Anne: "You need to pay attention to what doofuss (Donahue) has been calling anyone who opposes Obozo."

I don't follow HalD around Townhall, but I do recall having my patriotism challenged in the vilest of terms for my principled opposition to the imperial invasion of Iraq.

DB: "Your side was NOT elected to be tyrants. But that is what your side is up to."

I'm not on anyone's side, because no one is on my side. The Bush regime was despotic, and did many things that have contributed mightily to our decline as a nation. Obama is better, but that isn't saying all that much.

Anne: "How about YOU tell Obozo that!

Problem is, when we the people do hold the power and we use it, WE get labeled as "terrorists" and "anti-American.""

That one's right out of the Bush/Rove playbook, Anne. Anyone who opposed the imperial invasion of Iraq was labeled as anti-American by you and yours. Turnabout is fair play....

Hal: "Keep your god out of the government and in your heart that works. You pseudo Christianity is as nasty as your pseudo patriotism."

Problem is, rightards tend to have sex with their Bibles, and Matt. 7:12 gets obscured by the K-Y Jelly. The concept of doing unto others as they would have done to them is anathema to the zealot.

Hal: "The Declaration of Independence is not in our Constitution."

Which doesn't mean that it is not relevant. It is a well-worn legal maxim that a law is to be interpreted in such a manner as to cure the mischief it is intended to address.

Hal: "BS the major flaw, incorporation slavery into a document pledging freedom and liberty, killed hundreds of thousands. The constitution is and was meant to be a living document."

The [mild expletive deleted] it was!

It was designed to be adapted to the needs of a changing society (through amendment), but it is not and cannot be a "living" document. If "law" is whatever a judge wants it to be on any given day, is it really any more than the dictates of a despot in a black bedsheet?

Hal: "LMAO You have been reading to many comic books from the extremist NRA. If we need to replace a government we have plenty of tools under the constitution to do so. If all else fails we take to the streets."

Tell that to...

Ranger: First, DON ... go back to your liberal/socialist websites ... you are only making a fool of your self among REAL AMERICAN'S !!!!!"

"The Fourth of July. Today, we recognize that, to secure our liberty, it is often necessary to kill tyrants and their minions. Today, we celebrate the fact that our forefathers mustered the courage to rise against “tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests, in short, against the gates of earth and hell.” John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, reprinted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, at 462 (Charles F. Adams ed., Little, Brown, & Co. 1865). Today, we contemplate an eternal truth: “Power concedes nothing without a...

Seawolf: "Are you willing to simply sit by like a nice little boy while all that was bought for us in blood is taken from us?"

Not at all, 'Wolf. In the real world, I'm probably working harder to preserve it, and at greater risk, than anyone on this board.

SW: "Are you saying that you are willing to be bled dry to support this abject corruption we deal with today?"

We need to be able to hold public officials personally to account for their actions and in particular, to be able to prosecute them for honest services mail fraud. Put even one judge in the slammer for replacing the golden mete-wand of the law with the crooked cord of his own discretion, and the rest would stop. Immediately.

SW: "Find the words...

is that there is no one in the Republican Party in Colorado who can reach out to swing voters. Who are they going to run? Hapless Caplis? If Bill Owens comes out of retirement, he can make a run at it, but DickWad has a notoriously thin bench with which to work.

Brad: "AMEN! LORD, have mercy on us! Please go worship God today. HE's worthy of praise...not michael jackson..."

Unlike Michael Jackson, your stone-idol god has accomplished nothing.

Bobby: "whassamatter donny BOY? Did the huff n puff or the kos kids kick you out for the day?"

They banned me permanently ... for bringing up uncomfortable topics like illegal immigration.

Neither side has a monopoly on intolerance for competing views.