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Post by MTS on Apr 7, 2014 12:40:09 GMT -5
www.bernardgoldberg.com/liberals-forgotten-liberal/Good piece by Bernie Goldberg and I completely agree with his commentary. Reminds me of an old quote from Goldberg that I really like -
"I consider myself to be an old-fashioned liberal. I'm a liberal the way liberals used to be when they were like John F. Kennedy and when they were like Hubert Humphrey. When they were upbeat and enthusiastic and mainstream. I am not a liberal the way liberals are today at least as exemplified by Al Franken and Michael Moore, where they're angry, nasty, closed minded, & not mainstream, but fringe".
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Post by th24 on Apr 7, 2014 19:44:16 GMT -5
JFK the conservative Democrat!
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Post by CellarRat on Apr 7, 2014 20:31:48 GMT -5
He just described the quintessential liberal. The same folks that call you a racist if you don't care for our president's ideology.
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Post by CellarRat on Apr 7, 2014 20:55:42 GMT -5
Nice to see Bush and Clinton watching the game together. At least Clinton was a moderate, the lunatic we have in office now is making me rethink the debacle of the Carter years, when I thought he was the worst president ever. Well we have a new winner.
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Post by th24 on Apr 7, 2014 20:58:27 GMT -5
When you look JFk historically - The same issues that Kennedy grappled with — economic growth, tax cuts, the dollar, free trade, peace through strength, immigration, welfare reform — are still with us today. I think he had some ideas that can inform our current debates over politics and policy.
Note : Kennedy was likely influenced by a libertarian writer called Albert Jay Nock. Early in his political career, JFK gave some amazing speeches about the individual versus the state. On January 29, 1950, at Notre Dame, he said, “The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be the responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the Irish Patriot, Henry Grattan: ‘Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.’” And the Inaugural Address line “Ask not what your country can do for you” was a call for self-reliance and an attack on the welfare state.
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