Bruce has that right, Zen. He thinks because I want to follow the core value of libertarianism (the non-aggression principle) by only using our military to defend our own country and not to use it to be involved in the disputes of other nations or to win freedom for any nation other than our own, I must not be a libertarian.
In his bizarro world, non-aggression means going out and killing anyone who doesn't embrace western democracy or whatever it is that HE considers freedom to be...other than determining their own destiny.
He calls me a leftist, because I proudly and happily voted for President Obama and I'm happy I did. While President Obama is not a libertarian, he's certainly more libertarian than war mongering...Keating 5...John McCain, his insane and brainless running mate, Hillary Clinton, or even Bob Barr who is a clone of McCain (though not quite as corrupt)
President Obama was the best choice and he's done a wonderful job so far considering that the Bush administration sent our country into a tail spin and he had to pull us out of it. The Bush recession is already slowing down do to the drastic action President Obama was forced to take to save GM (and all the remaining jobs they have), the banking industry (and their jobs, plus the jobs at millions of small businesses who were saved because they didn't have to close down when the banks did).
In UG's bizarro world, a libertarian only stands up for fiscal freedom and social freedoms are irrelevant. He's like so many of the non-libertarians in the party. Most are pissed off Republicans who got mad that Bush spent more than a Democrat's wet dream. A libertarian is more than a Republican who smokes pot, but he'll never know it because he thinks that he is a libertarian. Hell, he even referred to Arnold Schwarzenegger as a libertarian.
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"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
- George Carlin
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