Armed With Only Needle and Thread

MitchSchaft said:
Reagan?! Dear Lord, boy. First you think McCain is a good guy and now Reagan? I'm beginning to wonder about you.
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Hey, seriously...Reagan was smarter than most gave gim credit for.
 
Ok hold it right there MitchSchaft. Before you say something you're going to regret. At least wait until the mans dead.
 
MitchSchaft said:
He wan't as bad as Clinton, but he did give us the machine-gun ban and more federal drug laws.
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Any republican is going to keep the "war on drugs" going. They do make mistakes.

Komrade Klinton makes me physically ill to even look at.
 
Mitch, I admire Reagan a lot. I don't know a lot about McCain, and I will go research him a bit, but Reagan was the greatest president in this last century. He had balls of titanium and a wicked sense of humor.
 
Gonz said:
Speaking of Powell, why all the excitement about him? He was the main detractor during Desert Storm. Stormin' Norman was the all guts & glory guy. Colin is a good guy but he's not thesecond coming fer christs sake.
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Actually, Powell is known for that tactic since Vietnam. He wasn't actually against the war. He just wanted to be absolutely sure that, if we went in there would be no meddling from every elected official in the US. I met Colin Powell once, and he strikes me as a man who fights only when there is no other choice...as should we all.
 
Powell is still one of the few people i look up to in the world. In fact i could probably count that group on one hand. Meeting with Arafat was a questionable decision IMO bacause he's a terrorist leader while granted he's also at least some type of state head. But i'm not the be all end all judge. I know the man knows war & death, and i know he values human life, i see it in his works. So i give him that one thing without totally understanding his thinking.
 
MitchSchaft said:
That's why I'll vote Libertarian given the chance.
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Oh, Lord-- not Harry "Blame-America-First" Browne, I hope?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28918
 
MitchSchaft said:
I've never heard of that guy. And I'm pretty new to a lot of stuff, so I haven't heard of a lot of guys.
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He was the Libertarian presidential candidate in 2000.

You mentioned Atlas Shrugged in another thread, so I take it that you're reading up on the philosophical case for laissez-faire capitalism. Rand was emphatically not a Libertarian. The Libertarian movement is a united front movement that includes anarchists, anarcho-marxists and other enemies of liberty. The movement rejects the notion that the philosophical case for liberty requires a principled, ethical argument. They do not believe that there is a single argument for liberty. Anyone who says they believe in liberty is accepted as part of the Libertarian movement, regardless of whether their argument actually contradicts reality and undercuts the philosophical defense of liberty.

Anyway, here are some good websites for learning more about Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism:

http://www.aynrand.org/
http://www.aynrandbookstore.com
http://www.capmag.com/
http://www.intellectualactivist.com/
http://www.objectivismtoday.com/

Have fun!
 
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