I don't know; her reality show is very enlightening. I say, let her keep it, because how could anyone elect someone with a reality TV show? Let her and the Donald keep on keepin' on. It's only hurting their own chances.

She's really got you guys scared dosen't she.

I think that I should share some of my thoughts with you about our nation today, its condition and its relationship with the antagonists of western civilization particularly in the middle east.I believe that you and I live in the finest nation with the finest government (civil servant class) that has ever been designed by collective human thought. We are a young nation with its own unique problems but we have the resources, human and otherwise, to solve all of them in time. The two key behaviors that the American people must permit one another at this time in our history are civility and patience. Sooner or later these behaviors always lend themselves to understanding and convention.

In my estimation there are a number of reasons for the unfortunate decline in the overall quality of life in our country over the last 50 years. The conflict in Vietnam deeply divided and unsettled the American people. We were simply on the wrong side of a nationalist uprising regardless of the involvement by the communists. If Chiang Kai Shek had been a little less of a nationalist, if Ho Chi Minh had been a little less of a communist, if the wealthy and the powerful in the western world had been a little less inclined and eager to meddle in the internal affairs of another nation the entire fiasco in Vietnam likely would never have come about.

Conflict and conformity both will always inflict hardship on the growth and prosperity of a nation such as ours. Conflict destroys lives and when people are taught only to conform (as in our collective workplaces today) they do not create. They procreate but they do not create. At best conformity lends itself to apathy among a people. They become cogs in what seems a mindless purposeless machine. Input and output and from output input again. Conventional wisdom, you see, is not always the best wisdom.

Speaking from a domestic point of view Ronald Reagan was one of the most destructive forces to arrive on the scene in this country since the wealthy anarchists of the 1920s and the 1930s. Reagan assumed that because men and women in this country had become captains of industry they must be all knowing, all wise and capable of collective leadership in fulfilling the needs of our entire nation. This was an erroneous assumption on his part as history has shown us now that his notion of trickle down economics has not worked. It has not worked principally because it was never a reflection of the way that the American people have been led to believe over the generations. The American people have been tacitly lead (taught) to believe that if a person has more they should want more and it should be the other person who gives and not them. This is the way of wealth in this country even today. Furthermore the wealthy families in this country have shown time and again that they can hardly agree on the time of day. The only two things they do agree on are the taking of profit and the control of the thoughts and actions of their own minions. So much for this idea of collective leadership by the wealthy families of this nation. Collectively they want to rule but they are incapable of leading collectively.

It is a curiosity at this time in our history that so many of the republican mouth-pieces for the wealthy families seem to be desperately trying to legislate religious morality for our entire diverse nation of people. Morality belongs to the individual and each person develops their own sense of what is good and bad for them from the time they are born. No two persons are alike because the past of no two persons is the same. In most cultures somewhere along the line of a persons moral development religious values and convention become embedded. This is a good thing and usually leads to general convention in a society but for any one person or group to try to legislate religious morality to an entire diverse nation such as ours is foolishness at the outset. Personally I believe that the root of this argument is the maintenance of the status quo by maintaining division in the sentiments of the people and avoiding the real issues of the day. In short it is a profit making distraction for some among us on the grandest of scales.

Again, speaking from a domestic point of view George Bush Jr. was truly the bane of our nation. He did his best to bring Reagans deranged fantasy to life. He deregulated virtually everything and this put us all on the road to national suicide if we do not turn away soon enough. The very same thing happened in Vietnam in the 1940s and 1950s. A small handful of wealthy families were raping the Vietnamese people until the people decided they had had enough. The fantasy of the wealthy man all too often is the establishment of a "merchant class paradise" where the only laws that matter are those of a would be wealthy ruling class. The translation of this is feudalism for you and I. Feudalism demands the maintenance of private mercenary armies, associated peasantries and eternal conflict. The descent into feudalism always signals the death of any modern nation. Just looking at the Republican party itself today I do not see them as a separate party. Because the democratic ideal in this country is the ideological “mother tongue” I see the Republican party as an excrescence of the Democratic party. I see the constituents of this party as the self-serving anarchists among us. Still they are forced by popular will to accept the Democratic ideal even though I am sure that many of them would rather reject the concept altogether. Even a child understands the concept of Democracy: One man, one vote. One woman , one vote and our Republic is meant to reflect this idea even though historically it has not always done so thanks for the most part to the self-serving anarchists who have always been among us.

