[Rhodes22-list] Time for a political question of Mark Putnam

[stan]

my question has always been, "Chosen by whom?".  I know in Wisconsin there 
are only two jews in the whole state and they are both senators so maybe 
they are Wisconsin's chosen people?

signed, confused in North Carolina

ss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Time for a political question of Mark Putnam


> Ed,
>
> It is a losing argument.  The Jews are the 'chosen people' and to repeat 
> the
> old mantra, "I wish they'd chosen someone else".  Let's do the math - 
> there
> are about 6 million Jews in Israel and about 6 million in the US, and 
> these
> are the people responsible for all the problems in the world?  My neighbor
> is Jewish and he's an asshole.  I don't hide the fact (from him) that I
> think I think he's an asshole (he knows what I think) and he can digest 
> from
> my behavior whatever he wants to.  I'm an equal opportunity redneck!
>
> Now, on a different subject, I am an unashamed supporter of Israel!  I'll
> draw guns and knives on that subject!  Where that fits in to my attitude 
> on
> my neighbor and his kin is not important.  Ask Obama what his policy is.
>
> It ain't pretty!
>
> Brad
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Have you ever studied what Marxism is?  How socialism kills individual
>> initiative?
>>
>> Go back and read some history.  Read the Communists Manifesto.  Then look
>> at
>> how well socialism has helped Eastern Europe and Western Europe for that
>> matter.  The idea of socialism sounds good until ordinary people wait for
>> the dole.  Until those that create wealth let the government do it.  Tell
>> us
>> how well National Socialism did in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and
>> communism in the Soviet Union.
>>
>> Hillary and Barack espouse socialism, which is not change, but forcing
>> their
>> views on others.  Coercion is what they advocate.  It is amazing for me 
>> to
>> see people of Jewish ancestry tout socialism after what happened to their
>> relatives in Germany and the Soviet Union.
>>
>> How can any person of Jewish ancestry believe that any form of Socialism
>> will treat Jews differently that what has been demonstrated in the past
>> 100
>> years?  Under capitalism as practiced in America, they have made
>> substantial
>> achievements.  They even build sailboats!
>>
>> Study what goes on in Maine, where a city government disregards its
>> citizens
>> in general for a rock quarry.  This example is typical of government
>> abusing
>> its citizens.  Yet the 'citizen' complaining of the injustice is a
>> proponent
>> of more government.  He believes that government health care will be
>> better
>> run.  The truth is that it will not and more injustice will ensue.  I
>> guarantee that more government means more bureaucratic decisions which
>> screw
>> ordinary citizens, in fact it screw everybody.
>>
>> Ed K
>> Greenville, SC, USA
>> "It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that
>> grip
>> the imagination of others.  Rather, it is the values upon which our 
>> system
>> is built."  J. William Fulbright
>>
>>
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