Fine, Andre. We’ll give President Obama every bit as much support as President Bush got from Democrats in Congress, “journalists” at MSNBC, and bloggers at DailyKos and FDL.
The fact is, you don’t have to support what an elected official is trying to do in order to support your country. If you don’t like legislation going through the Congress (say, yet another trillion dollar bailout, or a “stimulus” package that contains $787 in aimless pork spending and safeguards for AIG bonuses), do you cover your ears and your eyes and say “it doesn’t matter, because I support the Congress!”?
Of course you don’t, for the same reason those of us who disagree entirely with President Obama’s liberal ideological dogma (as evidenced by his singleminded determination to spend this country into deeper debt than previously imagined by man, his his attempts to bring down health care costs by jacking up the cost of everybody’s health care, his removal of any and all restrictions on abortion and infanticide that he possibily can, and his preliminary surrender to terrorists in “Pock-eee-stohn”) and his tired liberal “solutions” that apparently just haven’t been tried by the right people yet, want to see him fail utterly in his attempt to implement them in the first place.
I want what’s best for our country, and want it to succeed. Opposing policies which would damage our country in the short and long term is part and parcel of that. Ergo, I oppose President Obama, and hope he fails to implement even a single shred more of his agenda.
Either way you look at it, I’m just doing my patriotic duty as an American — whether that be “patriotism” by the definition recounted in the above paragraph, or “patriotism” as defined to us by the left over the last eight years: namely, a state of belief and being of which “dissent” is the “highest form.” Take your pick — either way, it works for me.
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Andre’s point was incredibly dumb, but hoping that Obama fails to implement “even a single shred of his agenda” just shows why you bats*** crazy right wingers have put yourself into permanent minority status. You’d find very few people who don’t agree with at least part of his agenda, which is not even the slightest bit radical if your history book doesn’t start with Ronald Reagan.
Suddenly dissent is all the rage.
Talk of treason, fifth columns and “love it or leave it” not so much anymore.
Interesting.
Grift, with each passing day you seem to embrase the looneysphere a little more tightly. You know that it is intellectually dishonest to claim there was any real talk about “treason” for criticism of Bush outside of the universally discredited.
But, whatever meme serves your purpose du jour is okay, I guess.
I heard it plenty. Mostly from outlets that have received praise from front page posters on this very sight.
I also remember hearing Democrats stand in the Senate in support of the Iraq resolution. I also remember those same “Republican” voices using that fact as a hammer in the subsequent Presidential elections.
You see the problem with mythology is it requires the fog of time to make it believable. A mere eight years makes for a pretty thin fog.
Like I said. Interesting.
Oh. And please feel free to call me looney or whatever. Matters not to me.
I didn’t say you were loony, but you are adopting their methodology.
I used to think you were one to at least speak honestly about what you thought about politicians, but ever since Obama got in there, you seem to have reincarnated as Decaturguy.
Bush stunk, Obama stinks, and McCain stinks. None deserve praise, none deserve worshipping throngs.
I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
And nowhere in what I just wrote do I see any endorsements of Obama or anyone else.
Just pointing out that there seems to be changes in attitude, changes in latitude.
Grift, that’s a bunch of crap and you know it. The only people talking about “silencing dissent” and prosecution for treason were those same lefties practicing that “highest form of patriotism,” when they repeatedly claimed such things were going to happen to them.
Never happened. Then again, the right really doesn’t do too much of that; it’s just more of the projection that really is a hallmark of the left.
Suddenly unquestioningly supporting the president is all the rage.
Talk of “dissent is the highest form of patriotism” not so much anymore.
Interesting.
Now Jeff. Don’t make me treat you like Doug and find a link.
That’s good to hear grift. Then I would invite you to chime in on Dodd, Frank, Obama, Emanuel (Rahm not Jeff) et al, at your earliest convenience.
More entertaining than this thread
http://www.youhavetoburntherope.net/
Well Doug, maybe when somebody starts some Georgia related threads ((like the good Georgia related threads in which we are suddenly awash) about all those people, I just might!
I look forward to it.
Actually right now I’m having a hard time just keeping up with the iterations of “Re: We Should All Learn Something From Meghan McCain”
agreed g.d.
This is nothing new……
Ronald Reagan had Patti and Ron Jr. Like Michael Reagan says, thank God Ronnie and Jane Wyman adopted him so that Reagan had one Conservative child.
Obama/Urkel is getting fair treatment just like EVERY president has got since Washington. Zogby now has him at a 50-50 approval rating.
The problem is this: anyone who says Urkel isn’t doing a good job is branded as unpatriotic or a racist.
So far this nit-wit has done the following:
1. Doubled the national debt in half the time it took Bush the Junior.
2. Started federal funding of stem-cell research.
3. Closed Gitmo and will be getting terrorists on American soil.
4. Gets a guy to be in charge of America’s banking system that by his own admission can’t even get Turbo Tax to work for him.
5. Tries to get Russia to agree to a Quid Pro Quo deal to help him with the Iranians, in return bargaining away a missle defense system in Europe.
6. Talked the always ethical Christopher Dodd into allowing AIG execs to get their bonuses because the government might be sued by them if they stopped up that loophole in the bailout…. Ethics in government…
7. Everytime he speaks the stock market goes down. Bernanke speaks and the stock market goes bull….Go figure. (It’s up right now….but as Jack Palance said in City Slickers when asked if he had killed anyone today, “Day ain’t over yet.”)
This chucklehead is going to make Jimmy Carter look competent and Warren Harding look honest.
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