Comments on: Is A Liberal Agenda Killing Newspapers?

By: julie

julie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:36:36 +0000

So many self-righteous people, so little compassion for the reality of a woman stuck in a bad situation.

By: So there.................

So there................. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:09:12 +0000

Someone Else, my sentiments exactly.

Meanwhile if anyone wants to know how to not get pregnant, my mother shared about 15 off the top of my hat and all of them have worked for lo these many decades. Abortion was maybe 23…intended as a last resort rather than the prophalactic of 2008 choice.

Strange to think others were then or now apparently not so hip as my activist role-model career mother who, unlike the armchair feminists today, really worked at making this a world where women had opportunities instead of babies. Or abortions.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:18:41 +0000

Way to hijack the thread. Kudos to julie and john carpenter.

By: alfred

alfred — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:17:39 +0000

jc, u need to read julie’s ‘if men’ post over again. It’s not that ‘abortion is a choice some people make’; it’s that the ‘choice’ has for 2000 years been made by mean. … as are the laws, laws that men make to govern women that the men themselves — were they forced to — would not live under.
but what does this have to do with Wick being a neo-con again?

By: julie

julie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:49:00 +0000

JC, it’s great that you think women deserve better than abortion. However, no one forces any woman to have one. I, like most liberals, would like to see fewer of them. But in the end, it needs to be kept legal and safe. Make no mistake–if outlawed, it’ll still go on. Just with coat hangers instead of surgery equipment. Women definitely deserve better than that, right?

By: Jonathan Carpenter

Jonathan Carpenter — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:36:33 +0000

I also guess for some of you diversity should be just racial and sexual. I tend to think papers should allow both to heard. Unlike the DMN, which requires strict conformity to NARAL or Planned Parenthood guidelines.

By: Jonathan Carpenter

Jonathan Carpenter — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:33:27 +0000

Yes, Abortion is choice people make; but is it the right one? I think women deserve better, and think the DMN should allow viewpoints other than Julies which are straight out of the NARAL Playbook. They do not.

By: julie

julie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:12:33 +0000

John Carpenter–if it was you (or any man) who could get pregnant via a broken condom, an ill-fitting diaphragm, date rape, or incest…then the right to abortion on demand would be guaranteed in the Constitution.

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“If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a Liberal.”
John F. Kennedy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/psources/ps_nyliberal.html

By: Hoya

Hoya — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:32:05 +0000

The DMN isn’t Liberal or Conservative, it’s “Crunchy”. Now who can’t love “crunchy”, hmmmm?

George Carlin is laughing at us all.

By: beacherbum

beacherbum — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:22:21 +0000

When your perspective is to the far, far right, then anyone to your left (even moderate conservatives) are deemed liberal. Thus, to today’s neocons like Wick, even Nixon and the great Ike, himself, would be “condemned” as libs.