Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here!

Welcome! Glad to have your voice added to those who can speak the truth, because they know the Truth. Our prayers will be with you.

Love the Karen Hughes comment! Very humorous!

Welcome. Although my academic record pales in comparison to yours, my voting record and ideological preferences mirror yours exactly. This is the first time I have contributed to a political campaign, and we both need to work diligently to ensure the election of our candidate.

Fantastic bio, Kerry! Welcome to the PME team. You are living proof that, as I'm sure David Horowitz would agree, the staunchest conservatives are converted liberals.

Hi. I got mentioned, too! B) Love you, K.

As a former agnositic hippie feminist liberal, now conservative Republican Christian, I say "Right on, sister!"

You drank the Kool Aid. Congrats I suppose.

Glad you decided to join PME. Great bio! Make me feel like a slacker :(

Dum Yeah, shouldn't you be out spray painting Bush signs and shooting out windows at the local Bush-Cheney headquarters? Your far left kook/commie/pinko freinds have mobilized, time to get off your ass.

UY,

This Kool-Aid is red, white, and blue. And we're willing to share.

Come on, you know you want to....

It's much better than Cats.... (extra credit for identifying that last reference--Tall, you can't play.)

Actually I and most if not all on the left love our country. Enough not to lie about reasons for invading another country and enough not cause the largest deficit ever anyway. So where does that leave you rightards?

lie n. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.

So you beleive the president knew there were no WMD's before we invaded. You've made that clear by saying he lied. Can you explain to me how he knew or who told him there were no WMD's in Iraq? Can you also explain why, since W is so evil-minded, didn't "plant" WMD's for us to "discover"? It would seem logical that if he knew there were no WMD's, he would have to come up with some to avoid the scrutiny he now faces.

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Well john quite simply there is no way he could have not known that at least a lot of his info was crap. To say he got fooled while passing off numerous false claims (Niger Yellow Cake, the fake Drones and Trailers) is a bit of a joke. People on the left pretty much knew it was crap and Michael Moore no matter how you feel about him even said it at the Oscars, but all you COMPLETE AND USELESS MORONS could say was that those who pointed it out were traitors.

sorry, I don't want to pull us off topic, but at some point I want UY to answer those questions.

On Topic (sort of): Last week I saw a hippie pumping gas into his 60's vintage VW bus. As I pulled into the gas station I noticed that this guy had a Bush-Cheney 04 bumber sticker boldly displayed on his VW bus. This, for some reason (I'm still trying to figure it out) made me very proud. The irony of a hippie VW Bus with a Bush-Cheney sticker was almost too much for me to take. I had a nice conversation with the guy. Anyway, your bio (mostly the part about your conversion) reminded me of this guy and I thought I would share.

Hey, John,

I didn't drive in college, but if I did, I'd have wanted a VW bus. With the psychedelic paint job.

A lot of my friends in grad schoole were deadheads. A few of them are now Republicans, but some of them are still...well, deadheads. Even without the band.

RE: 14

So, to say that he lied is ,in fact, a lie. The intelligence you cite was given to him by British Intel, Russian Intel, and his own CIA. Three solid sources and you are calling him a liar?

Also, If you want to be taken seriously you must remove "Michael Moore" from your vocabulary.

UY sez: "Actually I and most if not all on the left love our country. Enough not to lie about reasons for invading another country and enough not cause the largest deficit ever anyway. So where does that leave you rightards?"

Anybody else notice the obsession the left has with the developmentally disabled/mentally challenged? (I'll be getting to an article about that, probably this weekend.) It's a little odd, don't you think?....

RE 16:

I love the music of the dead, but I dislike hippies and what they stand for.

To qoute the hippie with the Bush sticker "Oooh, the dualities of life."

A long time ago, people thought the earth was flat. Many of the greatest minds that lived on this earth at that time believed so.

Then came Christopher Columbus, a sailor guy who had a radical idea--He said the earth was round.

He sailed off till he hit land, and sailed back--and declared indeed, the earth is round. (of course, we all know in terms of sailors proving this, Magellen was the first to do so). Nonetheless, were those great thinkers, philosophers, etc., who thought the earth was flat lying? Were the people who believed them and told others the earth was flat lying?

OK Dum Yeah you answered the first question very predictably - and I easly countered your point with hard facts.

Try to answer the second question, I have yet to hear a liberal (kook/commie/pinko) even attempt to answer it.

Can you also explain why, since W is so evil-minded, didn’t “plant” WMD’s for us to “discover"?

....So, anyway, I'm wondering how the "left" shows how much they love this country. By going to other countries and apologizing for our existence? By doing like Mikey Moore and calling Americans "stupid?" By burning swastikas into other people's lawns? By calling our military allies names? By slandering soldiers from Vietnam to Iraq?

