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Mar. 5, 2006 There continues to be the usual bantering between columnists on U-K. That’s cool. Life would be boring if we didn’t have differences of opinions between people. Yet, there continue to be this trend of being angry at the lefties for doubting our president’s poor decisions and his motives behind those poor decisions. We of course always want to blame politics instead of real life stupid moves. It seems to me that if I were president, glad I’m not, and I preached to fellow citizens that my biggest worry was security. I wouldn’t announce that a country close to the “axis of evil” was going to take over management of six U.S. ports. It would be political suicide and just poor taste. Now those who sit on the right side of the aisle will holler that the lefties are just being obstinate and aren’t really concerned about security. They just want to attack the character of the president. The same holds true with the wire tapping policies being used by the NSA. Lefties are not really worried about the privacy of their citizens. They just want to attack the character of our president. The same can be said about our open borders, the war in Iraq, escalating conflict in Iran, and the decomposition of a City called New Orleans. Lefties shouldn’t really question any of this stuff. After all, it’s unpatriotic. Unfortunately, it was this same type of nationalistic posturing by German leaders that started World War II. You just aren’t a good citizen if you don’t believe in the Nazi way. I think we need to worry less about the bird-flu pandemic and worry more about the degradation-of-our-Constitution pandemic. The current administration running our country, has set this country’s clock back forty or fifty years. The “big brother” concept, which makes the conservatives rattle their chains of oppression even louder is becoming a reality. It was the big brother concept that detached thousands of innocent Japanese citizens from the rest of their country during World War II. It was the big brother concept that started the KKK and the CIA. It’s the big brother concept that wants to privatize Social Security. It’s the big brother concept that has totally turned Medicare into a confused mass of paperwork that even Medicare employees have a difficult time explaining. But, it’s all in the name of loyalty to our president and his crooked vice president. I was fortunate growing up as a child. My big brother didn’t try to make me see life through his eyes. He allowed me the freedom a child should have, the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail. We don’t need a big brother to advocate for his citizens. We need a big brother, who will listen to his citizens. We do, after all, live in a democracy by the people and for the people.
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