Two Liberals are building a house. One of them is putting on the siding. He picks up a nail, hammers it in. Picks up another nail, and throws it away. Picks up a nail, hammers it in. Picks up another, and throws it away.
This goes on for a while, and finally his friend comes over and asks him why he is throwing half of the nails away. He replies, "Those ones were pointed on the wrong end." The buddy gets exasperated and says "You idiot, those are for the other side of the house!"
2007-08-17 16:47:37 · 20 answers · asked by George 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, its obvious that liberals can't understand simple concepts, but that is because they are still trying to learn the ropes .
However, most liberals begin to understand when they grow up .
2007-08-17 17:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jamarki 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why do you besmirch liberals?
Webster's dictionary defines liberalism as "a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of man, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties."
Are you opposed to progress?
Do you oppose the belief that evey human is equal and deserves equal rights?
Are you against the belief that everyone has the right to exercise their political and personal beliefs?
Do you hate the progressive tradition of Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy?
As George McGovern wrote: "Virtually every step forward in our history has been a liberal initiative taken over conservative opposition: civil rights, Social Security, Medicare, rural electrification, the establishment of a minimum wage, collective bargaining, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and federal aid to education, including the land-grant colleges, guaranteed bank deposits, the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Park Service, the National School Lunch Program, the Voting Rights Act, and the graduated income tax. Many of these innovations were eventually embraced by conservatives only after it became clear that they had overwhelming public approval for the simple reason that almost every American benefited from them. Every one of these liberal efforts strengthened our democracy and our quality of life....
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Adlai Stevenson used the instruments of government to benefit the citizenry of America, and they also understood that America had responsibilities to the rest of the world..
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote of "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." And Abraham Lincoln said of this founding document that it "gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time." Liberal ideas, in other words, have informed American politics from Jefferson to Lincoln, and we are no less in need of the vitality and redeeming strength of the liberal spirit today...
The genius of American politics has always been the creative tension between our two great political philosophies, liberalism and conservatism. If either of these traditions is diminished, the American nation is diminished."
2007-08-18 02:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by Tom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story I heard was just the opposite. The version I heard was it was the Republicans trying to figure out which end of the nail contained the head. They were pounding the nail head in first. On all sides of the poorly built house. Big holes all the way around the house. Isn't it odd , how some people seem to change the truth of a story.
2007-08-18 00:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Are you for real? Try a little harder. By the way, the Dems put them on the other side of the house, but the cons would have thrown them away because the heads were on the wrong end.
Grow up, pleeeease!
2007-08-18 00:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by zoman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well george. you do realized that you said 2 things when you left the presidency. don't sign treaties and don't form political parites. well the country did both. and based soley on those statements, that means washington wouldn't have a party affiliation so he wouldn't be republican or democrat. subsequently. the republican party was founded on the platform of anti-slavery and gerorgy had slaves..... so your whole point in this question is that you are self-righteous and have no clue how our country works or was founded. before you ask another question, ask the wall, if it gives no answer, well then don't put it on here
2007-08-17 23:59:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
hey have you heard this one?
Two Republicans are building a house. One of them is putting on the siding. He picks up a nail, hammers it in. Picks up another nail, and throws it away. Picks up a nail, hammers it in. Picks up another, and throws it away.
This goes on for a while, and finally his friend comes over and asks him why he is throwing half of the nails away. He replies, "Those ones were pointed on the wrong end." The buddy gets exasperated and says "You idiot, those are for the other side of the house!"
2007-08-17 23:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 6⤋
I thought for a minute you were going to give a real example. This doesn't say anything except that you like simple, bad jokes.
2007-08-17 23:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yep.That's how the LIBERAL BLUE STATES became the economic powerhouse of the nation -while the Red States are in perpetual decline...........
2007-08-18 00:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by Your Teeth or Mine? 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. Anyone can be dumb...that has nothing to do with political party. Conservatives can be dumb, liberals can be dumb.
2007-08-17 23:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Lindsey G 5 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
I didn't even have to read the details on the question.
2007-08-18 03:45:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