Comments on: Patriotism http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ldh http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-12189 ldh Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:55:48 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-12189 Hello everybody, I want to make friend with you. Nice to meet you. Hello everybody, I want to make friend with you. Nice to meet you.

]]> By: Jordan http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11600 Jordan Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:39:51 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11600 ford4x4, No, you probably don't. I'm anti-war, anti-big-govt, and anti-domestic wire tapping. FOX News and the administration can call it "Domestic Terrorist Eavsdropping" but we should all be adult enough to know the information is pointing in the other direction, especially with Gonzalez telling us its completely legal for them to monitor you and I.... So I have a feeling, you fear for your freedoms...so do I... So many freedom-loving conservatives are giving up some of their freedoms in blind trust of this administration. I miss the days when I could relate to those on the right who just wanted to government to leave them alone and stop wasting their tax money. Call me a libertarian liberal....but I don't trust this government one bit. ford4×4,

No, you probably don’t. I’m anti-war, anti-big-govt, and anti-domestic wire tapping. FOX News and the administration can call it “Domestic Terrorist Eavsdropping” but we should all be adult enough to know the information is pointing in the other direction, especially with Gonzalez telling us its completely legal for them to monitor you and I….

So I have a feeling, you fear for your freedoms…so do I…

So many freedom-loving conservatives are giving up some of their freedoms in blind trust of this administration. I miss the days when I could relate to those on the right who just wanted to government to leave them alone and stop wasting their tax money. Call me a libertarian liberal….but I don’t trust this government one bit.

]]> By: ford4x4 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11588 ford4x4 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:01:18 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11588 “I love my country, it’s my government I fear.� I gotta get me one of them for my truck, to go next to my NRA sticker. I can fear the govt just as much as some anti-war person -- but probably for completely different reasons. “I love my country, it’s my government I fear.�

I gotta get me one of them for my truck, to go next to my NRA sticker.
I can fear the govt just as much as some anti-war person — but probably for completely different reasons.

]]> By: merlallen http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11587 merlallen Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:54:37 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11587 Accusing Democrats of hating their country and wanting the terrorists to win really pisses me off. If it were the other way around that would also piss me off. Has politics always been this ugly or did it get that way with Clinton's election? I've always voted for the man, not the party so didn't pay much attention until around '96. It seems that's when it got ugly. 2004 was the first time in my life I ever voted a straight party line, and I hated doing it. Accusing Democrats of hating their country and wanting the terrorists to win really pisses me off. If it were the other way around that would also piss me off.
Has politics always been this ugly or did it get that way with Clinton’s election? I’ve always voted for the man, not the party so didn’t pay much attention until around ‘96. It seems that’s when it got ugly.
2004 was the first time in my life I ever voted a straight party line, and I hated doing it.

]]> By: JP http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11574 JP Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:58:01 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11574 Well said! Questioning each other's patriotism is getting way out of hand. Well said! Questioning each other’s patriotism is getting way out of hand.

]]> By: GN http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11519 GN Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:10:52 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11519 An excellent post, Cal. I shall think on it, and add my two cents later, but don't expect any German fonts. I especially like the link back to the Patria, as I think many of us forget that in the heat of important and not-so-impotant debates. Thank you for that. Yes, the weather does tend to make us want to slow down ... which in most cases is a good thing. An excellent post, Cal. I shall think on it, and add my two cents later, but don’t expect any German fonts. I especially like the link back to the Patria, as I think many of us forget that in the heat of important and not-so-impotant debates. Thank you for that. Yes, the weather does tend to make us want to slow down … which in most cases is a good thing.

]]> By: Alan Stewart Carl http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/comment-page-1/#comment-11512 Alan Stewart Carl Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:22:03 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/04/06/patriotism/#comment-11512 A little off topic, but... There's a bumper sticker I've seen for many years that says "I love my country, it's my government I fear." That bumper sticker used to be accompanied by an NRA sticker. Now I see it most often accompanied by an anti-war sticker. While I suppose it's possible that there'a a lot of anti-war NRA members running around Texas, my feeling is that the bumber sticker has jumped political parties. Whether that's just an effect of the switch from Clinton to Bush or an effect of a shift in America's political cultures, I don't really know. A little off topic, but…

There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen for many years that says “I love my country, it’s my government I fear.” That bumper sticker used to be accompanied by an NRA sticker. Now I see it most often accompanied by an anti-war sticker. While I suppose it’s possible that there’a a lot of anti-war NRA members running around Texas, my feeling is that the bumber sticker has jumped political parties.

Whether that’s just an effect of the switch from Clinton to Bush or an effect of a shift in America’s political cultures, I don’t really know.

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