Russ Feingold visits Red State - "it's your turn at American Dream"

[flygal]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/21/alabama/index.html

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..Banners on the roof read "Republican Headquarters" and "George W. Bush." At the very top of the roof, a celebratory message had been unfurled. It read, simply, "Hallelujah."

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..... And what we saw -- check-cashing stores and abject trailer parks, and some of the hardest-used cars for sale on a very rundown lot -- told us the people there were hurting economically and deserved more than they were getting.

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But because I am a lawmaker and a student of history, I also know who has been asking them to give so much. And I can only wonder how many more generations of central Alabamians will say yes when the increasingly powerful Republican Party asks them to be concerned about homosexuality but not about the security of their own health, about abortion but not about the economic futures of their own children. As my wife and I drove through Greenville that night, I thought how fundamentally unfair this all is in order to support an increasingly radical conservative movement.

[Cobalt Violet]

1. I hope they start paying for it too.

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[pa28]

6. It'll be hard.

When basic necessities start getting taxed at 27% and the kids are in Iraq reality may set in. Will the backlash follow?

[roguevalley]

2. tough love, honey. tough love.

[TwentyFive]

3. Americans had no running water, electricity or schoolhouses...until FDR

Today, the GOP has perfected the spin and lies. They control the pulpit and the TV...so they control these simple people.

[Daisey Mae]

8. You are right on this thing.......If it is up to the fascists

we will all be helpless and homeless.....with out healthcare....food or water....and of course no electricity, fuel or running water.... they are totally against schools and education.....and all things that the liberals have given the people.....

[madrchsod]

4. education

a mechanic who worked with my dad in the late 50`s was from vicksburg and moved up here in northern il....my dad asked him why they don`t educate the blacks ,the guy replied they don`t educate the whites either and that`s why he moved up north.. it doesn`t matter what your color is cause when you are poor and dumb, you`re shit out of luck

[Syrinx]

7. Feingold is the man!

He's the only senator that voted against the so called P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. He's a keeper. I hope he runs for president. For one, I'm damn ready for a Jewish president. Him, not Lieberman.

[Daisey Mae]

9. President Feingold ....SOUNDS GOOD TO ME......!!!

[TwentyFive]

10. Only Senator to vote AGAINST the evil p.a.t.r.i.o.t act? He should run!!!

Next election we need a unabashed lefty to clearly state why voting democrat will benefit them. No more compromise canditates please.

[shraby]

11. Feingold is great!!

[prof_science]

12. NO!

You can't have him! He's ours! (meaning, he belongs to us here in WI...)

Seriously, he's awesome, probably too good a person to be pres.

[Syrinx]

13. can't we borrow him?

For just eight years? Then you can have him back? Please?

He's the next best thing to Wellstone.

[prof_science]

14. Ok, one one condition.

That we do our jobs and actually get him in the white house. We will not have him slouch back to WI as a defeated senator... promise?

[Syrinx]

15. 'kay

;)

[Skidmore]

16. I disagree with his statement that

"..... the people there were hurting economically and deserved more than they were getting."

If they continue to support these types of policies, they deserve exactly what they are getting. I no longer have sympathy or empathy for those who remain willfully ignorant and blinded by their bigotry. And people of that ilk should not be cut any slack for the hatred and greed they endorse and inspire.

[Telly Savalas]

17. Well, "you deserve what you get"...

doesn't make a very effective theme for a stump speech if you're trying to win voters. (Even if it is correct.)