Comments on: An Open Letter to the Virginia Blogosphere http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/ Politics & Religion in Virginia's Public Square Thu, 24 May 2012 14:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James Atticus Bowden http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2170 James Atticus Bowden Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:02:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2170 oops 'aren't' oops ‘aren’t’

]]> By: James Atticus Bowden http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2169 James Atticus Bowden Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:46:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2169 Conaway, ask an old fart about the Richard Pryor skit on word association in a job interview. Classic.<br /><br />I don't know what is 'pro' government. True, every government folly isn't Commie. <br /><br />The Republicans pushing for Regional Governments are Commies, just fixated on greedy power. Conaway, ask an old fart about the Richard Pryor skit on word association in a job interview. Classic.

I don’t know what is ‘pro’ government. True, every government folly isn’t Commie.

The Republicans pushing for Regional Governments are Commies, just fixated on greedy power.

]]> By: Shaun Kenney http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2166 Shaun Kenney Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:25:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2166 Heh. I would expect nothing less! Heh. I would expect nothing less!

]]> By: Vivian J. Paige http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2165 Vivian J. Paige Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:18:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2165 <i>Where liberals <b>(and yes, even conservatives)</b> go wrong is where we get to what government is to provide vs. what we are to promote.</i><br /><br />Remember that you wrote this. I'm going to hold you to it :) Where liberals (and yes, even conservatives) go wrong is where we get to what government is to provide vs. what we are to promote.

Remember that you wrote this. I’m going to hold you to it :)

]]> By: Shaun Kenney http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2162 Shaun Kenney Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:05:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2162 I think we could all agree that there are certain things government is obligated to provide and do. <br /><br />Form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty....<br /><br />That sort of thing.<br /><br />Where liberals (and yes, even conservatives) go wrong is where we get to what government is to provide vs. what we are to promote.<br /><br />When we start describing those things as part of class warfare, or siding with the perogatives of society over the rights of individual freedom (socialism vs. individualism in a nutshell), that's where I have a problem with other political philosophies.<br /><br />But now I'm pontificating. :) I think we could all agree that there are certain things government is obligated to provide and do.

Form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty….

That sort of thing.

Where liberals (and yes, even conservatives) go wrong is where we get to what government is to provide vs. what we are to promote.

When we start describing those things as part of class warfare, or siding with the perogatives of society over the rights of individual freedom (socialism vs. individualism in a nutshell), that’s where I have a problem with other political philosophies.

But now I’m pontificating. :)

]]> By: Conaway B. Haskins III http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2161 Conaway B. Haskins III Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:58:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2161 Yeah, but attacking every pro-government move as communist, socialist, etc is simply wrong. You can be a good-government, pro-market liberal, as Shaun would hopefully acknowledge. <br /><br />I'm trying to remember the Richard Pryor sketch. I'll find it. Yeah, but attacking every pro-government move as communist, socialist, etc is simply wrong. You can be a good-government, pro-market liberal, as Shaun would hopefully acknowledge.

I’m trying to remember the Richard Pryor sketch. I’ll find it.

]]> By: Shaun Kenney http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2160 Shaun Kenney Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:49:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2160 I'll echo that -- anyone who phrases the body politic in the tems of class warfare and wealth redistribution deserves to be called a commie, Marxist, socialist, etc.<br /><br />JAB: Progressives do this, liberals don't. Another distinction to add to the list. I’ll echo that — anyone who phrases the body politic in the tems of class warfare and wealth redistribution deserves to be called a commie, Marxist, socialist, etc.

JAB: Progressives do this, liberals don’t. Another distinction to add to the list.

]]> By: James Atticus Bowden http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2158 James Atticus Bowden Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:42:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2158 Conaway, I would agree with sexist - although I don't put that in the same category as the Scarlett R. I'm not sure what is or isn't 'sexist' and don't care that much since I don't use the term.<br /><br />As for Commie - that's tough. When a Liberal Human Secularist agrees with the fundamental ideas and the verbatim words of a Communist Human Secularist, the degrees of difference over what the dictatorship of the proletariat should look like vary in rhetoric more than in substance.<br /><br />Break - thinking about this... do you remember that great Saturday Night comedy sketch with Richard Pryor in a job interview (from the 70s, you would have seen it in a classic rerun)? This mud-slinging reminds me of it. Conaway, I would agree with sexist – although I don’t put that in the same category as the Scarlett R. I’m not sure what is or isn’t ‘sexist’ and don’t care that much since I don’t use the term.

As for Commie – that’s tough. When a Liberal Human Secularist agrees with the fundamental ideas and the verbatim words of a Communist Human Secularist, the degrees of difference over what the dictatorship of the proletariat should look like vary in rhetoric more than in substance.

Break – thinking about this… do you remember that great Saturday Night comedy sketch with Richard Pryor in a job interview (from the 70s, you would have seen it in a classic rerun)? This mud-slinging reminds me of it.

]]> By: Shaun Kenney http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2159 Shaun Kenney Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:42:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2159 Aw come on, Conaway.<br /><br />I <i>like</i> calling the other party a bunch of commies. It's my favorite word... :) Aw come on, Conaway.

I like calling the other party a bunch of commies. It’s my favorite word… :)

]]> By: Conaway B. Haskins III http://shaunkenney.com/2006/09/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2155 Conaway B. Haskins III Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:30:00 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/blogtest/?p=2290#comment-2155 JAB: by extension, it would also have to include not calling a candidate sexist and his party a bunch of commies. <br /><br />Shaun: Touche. JAB: by extension, it would also have to include not calling a candidate sexist and his party a bunch of commies.

Shaun: Touche.

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