight their own wars lest we get involved in wars of empire or "nation building". There is no end to that road. Adams was right.
FQ13