Quotes worth noting

[BigPapaVol]

So you distinguish between "patriotic" and "basic citizenship"? Isn't part of being patriotic doing your basic duty as a citizen?

No. Patriotic is more than that to me, but you're avoiding the point. Biden's comment was little more than old school class warfare and it was as intentional as the day is long.

As to your comment that there is an implication that the wealthy avoiding taxes is their being unpatriotic, I would say that, in my mind, someone who has the cajones to publicly question waging war the way we have is infinitely more patriotic than someone who has earned millions (or more) off the waging of that war but who then tries to worm out of paying taxes on it.

I said the wealthy aren't necessarily illegally or unfairly avoiding taxes. I'm saying that the act of paying taxes is not patriotic.

Publicly protesting war is not an exercise in bravery in this nation. If that were so, the Hollywood idiots, flower children and college kids would be nowhere near that crowd.

How did this become about worming out of taxes. The wealthy pay the vast, vast majority of taxes in this country. That is beyond debate. Worming out is only happening at the other end of the tax spectrum, and you know it. I will submit that the guy who remitted a couple million in taxes last year has done more for this nation than the entire body of protestors have over the life of our country.

 

[MG1968]

 

[allvol123]

I'd say it is patriotic for the government to downsize.

 

[KYVolFan]

the colors don't help.

Thought it might reflect the diversity the Socialist Party represents. I didn't have another way to show; fruits, nuts, communists, leftist, heterophobes, right to abortists, pinkies, maoists, black revolutiionary theologians, acornistas, cynthia mckinney whorshipers, farakhanistas, sharptonites, chez guevara followers, and the few other remaining Democratic groups.

 

[CaedmonVol]

Thought it might reflect the diversity the Socialist Party represents. I didn't have another way to show; fruits, nuts, communists, leftist, heterophobes, right to abortists, pinkies, maoists, black revolutiionary theologians, acornistas, cynthia mckinney whorshipers, farakhanistas, sharptonites, chez guevara followers, and the few other remaining Democratic groups.

Whoa -- they don't teach spelling in Kentucky?

 

[notverycrucial]

Whoa -- they don't teach spelling in Kentucky?

elitist.

 

[VolBeef88]

"Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton." -- Gloria Steinem

"I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time." -- Sen. John McCain, quoted by the New York Times, during the Republican presidential primaries.

"[George W. Bush] was born on third base and stole second." -- Gov. Ted Strickland (D-Oh)

"The Greek tragedy aspect of this election could turn out to be, George Bush defeats John McCain twice." -- Former McCain strategist John Weaver

"He didn't have a lot of experience in running a presidential campaign, did he?" -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, interviewed on Good Morning America, when asked if Sen. Barack Obama had enough experience to be president.

I see you are still undecided.

 

[CaedmonVol]

elitist.

Fact.