Comments on: Imagination, Optimism, and Tolerance

By: Nuke Gingrich

Nuke Gingrich — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:43:33 +0000

[...] original post 7/18/09 [...]

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:22:44 +0000

Great!
Now you’ve got that song stuck in my head.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:41:50 +0000

I bet Alinsky found it hard to organize with a pitchfork inserted into his rectum.

BTW, thanks for the linky!

By: nuke

nuke — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:07:34 +0000

I think Saul Alinsky summed it up quite well for liberals like Walter Cronkite in his 1972 Playboy interview, taken shortly before his death …

ALINSKY: Sometimes it seems to me that the question people should ask is not “Is there life after death?” but “Is there life after birth?” I don’t know whether there’s anything after this or not. I haven’t seen the evidence one way or the other and I don’t think anybody else has either. But I do know that man’s obsession with the question comes out of his stubborn refusal to face up to his own mortality. Let’s say that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.

PLAYBOY: Why?

ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I’ve been with the have-nots. Over here, if you’re a have-not, you’re short of dough. If you’re a have-not in hell, you’re short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I’ll start organizing the have-nots over there.

PLAYBOY: Why them?

ALINSKY: They’re my kind of people.

By: jlfintx

jlfintx — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:49:32 +0000

So Nuke, do you think Walter is sitting where he wanted to:

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite

“Cronkite contrasted his support for accountable global government with the opposition to it by politically active Christian fundamentalists in the United States:[42]

“Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation’s conscience.They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join me… I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.”