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