Just so you don’t look too unhip, it’s Outkast with a “K.”

You know you should think about getting out of your conservative shell that you so comfortable. If you decide to have views then fine. But making sweeping statements like 98% of democrats don’t know why they are then show some facts. Writing something called an “Article” should be based on fact. If you want to show your side without any fact then call it “Opinions”. I find conservative media to do this exact same thing. Take Bill O’reilly for example, “Everyone knows that the ACLU is evil”. These kind of sweeping statements make O’reilly remind me of your article. If you want to have views then fine but back them up with fact.

The fact is that budget cuts have increased in all states, tuition to public universities are at least 6% higher this year, and the presidents of those universities are making more than they ever have in history (Des Moines Register – 11/11/03). The president spends more money on the reconstruction of Iraq by pumping out another 87 billion from the Senate that is going to Haliburton. The vast majority of this was given without first taking bids, Halliburton was just chosen. Funny how Cheney is the ex-CEO of Haliburton. At any rate if you consider that schools in several states have cut back to 4 days a week because State budgets are too low to support teachers wages. How can the education system be re-evaluated if there is not even enough money to keep schools open full time?

Those are facts, dispute them with you opinion if you will, but just remember that pulling a blanket over peoples heads does not get rid of the fundemental problems of our grovernment (both democrats and republicans) and the conservative society which we so dearly hide ourselves in. I do like how you do not ally yourself with a single party, but still find that the justification is weak and mostly irrelevant.
Jim Cummins

Jim,

You’re right. Everything you said was right, except for the whole “you should think about getting out of your conservative shell”… blah, blah, blah. It is an article… called an editorial.

No, I don’t agree with what the Bush administration has done. It’s terribly shady, and I don’t like it one bit. But, you must agree that the majority of Americans are liberal (in this case, used synonymously with Democrats) because it’s the popular thing.

I don’t buy into it. Screw the “conservative shell” crap, I want the best for my country and it’s people. The statements made by Wesley Clark in the video are definitely in the worst interests of the country, although the ideas are more popular.

“All you tight-a**ed, rich Republicans…” I hear a lot of that. I’ll tell you right now that I’m certainly not rich, and I’m certainly not tight-a**ed, but I do have a moral foundation that I won’t back away from even though it’s not popular.

If you don’t like it, then you’re free to not like it, and that’s fine. But I won’t stop. I don’t want to see worse things come of our country. I want better things. Whether they’re liberal or conservative ideals doesn’t matter to me, so long as it’s what’s best for our country and our people.

As far as the school issue, you’re right. And, as I said in the article, I believe that my ideas would be *ideal*. You can’t honestly say that teachers get paid what they’re worth. They’re a huge part of forming the minds of the next generation. The better the teachers, the better the next generation.

At the same time, I don’t want the things that I teach my daughter at home to be skewed by the teachings of an ultra-liberal school system… which in the SF Bay Area, it is. I don’t plan on being here for more than another year or two, as I want to move to an area that maintains the general ideals that I have. Sometimes, that’s just what you have to do.