MAKO
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Found this on a web site. Liked the quotes.
Quote:The stakes are too high for for government to be a spectator sport. - Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman
Quote:The only title in our democracy that is greater than that of President is the title of citizen. - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that every has. - Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
Quote:Our children should learn the general framework of their government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of democracy is important. - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
Quote:Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has had the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. Ralph Barton Perry, Philosopher
Quote:I had reasoned this out in my mind, there were two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman, Abolotionist
Quote:I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States
Quote:The right to vote is the primary right by which other rights are protected. Thomas Paine, Founding Father
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DrTorch
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You left out:
"An uninformed vote is more dangerous than no vote at all"
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MAKO
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Would that apply to the 40% or so of Dubya supporters who still think Sadaam had "massive stockpiles" of chemical weapons at the time we invaded?
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MAKO Wrote:Would that apply to the 40% or so of Dubya supporters who still think Sadaam had "massive stockpiles" of chemical weapons at the time we invaded?
No it would apply to people who watch F 9/11 and consider it the gospel. That's 90% of the base of your party.
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Ninerfan1 Wrote:MAKO Wrote:Would that apply to the 40% or so of Dubya supporters who still think Sadaam had "massive stockpiles" of chemical weapons at the time we invaded?
No it would apply to people who watch F 9/11 and consider it the gospel. That's 90% of the base of your party.
That's a gross exagerration. :rolleyes:
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I would dare say that 60% of the voters are voting against one man and not for the other.
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When an incumbent is running, the election is always a referendum on the incumbent's performance.
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Open Secrets Wrote:That's a gross exagerration. :rolleyes:
Don't bet on it. Conservative and Moderate democrats are not the base of the Democratic party.
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Ninerfan1 Wrote:Open Secrets Wrote:That's a gross exagerration. :rolleyes:
Don't bet on it. Conservative and Moderate democrats are not the base of the Democratic party.
They also make up far more than 10% of the Democratic party.
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