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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 03:52 PM
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Lieberman is The Black Republican of the Year for 2005
So, without further ado, we award The Black Republican of the Year for 2005 to Senator Joseph Lieberman.

Despite the rhetoric he used when he joined the Democratic campaign in 2000 as the Vice-Presidential nominee, Senator Lieberman has been - especially since the terrorist attacks of 2001 - a firm voice of strength in America. This, more than anything, has set him apart in such a stark contrast to the rest of his party as to earn him the distinction we confer today. As the primary piece of evidence, we need only look back to the last month of the year. While the rest of Washington D.C. churned and broiled following the call by Rep. John Murtha to pull our troops out of Iraq, Senator Lieberman stepped forward to renounce that position and proclaim, "Our Troops Must Stay."

It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority....

Every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given the chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them.

If that stand in favor of our troops and their mission - against the overwhelming majority of his Democratic colleagues - were not significant and courageous enough, it was not the only one taken last year by the Senator from Connecticut. Earlier in the year, he joined with 13 other self-proclaimed "moderates" from both parties as part of the "Gang of 14", which stopped the intemperate (we'd call unconstitutional) filibustering of President Bush's appointments to the federal bench, freeing such distinguished jurists as Janice Rogers Brown to finally take their place on the Circuit Courts of Appeal. In September, he took a similar stand on the side of sanity in supporting Chief Justice Roberts' nomination.

more (if you can stand it). . .

http://theblackrepublican.net/
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IsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 03:56 PM
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1. Sounds like a Repuke stump speech
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:03 PM
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2. These are the same people who think
Lincoln was black, so go figure . . .
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:04 PM
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3. isn't this the website run by a couple of neocon twenty somethings?
who claim that they represent the views of blacks better than blacks... because they just know better? (Or something ridiculous along those lines.)
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:04 PM
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4. I THINK the site is a spoof, but in the age of shrubco, I have to honestly
say, I'm unsure. And uneasy about that!
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:06 PM
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5. This proves the point that
Edited on Sun Mar-12-06 04:07 PM by jaysunb
ignorance is an equal opportunity provider.

Since these kind of sites aren't meant for Black people, I'll bet I'm one of the few to know about it or it's group.

I think I'll post it around some of the AA sites like Black Voices , just to see what they think. :evilgrin:

Stay tuned....it ought to be a lot a fun and fireworks. :rofl:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:10 PM
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7. Oh goody let us know
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:09 PM
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:30 PM
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8. How is the debacle in Iraq "strong national defense"????
Please explain. And thanks for playing.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:41 PM
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:46 PM
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12. Um.. what proof have you, pray tell, that IRAQIs are "coming here with
bombs, ricin, and anything else they can get"?

???

And if you truly believe in the shrubco "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here" which is what you seem to be dispensing here, why not just support shrub, since that's HIS foreign policy? Why post here? :shrug:
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:47 PM
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13. Welcome to DU!
Here's some spare punctuation I just happen to have at my fingertips. Feel free to use:

: , . -- ; ! ?


It helps get your point across.
:hug:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 07:23 PM
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20. Damn my thread and I missed the invasion
Looks like you guys took care of it.

Good job!

:yourock:
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:55 PM
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15. They're coming?? When???
With bombs and ricin and...and...

THE SKY IS FALLING...RRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

My name is Karl Rove and I approve this ad.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:53 PM
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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:57 PM
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16. Did you forget to take your Prozac this morning?
Did you get lost on your way to Freerepublic.com?
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 05:01 PM
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17. History isn't your best subject. You missed that whole Crusade thing.
:eyes:
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 05:18 PM
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18. I don't very often feel compelled to ask this question, Mr. Sejanus
Are your posts to be read as satire?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:39 PM
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9. ROTFLMAO!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:41 PM
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10. Sorry, we don't wish to claim

him as our Brother.

goclark
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 06:14 PM
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19. Heck, I'll K&R that n/t
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