Thomas Paine was the most radically progressive man of his era, loudly speaking out against things like religion, slavery, and the death penalty. He supported women's rights. He proposed an early version of welfare. Conservatives in his day hated him. Their partisanship made his final days miserable because of his friendship with President Jefferson. Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. It gives me warm fuzzy feelings seeing the far right exploit his image to spout the same incoherent gibberish that Adolf Hitler used to rile up the Germans.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Glenn Beck puts Barack Obama's policies on the same level as Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Thomas Paine was the most radically progressive man of his era, loudly speaking out against things like religion, slavery, and the death penalty. He supported women's rights. He proposed an early version of welfare. Conservatives in his day hated him. Their partisanship made his final days miserable because of his friendship with President Jefferson. Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. It gives me warm fuzzy feelings seeing the far right exploit his image to spout the same incoherent gibberish that Adolf Hitler used to rile up the Germans.
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