Comments on: Primary Results: VA Actually Matters http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=primary-results-va-actually-matters Harrisonburg's Community News Network Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lowell Fulk http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25133 Lowell Fulk Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:41:44 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25133 "I think the people of this country have turned to rely on government and the politicians have been more than willing to pander to them for votes." I agree with you here Myron, and about politicians from both camps pandering. Pandering has replaced leadership, policy and governance in many cases. And Myron, you know me well enough to know I don't know how to relax. :o) “I think the people of this country have turned to rely on government and the politicians have been more than willing to pander to them for votes.”

I agree with you here Myron, and about politicians from both camps pandering. Pandering has replaced leadership, policy and governance in many cases.

And Myron, you know me well enough to know I don’t know how to relax. :o)

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]]> By: republitarian http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25131 republitarian Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:34:43 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25131 Lowell, I don't think anyone would call that a "debate". Let me be more precise. I think the people of this country have turned to rely on government and the politicians have been more than willing to pander to them for votes. I'll be the first to admit that both parties have engaged in pandering, but to say it's all "conservative policies" is also weak..... your side can share aplenty in the blame too. I simply believe that the government should create a level playing field for competition and provide for our defense. Shaun defined me.....not you. Relax.....Obama will win. Lowell, I don’t think anyone would call that a “debate”.

Let me be more precise.

I think the people of this country have turned to rely on government and the politicians have been more than willing to pander to them for votes.

I’ll be the first to admit that both parties have engaged in pandering, but to say it’s all “conservative policies” is also weak….. your side can share aplenty in the blame too.

I simply believe that the government should create a level playing field for competition and provide for our defense.

Shaun defined me…..not you.

Relax…..Obama will win.

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]]> By: Lowell Fulk http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25101 Lowell Fulk Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:57:14 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25101 O.K. I just allowed myself to get pulled into debating again when I shouldn't. Please accept my apology Brent. I for some reason have that affect on a blog. Must resist! Won't happen again... You all figure it out. O.K.
I just allowed myself to get pulled into debating again when I shouldn’t.
Please accept my apology Brent. I for some reason have that affect on a blog. Must resist!
Won’t happen again…
You all figure it out.

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]]> By: Lowell Fulk http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25100 Lowell Fulk Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:47:18 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25100 No Myron, I am today's liberal. I and like thinking individuals. And Shaun Kenney's attempts to define me and my friends, and what we together stand for, come up both short and weak. Why I might ask, did you need to go to someone else to find a definition for that which you rail against? Did you not know already? And let me say Myron, if you are indeed a "classic liberal" then welcome... I look forward to working with you against the status quos, and the supposed conservative leadership who have done so much harm to the society I love. No Myron, I am today’s liberal. I and like thinking individuals. And Shaun Kenney’s attempts to define me and my friends, and what we together stand for, come up both short and weak.
Why I might ask, did you need to go to someone else to find a definition for that which you rail against? Did you not know already?
And let me say Myron, if you are indeed a “classic liberal” then welcome… I look forward to working with you against the status quos, and the supposed conservative leadership who have done so much harm to the society I love.

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]]> By: republitarian http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25098 republitarian Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:28:11 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25098 Lowell, Shaun Kenney tells me I am a classical liberal, which is what you've defined. Today's liberal worships socialism and the state's ability to take care of everything and everyone. Lowell, Shaun Kenney tells me I am a classical liberal, which is what you’ve defined.

Today’s liberal worships socialism and the state’s ability to take care of everything and everyone.

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]]> By: Lowell Fulk http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25088 Lowell Fulk Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:28:45 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25088 Cook, here's where we're on different planes. You are now where I was about a decade ago. And you know what? I decided I had had enough. Now my time of making a difference may have run its course, and yours is just beginning. Step up. It ain't a frickin tea party man. Roll up the sleeves and pile on. No one can make the difference you want to see but you. Or as Ghandi said, (and perhaps one of my favorite quotes) You must be the change you wish to see in the world... But back to the original premise of your last post(s). While you dispair, I see reason for hope. Finally, real hope. I look at my daughters and their peers, and see reason to believe. I look at your beautiful daughters, and I see reason for you to work your ass off to make sure the society that they will step into when they are my daughter's age is a good one. And because Cook, I believe in you, I have hope.... Think about it... Cook, here’s where we’re on different planes.
You are now where I was about a decade ago. And you know what? I decided I had had enough. Now my time of making a difference may have run its course, and yours is just beginning. Step up. It ain’t a frickin tea party man. Roll up the sleeves and pile on. No one can make the difference you want to see but you. Or as Ghandi said, (and perhaps one of my favorite quotes) You must be the change you wish to see in the world…

But back to the original premise of your last post(s).
While you dispair, I see reason for hope. Finally, real hope.
I look at my daughters and their peers, and see reason to believe. I look at your beautiful daughters, and I see reason for you to work your ass off to make sure the society that they will step into when they are my daughter’s age is a good one. And because Cook, I believe in you, I have hope….
Think about it…

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]]> By: finnegan http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25087 finnegan Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:18:13 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25087 What, no love for Ron Paul, cook? He's all about some liberty. ;) What, no love for Ron Paul, cook? He’s all about some liberty.

;)

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]]> By: cook http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25084 cook Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:02:48 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25084 change "would enter the contest" to "wouldn't enter the contest" - thanks change “would enter the contest” to “wouldn’t enter the contest” – thanks

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]]> By: cook http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/comment-page-2/#comment-25083 cook Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:01:14 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2008/02/06/primary-results-va-actually-matters/#comment-25083 Here I am again, heading to the polls tomorrow with no one to vote FOR. Is it too much to ask? Is this the last vestige of idealism in me? I am resigned to the fact that I'll always be voting AGAINST someone in November, but it seems like I should be able to vote FOR someone in the Primary. I know no candidate is going to share ALL of my views, but I don't think I am so far out of the mainstream. Perhaps the process is so whacked that the sort of person I would like to see in the White House would enter the contest. I don't know. Or maybe Liberty isn't a mainstream idea anymore. Here I am again, heading to the polls tomorrow with no one to vote FOR. Is it too much to ask? Is this the last vestige of idealism in me? I am resigned to the fact that I’ll always be voting AGAINST someone in November, but it seems like I should be able to vote FOR someone in the Primary. I know no candidate is going to share ALL of my views, but I don’t think I am so far out of the mainstream.

Perhaps the process is so whacked that the sort of person I would like to see in the White House would enter the contest. I don’t know.

Or maybe Liberty isn’t a mainstream idea anymore.

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