We have an identity that is not founded on race, religion, or ethnicity, rather on culminating and empowering our human identity.  Without divine revelation, men aware fully aware of human events, its miseries, pettiness, conflicts, and more importantly aware of the might of the human spirit declared to history and humanity that one nation will be founded solely based on the principle that every individual is free with the right and capacity to charter our own destinies.  The weight of such a bold and immense declaration of victory has not crushed us for the past 200 years.  While no other nation, not even the mighty British empire could save the spread oppression through the human soul, torn, on our knees, and battered from a depression, we surrendered to a noble calling and summoned the strength from the deepest recesses of our souls and marched like and army on chariots of bravery and unwavering courage to cleanse the disease of communism, fascism, nazism, and restored the world to its rightful course of self-determination.  
  We as a nation have sacrificed more for the sake of human survival in the last century than humanity itself had a right to ask of us.  Yet, we discovered that being American meant hymns of glory, the light of freedom, and a willingness to shed blood of our children and witness the tears of widows and empty woumbs.  
  For the sake of preserving the greatness of our nation, and paying homage to freedom itself, stop bickering about political parties and being so petty that you can't even hold accountable politicans because of political affiliation.  We are left a noble legacy, don't let it wither away because we couldn't be Americans first and Republicans of Democrats second.  Demand greatness from men and we will have leaders again.  
  A fucking caveman killed 3000 of our citizens, and we can't get over defending politicians.  Our nation, our purpose, our greatness, our freedom, demands a better citizenry than what we are displaying every day.  
  Learn to love our nation more than you love your party!!!  You owe me, I owe you, and we all owe every dead American that much!!!!!When the fuck did we become a people that protected and endlessley defended politicians at the mercy of our principles, freedoms and the transcendant American unity and bond?????  Its unworthy of such a great people!!

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That's why you should vote for Bush.

RLTW

Just be sure and vote Bush OUTA office.

Bush is a psychopath and Un-American.

For a few billions $, USA. For eternal peace, Love. History will tell whether the events occurred in the past 3 yrs. is apocalytic manifestation. For the next 100yr, pay up on what has been wasted over the last year in Iraqe militarily and financially. Who'll stop the rain!

I am of the opinion that anyone that votes for Bush is one or more of the following,  brainwashed or not a true American!

He has done damage to the USA that is going to take years and years of very strong diplomatic sources to correct, not to mention the carnage of our economic well being.

e-vodka-  have another pull on the bottle, duder...

Liked the post, but methinks you might have been in your cups when writing....

it is the far Left which is using McCarthyite tactics and casually throwing around the "unAmerican" label.  And calling someone who disagrees with you a "psychopath" is in the best tradition of the old Soviet Union.

Don't you know by now (eom) means "End of Message"

Dummy ! ! !

It has nothing to do agreeing or disagreeing, it has everything to do with the way GW conducts himself, which is not very  presidential, and is quite irresponsible.

From the June 14 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, co-hosted by Hannity and by Alan Colmes:

HANNITY: This man [Gore] has become an extremist, he's out of touch, he seems to be coming unhinged.

[...]

COULTER: Kerry has all these nuts coming out. I think Al Gore is nuts, and I think it would have been polite if you guys [Democrats] had told us that before you ran him for president.

[...]

COULTER: I can understand that Bill Clinton drove him [Gore] to this. At least he has a defense -- "I was in the White House with Bill Clinton, give me a break, I'm nuts."

[...]

COLMES: We [Democrats] are a big tent party. Not every Democrat walks in lockstep, or follows the talking points, or has the same style or says exactly the same thing.

COULTER: A big tent, so you're wrapping up the nut vote.

[...]

COULTER: The question I really want to know is when they [Democrats] will admit that their current presidential candidate [Kerry] is as crazy as their last presidential candidate [Gore] was?




Charles Krauthammer, on FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, on May 26:
It looks as if Al Gore has gone off his lithium again.


Dennis Miller, host of CNBC's Dennis Miller, on May 26:

At one point I respected Al Gore, but I think he's lost his mind. ... I think he's gone daft because he's a sad little man now.


Mark R. Levin, conservative radio talk show host, as a guest on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes on May 26:

He sounded like and looked like [televangelist] Jimmy Swaggart. He really did.

[...]

And half the country thinks he's [Al Gore is] a mental patient. ... They think he should go back to the dayroom he came out of.


Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, on May 26:

Well, Al Gore is at it again. He just can't help himself, breathlessly attacking the president in a speech today. But will hate speech like this backfire on the Democrats? [text on screen: "Gore's Hate Speech"]

[...]

You know, Al Gore adds to the global warming threat today with his very own thermonuclear meltdown.


Michael Savage, on his nationally syndicated radio show, Savage Nation, on May 26:

We are all sitting here asking ourselves, was there lead in Al Gore's silver spoon, because of the obvious tilt across the river of sanity. He has definitely pulled his raft across the river of sanity, or he has taken the side of the enemy, there's no other explanation for what he has been doing.


