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In Case You Were Wondering…

Started by Mark Schoneveld · 8 months ago

I love Barack Obama.
A funny thing happened today. My mom, an ardent and lifelong Republican, wrote me this amazing email:
I know this is WAY NOT like me, but I want to ask you what you think of Barack Obama. I have been reading about him and am very impressed. My general feeling is ... Continue reading »

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  • taylor

    1 year ago

    I had the pleasure of hearing Obama speak a few weeks ago in Wilmington, and it's true...he's a great speaker and inspiring. I felt tingly the entire time.
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  • Whimsy

    1 year ago

    Found this, and thought it might be edifying to other disembodied eyeballs:

    A Crunchy Con Manifesto

    1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

    2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

    3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

    4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

    5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

    6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

    7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

    8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

    9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”


    Sounds vaguely Libertarian to me, but I've been spending a lot of time in swamps these days.
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  • joshua

    1 year ago

    i would really like to see Obama play basketball. something tells me that i would wreck him one-on-one.
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  • Colleen/Mama

    1 year ago

    I like the Crunchy Con Manifesto... but I didn't realize how you (as in... the younger generation) define a Conservative.

    I am sorry the term 'conservative' has been so changed that it is essentially useless. Your definition is nothing like my own. Anyway, I defy any label.... Though I do like that 'Crunchy Con' thing.
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  • Mark

    1 year ago

    Whimsy - thanks for that great list. Fabulous!

    Mom - I'd love to read your Conservative Manifesto... maybe you should write your own!

    Joshua - I bet Obama sucks at basketball. Apparently, he smokes(!).

    Taylor - I'm sorry I missed that!
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