Oh, wait. I got it. By not spending money and by rejecting the intelligence estimates of every developed nation in the world plus the UN.

That's patriotism, all right. All you flag-waving, war-fighting, God-bless-America-singing, second-Amendment-defending, POW-camp-surviving, Congressional-Medal-of-honor-winning MORONS should drop this pretense of patriotism and apologize for attackng the patriotism of fine folks like Michael Moore and the Dixie Chicks. And, Um, you know, that other Dude.

Peace.

John im going to give you a chance to bow out gracefully. About the Niger incident, England thought it was true while his own CIA was telling him it was crap. So its on the level of what the definition of is is.

Aaron people have known the Earth was round since Ancient Times, if you cant get beyond the 2nd grade history then you can join in a grown up discussion.

Re 20:

OF COURSE THEY WERE!

(And I bet they were Zionists, too.)

Excuse me. I have to go polish my tinfoil hat now.

John and Kerry are really sad but not as sad as Aaron and Steve.

RE: 23

Bow out gracefully? With all due respect, you are getting crushed in this conversation.

Lets get the facts straight UY, CIA did NOT say it was crap. A partisan, unpaid wanker who was proven a liar (Joseph Wilson) told him it was crap.

So, answer question 2 pinko butt-jammer.

John, he wasnt proven to be a liar. Like I said a lot of the proof offered was debunked almost in real time.

BTW John im really not though if you really think so well then you need therapy. Also wanted to add I really have no respect for light switches like Jacoby, next thing you know she will flip flop again and become a Stalinist.

Forgot to add the whole Ritter Blix the guy who knew best were telling us what a load of crap W was pushing. But their opinions didnt matter since they were traitors or foreign or something.

" Like I said a lot of the proof offered was debunked almost in real time. "

just like how Wilson's claims were debunked... or do you not count those?

Because they werent I read the Iraq report if you can show me in the heavily redacted report where he "lied" well the go ahead.

Kerry, welcome from all the semi-conservative Pagans who comment here (I believe that's just me). I enjoy your postings.

Re 28:

You wouldn't have liked Saint Augustine much, either, I guess.

Thanks, Jay,

You know, back when I was doing my research, I ran across a DC group called "Pagans for Life." You know them, by chance?

He didnt switch ideaologies so much as stop being a party animal.

No, I never heard of them. I'm a quasi-pantheist and don't belong to any group.

UY, Your pretty much right about that. :)

UY,

Wow. Your theology is as bad as your history. I didn't think that was possible.

He quit "being a party animal" because he became a REAL CHRISTIAN.

So you kind of proved me right its not like he went from one politcal extreme to another.

From Augustine's "Confessions":

"In this mood he “suddenly heard the sing-song voice of a child in a nearby house. Whether it was the voice of a boy or a girl, I can’t say but again and again it repeated the refrain, ‘Take it and read it, take it and read it.’” So, he rushed to where he had left a copy of the Gospels open at Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and read: “Not in revelling and drunkenness, not in lust and wantonness, not in quarrels and rivalries, rather, arm yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ. Spend no more thought on nature and nature’s appetites.”

Augustine continued: “I had no wish to read more and no need to do so, for in an instant as I came to the end of the sentence, it was as though the light of confidence flooded into my heart and all the darkness and doubt was dispelled.”"

This is what is known as a "conversion" or a "born-again experience" (as in Jn 3:3-6).

Sorry, I thought UY was writing about me. lol

Re 39:

Sorry, that should begin, "Malcolm Muggeridge, QUOTING FROM Augustine's Confessions."

And?? I was talking about political lightswitches. People like you and Horowitz (A lot of Neocons in fact) who just need some to be angry against. I wasnt alive back then but I am a solid leftist and definitely not a radical.

Re 38

And, yes, actually. He did.

If you're a "solid leftist," how are you not a "radical?"

Give examples.

Im not out burning shit or yelling for revolution. Fucking Duh.

Hey, you not-so-typical SAHM! I'm happy that I can read your thoughts at PME. I thought I was a liberal when I went to college too, but luckily landed in a Republican dorm (not typical at UMass Amherst). I learned the truth, picked up a political science minor and never looked back.

So Kris you became a Republican and right after that failed all your classes. Fascinating.

Welcome Kerry!

To get back on topic, I have lingered on this site for some time and have always admired Kerry's input. Thank you and God Bless You!

Re 45:

Neither was Karl Marx. He just wrote incendiary treatises. but at least he could spell--and in German, no less!

Then again, he, too, was an elitist.

As was proved in another thread elitist doesnt mean anything.At least when used by people on the right.

Re 51:

Just for fun, why don't you give us YOUR definition of elitist, out of the Dictionary for Dummies? (Hint: "E" comes after "D," but before "F.")

