Because I believe in change. Do you realize how incredibly straight off the political campaign that sounds? But its true. That was literally the first thing I thought of the moment I saw the title of the video. But believe it or not, I wasn't thinking of Barack Obama when I first read the title of the video. Think of it this way. The democratic party in general is the one that induces change in the way our government functions. For example, Democrats tend to be on the side of civil rights movements, proven as such in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And guess what, its changes like that which let me say proudly: "Yes, I am a democrat in 2008."
Absolutely nothing. I think people spend too much time on being on one side or the other. I think people forget how unimportant these titles are in comparison to the title of "I am an american". So what dems and republicans don't always see eye to eye? We live in an imperfect world where there will always be conflicting ideals but we just have to learn to live with that. If we can't learn to accept eachother's differences, we will lose our identity as Americans. We will no longer be able to cling to our beloved motto "E pluribus unum" because we will no longer be ONE.
No side is more right or wrong than the other, they are just different. But our differences is what makes America special, because we have functioned as one nation, one peoples despite our differences. We have always known that "American" was far more important than "Democrat" of "Republican". The sad thing is though, i think people are forgetting that.
United we stand, divided we fall.
I support Obama in this election more than McCain, but i also recognize the sacrifices that McCain has made for this country and i don't disagree with everything he says. They are BOTH equally great Americans.
I don’t agree with PixiStix on the tendency of the Democratic Party to be more in favor of Civil Rights than the Republicans. Everyone knows that John F. Kennedy, a democratic president, fought to create a new Civil Rights Act. But when he died Richard B. Russell and 18 Southern Democratic senators began a major filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, preventing its passage. Democrat Richard B. Russell told the Senate: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states." This makes it clear that the Republicans tend to be more on the side of civil rights than the Democrats.
Sorry Professor, I guess I wasn't very clear. Its true that Richard B. Russell began the major filibuster of the Civil rights act of 1964, but its also true that all those who followed this filibuster came from southern states. Russell himself was a Senator from Georgia. But just so you know, Senator Hubert Humphrey and Senator Mike Mansfield (both democrats) worked to end this filibuster. I guess what I am trying to say is that during the time in which the filibuster was proposed, the majority of those who followed it wasn't exactly based on party. It was more based on which state you came from. Not to mention later, Russell ended up creating the Southern Manifesto with republican J. Strom Thurmond, which doesn't make him seem like an ideal democrat. My original purpose of mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was when they proposed the act, democrats voting (approx)60% for, republicans voting 40% for.
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Because I believe in change.
Do you realize how incredibly straight off the political campaign that sounds? But its true.
That was literally the first thing I thought of the moment I saw the title of the video.
But believe it or not, I wasn't thinking of Barack Obama when I first read the title of the video. Think of it this way. The democratic party in general is the one that induces change in the way our government functions. For example, Democrats tend to be on the side of civil rights movements, proven as such in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
And guess what, its changes like that which let me say proudly: "Yes, I am a democrat in 2008."
I am a democrat...I am a republican...
What do these things mean??
Absolutely nothing. I think people spend too much time on being on one side or the other. I think people forget how unimportant these titles are in comparison to the title of "I am an american". So what dems and republicans don't always see eye to eye? We live in an imperfect world where there will always be conflicting ideals but we just have to learn to live with that. If we can't learn to accept eachother's differences, we will lose our identity as Americans. We will no longer be able to cling to our beloved motto "E pluribus unum" because we will no longer be ONE.
No side is more right or wrong than the other, they are just different. But our differences is what makes America special, because we have functioned as one nation, one peoples despite our differences. We have always known that "American" was far more important than "Democrat" of "Republican". The sad thing is though, i think people are forgetting that.
United we stand, divided we fall.
I support Obama in this election more than McCain, but i also recognize the sacrifices that McCain has made for this country and i don't disagree with everything he says. They are BOTH equally great Americans.
I don’t agree with PixiStix on the tendency of the Democratic Party to be more in favor of Civil Rights than the Republicans. Everyone knows that John F. Kennedy, a democratic president, fought to create a new Civil Rights Act. But when he died Richard B. Russell and 18 Southern Democratic senators began a major filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, preventing its passage. Democrat Richard B. Russell told the Senate: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states." This makes it clear that the Republicans tend to be more on the side of civil rights than the Democrats.
Sorry Professor, I guess I wasn't very clear. Its true that Richard B. Russell began the major filibuster of the Civil rights act of 1964, but its also true that all those who followed this filibuster came from southern states. Russell himself was a Senator from Georgia.
But just so you know, Senator Hubert Humphrey and Senator Mike Mansfield (both democrats) worked to end this filibuster.
I guess what I am trying to say is that during the time in which the filibuster was proposed, the majority of those who followed it wasn't exactly based on party. It was more based on which state you came from.
Not to mention later, Russell ended up creating the Southern Manifesto with republican J. Strom Thurmond, which doesn't make him seem like an ideal democrat.
My original purpose of mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was when they proposed the act, democrats voting (approx)60% for, republicans voting 40% for.
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