Pat Buchannon's San Francisco Chronicle column

[truedelphi]

I have taken a lot of flak here in my home For so often liking what Pat Buchannon says. But finally my bed partner is agreeing with me.

Since around the late 1980's Buch. has made perfect sense more often that I
can think. When Clinton bailed out Mexico at a cost of 20 billion to American taxpayers, Buch. went ballistic. He was the only voice on TV or radio saying, "Wait. In giving this money to Mexico, we are cutting the average Mexcian worker's paycheck in half!! At a cost to our tax payers of 20 billion. All so that the bankers in both countries can continue making out bad loans to their friends..."

Issue after issue, he has gone and said what the usual talking heads won't admit. He opposed the first Iraq war. Also the second.

He was just on one of the right wing shows (MSNBC??) and vocalized all his printed talking points. One of the few voices of reason.

Like any speaker of the truth, he has been marginalized. Called a fanatic.

It is undeserved. (And believe me, he is not marginalized because of supporting Nixon. After all George the Elder handled the top position at the RNC during Nixon's last election bid...)

Here is his syndicated column for this week (week of July 20th 2006)
Title: No, this is not 'our war'
by Pat Buchannon
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Posted: July 20, 2006
8:36 p.m. Eastern


© 2006

My country has been "torn to shreds," said Fouad Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon, as the death toll among his

people passed 300 civilian dead, 1,000 wounded, with half a million homeless.

Israel must pay for the "barbaric destruction," said Siniora.

To the contrary, says columnist Lawrence Kudlow, "Israel is doing the Lord's work."

On American TV, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the ruination of Lebanon is Hezbollah's doing.

But is it Hezbollah that is using U.S.-built F-16s, with precision-guided bombs and 155-mm artillery pieces to wreak
death and devastation on Lebanon?

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[Greeby]

1. Crazy world we have when Pat makes more sense than those in power

:crazy:

[Mass]

2. May be you are on the wrong site, in this case. Research about his views,

on homosexuality, races, religion, and women.

[truedelphi]

5. I have heard him speak on everything

Except homosexuality.

Yes, he is labelled a racist, but I have heard him address the race issues
several times and always found myself in agreement. I mean, affirmative action -
should my white skinned grandchildren have to do a full point better to get
in college of their choice than some darker skinned person - a darker skinned person whose parents might well be worth millions? (When my son attended college, all the classmates that he had over to his dorm room who were of races other than Caucasian had parents who were super-well off. When will it be time to end affirmative action??) If we continue affirmative action, would it not make more sense doing it on a needs based criteria than the way it is now - skin color and ethnicity- based??

He wants secure borders in terms of illegal immigrants. So do I. And so does Randi Rhoades of Air America. I mean, again, must the middle class contuinuously pay for the health care and hospitalization of the brown slaves working the nightly janitorial shift at Wal Mart?? What sense is there for the middle class in having it be the way it is now. We pay and pay, the rich overlords benefit, and the
newly arrived are now less than slaves in so many ways. Is that what our society should be about?

I am for full rights of all people. I suspect Pat Buchannon is also. HE IS THE ONLY TALKING HEAD THAT I HAVE EVER HEARD SPEAK ON THE TOPIC OF NOT BAILING OUT BANKERS BECAUSE IT HURTS THE FOREIGN WORKERING CLASS. However it may well be that he and I would disagree on the gay marriage issue.

[Mass]

6. Nice - happy to agree with the following quotes.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/buchanan.html

[Selatius]

7. With respect to Affirmative Action...

My idea of Affirmative Action would be aiming it at, for instance, the bottom 33% of the country. If you have the same test score as somebody from the bottom 33% as far as wealth/income goes, then preference should be given to the poorer student. This is regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, or gender. That's what Martin Luther King's goal was anyway.

[truedelphi]

11. Well said

[FredScuttle]

9. So, even a broken Nazi clock is right twice a day?

"darker-skinned person"...so George Hamilton is an affirmative action case?

[cali]

13. Oh, please

Buchanan's racist history is undeniable.

[MrSlayer]

3. I don't know that he's all that.

But I agree with him occasionally.

[areo64]

4. I agree with some of what he says about world politics

but other things show an extreme heartlessness, selfishness, and nationalism. He is obsessed with America First to the end. Unlike the idiotic pro-war Republicans, he knows that the war in Iraq hurts US -- but that seems to be all he cares about.

[truedelphi]

12. But don't overlook his respect for

The United States Constitution...
It is only toilet paper for the rest of the neocon world

[oberliner]

15. Buchanan and The Constitution

Buchanan and The Constitution

Excerpted from the article: Are We God's Country or Not?
An editorial written in 2003 for the very conservative Washington Times

Are We God's Country or Not?

The granite monument to the Ten Commandments has been rolled out of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended. Yet, in defeat, there is victory.
For Judge Moore's defiance exposed to all Americans the naked hostility of the Supreme Court to any official expression of belief that we are still a nation under God. His defiance revealed how far America has traveled from the Constitution of our Founding Fathers. We no longer see as through a glass darkly, but clearly now.

<cut>

A half-century ago, the Supreme Court purged prayer from the public schools, an exercise of raw judicial power uncountenanced by the Constitution or precedent. Congress did nothing. The court then declared abortion a constitutional right. Forty-two million babies have since passed under the knife. Now, the court has declared sodomy to be a constitutional right.
This renegade court is not following the Constitution. It is distorting the Constitution, perverting the Constitution to impose its ideology upon an unwilling nation, and relying upon the spirit of obedience of a law-abiding people to get away with it. What are we supposed to do?


source: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030828-075835-3205r.htm

[truedelphi]

16. He doesn't get the separation of Church and State

I'll grant you that. And I'd tear him a new one if I ever met him, over that important issue.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Pat asks right questions, but often does not have the right answers.

But he, at least, addresses issues of importance to Joe and Mary Shit Taxpayer.

[lostnfound]

10. Copyright

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[oberliner]

14. Pat Buchanan on Gay Rights

Pat Buchanan on Gay Rights

I think civil unions are absurd. They passed these up in Vermont where homosexual couples have been put on the same level as traditional marriage. And I’m delighted to say that five Republicans that voted for that were defeated and thrown out in the primary. If this country accepts the idea that homosexual liaisons are the same as traditional marriage, which is a God-ordained building block of society, this country is on the road to hell in a handbasket.

Buchanan condemned the de-Christianization of America & the acceptance of homosexuality-which he called “the love that will not shut up.” He listed the growing acceptance of homosexuality as a key element in the country’s decline, citing particularly the legalization of gay civil unions in Vermont. “The homosexual lifestyle has always been associated with social decadence and national decline,” he said. “And today it is associated as the prime means by which the AIDS virus, a terrible disease, is spread.

Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan ruled out picking a homosexual or gay rights advocate as a running mate or Cabinet officer, saying that such sexual orientation is “a disorder.” Buchanan said, “If someone is an out-of-the-closet homosexua and if someone advocates the homosexual rights agenda publicly they’re not going to be in my Cabinet. I believe that homosexuality is a disorder. It’s a wrong orientation.”

Source:http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Pat_Buchanan_Civil_Rights.htm#Gay_Rights