http://thepovertyjetset.disqus.com/Mark Schoneveld's personal blogenSun, 24 Feb 2008 12:22:21 -0000http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/02/20/in-case-you-were-wondering/#comment-3302056Whimsy - thanks for that great list. Fabulous!<br><br>Mom - I'd love to read your Conservative Manifesto... maybe you should write your own! <br><br>Joshua - I bet Obama sucks at basketball. Apparently, he smokes(!).<br><br>Taylor - I'm sorry I missed that!PovertyJetSetSun, 24 Feb 2008 12:22:21 -0000http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/02/20/in-case-you-were-wondering/#comment-3302053I like the Crunchy Con Manifesto... but I didn't realize how you (as in... the younger generation) define a Conservative. <br><br>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.Colleen/MamaThu, 21 Feb 2008 20:37:28 -0000http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/02/20/in-case-you-were-wondering/#comment-3302055i would really like to see Obama play basketball. something tells me that i would wreck him one-on-one.joshuaThu, 21 Feb 2008 16:37:17 -0000http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/02/20/in-case-you-were-wondering/#comment-3302054Found this, and thought it might be edifying to other disembodied eyeballs:<br><br>A Crunchy Con Manifesto<br><br>1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.<br><br>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.<br><br>3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.<br><br>4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.<br><br>5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.<br><br>6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.<br><br>7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.<br><br>8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.<br><br>9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”<br><br><br>Sounds vaguely Libertarian to me, but I've been spending a lot of time in swamps these days.WhimsyThu, 21 Feb 2008 01:16:07 -0000http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/02/20/in-case-you-were-wondering/#comment-3302052I 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.taylorWed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:29 -0000