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Elephantman
[Read the article: The National Review mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The plot to bring down Paul Wellstone's plane. I knew it. Ya got me! I confess! Who leaked that one? Nobody was supposed to know!
That would be encore12, your buddy, the same guy who posted this:
encore12 - 5:08 PM ET January 20, 2004 (#63526 of 63565)
All democrats will be put to the wall. Or the noose. They will be given a choice. The wall or the noose. That's what compassion is all about.
http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/editorialsoped/todayseditorials/index.html?offset=64146&fid=.f4e8c59/64146
Hey, neocon, you seen these?
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
-Ann Coulter, This is War column, Sept. 13, 2001
"The Jews of Temple Beth Sholom are sinful, greedy, Hell-bound, money-grubbing sodomites; and they have dedicated their synagogue to be a gay and lesbian propaganda mill and recruiting depot, soliciting young people to sodomy."
-Rev. Fred Phelps - Sept 7 1998, Westboro Baptist Church press release, re: protesting Jewish groups
"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."
-Rev. Joseph Morecraft,Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Marietta, Georgia, quoted in "the Public Eye," June 1994
"A civil war is brewing in which we must deal with the Jews. It is a time of reckoning for their pact with the devil."
-Robert G. Millar (1925-2001) http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/Elohim.asp
"The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."
-D. James Kennedy, "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993
"The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."
- William Rehnquist, Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985
"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good.... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
- Randall Terry, quoted in The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 16,
"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
- John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999, upon receiving an honorary degree at ultra-right-wing and ultra-fundamentalist Bob Jones University, also known for its anti-African-American segregationist policies
"We are going to remove the mythical separation of church and state."
-Bishop Carlton Pearson
"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."
-Jay Grimstead, February 1987
"The [Supreme} Court by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions merely assaults the one faith. The Court in
essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."
-John Whitehead, founder & president of the Rutherford Institute, The Separation Illusion
And to think you neocons swindled millions of people into believing you have morals.
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Bush has done his best
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]To prove that he's too witless and dangerous to be president:
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe ."
"Public speaking is very easy."
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
"Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
"We are on the path to the future and we're not turning back!"