tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post689046727774700445..comments2023-12-29T05:24:43.830-06:00Comments on Kay Brooks: Palin's ABC interview IIKay Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-20882141143628299122008-09-12T14:40:00.000-05:002008-09-12T14:40:00.000-05:00Kay, this is my last comment. But thanks for provi...Kay, this is my last comment. But thanks for providing me with a work distraction. I'm being sincere.<BR/><BR/>1.) I pray to Jesus.<BR/>2.) I hear answers.<BR/>3.) I love to wave the flag and honor our soldiers.<BR/>4.) After the governmental morass known as the Bush administration, I yearn for less government. Or at the very least, I want a more responsible government.<BR/>5.) I want lower taxes.<BR/><BR/>I suppose we have more in common than previously thought.T.V. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13513684470139236109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-35823464131709163962008-09-12T14:18:00.000-05:002008-09-12T14:18:00.000-05:00That is true. I consider myself to be a liberal li...That is true. I consider myself to be a liberal libertarian. As society naturally progress, yesterday's liberal can morph into tomorrow's conservative. I've known young conservatives who have progressed into leftists as well. It goes both ways.T.V. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13513684470139236109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-80626670061203746762008-09-12T14:09:00.000-05:002008-09-12T14:09:00.000-05:00I'm not implying it at all. I'm saying it straight...I'm not implying it at all. I'm saying it straight out. The people Palin brings back to the debate are not un-normal Americans either. Many of them, like her, hunt, fish, pray to Jesus and expect to hear answers, have more than 2.2 children, know their minds and hearts without hesitation, love to wave the flag and honor our soldiers, have children that veer off the path and others that are fighting evil across the globe, want lower taxes, drilling for oil here, less government and doubt that 'community organizer' is a real job, let alone one that trumps governor of any state. <BR/><BR/>They key is in the fact that you are a 'young liberal'. I suggest you spend some time considering what might be normal when you're 45 or 55. As I heard this morning, sometimes where you stand depends upon where you sit. You'll be sitting in a different place in a couple of decades. Statistically, you'll see things differently and will likely be standing in a much more conservative place then.Kay Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-901717583052918962008-09-12T13:59:00.000-05:002008-09-12T13:59:00.000-05:00I don't think Kay Brooks is stupid or backward. Do...I don't think Kay Brooks is stupid or backward. Does she have a misinterpretation of God and humanity. From my view, yes. But then again, this is my view. One formed by my environment, my understanding of God and humanity.T.V. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13513684470139236109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-85454998553264675652008-09-12T13:44:00.000-05:002008-09-12T13:44:00.000-05:00I was going to add a comment more connected to sub...I was going to add a comment more connected to substantive topic of the post, but this talk about alienating "normal Americans" disturbs me, because it's something I hear from modern Republicans too often, the not-so-subtle implication being, I take it, that we who are strong liberals or strong supporters of Barack Obama are not "normal Americans." I'm sick of hearing lines like that from conservatives.<BR/><BR/>It's wrong, frankly, when some liberals suggest that those who disagree with them on policy are, by definition, backwards and stupid. There are liberals like that out there, and they sicken our political discourse and, in the long run, hurt their own cause. They should be ashamed.<BR/><BR/>But those on the right who peddle the idea that those who disagree with them on policy are somehow un-American, somehow cut off from the standard, American experience, fall into the exact same category. Really, I think they do more harm than the alternative smear ever can, because they corrupt, for those well-intentioned liberals, the language of patriotism and of national community. When one encounters a liberal who shows some degree of discomfort with large displays of national love, parades of flags, mass recitation of the Pledge, and so on and so forth, one should ask how many times they have had it suggested to them that such things belong to the real Americans, the good, god-loving, decent, values-having Americans, and not to them.<BR/><BR/>I suppose, as a young liberal, I am possibly being overly emotional about a largely rhetorical point, but these things really do bother me. I can't tell you how many times I've been watching, say, C-SPANN or Republican commentators on CNN and heard them talk about the things American families know and value...and realized that they aren't including me and mine in that definition.<BR/><BR/>That seriously messed with my head, when I was younger, and it hasn't gotten any better, now that I can vote. So please, please...talk about how Palin will show us all that Obama's policies are wrong. Talk about how the attacks on her are unfair. Even talk about how the media is out to get her. I'm okay with all that, though I vehemently disagree.<BR/><BR/>But don't imply that those she brings around are "normal Americans" and that those of us who think Obama will be a great president are something other. That's just wrong.N.S. Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594978546540226304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-5301169679494498262008-09-12T13:36:00.000-05:002008-09-12T13:36:00.000-05:00Me either.Me either.Kay Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-68574867737229998542008-09-12T13:33:00.000-05:002008-09-12T13:33:00.000-05:00Normal Americans? I suppose normal is in the eye o...Normal Americans? I suppose normal is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes, I can't believe we live in the same country and worship the same God.T.V. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13513684470139236109noreply@blogger.com