On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:07:54 -0500, Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>Today's liberal will not permit a speaker, who thinks differently than
>they, the freedom to voice their views. Free speech that goes against
>the liberal agenda is labeled as hate speech and the speaker deemed open
>to any form of verbal or physical attack.
>
>Today's liberal tends to despise the US and the principles upon which it
>was founded.


Chuck,
if what you say is true then read this story and tell both politicians,
that they are in the opposite party.
Currently alot (not all) of hate, not-true and part-of-the-story comes from
Republicans.
Please, read it to the end and tell me what kind of Republican that is.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041029/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_ohio_senate&cid=1506&ncid=2043

Former Beirut hostage runs for office, cries foul over terrorism smear

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) - Most aspiring politicians would kill for a
little name recognition, but not Terry Anderson, the former journalist who
spent almost seven years as a hostage of Shiite Muslim militants in
Lebanon.

"That is just a part of my life, not a definition," Anderson said,
shrugging off the notoriety that has dogged him since his hostage
ordeal. "I'm going to be 57 in a little while, and that was just seven
years out of 57."

The burly Ohio native looks much like he did in pictures taken before his
1985 kidnapping -- ruddy-faced, with big, square, wire-framed glasses --
but he says he's a different man, "less aggressive," a better listener.

The former Associated Press reporter is running for public office now,
seeking a seat on Tuesday in the Ohio state Senate, representing a district
in southeastern Ohio, where he lives with his wife and daughter on a horse
ranch.

The communities he hopes to represent are in Ohio "hill country," east of
the state capital, Columbus, where traditional industries are in decline
and unemployment in some counties is twice the national average.

It's the same economic malaise that has blighted other parts of the
American Rust Belt, and Anderson is touting the classic Democratic
solutions: investments in infrastructure and education, and a mix of public
and private funds to promote the tourism industry in this part of the
Appalachian foothills.

"This is a beautiful area. We don't need to be poor. We can do so much
better than this," he said.

Anderson does not want to exploit his history for campaign fodder, although
he penned a book about his long stretch in captivity, the best-selling "Den
of Lions," and appeared in a television documentary "Return to the Den of
Lions" in which he revisited Lebanon.

But his opponent has not been so reluctant, according to the Anderson
campaign, which contends that his Republican rival, Joy Padgett, hijacked
his past to go after him on one of the most volatile and highly charged
issues of the electoral season: terrorism.

Earlier this month, Anderson stormed out of a debate with Padgett after
accusing her of trying to smear him as soft on terrorism in an "attack
mailer."

At issue was a brochure that paired a photograph of Anderson and a senior
official from the militant group Hezbollah with comments Anderson
reportedly made to an Ohio newspaper in October 2001, shortly after the
terror attacks on New York and Washington.

The brochure reportedly said that Anderson suggested "America's enemies
have reason to hate us," when he told the daily "Are we willing to accept
that they hate us, not because they're crazy, but because we've done
something wrong?"

The Anderson team charges that the brochure failed to explain that the
picture was taken at a meeting in which Anderson was confronting one of his
Hezbollah kidnappers on a return trip to Lebanon.

"This is a new low in attack politics in Ohio, which cannot be condoned by
any responsible person," Anderson said in a statement on his website.

"I have spent 13 years trying not to hate, trying to learn to forgive,
because I am a Christian, and I am required to do so," Anderson said. "And
my opponent wants you to believe that makes me soft on terrorism. She
demeans my profession. She demeans my family's pain."

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