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Comments from KreweofTruth Contributor Dean Shapiro
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A RUSH JOB!

On Feb. 28, Rush Limbaugh brought a cheering crowd to its feet several times Saturday in Washington as he called on fellow conservatives to take back the country in the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
He actually said the following:
"We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth, that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom. And the pursuit of happiness," he said, pausing several times for enthusiastic applause.
The blathering idiot who claims to “love and revere our founding documents” doesn’t even know the difference between them. It is the Declaration of Independence, not the Preamble to the Constitution that speaks of “inalienable rights” and “life, liberty (not freedom) and the pursuit of happiness.”
Oh well, don’t let the facts get in the way of your venom, Rush.

In response to a nationwide, online poll taken by 21st Century Democrats on the day after President Obama's message to Congress, this is what I had to say about it:

I think Obama was right on in what he hopes to accomplish and I hope he has the cooperation he needs to get it done. I also think that Bobby Jindal, the governor of my state, was an embarrassment to both his party and to the state of Louisiana in giving the Republican response. As smart as he is reputed to be, he still doesn't seem to have gotten the message that his party's "solutions" are what got us into this mess in the first place. They're talking about a system that they broke -- both figuratively and literally -- and now they claim to have the solutions to fixing it? What crap! Jindal was on the air last week griping about federal dollars going to the National Endowment for the Arts, while he has wholeheartedly supported a state law mandating the teaching of Creationism in science classrooms. Someone needs to rewind his clock to a time when he used his intelligence to think rationally instead of along narrow, self-serving party lines. Hopefully in his next election the Democrats will put up some quality opposition that will stop his career before it goes any further. Bobby Jindal is not someone our state would be proud to show off before the nation as a presidential candidate.

Dean M. Shapiro

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