Dixie - In Memoriam
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"Republicans can look in the mirror all day long, it isn't going to make the Democrats less hypocritical about warrantless wiretaps or the war in Iraq! We can be as introspective as we like, and it will not change the hypocrisy of the Obama Administration which promised 'transparency' yet deemed the White House visitor log 'confidential information!' None of this stuff has a thing to do with Republicans lack of introspection! Yet, that seems to be the argument from the left. "
Bullshit. You said that America sees the left as the side of hypocrisy. That is far different from saying this or that instance is hypocritical.
I never said anything about how America sees the left! I gave valid and legitimate examples of clear hypocrisy from the left, and you responded by refuting that America sees the left as the party of hypocrisy. You and I can't speak for what America "sees" because we are not America! We all have different opinions and thoughts, and there is no uniform view of what "America sees!"
On the bolded part of your comment .. you do recognize that it is republicans who brought these offenses to this nation, do you not? Surely you recognize that we are here at this point in our history because of 8 years of the absence of republican introspective. Now it's up to the democrats to get rid of republican atrocities.
I agree with you on the hypocrisy of the Obama Administration, but you can't get there without the recogniztion of republican responsibility .. else it's just partisanship .. and that will get us nowhere.
I appreciate your thoughts.
I do NOT recognize it is Republicans who brought these 'offenses' to the nation. We can go back in history and find all kinds of examples of government overstepping its authority or constitutional boundaries. The Executive Branch is not impervious to this, presidents have been doing this kind of thing for centuries, it's NOT something only recently perpetrated by republicans. FDR interned the Japanese-Americans during WWII, Lincoln suspended Habeas corpus! To suggest, that up until Bush was president, this kind of thing never happened, is living in a fantasy world.
Democrats are no more going to "get rid of the atrocities" as they are going to turn the economy around by spending us into bankruptcy! They are going to use the same rules and precedents set by previous administrations, to continue doing what has always been done.