SmarterthanYou
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did you feel that way with Bush?
Republican hate for President Obama.
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That's right, jaw-jacker.
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It is for the good 'ol boys and rednecks.
Lowaicue
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So if he was to reduce your taxes, reduce the interest on your mortgage, send you a cheque for being a nice person, offered you a job and helped you make a model airplane, you'd just be left with the fact that he is black, huh?
I respect that, I belive its a change for the better.
So why does it appear this has changed. I respect the change, believe its for the better, but would like to understand the cause. Is it President Obama's quiet style or is it some evolution in society?
I agree that there are plenty who do have hatred for President Obama, it just seems like less than did so with Bush or Clinton. Maybe its just the point in the election cycle we are in.
He has been villified, but not the level that happened with Bush or Clinton.
So here is the thing, is it a sign of progress in our society that arguments against someone's policies are more effective than personal hatefilled attacks against the person?
Lowaicue
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The fault lies at the door of the media and the promotion of the soundbite. Few people think in sentences any more and paragraphs are almost unknown.
It's intellectual idleness.
'He's a one term president.' they shouted and the braindeads screamed 'Yeah.' 'Where is his birth certificate?' they screamed and the braindeads shouted back 'Yeah.'
'He's a commie.' 'He's a Kenyan.' He's a Muslim.'
But never what was really in their crooked putrid little hearts:
He's .... BLACK!
Politics is about policies and good governance. 'He's gonna take away our guns!' Politics is about using power to empower people. 'He's not a christian.' Politics is about manifestos and leading people so everyone gets a fair crack of the whip. 'He's a Muslim, he doesn't believe in JEEEEzuSSSS!!'
That's what has gone wrong, not the only thing. TV, press, megamoney have taken away your ability to be rational. None of them can afford a country in which people actually think. People who think are bearded wierdos, dirty, smelly, pierced, out of work, commie bastards.
Leave the country to US. The stooooopid ones. We'll be the Koch line. We'll supply the tea. We'll NEVER try to think .... if only you will take care of us ... pleeeeease.
Sure there has been plenty of that, but the allegations that he is a Kenyan or a Muslim and even the using of his middle name when they would otherwise not, have subsided and ceased. I suspect because they realized it was backfireing and are starting to have more respect for the intelect of the American people. It could also be that they belive they have some valid arguments against him this time.
Or, vote him out of office. In the USA, there is this thing called elections...
So why aren't you in Somalia?
Because people are realizing that focusing on the policy is the path to the White House this time. Basically, when the focus is on what he has done, his numbers go down. When the focus is on birth certificates, his numbers go up. You do what works.
And even that is not to the level you got with Bush or Clinton. Seriously. I see it, you see it. I believe even \\\/// sees it. When you have to reach to find some story about some lunatic somewhere doing something that you regularly saw even at political rallies towards Bush... the vitriol just isn't at the same level.
IDK about that, I belive its more about our growth as a culture and society. If Gingrich is the nominee, I doubt there will be much bringing the numbers down.
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Which Obama won in 2008.
A vote for Newt is a vote for a loser.
BTW, didn't you say you'd never seen Obama hung in effigy?
Dance, Dalai Damocles, dance.
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I like living in a country with a functioning government, and I'm not the one whining about having to abide by the result of the last election.
Besides, I am too busy working to get the Tea Party message out to leave the USA.
That's not what you said... You promoted the value of leaving when people like Bush win elections. I am looking forward to your leaving when Mitt or Newt becomes President. You can post from Somalia, right? They have internets there...
Personally I like US politics. I've never suggested somebody should leave. I'm just wondering when you will follow your own words...
I pointed out what you would regularly see at protests about Bush and then said that I have never seen anything like it with Obama. I find it interesting how you construct these strawmen then still miss when you try to take the battle to them. Can you provide images, as I did, of protests in the US with the constant image of Obama hanged or burning in effigy?
Later I provided images of exactly what I was talking about, you have yet to show such regular effigies at any protest against Obama's policy.