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Originally Posted by Guest
I, personally, agree wholeheartedly that the radicals, or extremes at both ends of the political spectrum are often wrong, misguided, and unreasonable. I am no more a fan of Sharpton than I am of Coulter. I often disagree with the President, but do not think it is reasonable to imply that, as the result of that disagreement, he must be Un-American, or somehow illegitimate. I did not vote for McCain or Romney, but considered voting for each and thought they could potentially have made good chief executives. (McCains choice of running mate made it impossible for me to cast a vote for him). The vitriol toward the president, and liberals in general is what, in my opinion, triggers the seeming off-topic hit and run posts we see, as a way of retaliating. The very topic of this thread is so misguided and obnoxious that it hardly deserves a reasoned response.
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I agree with much of what you say, and especially on the title of this thread.
I think this country is scared. Afraid. I, myself have absolutely no problem with someone disagreeing with me on anything. THAT is what keeps us young and learning.
I have passed accolades to the President many times and even on this new forum, have given him credit for the economic crisis fix.
But I ask that you read the serious threads on serious subjects....and I have started a few of them. YES, they start often with criticism of our policy as I see it. Topics such as fear of Iran throughout the world, a thread on the KOCH brothers brought on because I was tired of hearing little barbs all the time and thought is should be discussed, about the world attacking jews worldwide, etc and etc.
Most, if not all were met with POLL numbers, slams on Walker (not sure of why that is the big thing now) and just started a thread tonight simply asking what folks think about any future Iran agreement and the role that congress should play. I gave NO comments, simply asked the question, and the post that came back did not opine on that but very defensivly asked about other treaties as if that meant something.
Those kind of responses, and I admit to it, make me angry at the immaturity that people who live in the same place as me can manifest. I can discuss politics on many national forums but always have prefered to do it with my neighbors and I do it in person and on the phone with both conservative and liberals and THIS FORUM is the ONLY place where this takes place.
One more thing. President Obama is the President of the United States. By his own admission that makes him the biggest target of criticism in the entire world. Yet, any criticism of him on this forum is met again with poll results and it is treated as if it were a football game instead of adults discussing current events.
Folks should have a place to vent, if you will, on any current events and the situation in the world today is scary, I think you will agree. I find nothing racist, biased, radical, or anything wrong with people expressing those fears and lets admit it...this President by ANY AND ALL comparisons is doing things that were never done in a way that was never used. Thus questions and if someone backs him they should come on here in a leveled way and explain WHY they back him.
Said enough, but I do agree that the radical verbal spars from both sides are just a total waste of time.