Filtherton beat me to it. I don't particularly care for any of these.
No offense to the poster, but a lot of these are total crap, bordering on racism.
Andy Rooney, doesn't speak like that, he's not a racist, he's not even really a conservative. I've been watching him for many years, and his gripes never reach this level of political speech.
In my opinion, much of this is conservative tripe, trying to disguise itself as seemingly common sense. Messages like:
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I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.
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My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry self if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word freeze or stop in English, see the above lines.
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I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.
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This is America. We were all new here once. Once upon a time, we all spoke a different language, and needed a hand up. Hello? Anybody listening? I'm not going to say it again.
Are so nasty and closed minded, that I don't feel they really even have a place on the TFP.
Maybe in Tilted Politics, or maybe on Sean Hannity's board with the rest of the closed-minded nasties, but certainly not in 'General Discussion' under the heading 'Great Quote'.
They aren't great, in fact there's a lot of other words I would use instead of 'great', how about, nasty, close-minded, hateful, hurtful, ignorant, spiteful, brutish, sick, backwars, or maybe just 'offensive'.