I Thought Dissent Was Patriotic

Great quote!

yay I got a BR!!!! *happy dance*

Or if you are making profits selling carbon credits.

Oh, you mean like how Al Gore has part ownership of a company that does just that. If they pass this cap and trade tax he should make out like a bandit.

Just as Bhush, Cheney and all the neo-cons got rich off oil? Wow Democrats don't have the market on subsidizing businesses they have interests in. ThisDem vs Republican thing is really kind of ridiculous. We all know at least 90% of our politicians will lie cheat and steal for money and power. No matter their party!

Oh and do not forget Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Joe Biden

Bush never called anyone unpatriotic: He had his friends do if for him (Rush, Hannity, Church, Levin).

Actualy, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were among the authors of the concept that the people should be armed to help keep the government from becoming tyranical. Talk about advocating dissent! :~D

It was Lincoln and FDR who did lock up reporters who disagreed with them. President Lincoln even had the military standing by when Maryland legislature was voting on weather to succeed from the Union or not with orders to arrest thos who votede for succession. Aren't those the two presidents that Obama wants to be like?

FDR also imprisoned anyone with the "wrong" race or national origin. I'm amazed at the way democrats treat him like a hero despite prolonging a 12 year depression and putting honest hard working Americans into concentration camps for only the most racist reasons.

I bet that they said the country would be fine as Nero fiddled too...or maybe they did get a little alarmed when the barbarian Germans came knocking on the emperor's door in Rome itself! As for your remark about chicken little...even sometimes the paranoid people are correct in being afraid.

Well some people here on MyLot believe that Obama is above approach when it comes to criticizing. If you do you are either a fear mongrel, a hate mongrel, or a combination of the two.

Bob, she was correct in stating this. It is EVERYONES job to question your government, no matter what party is in office. The problem that many of us have is when your patriotism is questioned by people who are trying to shut you up (see the last 8 years).

Yes, the tide has turned and the leadership we have now is out for blood. Not only satisfied to call names and spew insults at conservatives but making lists of 'dangerous extremist' that include every veteran and every one who dissents... I believe they will not stop until they have silenced every voice of dissent. Just what ARE those FEMA camps for MR. President..and if they're for housing disaster survivors...why the big ovens and barbed wire facing IN, to keep people from escaping. I am not a republican nor am I a democrat..each have had a hand in ruining my country. I am an American...that is all. And I will remind all of both parties that POLITICIANS of both ranks are human and have made mistakes in judgment. But this one we have now...he KNOWS just what he is doing, he's not merely making mistakes in judgement....and he's in a rush to get whatever it is done. Not to mention....he has embraced a culture that has sworn to defeat the west for almost 1400 hundred years (after assuring us he was not a Muslim). Read your history books...to think we can negotiate with these people is absurd....yet he bows to them and praises them and apologizes to them for our behavior as a nation? The Muslim culture sees this as a weakness, not a strength. They will not admire us for showing weakness! And so many thought that those who warned of his leanings were reactionary or racist...they are now wondering if they missed something? I've read two or three articles in the last week from the LIBERAL press calling him to task for his decisions. And here we are calling names and spewing insults...instead of calling him to task and demanding our Constitution be followed to the letter. Where IS the BIRTH CERTIFICATE BARRY? And who paid for your expensive college education??? Just who are YOU beholden too? Forgive me for my radical patriotism...after all, it is the Fourth of July.

This is the truth. When an administration defends itself it is squashing dissent. If it does not defend itself it is because it is weak and knows that its' policies are wrong.

Exactly, this is the backlash. That is what the minority does not undestand. Now they are feeling all self righteous like they are rebels with the answers straight from above!

I did not like it when it happened during the Bush years. I don't like it now. People are NOT unAmerican just because they disagree with the current administration and voice that opinion. You know the whole two wrongs don't make a right. just because some dems were called that by some repubs does not make it right for them to do it now. At some point you think someone would have stood up by now and said enough is enough. On either side. People just need to grow up. It is ok to disagree. It is ok to voice your opinions. Healthy debate is good. Unforunately more often than not instead of being a healthy debate it turns into grade school style name calling. On both sides.

I can agree with that lilwonder. I was just looking over the discussion about what would u do if you were President and surprisingly there are many things from those that would consider themselves to be on the opposite end of the political spectrum which I agree with. There are some, of course, which I do not agree and I would certainly do differently, but many points of agreement. I think it is easy for people not in govt to get caught up in the same B.S. that our "leaders" do. Many of us who put any kind of thougt into our system at all are really not that far apart.