  FOX has a little chat about urlLink When The Word 'Liberal' Attacks . It's interesting, and happily the article that is rather agnostic. A friend at work pointed this out: The definitions of the words urlLink liberal and urlLink conservative . The conservatives have so polluted the term 'liberal' that the word is assumed to be bad. But, review the definitions and see for yourself! The stigma needs to be removed. Especially since I consider President Bush to be a urlLink radical who wouldn't mind having a urlLink theocracy instead of a urlLink democracy .
Democracy One reason as to why I consider our President to be ignoring the principles of a democracy: "The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community" have been left in the dust regarding his stance on gay rights. This is a post in itself and has already been a letter to every Congressman and Senator to whom it could be sent, so I'll leave it at that. Theocracy Why do I believe President Bush would like a theocracy? Again, to quote from the dictionary: "a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided). " President Bush has made a clear siding with the religous right and has tried (or would like to) bring religion into the government. urlLink He also believes that God speaks through him . We have a clear separation of church and state in our constitution.
We seem to have had some recent issues with urlLink a theocracy and a urlLink radical religious movement in the urlLink recent past . Radical One of the definitions of radical is 'far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"'. I don't think education is his radical agenda. He is an ultra conservative with extremist political views. He's trying to redefine "family" to suit his morality, which does not match what is the norm. It is very interesting to note that the gay community is being targeted for "family values," although divorce is much more prevalant and not supported in the Bible. When we talk percentages, the difference is rather large on the divorce side (50%? ) compared to the gay community (maybe 10%? ) - but then again, President Bush did call them "fuzzy numbers". Sorry, that was catty. But I am a math major, and it annoyed me enough that four years later, I remember it.
Note that I come from a divorced family and I seem to remember my mother noting that we do not classify as a family unit according to the government. The closest time box I can use is that this would probaby be during the Reagan years. Before a flame war erupts: Please note, even though I use the term radical, I am not comparing President Bush to the Taliban or extremist, radical terrorists.
That would be going too far - so calm down. There is a lot of grey area in the term radical, and President Bush is in the lesser area. Liberal Let's grab a few catchphrases from the word liberal: free from bigotry open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor The only bad definition is that associated with "a liberal amount", which I do think needs to be controlled and seems to be the piece that the Republicans always harp on.
But, and I'll leave it here. Not to defend Clinton, but he did get rid of the deficit and was eating away at the National Debt that the former Republican Presidents had built up. Now, we've got another Republican president, and we're burning through money like it doesn't matter. And, it does matter - if it didn't we wouldn't bother paying off the debt, right? Remember, money doesn't grow on trees. [This post isn't perfect, but my son is awake now, so it'll have to stay in this imperfect form. ] 
