"To Be a Liberal" by Roy Zimmerman Videos

guitarman63mm Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Ah. On my mac, it's a simple matter of alt+u, in which the umlaut is highlighted and you simply type in the character you want below it. On my windows, I would have had to open up some sort of special characters window.

frumpman Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - I know you sorta discontinued the discussion but I just really felt like I should add some historically sound facts for your consideration. Nearly all of the free and democratic nations in Europe have at some point in their democracy had Socialist leaders, with mostly good results. examples: Zapatero in spain and Palme in sweden just to name 2. there are different forms of socialism, and some are bad, some good. and whatever you feel about it there has to be a counterweight to conservatism.

MrLinton Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Couldn't tell if you were making fun of yourself or making fun of conservatives' blanket statements about liberals.I listened again... and it seems to be the latter. Too stinking funny. Go on your way ruining America you baby-killing, gay-agenda pushing, economy-ruining, hater of God and America.

nothingnesswithouten Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - LOL * 5 !!!!! Fan-flippin-tastic. Thank you yet again Roy!

ArachEye Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - No, when Russia was Communist it had the biggest Gini Coefficiant gap out of any nation. It was basically a third world country in most places.And yes, the bolshevik revolution happened and the consolidationary civil war happened and several years passed before Stalin even came on the scene.Stalin used a more conservative form of communistic ideology, more inline with Lenin's original "War Communism" policies in the Civil War.I think you're wrong. The Revolution did happen.

dococksmother Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - look I'm not arguing with you this is something I settled this days ago, in short I'm not for communism it was a hideous system and it's nothing to do with this great zimmerman song.

ArachEye Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - i never said you were for communism.i said you were wrong on your opinions about the russian revolution. its just fact.i never implied you were a communist, sorry if thats what i implied.

Lazerjo2000 Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - I find no problem with any of those activities does that make me a liberal?

irresistibleb1tch Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - hands down my favorite Zimmerman song! love your work!!

TheOriginalSaucyMinx Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - PMSL! Zimmerman is brilliant...it's so true, tho....being a liberal is tough...thinking outside oneself is no easy task. :P

plevyman Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - The Cuban revolution was in 1959. Stalin died in 1953.

plevyman Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Russia has a lower Gini coefficient now than the US (or China), and the Gini coefficient in the former Soviet Union increased by huge amounts in the 1990s. So I don't think it is likely that Russia or the Soviet Union had a higher Gini coefficient than the US before 1992.

dococksmother Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - For the record, I meant Stalinists in the USSR. But that has nothing to do with this Zimmerman video so it doesn't matter.

DEMWilson Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - I think this is his best song.

ArachEye Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - uhhh....bigger gini coefficiant = bigger gap between lower income and higher income classes.your sentence switches viewpoints half way through but yes, the soviet union had a far higher gini coefficiant with the US before 1992... at least all americans had running water.

plevyman Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - I assure you I didn't switch viewpoint. I was challenging your assertion that the Soviet Union had the highest Gini coefficient "out of any nation". It's not true, basically.All Russians *had* running water, electricity etc. before 1992. (They don't all now, and neither do all Americans.) They just didn't have the same access to consumer goods as some people in the west.I apologise to Roy for posting irrelevant stuff here, but I'm a sucker for a pedantic argument.

ArachEye Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - "and the Gini coefficient in the former Soviet Union increased by huge amounts in the 1990s""Russia has a lower Gini coefficient now than the US"well, i assumed you mean that the gap between lower and middle classes grew in the last few years?? of which you are 100% wrong. the thirteen five year plans almost destroyed that economy, it took them 50 years to bring production up to pre-revolution days.Yes Americans have running water. The 34,000 Nenet tribal people in russia don't

plevyman Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - And neither do the 800,000 homeless people in the USA.The Gini coefficient for Russia in 1992 was 0.289. In a single year it went up to 0.398, dropping down a bit during the financial crash of 1996 but came back up to 0.401 in 2000, which is roughly what it is today. You can carry on denying, but these are the very statistics you want to use to prove your argument - they don't.As for the five-year plans destroying the economy etc., blimey have you not heard of the second world war?

azrael8585 Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife, Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: most are.

azrael8585 Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and, Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill First is a heart surgeon.

TheCelticNinja Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - ...perhaps it's a good thing that politicions learn about laws? I dunno, whatever.

kaysandesses Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Yes, the Republican Party is different. Republicans are stupid enough to elect people to write laws that don't know a fucking thing about the Constitution of law. I guess that's why it was so convenient for Bush and Cheney to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution.

0cogi Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Lawyer rhyms with liars. The combination of lawyer and politician make it twice a liar.

Hektor88 Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Lawyer rhymes with Liar?uh, no it doesn't. But it does rhyme with multi-employer.And destroyer, but rhyming words doesn't mean much

jgswallow Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Another example of a funny liberal. Conservatives - not so much. Authoritarianism does not lend itself well to humor. Conservatives have to wait for someone like Rush to tell them if they should find something funny.