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11.20.07 @ 12:01AM

POTTED GROWTH
Re: Shawn Macomber's The Manchurian Questioners:

"Luisa and Gallo-Chasanoff programmed themselves, and now, moments after deprogramming, they want to lecture the nation about truth and the state of democracy?"

While, to some degree, we are all held responsible for our own actions and words, both of these young shills are simply reflecting the failure of the American Public School System (or more aptly, America's "Dumbing-Down Institutions").

And yet, amazingly enough, we continue to act surprised when our newly indoctrinated kiddies come away from these socialist-cesspools with anything short of the values we ourselves hold dear.

Right...

The problem with too many of our college grads these days is that they are, for the most part, little more than "educated" puppets blissfully unaware that it's Big Brother that's holding their strings.

When we start with a foundation of very thoroughly liberal-tainted "learning" and then top it off with a daily dose of the whiney-defeatist pap dished out over the 'National Ritalin Toob', we should not be at all surprised when the end result turns us into a nation of apathetic and ignorantly complacent idiots.
-- Bart

Shawn Macomber's claim that "Neither the Clinton campaign nor CNN, for all their flaws, are in the business of creating Manchurian questioners" may be true, but it skirts the real issue. The real issue is that Democratic candidates, especially Sen. Clinton, are terrified of being in an "uncontrolled environment" where they might be confronted with questions for which they aren't thoroughly prepared--and that CNN is a willing participant in the charade.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

Maybe I can rest easy over the liberals that will be voting for the first time, since a lot of them care more about an IPod than they do casting a vote. If the questions from some of these college age young are any indication the country will be better off it they take the IPod.
-- Elaine Kyle

I wonder if "boxers or briefs" was also a planted question.
-- Gretchen L Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

COMPASSION PLAY
Re: W. James Antle III's Bush Doctrines:

Let me be the first to say I have always hated the expression "compassionate conservatism" -- because it gives ground to the idea that we are not compassionate. In fact, it implies that we know we do not care for others; we just want what is ours.

For twenty years, liberals have beaten us over the head with the Scrooge/Grinch appellation. To the contrary, we are not stingy; we just prefer to direct our money ourselves rather than let the federal government decide for us.

Those two nasty words deny all the good we do through our churches and through street corner, homegrown charities helping the homeless and families down on their luck. Give me a break! That's the one piece of the Bush Doctrine that I WANT to go away.

Let's please bury compassionate conservatism in the dust heap of bad ideas and poorly-thought-out expressions.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

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