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17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Obama takes entourage ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I harshly disagree with you further down the page, but this comment, sir, is RIGHT ON.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Obama takes entourage ... · 0 replies · -2 points

Why would you report him? I don't think he's abusing the site.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Obama takes entourage ... · 17 replies · -6 points

I am a long-time admirer and supporter of President Obama but I strongly dislike your statement, "It's a disgrace that you have such little loyalty to your country that you insult the office of the Presidency this way."

During Bush's first term, people like me took a lot of abuse from Bush supporters who sounded just like that, and I do not like to hear it repeated now that "my guy" is in office. I wouldn't have liked it even if I hadn't taken it from others.

A great thing about America is that there is very little disgrace in a private citizen insulting a President. To do so is to exercise an essential right.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - The 9/12 · 0 replies · +2 points

I gotta reply AGAIN: even if I criticized in a disrespectful way, I still had every right to. Don't ever forget that, for your own sake.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - The 9/12 · 1 reply · +2 points

I said very harsh and disrespectful things about Bush, and none of that is un-American. It IS American to say whatever we want. Whatever. That's precisely what one of America's greatest glories is: our founders knew that a nation could be strong enough to handle free exchange of ideas. Indeed, the unrestricted exchange of ideas is precisely WHY we have always been so strong. I can disrespect Bush ALL I WANT, and in fact it is my distinctly American right to do so, just as it is anyone else's right to disrespect Obama.

Please, DO disrespect politicians if you have reason to.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - The 9/12 · 0 replies · +1 points

Not being a wiseguy; just seriously asking: can you give me an example of the US government telling you that something you have said is un-American? Really, when did this happen?

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Obama takes entourage ... · 1 reply · 0 points

Oh, please. I hear he also uses a teleprompter! Like GWB didn't have 500 people with him too?

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Organize This through ... · 2 replies · +1 points

What's with "Reverence? " Seems to me like at the very foundation of America was the refusal to revere much of anything (e.g., royalty, aristocracy), and I think that's beautiful. I don't think "reverence" belongs on a list of American values.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - The 9/12 · 4 replies · +1 points

Funny thing about Number 8: "It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion."

You know, I disagreed with authority a lot in 2002 and 2003, and shared my opinion, a whole lot of "conservatives" certainly did suggest that people like me were "un-American." I'm still angry about it, and you all should be, too.

17 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - YOU HAVE RUN OUT OF OU... · 1 reply · +1 points

Another time when the opposition party and many Americans failed to stand up and say "you don't have the money" was before the Iraq War. Imagine how much stronger we would be if we had not entered that disastrously ill-conceived misadventure. It's pretty shameful when people feel "populist anger" only over money, and not over sowing destruction in a country that had not harmed us.

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