Posted by dreamboat_annie on December 17, 2006, at 18:59:48
In reply to Re: Values and Shamelessness, posted by fayeroe on December 17, 2006, at 15:32:15
valueless society. It's all so opportunistic. Vote apathy has made it so that politicians no longer have to espouse the values upon which the foundations of society were built, they only have to be able to remember them, and cite them, long enough to make it through polling day. It's sad.
> > SIL? Son in law? That must be such a worry.
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> > These people like to mention Churchill, but you cannot imagine Churchill saying of Roosevelt (or vice versa) 'He has good values'.
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> > I have a hard time understanding why Bush saying that was so annoying to me. Naturally I don't agree with the sentiments. Maybe I just didn't want to hear this President talk about who had good values?
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> > This is getting close to narcissism as the driving force of modern politics, in the anglo-saxon countries at least.
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> yes, my son-in-law. his unit hit a roadside bomb one day and he pulled five soldiers out of the fires......the news that we got was that they had hit the bomb and we didn't hear from him for 6 days. they were stranded out in the middle of nowhere and no one could get to them.....it was horrid. can you imagine the torment of going through something like that? i can't.
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> i just don't want him to go back..no how, no way.
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> values? it burns me up to hear values talked about now. my personal values don't cover so much of what is going on in their world and i can't deal with the way they throw the word around.
> pat
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