My first choice for the next President

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Who was the last Republican you voted for Frank.

Ronald Reagan. I do regret that vote.

Frank Apisa wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Who was the last Republican you voted for Frank.

Ronald Reagan. I do regret that vote.

Me, too. Reagan was the worst possible man for the job at that point in history.

edgarblythe wrote:

Frank Apisa wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Who was the last Republican you voted for Frank.

Ronald Reagan. I do regret that vote.

Me, too. Reagan was the worst possible man for the job at that point in history.

I allowed my anger at Carter to overrule my common sense that time, Edgar. I realized my error during the first year of his tenure. I've never voted for a Republican since...and probably never will.

When I saw this editorial by Judge Napolitano it really depressed me. And it really made me think.
BTW, he was fired from Fox shortly after.

So you voted for a Republican simply because you were "mad" at the Democrat, and intend to never again vote for a Republican.

Yeah, you're an Independent.

I understand why it makes you feel good to call yourself an Independent, and I guess the card you carry helps you preserve the fiction, but you're not independent in terms of party preference.

If I registered as a Democrat tomorrow, I think we would all agree that I probably couldn't be considered one.

More to the point, you're not even a "centrist."

If you think you are take a look at the latest edition of Esquire.

You're one of the two liberals in the world?

Is your opinion of Reagan the equivalent of your opinion of Hitler?

THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA:
part II
CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC
by John Stockwell
a lecture given in October, 1987

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If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in this, and their approach to it, dig up `The Sabotage Manual', that they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society to a halt, how you can gum up typewriters, what you can pour in a gas tank to burn up engines, what you can stuff in a sewage to stop up the sewage so it won't work, things you can do to make a society simply cease to function.

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the society so that it can't function.

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children.

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100,000 American witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented 13,000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president Reagan calls `freedom fighters'. He says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_2.html