Democrats, Republicans, and Bill Maher

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jenny dont even start, Bush was critisized the whole 8 years he was in office by democrats you hipocrit lmao

Pete of TX 12:24PM June 30, 2009

I find it interesting that when the republicans are in the white house you don't hear any kind of threats like secession from the union, or starting another civil war coming out of the mouths of their Democratic opponents. But when a strong Democratic president takes over, it seems THEN you start to hear about secession from the union and starting another civil war. The republican talking heads and other republicans have absolutely used every possible negative name calling adjective they can think up to smear Obama and the Democratic party with since the inception of Obama to the white house. They do this, rather than actually coming up with some strong ideas of their own to present for policies. They have to name call because they are not smart enough to come up with anything intelligent of their own. I heard someone or read someone say that the republicans are going to have to learn how to pace themselves. We Democrats spent 8 horrible years as we watched Geo Bush decimate the American political process and constitution. I'm so sick and tired of the republican party and all their hateful, negative nonsense. I wish they'd all go away on a collective hiatus so we don't have to hear their BS anymroe. I wish there was a law that removed the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz and FOX news from the media. I'm tired, tired, tired, tired of them all.

Jenny of GA 3:00PM April 25, 2009

Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (FDR) once noted: A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. This, of course, can be said of any politician who puts self-interest, special interest groups, and in general greed and avarice before the welfare and good order of the people and this nation.
What is happening today is an going polarization in American politics, led by the neocons, that is neither good, new, nor something that we cannot once again overcome.
When our current constitution was being written there was a wide range of opinion as to what a government should be about. One pundent of the far right noted that the purpose of government should be to protect the oppulent rich form the masses--Something the last administration excelled itself in--While others belived that the purpose of government was to do the most it could, for the most people, with the money that it has. With such divergent opinon it can be said that the only reason we have our current constitution, with its' admendments, is that those Americans at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia sought and found a concensus that, for the time, allowed them to walk forward.
Since the radification of our constitution in 1781 we have overcome and/or addressed the British in 1812, civil war, slavery, boom and bust laissez faire capitalism, WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, needed UN Police Actions, McCarthyism, the sad story of Native Americans, integration, poverty, and fuel shortages, just to name a few of the challeges we have faced and resolved to one degree or another.
We must once again unit behind a President and provide him the means to overcome the many challenges that face us today. However, FDR was handed a Congress that fully supported him and the working people of this nation. This is not so for President Obama who now faces just enough members of the old administration, members whos policies benefited and benefit only the few and the rich, members who still cling to those very polices of the last 8 years that have proven so devastating to the rest of us. As FDR noted, these are politicians who have not learned to walk forward. Perhaps in 2010 we, the people of America, need to give the President all the congressional members needed so he can more easily accomplish his mandate to the American people.

Lewis R. Lowden, North Star of MI 1:58AM April 25, 2009