John Podhoretz, in a column in the New York Post, on May 27:

[I]t is now clear that Al Gore is insane. I don't mean that his policy ideas are insane, though many of them are. I mean that based on his behavior, conduct, mien and tone over the past two days, there is every reason to believe that Albert Gore Jr., desperately needs help. I think he needs medication, and I think that if he is already on medication, his doctors need to adjust it or change it entirely.

[...]

Gore's speech is the single craziest political performance of my lifetime, and I use the word "craziest" advisedly. The speech, at 6,600 words, was twice as long as Bush's address to the nation on Monday night. The indiscipline shown by the sheer endlessness of Gore's address is a reflection of the psychic morass in which he has become mired


David Frum, in "David Frum's Diary" on National Review Online, on May 27:

Maybe a National Psychological Council would be a good idea after all -- and maybe it could start by advising this former senator, vice president, and two-time presidential candidate that he [Al Gore] ought to seek out for his own good a cool and quiet darkened room.


Barbara Comstock, in a column published on National Review Online on May 27:

Columnist Charles Krauthammer observed, "Looks as if Al Gore has gone off his lithium again."

James Taranto, on The Wall Street Journal's editorial page website, OpinionJournal.com, in his "Best of the Web Today" column, on May 27:

An Associated Press account of yesterday's speech notes that "Gore, who served in Vietnam, predicted greater problems for America's involvement in Iraq." The AP apparently means to suggest that Gore suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, since the Vietnam reference is otherwise a complete non sequitur. But according to WebMD, "symptoms of PTSD usually occur within three months of the traumatic event." True, "they can occur months or years later" -- but three decades later?

We've got a better theory: Gore, in our view, has cracked under a crushing burden of guilt.

Linda Vester, host of FOX News Channel's DaySide with Linda Vester, on May 27:

Some pundits have said they thought he went off his meds.

Oliver North, as a guest on FOX News Channel's DaySide with Linda Vester on May 27 and on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes that evening:
They should check Gore's medications. [from DaySide with Linda Vester]

Somebody needs to check this guy's medication. This guy has got a problem. [from Hannity & Colmes]


Sean Hannity, co-host of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes -- in response to guest Oliver North's comment "Somebody needs to check this guy's medication. This guy has got a problem." -- on May 27:

He's [Al Gore's] really nuts.


Rush Limbaugh, host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Rush Limbaugh Show, on May 26:

I guess we can't -- get those -- those naked pyramids just not in the national interest to Al Gore. [laughter]

[...]

I mean, it says -- it says a lot about Gore. It says he's perverse, that he would be argue to go confer greater rights on those who seek to murder millions of Americans and calling for even tougher actions to seek them out and destroy them before they destroy us.



From the June 4 broadcast of The Sean Hannity Show:

HANNITY: What do you make of what's happening with the Democratic Party? You've got Soros and -- and comparing the Iraqi prison scandal to 9/11. You got Howard Dean, another unhinged screech of him. Al Gore absolutely unhinged. You got the Left, it seems, just going absolutely bonkers. What -- what do you make of that right now?

GINGRICH: Well, I think that it is -- it -- it's almost like a form of dementia. … I think that there's a -- we're seeing the reemergence of the kind of self-hatred and self-loathing which the Left had during the Vietnam war, where, you know, Ho Chi Minh could do no wrong and the United States could do no right.

[…]

GINGRICH: [Referring to Gore's May 26 speech] I think this is closer to a mental health problem than to a political problem.

methinks a profession where the therapist routinely seeks out therapy is hardly one we can base national decisions upon.  It is also a profession where things need to be bad in order for them to earn a living, and if it ain't bad they're damn good at making up some BS story as to why it is.

A lefty telling me GWB is fucking crazy has more credibility!!

It is called job security, contribute to your own profession to keep it alive.

I think they all NEED a therapist. There nuttier than the people that they convince need to keep coming back.

And as far as basing Nat'l decisions;

Do you think it is better that GW bases his decisions on religious beliefs? Or is it just voices in his head?

Actually it's all the religious crap and his belief that he answers to someone other than the electorate that scares the hell outta me with this guy.  He should be running it like a business not a friggin revival.

I read the entire speech - if Gore is crazy, then we need more "nuts" like him in government.

His arguments were well thought out, with plenty of documentation. Rather than confront Gore on the issues that he raised, as indicated by agrkej, they instead resort to a sort of "gangbang" character assassination reading off the same hymnal.

One wonders if any of the above "commentators" do any thinking on their own.

between laymen saying that someone is acting "nuts" (I'll except Krauthammer --- he's an M.D. --- though I think he was attempting humor) and a professional practitioner engaged in the unethical practice of "diagnosing" someone he's never examined or treated, then there's simply no point in debating with you.

My post was in response to your statement:


"And calling someone who disagrees with you a "psychopath" is in the best tradition of the old Soviet Union. "  

I guess I must have missed the part where you said it had to be a professional practitioner making an unethical diagnosis.



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