Your deep-seated denial is purely pathlogic and

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It's called living in the Land of Oz. I'm embarrassed for y'all, who are too ignorant to do your own research.

Just pitiful socialists. I hope y'all enjoy making less $ next year in the event Obama wins. Run the numbers for yourself. Better yet, run it by your CPA. Yet, all I ever read here is how much less $ everyone makes literally constantly.

It's all emotion. But funny how there's no emotion about aborting a baby on moment's notice.

Proactive old-school people lived in a different world. They were raised with different values, that they learned from the small circle of people around them in their families and communities, prior to a media driven society. They had confidence born of being doers and fixers.

Sadly, they're speaking to a hostile audience, as each generation appears to become more apathetic and helpless. Our values have shifted. We consume and dispose, we don't plan and preserve, or heaven forbid, repair or do without. We spend and do not save. We accept and follow blindly whatever we are told. We question nothing, because then we might have to DO something or change. So much easier to go with the flow, wherever it takes us.

We don't want to see cause and effect. We don't want to see it when we are part of the problem. If the struggle to survive doesn't take up all our time, we're so busy obsessing over our looks and possessions (or that of celebrities) we can't be bothered to notice what's wrong, why its wrong, and what to do about it. Fads and entertainment are all we appear enthused about. We don't know why we're in a war, and we don't really care. We don't know why the bank just sent us more fine print in the mail, we'll just shrug and pay the higher charges, OK, whatever. We don't know why so many things are spiraling out of control, we'll just go back to our TV and assume there's nothing we can do about it.

Sure, it would be great if we could find a hero to fix it all for us. As long as that hero didn't ask us to change. The possibility that you or I could be that hero is just not going to cross our minds. Meanwhile, we'll accept whoever volunteers for the job of running things, and not worry too much about what agendas motivate them.

This country is crying out for help. Government spending is WAY out of control. This is one major reason that I am not voting for Obama. In his charismatic talk of change, he is wanting to spend more money on these so called programs to help the poor and the middle class. Raising taxes will not bail our country out of the situation we have found ourselves in. All I hear about nowadays is how Bush has dragged this country down and now all republicans are bad. Congress is controlled by democrats. They are just as guilty in all this government spending crap. All politicians are to blame for this. Stop the outrageous spending!!!!! Stop padding your pockets full of money while the rest of the country struggles to live! All politicians care about is getting in office and making money for themselves. Do they really stop to think about our country and the long-term effects?

I don't know that McCain has all the answers to help pull us out, but at least I have more faith in him. At least he isn't wanting to create government programs that will up the spending and will ultimately fail to achieve anything. Universal healthcare is not the answer. Doesn't work for other countries....why would it work for this one? Everyone keeps saying how Obama will cut taxes....all of these government programs will not cut taxes. They will increase them.....simple as that.

The true evil here is government spending. STOP THE GOVERNMENT SPENDING!!!! They can tax us until we have absolutely no money left whatsoever and the government would just spend it all and that is the problem.

you have let your perceptions get the best of you. I was not aware, until this thread that Carla had lost someone in Iraq this year. Some of us have not been here as long as others and don't read the hundreds of threads to pick these little nuances up. I'm sorry you have such a huge chip on your shoulder, and if I offended Carla and you I'm sorry, but it still does not change my opinion on the larger issues at hand.

This is from Dean's World, which is a liberal website, by the way. Even this liberal doesn't agree with you. Your Bush Derangement Syndrome has taken an even darker and deeper turn. You might want to spend more time watching the animals and contemplating where all this hatred comes from.

Obnoxious

One of the more shallow memes of the current war goes like this:

Isn't it shameful that President Bush hasn't attended the funerals of very many of the service men who have fallen in this war?

Anyone who thinks very hard about this knows this is an incredibly shallow criticism. Otherwise, the great Generals and Presidents of history, such as Roosevelt, Eisenhower, MacAurther, Patton, Lincoln, and Grant would have never done anything with their time except attend funerals.

Still, if you need to know what history shows, then ask a veteran. As Gulf War veteran John Cole notes, no President has ever regularly attended military funerals.

That's right. Franklin Roosevelt didn't. Harry Truman didn't. Dwight Eisenhower didn't. John F. Kennedy didn't. Lyndon Johnson didn't. Richard Nixon didn't. Ford and Carter didn't. Reagan attended more than most Presidents ever did, but still usually didn't. Bush the Elder usually didn't. Clinton did a couple of times, but mostly didn't.

What if we go all the way back to Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington? Turns out that they didn't either.

Why? Because if they did, they would do almost nothing else.

The President of the United States is the leader of hundreds of millions of people. Part of his job is to command hundreds of thousands of people in the military. The next time you vote for a President, I hope you think very hard about that, because that's one of the most important things any President ever does.

But one thing he generally doesn't do is attend the funeral of every fallen service man. Mind you, a good one wishes he could attend every such funeral. A good one feels it like a knife in his gut every time a soldier falls. But he can't be there every time a soldier falls. He just can't.

If you don't understand that, then, to be blunt, you lack maturity