Foreigners don’t think our country is weak. Maybe you don’t watch the news or read any foreign press, but the U.S. is referred to as the “last world super power.” And other countries certainly don’t laugh at us because we speak out about our own government… for that, we are envied. They have other reasons to laugh at us.

Sounds like you respect a strong, authoritarian, centralized style government? You might like Russia right now. If they were citizens under Putin, the Dixie Chicks would probably have eaten uranium on their breakfast cereal years ago, and you could feel at ease.

First, it was this song:

Merle Hasn’t Lost His Fightin’ Side
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/MerleVeryLast.mp3

then it was this one:

Playin’ Politics with the Dixie Chicks
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/DixieChicks.mp3

and now, last, but not least, it’s:

Not Ready to Make Rice
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/MakeRice.mp3

Perhaps, the CNN documentation of the Florida recount is just made up, too. **
After all, that’st just a “hack” news source.

The term liberal is the word Republicans use to marginalize people with any opinion that doesn’t agree with their own.

I just want what’s right. There is nothing pseudo-educated about me. My assertions only come into play after I have educated myself on the topic at hand. You can blow all the fetus talk out of your ass, too. The word fetus shouldn’t even escape your lips. It’s not your issue. That’s a pseudo-religious issue, if you ask me. The homosexual issue is a non-issue, too. I have had enough of people who can’t understand the all people deserve basic human rights. And, if you think that’s liberal, I feel sorry for you. I dont need any scientific evidence to tell me that people should just do what makes them happy….within reason. There is no science or religion in that. Just being alive tells me that is a righteous stance on those issues or any other “moral” issues that Republicans cling to when they sling mud at the rest of the world.

You are all a bunch of phonies.
The worst part is…you know it.

* http://election2000.stanford.edu/electionreporthouse.pdf
** http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/13/got.here/index.html

the right wing zealots have an amazing ability to ignore or distort any facts that get in the way of their argument. i see it every day on the Dixie Chicks message board at CMT.

Geez, someone make an argument, for crying out loud. Something founded in reason, not misguided passion. I’ll just note a few of the previous comments to illustrate my point:

Spencer, at least you are willing to not generalize (now) on the “zealot” issue, but where you go wrong is that the public in general rejected the Dixie Chicks for their comments, even if there were (admittedly) a few zealots yelling about it the loudest. Abysmal record and concert sales for an act that was previously so popular is an indication of mass public rejection and nothing else. Sure, the new record is selling, but it’s still way off the pace set by “Home” and other previous offerings. Three years is enough time for the more rational people (including myself) who were angered by their political grand-standing to say, “ok, they’re not ‘backing down’ but they’re also not on any soap boxes anymore, so I’m willing to listen to them as talented musicians again…as long as they just shut up and sing.” An up-turn in acceptance is to be expected; however, it’s false logic to conclude that such an up-turn in any way indicates that the public has now decided they were right all along.

As for the troops and Iraqi civilians who have died as a result of this war, no one can argue that it’s not sad, but let me teach you all an important lesson in moral responsibility: those who have the capability have the responsibility. Say what you want about WMD’s and everything else, the bottom line is there were humans suffering under the reign of a brutally murderous dictator and we had sat on our hands for far too long about it. Our only mistake in going in was that we didn’t go in stronger and that we didn’t turn up the heat a lot hotter when we were met with insurgent resistance. Had we nipped it in the bud, much of the death could have been avoided. Let me ask you this: who is responsible for the civilian deaths?

Grace, I didn’t put myself in any category. You just put me in that category, though, apparently. All I did was point out that the blog post generally (there is no “sub-group” reference in it) called anyone who didn’t agree with Spencer’s anti-Bush sentiment (anyone who took issue with the Dixie Chicks for their politics) a zealot. I found that to be hypocritical considering Spencer’s complaints about being called a traitor simply for disagreeing with the President. I also found false conclusions in the post, which I pointed out. I didn’t sling any rude remarks, and you certainly didn’t address my argument (all two pounds of it) with any degree of validity, so you’re going to have to do a quite a bit better if you want me to go away.

Joey, is your “sufficient evidence” from the same sure source that provides all the “science” claiming evidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom at large, or that a fetus isn’t human until some indeterminate time after the child is born? In other words, that nebulous source referred to so frequently by liberals as “science,” or “studies,” which references are interestingly devoid of any actual references? It’s always “studies show…” and “science has determined…” I’ll ask you the same I ask of all such “intelligent” people: what evidence? If you have it, out with it. Otherwise, keep your pseudo-educated assertions to yourself.

Also, if the “party” you are referring to is your college education, I couldn’t agree more. We’ll see who’s laughing in the end.