That makes absolute sense. I will append your comment with one caveat, however.
Lately, the term liberal has been placed on the precipice of a very slippery slope. One push into liberal, and you are considered to be in a deep, dark hole of america-hating venom. Traditionally, the opinions I've listed here are considered very moderate and often border on conservative, and yet I find myself unfairly catagorized based on a small portion of my beliefs. For instance, I would not consider someone who was pro-iraq war to be a right-wing, bible-wielding, gay-bashing, anti-abortion, pro-death penalty idealogue with a deep desire to turn the Middle East into a solid sheet of glass. And yet, you bring up one issue about habeus corpus... you bring up one claim that the public was mislead about the ties between 9/11 and Iraq, and suddenly you're one foot out of a Greenpeace ship. The modern political stereotypes are hurting debate... they are hurting our nation.
You know why I think so many conservatives are willing to vote for Barak Obama? Because he's the first semi-conservative in a long time who hasn't tried to demonize half of america as the enemy.
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Date: 2007-03-01 06:11 am (UTC)Lately, the term liberal has been placed on the precipice of a very slippery slope. One push into liberal, and you are considered to be in a deep, dark hole of america-hating venom. Traditionally, the opinions I've listed here are considered very moderate and often border on conservative, and yet I find myself unfairly catagorized based on a small portion of my beliefs. For instance, I would not consider someone who was pro-iraq war to be a right-wing, bible-wielding, gay-bashing, anti-abortion, pro-death penalty idealogue with a deep desire to turn the Middle East into a solid sheet of glass. And yet, you bring up one issue about habeus corpus... you bring up one claim that the public was mislead about the ties between 9/11 and Iraq, and suddenly you're one foot out of a Greenpeace ship. The modern political stereotypes are hurting debate... they are hurting our nation.
You know why I think so many conservatives are willing to vote for Barak Obama? Because he's the first semi-conservative in a long time who hasn't tried to demonize half of america as the enemy.