YOU SHOULD TRY TO FIND MR HOROWITZ AND ASKING WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT WHAT THE LEFT IS DOING NOW.
HE WRITES A GOOD PIECE.
RICHARD DAUGHERTY | 01.31.07 - 12:27 pm | #

I am working on that as we speak...lol

Good idea.
spree | Homepage | 01.31.07 - 12:37 pm | #

David Horowitz---Isn't he the guy who runs Front Page Magazine? He's still out there, and yes, he is saying pretty much the same thing. A true friend of the Iraqi people would let America do its job in Iraq.
R S | 01.31.07 - 2:22 pm | #

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav.../ David_Horowitz

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and activist. A prominent supporter of Marxism and a member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected Leftism and now identifies with the right wing of the political spectrum. He is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), a writer for the conservative magazine NewsMax, and the editor of the popular conservative website FrontPageMag.com. He founded the activist group Students for Academic Freedom and is affiliated with Campus Watch, and frequently appears on the Fox News Channel as an analyst.

One who woke up.......
Hawk | Homepage | 01.31.07 - 2:33 pm | #

Some of us of the left who came along the same time did not change and we did not change because we were not foolish people of the left who thought the US bad or Communism good but, instead, believed in the greatness of democracy in the United States and retained and retain a firm belief capitalism works better than socialism. This is the FDR left, the Truman left, the Hubert Humphrey left.

Horowitz, it seems to me demonizes the left by demonizing how he thought and behaved when he was of the left. Many of we people who for no better word continue to believe in the tenants of the New Deal: moderate redistribution of wealth, some government regulation of business, and protection of employees from some excesses by employers and at the same time revere the United States for its good points and continue to support capitalism should not be demonized by him for his excesses.
ML | 01.31.07 - 3:53 pm | #

As one who protested the Vietnam war and opposed this current one let me say that I am totally unrepentant.
I supported the Gulf war as being necessary, but neithe of the other two were.
Greg Daniels | 01.31.07 - 4:11 pm | #

Wow, Spree, thanks for taking that question and posting this work. I lived through the turbulent 60's and began college just after Kent State; buried a cousin once he was found from MIA in Vietnam. A very difficult time, and one of great social unrest to say the least. Knowing the damage the anti-war social misfits seek and not caring creates a hopeless feeling for those of us that do care. One item i did read recently is that while the leftists thrive on dissent, Islam squelches it. Hope I do wonder of? More than ever i see the need to fight the islamofascists. There's hope.
mildred | 01.31.07 - 8:33 pm | #

Your welcome. It was a good question and one that was worth looking into.

Thanks for the idea!

I also agree about hope. There is always hope.
spree | Homepage | 01.31.07 - 9:19 pm | #

and Greg? Some people never learn. LOL

They say we all grow as time goes on, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally...I have noticed though that some, like Hanoi Jane, never did.

When one is young, they expect perfection, they still believe it can be achieved on a mass scale, that the utopian world does exist. Then most grow up and understand that human beings have flaws, they will never achieve perfection, so the young get older and understand reality.

As the top of my page says:

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.......
spree | Homepage | 01.31.07 - 9:24 pm | #