Capitalism and commerce in general at this point in history are good things as long as they are regulated for the good of all the people. Personally I would prefer Nationalism over Feudalism because I refuse to be someone elses peasant. For nearly a century now all too many of our wealthy ruling class in this country have done their best to dismantle our unions (believing it is their God given right to ignore the health and well being of their employees), destroy our middle class and of late neglect our educational systems as much as possible. These tactics are not new ones but very old in their origin. They are all based around the idea of feudalism. Too many of these families reason thusly: “Why should we defer to the worker in our employment when we enjoy God given good fortune and should not be compelled to share this with anyone else even with respect to the health and longevity of the workers in our workplace?” Many of these persons and families feel that unions are in defiance of their authority with this line of reasoning. “Why do we need a middle class to protect us from the peasantry we have been cultivating and abusing all along the way when we now have the worlds largest and most heavily armed police and armed forces to protect us from any uprising on the part of the peasantry in this country?.” This line of reasoning on the part of many of our wealthy families stems from guilt and fear over the sure knowledge that they have taken liberty with the poor and working of this country often beyond any reasonable boundary. “Why do we need a progressive educational system with integrity in this nation when an educated peasantry would be a danger to us?” This last line of thought lies at the very root of feudalism: ignorance of the masses.

All of these lines of query and reasoning lie at the very heart of the feudal mentality and this is a mentality that the American people must overcome if we are to survive and progress as a nation. For the last 30 years we have seen that the wealth of this nation have had the best of both worlds. They have pursued a program of less and less pay for the American worker and investment in low paying sweat shops in other nations with whatever profits they generate here. This has been not only a betrayal of the American people but the peoples of other nations as well. This will all lead to a severe decline in the quality of life in our country for the people as a whole and will only keep the peoples of other nations in despair. The term “wealthy ruling class” is not without meaning especially in these times. Especially it is a clear statement of many of these families intentions. These are people who have wedged themselves between the American citizen and their government. This is a most unfortunate circumstance which should be remedied as soon as possible. I am not concerned with the products of human conception such as “private property”. I am concerned with the human condition. Most of all with the condition of my own citizens.

I am a Nationalist. I am most closely an FDR Democrat. I believe in the collective voice of the citizen. I do not subscribe to the paradigm of left wing or right wing seeing this as only another means of dividing the people. Why divide and conquer when you can divide and control? I believe only in fair and just order to a society and that anything less is only dissarray and anarchy. I am one who believes in limited but effective government.This seperates me from the anarchist on Wall Street who in reality believes in no national government at all. I believe in a strong but compact and specialized military and intelligence community. I believe that in these times we need more of an intelligence community and less of an armed forces. I believe in strong unions in this country though I question the need for unions in the government workplace (because I assume the basic goodness of government to begin with). Unions should and must exist in the private sector of this country to guard against the excesses and opportunistic inclinations and behavior of the merchant class as a whole. I believe in strong and healthy religious institutions in this country. These institutions do a great service to the collective spirit of the American people. I believe that too many of our representatives today lie in bed with our captains of industry and too many of our wealthy armaments families presently lie in bed with any number of our generals and this must all end as soon as possible. President Eisenhower himself warned us about these things decades ago. We do not need communism in this country because unlike the Russia and China of old our religious institutions are not wrapped around the finger of our government. Our religious institutions serve the people more than they serve the government. The sum of all of this then is that I believe in a dynamic society whose internal institutions have integrity and are balanced for the good of all of its citizens.

The reemergence of Islam and its extremist elements on the world scene today will likely continue to be a problem for the civilized world for some good time to come (perhaps as much as 50 to 100 years into the future). Surely between Judeo-Christianity and Islam there is a conflict of culture which has already shown itself as persistent. Lately we are witnessing the birth of nations in the cradle of Islam though.We are witnessing millions of young Muslims demanding societies based on Democratic ideals and this is a wonderful thing. We must be vigilant though. We must guard ourselves internally, hold to our own beliefs and maintain an iron clad intelligence gathering capacity around the middle-east particularly. These things can be done cost effectively with very little military intervention. I believe in more eyes and ears and fewer boots on the ground. We need to tend to our own internal affairs as a nation. I myself am a Democratic Republican in the strictest sense. I believe in the ideal of Democracy first and then the Republic I believe that a Republic can be as any people would have it so long as the ideal of Democracy is held as its precursor. I am Judeo-Christian because these modern times demand it and really the times always have. One without the other in these times would be weakened and without context knowing that too many of the opponents of western civilization perceive the Jew and the Christian as one and the same anyway. Now more than at any other time in history the Jew and the Christian must stand together as one. Most of all though I say these things because the great dynamics between Judaism and Christianity are what have given us the wonderful effects of western civilization that we have today. To be sure the Oriental mind, the Persian, Arab and many, many others have contributed along the way but for the most part it has been the Jew and the Christian who have brought everything together and given us the wonderful western civilization we understand today. There is hope but more than this we must have determination in our efforts. We must be vigilant, without promiscuity in our thoughts and willing to work together side by side at all times to see to the needs of our collective future in western civilization.

These are some of my thoughts today about our nation, its people and the problems we face.Thank you for considering them.

---Yoda

Looks like they welcomed her open arms huh Joe? See how the main stream press makes you think one thing and its COMPLETELY FALSE!!

When was the last time you saw a seat belt on a motorcycle? Do you wear a helmet when you drive your car?

Show up and say that Smukers, I'd imagine your punk little butt would get it's ass kicked like you probably do at your junior high school on a daily basis.

