They could have added,protect your new found liberty or you will be in a hell of a fix in 2010.

Well said ,Cal.

In a despotic state, such as Russia under the likes of Stalin, or Cuba under Castro,the citizens were afraid to complain out loud for fear of death, or worse.

Right on Mike, and don't forget to buy that toilet and those lightbulbs that Big Brother forces on you.

Waff, you are truly nuts or else you are just putting us all on. I would hope that my home and my two rather old cars are not for public usage. Carl Marx would be proud of you.

J Carlton, I agree, Obama is the puppet.

Good joke Waffler. The bureaus, staffed by our "public servants" are now our masters, and they are full of "graft and corruption".

Oops, working , not "wioking".

Sort of makes you wonder why Prince "O" and his merry band are wiorking night and day to disarm us.

Virtue is unknown to the Obama, Pelosi, and Reed gang of power crazed thugs. We wouldn't want to let a little thing like honesty and virtue stand in the way of that bunch and their desire to control everything in our nation.

If that monstrosity known as government health care is passed, freedom will not slip away. it will run rapidly away. The slime in Washington are trying to ram it down our throats even though the "majority", that Waffler seems to love, are against it.

We could sure use someone like Washington now instead of that bunch of socialist hacks that infest our nation today. I refer to the U.S. congress, both houses, the man in the Oval Office , the scum in his cabinet and that band of thugs known as his czars.

George summed it up in one sentence. Remember that the Constitution is designed to protect citizens from their government. If we ever had a time where we needed protection from government, that time is now.

Before 1913 the country was virtually free of debt. Now we are up to our eyeballs in debt. We started downhill right after 1913. Check it out.

On second thought Waff, go back to sleep.

Waff are you from this planet ? "Those who feel free to destroy it and globally warm it". What on earth does that non -sense mean. Only nuts like you are still buying into the Algore global warming scam. Naturally Al is all for selling idiots carbon credits since he has a financial interest in the company that sells that crazyness. No problem with polluting as long as you send Al and his group some money. Wake up Waff.

Waff,unlike yourself, I think that Mike and Carlton do a lot of thinking. My definition of freedom is that people should be able to do as they please as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Naturally government doesn't agree and thus we have all the victomless crime laws and a gazillion government restrictions from the control freaks in Washington.

Interwoven in the hearts of Nancy,Ralph,Obama,and the rest of that bunch, is not freedom but socialism.

Amen to J and Mike.

Waff, you mention the "slave holding South" but you fail to mention the slave holding North. Old "honest" Abe only freed slaves in the States that opposed him in the South. Northern and border States were free to keep their slaves. Most Northern States passed highly restrictive laws against blacks, and wanted no part of helping runaway slaves. Slaves in the South were better off than blacks in the North. You doubt it, read "Lincoln,Uber Alles,Dictatorship Comesto America". The socalled Civil War was about Lincoln wanting power in a central government in Washington and he didn't care a whit about slavery.

Better to stand on your feet than live on your knees.

Reason and virtue are just fine, but it didn't work too well with King George. Sometimes you have to take up arms to preserve or to have freedom. Our Founding Fathers knew this all to well.

Void of freedom is where we are headed if we don't vote 'em all out in November.

Unfortunatly, many people are quite willing to trade their liberties for security. With Nancy, Reed, and the gang in charge, we may soon have neither,

If Ben could see what our country has become since 1860, he would probably say, I warned you.