My First Rifle

[YankeeFan]

I got my first 50cc motorcycle for my eighth birthday. That was a hella lot more dangerous.

What backwards state did you grow up in? [/writethinking]

 

[YankeeFan]

Who is most venerated by liberals? It depends on who you ask, I'd imagine. But Larry Flynt would be on few lists of "liberal lions." Many liberals are women and it is doubtful many female liberals would point to Larry Flynt as a shining example of liberalism.

And yet, Hollywood made a movie about him, in which he was portrayed as a hero in the fight for First Amendment rights.

I can't wait for Hollywood to make a movie about Wayne LaPierre.

 

[YankeeFan]

OK, so Wayne LaPierre and the NRA "go to far" are unwilling to "compromise" and are against "common sense reform", right?

And, they take positions that the majority of Americans oppose. Right?

And, because of this, he/they are viewed as outside the mainstream, and receive scorn, and are viewed as kooks.

So, can someone please tell me how NARAL and Kate Michelman and/or whoever their current leader are any different?

Obviously they would be against anything so silly as requiring a woman to to be licensed, or put in a database in order to exercise her reproductive rights.

They would be against a waiting period. They would be against any kind of "class" or requiring a woman to receive any information, such as viewing an ultrasound, or having to receive counseling, or receive information about local adoption services.

But, they're also against restrictions on late term abortions, and parental consent, which are popular with Americans.

In fact, if anyone can think of a single restriction on reproductive rights that NARAL supports, I'd like to hear about it. Is there even one? Even some "common sense reform" that the American people support that NARAL is on board with?

Now, is there a single pro-choice supporter that is "embarrassed" by NARAL? Does anyone here think they "go too far"?

Why does this rigid, uncompromising group not receive the same scorn the NRA receives?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Why would a woman want to exorcise her reproductive rights?

 

[Captain Obvious]

Now, is there a single pro-choice supporter that is "embarrassed" by NARAL? Does anyone here think they "go too far"?

Mitt Romney.

 

[YankeeFan]

Why would a woman want to exorcise her reproductive rights?

Hey, I changed that before you got your post up!

 

[YankeeFan]

Audiences stand and applaud then candidate Obama when he tells African-American audiences that they need to turn off the TV and read to their kids, or help them with their homework. Really? This is a message someone didn't get?

And, why would it be considered racist if a white person had told the same audience the same thing?

Sounds like some folks are getting a little sick and tired of being lectured to by the President:

Trevor Coleman thinks it’s time for President Obama to get a new speech for black audiences. The personal responsibility finger-wagging, delivered most recently Sunday at Morehouse College’s commencement, is getting old.

During the speech, Obama admonished black men to take care of their families and their communities and told the graduates that despite the lingering legacies of slavery and discrimination, “we’ve got no time for excuses.” Obama also used the occasion to talk about his own life, touching on the fact that he was raised by a single mother and that growing up he sometimes blamed some of his bad choices on “the world trying to keep a black man down.”

The half-hour speech in Atlanta drew a rousing response from those who had sat in pouring rain waiting for the president to speak.

Coleman, a former speechwriter for former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, said that although parts of the talk were strong and lofty, including passages honoring Morehouse graduate Martin Luther King Jr., he was disappointed that Obama almost always defaults to the clean-up-your-act message when talking to predominantly black audiences. First lady Michelle Obama issued a similar tongue-lashing last week at Bowie State University’s commencement ceremony. She told graduates at the historically black Maryland school that too many young people are “fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper.”

“The first couple of times, it was okay, but I and a lot of other people are beginning to grow weary of it,” said Coleman, adding that the message was particularly galling at Sunday’s event at the historically black Georgia school. “What made it so gratuitous was this was Morehouse College! In the African American community, the very definition of a Morehouse man is someone who is a leader, who is taught to go out and make a difference in his community.” (The White House declined comment.)

http://wapo.st/10jO1yK