September 21, 2006
QOD: “Mistakes are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.” Shakespeare
TPNS: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela bitterly assailed President Bush before the U.N. today.
Political Lexicon Part I [September 21, 2006]Persons, places, and things that we have discussed or learned about or contemplated so far...this Class ROCKS...THis Class is AWESome!
• Note: M/C segment of test is done and will be passed back tomorrow. Essay segment will be done on Monday…See my website for information related to “THE APPEAL PROCESS.”
• Lexicon: Defined as a list or vocabulary of words belonging to a particular subject, field, or class…ya need a basic ‘political lexicon’ to play da game
• The Appeal process—see www.cfarrow.blogspot.com or I will get you a hardcopy upon request…
• Military Coup
• Fledging Democracies
• Political Power…degrees of legitimacy=degrees of stability
• Power: Three sources= Traditional, Charismatic, Legal/rational
• President Bush: Political Labels= GOP Conservative, NeoCon, Globalist, Hawk, etc…
• Iran=political power stems from a theocracy
• The Middle East=why so important?
• Western democracies versus Islamic theocracies= Is it a clash of civilizations?
• McLaughlin group
• Eleanor Clift; Political labels= Liberal Democrat, Globalist, Dove, Biased journalism, etc…
• McLaughlin: Pat Buchanan= Old school Conservative Republican, isolationist, America first, hawk, not a NEO-Con
• McLaughlin: Tony Blankley= NeoConservative, Globalist, hawk, biased journalism, GOP
• McLaughlin: John McLaughlin: GOP Moderate, Globalist, Old School journalist
• The Political Spectrum
• Far Right…………………………Far Left
• We are all somewhere close to the middle…GOPs are right of center while DEMs are left of center
• Political Ideology…the way one thinks the system should work and/or really works.
• Retired General Colin Powell & Senator John McCain
• Condi Rice--Current Secretary of State
• Taliban in Afghanistan…rule of terror by clerics, financed by Heroin
• Jeffersonian Democracy
• Geneva Convention
• “Enemy Combatants” v. POWs
• Tribalism
• “Alternative methods of interrogation.”
• Constitutional Democracy
• Autocracy, oligopolies, monopolies...
• 16 Habits of highly successful people: Ideals to aim for...
• Capital Hill
• Iraq=Insurgency versus Civil War
• Iraq= Sunnis versus Shiites
• Iraq= Sunnis are the minority, but some thrived or prospered under Saddam
• Iraq= Kurds in the North. Seek an independence in the future...
• Core American Political values: Liberty, Equality, Government by the people, Justice, Rule of Law, Political Power stems from legal/rational [power is not in the person, but in the Office or Title]
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Al Qaeda
• Islamic fundamentalists
• Islamic moderates
QOD: “Mistakes are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.” Shakespeare
TPNS: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela bitterly assailed President Bush before the U.N. today.
Political Lexicon Part I [September 21, 2006]Persons, places, and things that we have discussed or learned about or contemplated so far...this Class ROCKS...THis Class is AWESome!
• Note: M/C segment of test is done and will be passed back tomorrow. Essay segment will be done on Monday…See my website for information related to “THE APPEAL PROCESS.”
• Lexicon: Defined as a list or vocabulary of words belonging to a particular subject, field, or class…ya need a basic ‘political lexicon’ to play da game
• The Appeal process—see www.cfarrow.blogspot.com or I will get you a hardcopy upon request…
• Military Coup
• Fledging Democracies
• Political Power…degrees of legitimacy=degrees of stability
• Power: Three sources= Traditional, Charismatic, Legal/rational
• President Bush: Political Labels= GOP Conservative, NeoCon, Globalist, Hawk, etc…
• Iran=political power stems from a theocracy
• The Middle East=why so important?
• Western democracies versus Islamic theocracies= Is it a clash of civilizations?
• McLaughlin group
• Eleanor Clift; Political labels= Liberal Democrat, Globalist, Dove, Biased journalism, etc…
• McLaughlin: Pat Buchanan= Old school Conservative Republican, isolationist, America first, hawk, not a NEO-Con
• McLaughlin: Tony Blankley= NeoConservative, Globalist, hawk, biased journalism, GOP
• McLaughlin: John McLaughlin: GOP Moderate, Globalist, Old School journalist
• The Political Spectrum
• Far Right…………………………Far Left
• We are all somewhere close to the middle…GOPs are right of center while DEMs are left of center
• Political Ideology…the way one thinks the system should work and/or really works.
• Retired General Colin Powell & Senator John McCain
• Condi Rice--Current Secretary of State
• Taliban in Afghanistan…rule of terror by clerics, financed by Heroin
• Jeffersonian Democracy
• Geneva Convention
• “Enemy Combatants” v. POWs
• Tribalism
• “Alternative methods of interrogation.”
• Constitutional Democracy
• Autocracy, oligopolies, monopolies...
• 16 Habits of highly successful people: Ideals to aim for...
• Capital Hill
• Iraq=Insurgency versus Civil War
• Iraq= Sunnis versus Shiites
• Iraq= Sunnis are the minority, but some thrived or prospered under Saddam
• Iraq= Kurds in the North. Seek an independence in the future...
• Core American Political values: Liberty, Equality, Government by the people, Justice, Rule of Law, Political Power stems from legal/rational [power is not in the person, but in the Office or Title]
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Al Qaeda
• Islamic fundamentalists
• Islamic moderates
posted by Charlie Farrow at 7:38 AM
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