Leave it to former President Bill Clinton to sum up the differences in the two parties without being (too) disagreeable, and to cast the election in terms we can all grasp. I especially liked his summation when he said this:
My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you’re on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a “we’re all in it together” society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
That, I think, contrasts sharply with the message of the Republican convention last week. (You can read Clinton’s entire speech — and you really should — by clicking here.)
If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a “we’re all in it together” Society.
So we need to haul the slackers and the lazy no goods up and along on the “team”?
You guys are re-defining socialism. And I don’t like your definition. But at least I like your words some of the time.
Well, then, by all means, support the “we’re all in it for the billionaires” society instead.
Thanks couldn’t have said better Steve S. Most people aren’t slackers and try to make it work and given the opportunities others have will make it work.
Like them or not, the people Steve calls “slackers and lazy no goods” are part of America. I disagree with that characterization; I think the vast majority of people want to work and be productive. (Bill Clinton helped more of them do so with welfare reform, for example.)
I’m reminded of Annette Benning’s line from The American President about people who claim to love America but clearly hate Americans…
WELL! That totally explains three generations on food stamps! Oh, sorry. Third generation is on EBT.
Another thing. Slackers and lazy nogoods are BUMS. Hobos will work for their food and shelter.
This is why I completely support unfettered, uncensored dialogue: First I make my case, then the other side makes my case, then I rest my case.
Refuse a guy the chance to organize a union; cut his wages; cut his benefits; force him to work free overtime; cut his hours to remove more benefits; buy out his employer; sell off the parts; steal his pension; cancel his healthcare; get congress to give you a special tax benefit to ship his labor overseas; cut any help getting him further job training; have Wall Street destroy the value of his house; refuse him unemployment benefits; block jobs bills in congress that would create some jobs for him; restrict his food stamps; then call him a slacker and bitch that he uses food stamps and should go get a job.
Slakers and no-goods? quit bashing the teaparty and Rush Limbaugh
Big difference between last week and this week. One convention said one thing, the other convention had a different message.
This week it’s hope and change.
Last week was whine and screech.
My choice is easy.
Obama/Biden 2012!
Romney/Ryan 1040s!
And Karl Rove needs to show his too. No reason. I just think he is laundering drug money, taking it from foreign entities and other means of raking in dirty angry illegal money through his Super PACs. And he needs to be revealed for the snake oil salesman he is.
You rest your case on that? Bums don’t want to work and take anything they can get. Hobo’s will work and prefer not to take handouts.
Slackers and no goods are bums. We have third generation bums on the dole today.
All people are NOT created equal when it comes to ambition. I have made hard choices in my life – no vacations, work full time while going to school with NO financial aid. All this while being raised by a widowed mother. There is too much money in this country being given out to the “entitled group.” If you canceled most of those plans then the middle class would regain their middle class status. All this while there are no restrictions on letting people into this country. I took lower salaries to make sure I got my healthcare. I don’t have debt because I paid my bills instead of buying toys like fancy cars & big screen TVs. This country is going to pot because of this mentality that Clinton is now supporting. Notice how all the rich people are claiming we should give to all, but we don’t hear about their philanthropy.
had to turn it off after i tried to give the guy a chance to give his reasons & points of view. it’s too hard to listen to a person who held such a high office in our great nation who LIED to us with a straight face without batting an eye….
I write this blog not as an apologist for or a critic of any particular political party. I don’t believe that who a person votes for or against should be dictated to them by someone else. A person should vote for the candidate that they believe shares their values and beliefs. We are rapidly approaching the presidential election in November and the political rhetoric has reached a fever pitch. As with past political campaigns, the closer we get to Election Day the meaner the campaign rhetoric becomes as the candidates try to persuade, cajole, matriculate, and just outright lie to get your vote. But this as, after all, the presidential election and anything goes as the two major party candidates vie for this most coveted political office in our nation.
The current president and his administration has been highly criticized for failing to make good on the president’s campaign promises to bring about real change to the government, to revitalize the economy, to create jobs , to strengthen the middle class and create greater opportunity for a better life for all Americans. Of course, whether he failed or succeeded in fulfilling his promises depends upon who you ask. Many Americans are convinced that this election is America’s “last chance” to save itself from complete collapse politically, economically and socially. They accuse the current administration of having brought the nation to the break of destruction on every level. I disagree. No one American president can be blamed for America’s moral, social, political and economic decline. Since his election as president, president Obama has been blamed for every problem in America since its birth as a nation. I cannot think of a president who has been more unjustly disrespected than President Obama. Presidents expect criticism, especially from those in the opposing political party, but there is meanness more vicious tone to the attacks on president Obama. With president Obama it is more than just a disagreement over his politics, the president himself has become the issue.
I am convinced that white evangelicals are obsessed with getting president Obama out of office, they claim that they believe that people should vote their values and conscious, but in reality and in not so subtle ways, it is obvious that they are promoting the conservative republican political agenda. (Vote for the candidate of your choice, as long as it’s with Romney). Recently I heard a prominent T.V. preacher say, and I paraphrase, that America has been in decline since 2008. How smart do you have to be to figure that one out?
As a Christian, what I find disturbing is that so called bible believing, born again Christians are convinced that the solution to America’s problem is a new political savior. They can’t have two saviors, it’s either the Lord Jesus Christ or the next president of the United States, which is it? They should know the Savior has already come and gone and is coming again for all those who love Him and His appearing. When He comes He will make all things new. The kind of change or transformation America and the world needs cannot be bought about by any political leader. We must not forget Psalms 118 8-9 “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.”
Sincerely united with those in Christ Jesus.