Bush Invokes Jefferson on July 4

PlusBush Invokes Jefferson on July 4Bush Invokes Jefferson on July 4The Associated PressPresident Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Jefferson's Monticello. (July 4)This video contains ONLY natural sound. No script is available.

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[remnantredeemed]

Isn't imposing democracy a contradiction in terms? Reagan didn't have to send bombs to blow down the Berlin Wall, the people of Berlin did it themselves.

*God Bless our Troops*

[condonrichard]

There is more than a dash of hypocracy here. Jefferson believed in sovereignty; Bush sunscribes to undue influence in the affairs of other nations. Jefferson subscribed to limited government; Bush is hungry for power for his vested interests in a central government. Jefferson was a thinking man with integrity; Bush is not

[jbwages]

"Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we presume not to prescribe or censure their course, happy could we be permitted to pursue our own in peace, and to employ all our means in improving the condition of our citizens."

"[We would be] guilty of great [error] in [our] conduct toward other nations [if we endeavored] to force liberty on [our] neighbors in [our] own form."

[TGoodman]

Exactly the words I was going to entail!

Jefferson believed liberty a strong enough force that mankind will naturally embrace the ideas and liberate themselves. This is by no means an endorsement of military misadventures.

[jpbalkenende]

Hahah the fact that idiots like yourself need to repeat that lats line so loudly to convince yourself peaks volumes of your insecurity. About your question regarding the joint.. Well apparently in America they DO care which was my point.

[bobeast3]

Do you really think the "government" gives a rats ass about you smoking a joint in your mommies basement? You give yourself way too much credit. My God you are tedious and boring!Please don't reply any further I'm through wasting my time with the likes of you. You have robbed me of about 10 mins. of my life that could have been better used clipping my toe nails or couting my millions of dollars that I have earned in this GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!!!

[y2knoproblem]

Jefferson didn't intend for us to invade other countries forcing our system of government down their throats with our military might.

[jpbalkenende]

Don't talk about freedom if you are the one supporting unlawful detention, illegal wire tapping and torture. The people who live in liberal democracies like me enjoy more freedom than you. I know I can take a shit without the government spying on me for example or smoke a joint if I were so inclined. Reflexive anti-Americanism huh? I guess that's an easy way of brushing aside the guilt you have for playing the part in making the USA more hated than it has ever been. Convenient for the conscience

[jpbalkenende]

I thought you cons hated physics and science in general. But yeah hope you are enjoying that stylish tinfoil hat when you're hanging with your small minority of truthers and visionaries who for some reason aren't appreciated in society.

There's another old saying in Tennessee BTW you might have good use for it:

Fool me once.. shame on... shame on you... a foolme can't get fooled again!

[bobeast3]

I think the better term for you is a "usefull idiot"

Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.

[bobeast3]

I think the better term for you is a "usefull idiot"

Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.

[bobeast3]

I think the better term for you is a "usefull idiot"

Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.