Topic: Political Parties
Feeling your Paine

An important observation from revolutionary writer Thomas Paine that is timeless and timely
by Billy Joe
(libertarian)
Sunday, January 6, 2008

Feeling your Paine

Tom Paine's timeless observation

"Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distiction between them." -from COMMON SENSE

Think about it. You may have even made this mistake yourself. After watching rising star Mike Huckabee in the ABC republican debate, I realized that he has no political ideology at all and his conservativism is limited to creationism and fundemantalist Christianity. He seemed the least intelligent candidate which might explain his popularity with the great unwashed masses. He is on the top of the bell curve. Think about it.

Is a Candidate an anti-Semite because he favors voluntary, personal aid to Israel (or whoever) over involuntary (tax-funded) state aid?

Is a person inherently racist for favoring a policy of free association over forced segragation or desegragation?

Is a person who opposes public schools as a wasteful monopoly anti-education?

Is opposing selective service being soft on defense?

Is the belief in the presumption of innocence, due process, and equality before the law being "soft on crime"?

Is it really heartless to prefer charity to forced wealth redistribution?

Are you anti-healthcare if you think the market provides better treatment options and quality than V.A. hospitals?

Is it ALWAYS unpatriotic to criticize government policies?

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Published: Sunday, January 6, 2008
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Posted By: joan
Date: 2008-01-06 11:12:44

www.judicialwatch.org  "10 MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS OF 2007"  includes Clinton, Giuliani, Huckabee, Obama

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