Dick & Robert have it spot on... (dragging the UN into this one would be like dragging King George W into it... plain crazy... just like KGW ;-)

Sadly, the radical right is completely fear driven.

Very doubtful that Reagan could put together these thoughts, much more likely they are the words of a speach writer. I concur that today's so called conservatives are far from that, they are actually very radical. Today's so called liberals are actually on the whole very middle of the road in their views.

There the rodent goes again, claiming that all who disagree with it are not Americans... what a vile creature... I think it will never mature into a real human being.

Hog wash, the two are orthogonal. Freedom can be found both with a limited government, and within an active one that cares for its down trodden (as my religion teaches we all should do). And Ken is way off base, happiness is not a function of being liberal or conservative (though I do observe that most of the radical right is deeply full of irrational fears, but they seem very happy to wallow in their fears).

Well said Robert!

And thus we have a country lead by an ordinary man... a man not up to the task of being a just leader... a man better suited to sitting on a sofa choking on chips than making decisions.

Robert has it right here, King George W's henchmen have made our most recent, biggest messes... both in their actions of the last 6 years AND in what they each did back in the 70s & 80s... These problems are not from the "educated elites", but from the raving loonies!

This is a totally bogus "blame others" line. As parents you must accept responsibility for your own children, not blame others and as members of society we must accept our responsibility for others, not turn our back on them. If we ALL did that then there would be no problem.

True as far as it goes. What Joe doesn't get is that the laws that follow are needed to implement the hand waving intent of the Constitution. It in and of itself is not sufficient in a world where so few have any common sense or sense of honor & decency in their behavior towards other human beings.

How cynical... trust is earned, to simply mistrust (refuse their right to earn trust) due to holding power is just another example of fear mongering rather than looking at the facts of each case.

Some do, and some make no such pretense.

The two are orthogonal...

This statement describes most members of the GOP and America's Taliban the Religious Right that I know, either personally or via their public persona... like little children they see boogy men and fear all around them, so they give up both their freedom and the freedom of others in favor of hate... for they find comfort in their simple-minded control by the gods they worship.

Morality & ethics are far more important, and without these the country is meaningless.

To me the quote speaks directly to the illness that King George W represents... rob from the poor to give to the rich... but as it clearly is ambiguous, it gets a lower rating.

Right on E!

... what can one say, the rodent's comments are orthogonal to the content of the quote (again)... a fizzy (thinking) little (minded) rodent who worships conformity one moment and free spirit the next...

We prosper by the acts of uniqueness of thought and action. We are free due to the free thinkers our founders were. Small minded followers are content to live a life in a self made jail of conforming to expectations of others and producing nothing new and unique.

Great quote, and yet complete disagreement with the fuzzy logic helorat displays yet again... King George W is the world leader in non-thinking and wrong action. To blame the victims of Katrina for Bush's ineptitude shows just how mean spirited creatures such as helorat are... and how successful King George has been in finding non-thinking rodents as supporters.

If the criminal knows you have the gun, then they are more likely to shoot first... law abiding citizens do not win the war on crime by brandishing weapons, they just cause an escalation in the war... it is no different than the "war" on drugs, or prohibition in the early 20th century... or a "war" on terror... they are all doomed to failure because "war" is the wrong tool for the right job.

More wild west examples... not a proud or mature source to pull from... children, when will they grow up (never it appears).

The numbers do not support Joe's contention. Each day in the US roughly 30ish people are intentionally killed by guns, and another 50 are killed by gun accidents and suicide, and another 240 are seriously injured by guns... so that is a 10:1 ratio of ill side-effects to intentional killings, and an even larger ratio when you consider that most of those 30 killed were not in "home/self defense". And you don't need 50 round clips of armor piercing rounds to defend your home from a robber... get a dog.

The crazies are out, demanding their themonucs & nerve gas "for personal use"...

"Every citizen should be a soldier...." is pretty clear, join the "well regulated milita" if you want to run aound with guns, but don't expect to just be a cowboy with your six shooter or play spy with your hidden gun, be a man and join the army... nothing here says private joes get to play their little boy games... its time for you to grow up and face the real world. (An helorat, you don't carry my water at all little boy... thankfully men like Jack have done so in our past, and continue to today!) This quote makes sense, but gets a thumb down due to the twisting and misinterpretation that little boys put it to today.