I know the dictionary definition but that has nothing to do with how you use the word.

Re 28: You have no respect for light switches and yet you support John Kerry? The ultimate light switch? He changes his political stance so often he flickers constantly - yes, no, yes, no...

http://www.twofacesofbush.com/

Educate yourself before you type Angela. If you want to see flip flops well then check out W's. Kerrys pale in comparison.

Re 55:

I went there. Is it supposed to prove something? It certainly reinforces the notion that the clowns at the MSM are more concerned with style than with substance. I had no idea so many journalists had wasted so much space on snippy comments about the President's facial expressions and hand gestures.

I do recommend you all go see it, though. It's clear evidence of the emptiness of the other side's arguments.

LOL, yeah I guess pointing out someones flip flops is very silly. Too bad thats all you guys got.

Re 57:

Please give examples of how the site you sent us to points out "flip flops." The bulk of the information presented is MSM quotes about the president's physical appearance and non-verbal cues during the debates, with newspaper reporters asserting that he did poorly.

Who cares? The American people agree. Kerry talks nice. But they're still voting for Bush.

So Dumb Yeah listens to Michael Moore and pedophile kiddy-diddler Ritter and takes it as gospel. You really are a sad sack of shit - and all kidding is definetly aside.

Do it now! Blow yourself up for allah! Your displaced Arabs (Palestinians) will worship you! They'll put you along side Rachel (pancake) Corrie. And you'll get laid too! 72 times. You know it's your destiny.

Lord knows you can't get anything more evolved than a turnip down here.

RR cannot seem to handle the fact that I am usually right and all he can do is string curse words together. Its pretty sad really.

The site I provided did provide examples like the whole "I would have gone" thing when he specifically checked the box not to go. And the we cant win the war on terror and then he said we can.

Bush vetoed the patients bill of rights then tried to claim credit for it. Also what happened to the whole going to Mars buissness?

Then there is the time he opposed making a Department of Homeland Security and then was for it. Bush campaigned on promising not to nationbuild then he went we are now attempting it in Iraq.

UY sez:

"RR cannot seem to handle the fact that I am usually right and all he can do is string curse words together. Its pretty sad really."

Snort.

Pot. Kettle. 'Nuff said.

Kerry name argument RR has ever tried to make. Enough said really. BTW I am psychic and I know what you are going to say "Bbut 9/11 changed everything!!!11" im not going to accept that for an anwer.

UY:

"The site I provided did provide examples like the whole “I would have gone” thing when he specifically checked the box not to go. And the we cant win the war on terror and then he said we can."

Point the First: Bush checked the box in 1968, when he entered service. After a few years in service he TWICE investigated the possibility of going to Vietnam, but was not allowed because he did not at the time have enough flight hours. The statement is true. Had he been called he would have gone; as a man of honor and a pilot, he would have had no choice.

You seem to think his statement means, "Boy, I wish I'd gone to Vietnam!" There's no rational grounds for that interpretation....

....Point the Second: When he said we probably can't "win" the war on terror, he was speaking of a conventional "win," in the sense that there would be treaties signed and hands shaken. When he speaks in the second instance of "win," he means in the sense of "prevail," as in democracy triumphs over stupidity and Islamofascism. He believes that the process we are engaged in now leads ineveitably to the ideological pragmatic victory, as in "winning" the Cold War.

In other words, someday the only Islamofascists will be American university professors--Noisy, but impotent and ridiculous

So like I originally said Bush is Capo of the flip floppers, not to mention his flops.

Re 66:

It must be fun to be immune to facts and logic.

What kind of medication do they give you for that?

Do you believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible?

Even Kerry will not be able to save this economy from the mess its currently in. But Bush will bring us to utter ruin if reelected. Do you realize that the *main* way that a nation brings down its debt is by other nations buying its treasury offerings (bonds and otehr financial instruments)? Guess what? The dollar is no longer the only gane in town - other currencies - like the Eoro are becoming preferred debt currencies. As well, foreign nations who are financing current debt literally hold our financial well-being in their hands. All they have to do is start dumping dollars in the international exchange markets and our currency will nosedive. This has already begun to happen because foreign nations have otehr places to buy debt.

Kerry needs to win this election to bring back some sanity to our nation. He's not god, but he's way better than what we currently have.

On the issue of Bush's lie about Saddam seeking nuclear material from Niger: The president's October, 2002, speech in Cincinnati had such a claim in draft and it was removed because the CIA doubted the claim. So Bush knew then his own intelligence did not support that claim. They put it in the State of the Union speech later because they already were campaigning to take the country to war. Anyone trusting the words of George W. Bush is a testimony to blind faith, not common sense.