Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
Joe ConasonI have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
Joe ConasonThe irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
Joe ConasonIf you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.
Joe ConasonThe Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.
Joe ConasonOf all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.
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