Sunday, May 04, 2014

Hm. Where did I hear that before?

Ah, yes. 1997, "The Four Principles" 

 
Updated


Former Vice President Cheney (click here) (R) spoke to a large group of House conservatives at the Capitol on Wednesday, denouncing President Obama’s foreign policy and urging them to resist a rising tide of isolationism.

Cheney attended the weekly meeting of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservatives on which he served as a member of the House in the 1980s.

The former vice president focused on foreign policy, touting the importance of U.S. leadership in the world while criticizing proposed cuts to the Pentagon budget. He received multiple ovations during a private discussion that lasted more than 90 minutes in the Capitol basement.

Where are the great Americans, like Senator Byrd? Where are the Americans that restore confidence in the USA on a global scale? How do the people of the USA fall into such political disrepair? 

When President Kennedy, Jackie and their children were in the White House, Americans were politically entrenched. They were happy. Their homes were happy. They also took much of the civil unrest in their stride and accepted their responsibility to build a better, fair and equitable country. When President Kennedy proved himself a great American, we all were great Americans.

What happened to the USA? After President Clinton, the country was lost to fear and extremism. 

What troubled me more than anything else about the "W" Administration was the fact a half generation in time passed with indoctrination into anti-Americanism. It has proved to be a penetrating factor in our electorate. 

June 10, 1964

At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 60 working days, including seven Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate....   

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 

Sen. Robert Byrd (click here) had long since repented, of course. The West Virginian, who died Monday at 92, deeply regretted his segregationist past, which included a year as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and at least several more years as a Klan sympathizer. He eventually became a passionate advocate for civil rights, and he was one of the most vocal supporters of legislation making the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday....