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Yah; it just depends on who

wendy davis — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:34:02 +0000

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Yah; it just depends on who any of us have in mind, really.

While you are correct when

oleeb — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:34:11 +0000

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While you are correct when discussing normal persons I would say you're probably wrong when it comes to authoritarian personalities such as those we are dealing with on the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. They cannot be schooled. The scientific data demonstrate that facts that don't fit their world view are merely rejected out of hand regardless. Thus, global warming is not real all well documented facts notwithstanding. Thus, evolution is only a "theory" all scientific data notwithstanding. Obama is a muslum born in Kenya is the truth despite their being no evidence whatsoever for those claims and that they are demonstrably false. This authoritarian personality stuff is extremely important if we are to beat these lunatics back and re-establish sanity in our public policy and politics.

You're right. There is a

TJ — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:15:01 +0000

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You're right. There is a difference between stupid and ignorant. Ignorance can be fixed. But willful ignorance and a total disconnect from the facts ("Get the gov't out of my Medicare") is just plain stupid.

Not to intrude into the

wendy davis — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:51:22 +0000

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Not to intrude into the stupid hate-fest, but I wish you'd differentiate between stupid and ignorant. You have some willful ignorance going on here, but ignorance can be sometimes be educated, but condescension doesn't do well as a teaching mode.

It's how Bob Schieffer (spelling?) got Bone-er to admit tax cuts expiring for the middle class would be a good thing. Shieffer knew the numbers; Boehner didn't, and got schooled. Maybe a poor example, but one on one can work...

Again: ROTFLMAO! (Google

wendy davis — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:44:11 +0000

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Again: ROTFLMAO!

(Google with cut and paste if you've forgotten another serviceable Acronym.) ;o)

You can, however, defeat

oleeb — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:22:03 +0000

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You can, however, defeat stupid and crazy. But that requires standing up and fighting them. You can't win by trying to appease stupid, crazy people because there is no appeasing them because... they are stupid and crazy!

Blame it not on the

PTroub — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:06:40 +0000

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Blame it not on the negligible role of written Ebonics, but rather on niggardly devotion to basic verbal skills in public education relative to niggling political correctness. A case (with reference to comments further down the page) of Stupid meeting Spineless in a mutual salute to dumbed-down public discourse.

Hang on a minute so I can

oleeb — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:18:16 +0000

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Hang on a minute so I can stop laughing at your amazingly naive comment.

Okay, now let's see... it isn't ego. It's eyeballs and common sense. Something apparently that you and your fearlessly naive leader lack.

"I have to wonder what kind of moron thinks its time for the president to spew partisan rhetoric."
You're serious? C'mon now really? Well, if you really can pose such a question with a straight face the answer is anyone with half a brain and some common sense who would like to see Democrats win.

If your leader sees what is going on why does he continue with his foolish, losing strategy? Something's wrong in DC and alot of it is named Barack Obama. Too bad there are still people like you who prefer to deny the obvious. How do you explain why things are becoming exponentially worse? Hmmmm? And yeah, he was a Senator for less than one term who apparently didn't pay any attention at all to what was happening politically in Washington either before or after he arrived there.

Then you said: "Where the hell has the Left been in the past 20 months?" At first, the left was the staunchest support Obama had. Then he double crossed everyone who voted for him servicing the rich, the crooks on Wall Street, the insurance and pharmacuetical industries, the oil companies, the telecoms, and of course the Republicans in the Senate. Whilst servicing his favored clientele, the President and his trusted advisors were bad mouthing liberals, the left, organized labor, and generally anyone who raised their voices to point out that the administration was doing the opposite of what it had promised us. the left spent a great deal of time since the beginning (as Aravosis points out) warning Obama and company how disasterous their decisions were and those voices were universally dismissed and ignored. Funny thing though, the left was right on all counts and Obama and his coterie were wrong on every single issue. Every single one. Every tactical move was wrong and every strategic decision was wrong because each of them gave the advantage to the Republicans and the interests of the predator class at the expense of the average American.

I find your naive determination to stick with the President's losing strategy a sad but interesting phenomenon. Please explain how failing to focus on putting common Americans back to work, keeping them in their homes, and protecting their interests instead of the corporations and the interests of the rich is a good strategy for Democrats. I'd love to hear your analysis of how brilliant the 3-D chess player is now and how magically it will all turn out alright. Go ahead. We're all ears.

This is one of those little

thepeoplechoose — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:16:28 +0000

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This is one of those little facts of life that nobody ever dares to say. The truth of it is too devastating.

Hoo doggies! I use the word

wendy davis — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:42:50 +0000

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Hoo doggies! I use the word niggardly periodically (it's a useful word, IMO), did so online once, and was called a racist.

Good grief. ;o)