User talk:Bladebot

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[edit] Interests

It sure is, but then again it is hard to call myself libertarian because I do not allign myself with the Libertarian Party either. It is a difficult situation. Liberalism is dominant where I live and I often find myself reminding people that being socially liberal is very different from being politically liberal. in my political science class, we were asked on a scale of 1-9 how liberal-conservative we r. my friend marked a 2 and i asked her if she was a socialist. she had no idea that socialism was considered liberal.

as far as what the media is, i would have to say it is mostly liberal. the majority of journalists are liberal as surveys have shown but it is also what people perceive as fair. for example, Diff'rent Strokes aired an episode where Arnold attempts to be "bused" into a better neighborhood. the show would never have been produced had it been the protagonists who want to limit or halt busing. if a news report had to report on woman's abortion, would the report be criticized for asserting this woman's right to choose too much? probably not.

that does not mean i dont agree with those positions. i am for abortion but against busing. this may be due to my being brought up in an upscale neighborhood.

also for the iraq war, i somewhat agree with Nonie Darwish: "My views on Iraq are 50/50 hope for Iraq itself; but I believe that it was right for America to take out Saddam. The same people who criticized Bush senior for not taking out Saddam in 1991, are the same people who criticized President George W. Bush for taking out Saddam. Unfortunately we are playing too much politics when it comes to the war on terror. Iraq was doomed with or without the removal of Saddam who was never going to hesitate in helping terrorists. Terrorists are not accidentally in the Middle East; they are the product of the political and religious system and they are defended and given excuses and called heroes in Arab media."

I also hate when leftists say that we are "creating" terrorists.

this all might sound more conserv to you, but ive actually been told that i lean democratic.

those are my values, and theres more where that came from. Cheers. --Shamir1 08:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)