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When I first watched this video I couldn’t get past how wildly optimistic it was. Yes, the whole world will never turn into the perfect place, but that doesn’t have to be the point of the song and video. You should be doing everything you can everyday to make SOMEONE’S world a better place. Its MUCH better to help someone else than help yourself. I encourage everyone in 2007 to do 10 more hours of community service than you did in 2006. If that number was 0 in 2006, now it will be 10 hours. You’ll feel better, your life will be better, and your community will be better because of you.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
If everyone cared
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I'll second that! Best post in ages. :-)
I knew you would say that...and thanks
Scorpion says---
Just another in a long line of GREAT POSTS---keep it up GAME!!!!
It's always uplifting to hear wistful imaginings in the lyrics of a cool tune. More compelling however was the images and accompanying messages in the video. I agree. The optimism is inspiring. What they're aimed at is in question.
The message of the lyrics is common: what if everyone thought like me. Well I know the world would be pretty darned perfect if everyone thought like me. Perfect for me anyway. Of course there'd be no debates if everyone thought like me, so I guess it would be pretty perfect for everyone else as well. The subjects in the video used as examples of people thinking as one did not, of course, include everyone, but enough to drive change that aligned with the people featured.
So whether or not the aim of the band is the following, I'm saying the point is that if everyone was aligned with and supportive of the president in his efforts to combat terror and achieve victory in Iraq, Iraq would be solidly self-sufficient and the terrorists would be on the run.
Now, unfortunately, we are a house divided. We have been since shortly after Bush first was sworn in as president. He is now accused as being divisive, but it really hasn't been him. He began his admin by joining with the bloated drunk from Massachusetts in passing No Child Left Behind, which many people hate, but at least he was trying to keep his campaign promise of working with the Dems. Since then, not much has happened without Dem obstruction slowing things down. Then, 9/11 and for about, oh, twenty minutes, we were united again, and that was it. The left has been a pain in the national ass ever since.
So hearing such wistful imaginings really kind of chaffes, since I was already aware of what could be accomplished if we'd all join forces for a common goal. The villains of the world wouldn't stand a chance.
Marshall said, "We have been since shortly after Bush first was sworn in as president."
Actually, the divisiveness started at least with the way the election was decided. Then Bush promised to work in a bi-partisan way and then used Republic majorities to ram-rod his agenda of tax cuts through.
Then, we were briefly united once again after 9/11, but then Bush and Rove used the attacks for their political advantage in the 2002 mid-terms.
So don't try to acquit Bush of any contribution to divisiveness in this country.
I don’t know, as far as I can tell there’s been divisiveness of a very ugly sort at least since I started paying attention to politics, early in the Regan years.
Of course there has been Blamin, but I was focussing on the Bush years and for that, there hasn't been any move he's made or attempted to make that hasn't brought forth the dimwitted Dems with a heapin' helpin' of obstruction. As I said to a lib friend of mine (yes, I have quite a few), if Bush breaks wind the Dems will complain about which cheek he lifted off the chair. There hasn't been any real attempts at compromise or support by the Dems since he was elected aside from where I've indicated. tsall I'm sayin'.
it is very true that Dem's talk about compashion and working together....if they wanted to actually follow through they wouldn't compre troops to nazi's or pol pot, they wouldn't call the President a liar and stupid, they would suggest actual solutions besides run away and talk to terrorists...but I can't talk about this because I have never been in the army AND I am not a mother with kids in Iraq
Marshall said, "There hasn't been any real attempts at compromise or support by the Dems". Um, it takes two sides to compromise. Bush's (and apparently your) idea of compromise is "you will agree with me and fuck whatever you think we should do." That is not compromise.
When has anybody compared US troops to Nazis, Game? The Democrats have offered a number of "actual solutions." You and Bush just don't like them so you claim they don't exist. Then when Bush suggests we engage other nations in the region, which is what Clark and other Dems have been saying for years, he all of a sudden has come up with a grand solution.
"When has anybody compared US troops to Nazis, Game?"
Sen. "Pencil" Dick Durbin has said as much with his cracks about our guys at Gitmo. But hey, don't nitpick about the exact words these buffoons use to disparage the troops, just admit it happens. Don't say that they don't take isolated incidents like Abu Graib and act as if it's routine. Oh they won't say it, but the implications are clear. Both Kennedy and Durbin and anyone else who thinks we're doing anything on the order of Sadam or the Taliban.
And I'm sorry, but you can't defend the divisiveness of the Democratic leadership. No one's come up with anything that is worthy of consideration or that hasn't already been shown to be a crappy idea, like taxing the wealthy. Bush sticks to his principles and doing so isn't a lack of compromise because one doesnt compromise on doing what's right. So where have the Dems done any compromising themselves? They certainly didn't on any of Bush's judicial nominations. They just blocked from the get go.
blamin said...
I don’t know, as far as I can tell there’s been divisiveness of a very ugly sort at least since I started paying attention to politics, early in the Regan years.
And I remember it much, much earlier. . .
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