That was shoddy from you. I get that you're anti anything 'progressive' even when it used to be 'conservative' but can we atleast pretend to want real facts and not bullshit smear campaigns?
I'm just so tired of all the make believe. What you did just now is the equivalent to what Perry and Romney have been doing with "Obama said Americans are lazy".. no he didn't, they just took that clip and edited it down to make it seem like he did..pretty nefarious there and it makes the GOP field look so petty and weak. Why would you want a President that has to resort to 'photoshop' to win? Is that statesmen-like somehow? Is that good leadership?
Yes, we went after Bush.. and we went after him hard. But it wasn't because he was the editor of Harvard law review or because he used a teleprompter.. no, it was for lies on Iraq, the torture, the leaks, the bad policy.. there is no equivalence in the right's attack on Obama for his ear being the reason he can't lead this country and Bush was a bad president because he disregarded FISA laws and wire-tapped Americans... one is a real issue, the other..? fabrication from a bitter populous..
Lets look at the facts.. have there been rapes at any OWC camp? Maybe, but considering the 1000's of people in the 100's of locations across the country.. even if the 3 you listed were valid, we're still talking 3 out of 10,000's of people. You can walk down the streets on your way home from work in each of those cities you listed, Philly,Baltimore,Dallas,Cleveland and NY and have a better chance of being raped and killed.. no? So let's not use make-believe or over-inflated hyperbole to knock OWC just because you don't agree with it..
yes, we knocked the Tea-party.. again, it wasn't from make believe though.. Yes, they carried guns to their rally, yes the held sign saying "Obama is a socialist, but don't cut my medicare or SS". Yes they had melt downs over the "death panels" that were really just living wills... which in 2009, Newt proposed as a way to to cut 30 billion a year from medicare since end-of-life care costs so fucking much and having a simply talk with your loved one and asking what they want when the time comes is better than just not knowing... trust me!
The individual mandate was another invalid meltdown, invalid since before Obama suggested it,it was a suggestion from the 90's GOP.. which they got from the GOP heritage foundation and Newt Gingrich..so if those folks aren't Kenyan socialist for that, neither is Obama.
I'm an utterly sick of seeing formerly smart and rationale people, such as yourself, falling to this level of attack.. I know it's easy..hell I slip in and out of it all the time....But do you really want a leader that would rise out of that cesspool to lead the most powerful country in history? Is he really going to be good for this country?
so how about we change the national conversation and start demanding disagreement on real issues, not this photo-shop Breitbart, Jimmy O'keefe bullshit.. because if we don't, the only leaders we're going to have in this country are the Andrew BreitBarts and Jimmy O'keefe's of the world.. and even you can't want that.
Oh it
was shoddy. It was just a simple 30 second Google search. No real research involved. I only brought it up because of Howey's Arab Spring comment. Really? This is "our" Arab Spring?
There is no end to the attacks on this level I could back against OWS. I don't know why you would be offended by it though since this is exactly the type of attack that you leveled against the Tea Party for years. I always preferred to debate the content of their argument, which is something during the entire period of tea party gatherings, I don't think you ever once showed an interest in.
The theater however... the Ed Show level of attack; thats what you enjoyed.
But now, if after all these years you would like to step it up and talk about the actual content of the OWS protests, I would love to do it.