Yet you will embrace this President when until it was reconized he would't even put his hand over his heart when it came to our Pledge of Allegiance. It wasn't the conservitives that spit on our boys comming home. It was the same people that all of you seem to be embracing.What happend. Did you forget? I got in a fight at the begining of the iraq war. They were spitting on our kids that had joined aftrer 9/11 Don't you remember? Sarah Palin would give more support from her heart than Obama wants to give. What the hell is going on here?

Phill - better do a little more research...Sarah is a vindictive Person...she has no heart

Lastskyo:

Again no fact just name calling, or dirt throwing.

Yeah - Lastko - what kind of research is that?

Fact: Sarah Palin is currently not running for any office, so how are you voting for her?

Fact: Riding with Rolling Thunder requires no invitation, speaking for\with them does (we'll see what happens)

Fact: Humans weren't engineered by Humans

Fact: You come across as extremely unhappy and bitter

Sincerely,

Someone who can spot passionate ignorance from a mile away (163)

IQ has little to do with common sense even if mine is close enough in that neighborhood to not even mention it.

I doubt yours is honestly, or you wouldn't be insecure and make that a factor in your post.

Nice try though.

Don,

I really hope that you're not referring to my response, in which I was was following the rhythm presented, because your comment could, unfortunately, be dismantled.

You're are correct that, I will assume it is, she, clearly is aware that people who associate, defend or align themselves with Palin, and even Palin herself, are accused of being, lets say, less than brilliant, hence the insecurity or need to declare an above average Intelligence Quotient.

Oh, so you're the one!

IQ 60 maybe average of fox noise viewers.

No mine was directed at the OP actually, as threads usually operate that way, unless otherwise stated.

: )

Just out of curiosity why would you type an "are" after you're to begin with if I must nitpick and how do you know the OP is a female if I gather what you were saying is correct ?

It's irrelevant on the later, I was just curious on how you ascertained that from what was posted :)

When you stand on the IQ machine after you go to the bathroom, does your IQ go down to about 145?

@Don-714119

'Sorry for this derail'
The use of the contracted form of "are" along with the actual word, and, as you can also see, the doubling of the word "was", are simply resultant from haste. Grammatical errors, I will declare here and now, will certainly occur again in my future posts in some form or another.

As for the gender, I can say with some certainty, roughly 80/90%, the OP is female. Gender can be ascertained by examining the overall content of a post, its delivery - as in structure\syntax, language pattern used, and the emotional vs. logical processes. Maturity can obviously effect the reliability of emotion as the tell. The screen name can sometimes help, although, that's more easily manipulated and can tend to be ambiguous. Handwriting would be even more defining.

On a side note, She also used the commonly European form of "Favour"

All of this can be as, or more telling than voice on a phone.

Disregarding all of that, Palin's supporters seem to attract more females than males. Its an "identify with" thing, I guess. Her looks are what the majority of males are only interested in.

Ultimately though, as you stated, its totally irrelevant, I was simply looking for the correct pronoun.

P.S. Its weird talking about someone in the third person in front of them

One would think that with an IQ of 146 you would know that it is "sites", not "sights". Twat.

what's really funny is watching all of you getting in line to blow Obama.

Is Michelle Baracks brother?

Maybe illinoice believes this left sided Government did have something to do with it. You know! Sorta like the Obama hit list. Sorta like the patriot act you guys were so against until now. Like I've said before without your double standards you wouldn't have any standards at all. He can copy the last administration down to a tee and you guys will somehow find it to be wounderful because it's Obama. What I believe is. That people like you are so afraid of Palin all you can do is bombard her website. Shut her up. Because the truth hurts. If it wasn't true you wouldn't be so worried. Again you talk civility. But thats all it is . All talk.

Phil you don't have to convince liberals until you first convince the republicans, she has never had any support from the left and her popularity has dropped like a rock with what once was her fan base. Republicans will not nominate her, it has nothing to do with liberals, she polls at less than 17% in a Fox poll, democrats are the least of her problems, she has no support in her own party. Care to address that?

What! convince liberals of their double stndards? That polls don't mean anything at this piont. Facts Brother. We need facts.

Theres alot of vets that like her and believe she has every right to be there. Just like you do. Even though I hope I don't run into you.

He's hated by the natives? You mean the illegal mexicans? As far as the texans come lately read a history book. And again when the left has no real argument all they can do is call names and throw dirt. What a follower. See ya later Ed Schultz.

Actually, Phil dear ... the REAL natives would be Native Americans and not Mexicans. I forget exactly which Nations were in Texas originally ... but you can bet it was NOT anyone of European descent.

Cat:

Your friend tacky started this conversation. He's the one who dosen't understand who the natives are. I was just replying with a jest about illegals.

She was invited to ride by Mike Depaulo. Who invited you?

Why? She's from Alaska where real truckers come from. I bet you ride a honda. I'm a real Biker I like girls. Dose your ol lady look as good as sarah. Or do you just go riding with Palmala Handerson.

Herb, yer kidding right? Did she start reading and you're the only one that's gotten the word?