Silence Does Not Equal Patriotism. Obedience Is

It Is Just As Painful To Me When I Do Poorly. If The Fault Is All Mine, That's What's Painful. If It's A Situation Where No One Could Have Succeeded, I Don't Feel As Bad.

When Pat Buchanan Came Out Against The Beijing Women's Conference And There Were Women Standing Next To Him, Smiling And Laughing When He Was Making Fun Of It, I Was So Embarrassed. I Don't Mind When The More Liberal Or Moderate Republican Women Talk About Smaller Government Or Money Issues And Things Of That Nature. But When I See A Conservative Republican Woman In Line With The Christian Right Or Coming Out Against Abortion And Day-care Issues And For Taking Away Womens' Aid, I See A Self-hating, Unenlightened Woman, Like A Self-hating Jew. That Blows My Mind. I Don't Get It At All.

The Right, Like Pat Buchanan And Rush Limbauggh, Use Women And The Black Man And The Hispanic Immigrant And The Gay Man As A Scapgoat For Society's Ills. They Pretend It's About Traditional Family Values, But That's A Bullshit Phrase That Means Nothing To Me. They Like To Use Us All. They Use Pro-life As A Way To Hate Women And Slam Women, Dressed Up In The Nobility Of Saving Unborn Fetuses. I Think It's Just Misogyny.

I Would Say That, Unfortunately, The Word Liberal Has Been Redefined Over The Last 30 Years As If It Is A Bad Thing. But Liberalism Is A Great American Philosophy. Being A Liberal Is One Of The Best Things You Can Be. I Don't Think They Get A Fair Shake At All In The Conservative Mainstream Media. So Maybe There's Some Intimidation There.

I Actually Was Class Clown, But I Don't Know How That Happened Because I've Never Been Considered An Outwardly Funny Person-as The People In This Room Will Attest.