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Originally Posted by Bucco
Boy...I even feel bad saying this to you, but you should pass out the same advice to your liberal friends on here. You are totally silent unless someone criticizes this administration.
Dont get me wrong...your posts are for the most part well thought out, etc, but you have this criticism of some (pretty much if Obama is criticized) and ignore the other side accusations (pretty much of the Republican party) of total ignorance. Perhaps that is your game plan..not sure...but it is obvious, to me anyway.
You ignored my comments on the emails, you ignored my comments on the media,but you hung in there with your crtique of Ddoug. A false accusation is a false accusation no matter what your registration card says
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I'll try to address these in order.
Right now, the majority of the 'straw man' attacks are by conservatives on the administration. In many cases, I've tried to stress that I have many disagreements with the administration. Like how I may be against Arizona's immigrant law BUT by the same token they felt backed into that position because of a failure of the government to do it's primary job - protect the borders.
I had a bit of an epiphany the other day as I was thinking about how often I defended the Bush administration from the liberal attacks (words like 'trained monkey', etc). It suddenly struck me that this is all like a game of "King of the Hill". Only this time, the Hill is Capitol Hill. Right now, Obama is at the top of the hill and everyone is out to get him.
When it comes to the vitriol, I tend to ignore people like Roseanne Barr. Her anti-conservative venom makes me just shake my head in disbelief (to pick one example). Bill Maher, on the other hand, has disappointed me with his increasing nastiness, particularly in his choice of words towards Sarah Palin. Heck, I share his SENTIMENT towards her but I would never express my distaste in such a fashion. I still watch Maher because, among other things, he invites conservatives on his show and debates them quite fairly (unless Palin's name comes up).
I have no 'game plan'. I'm here simply because I discovered a place where political discussion is NOT off-limits. It's privately owned so misbehaving members CAN be kicked off (as opposed to the Wild West of Usenet). The signal to noise ratio here is a lot better than in other places.
That being said, you mentioned that I ignored your comments on the emails and the media. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure which messages you're referring to (here or in another thread?). If it's what you mentioned about the health care bill in THIS thread, I believe I've made my opinions clear on that but I'll be happy to discuss any other aspect of it with you. (Short version - I don't like most of the bill and I think the mandate is unconstitutional - and that it's also welfare for private insurance companies who's first allegiance is to the SHAREHOLDERS - meaning sick people are profit centers for their shareholders)
My criticism of DDoug stood because I was genuinely curious as to where he got the information and why he didn't check it.