2012-09-13, 21:45 | Link #381 | |
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Australia isn't off the radar.. but they have some very strange tentacles in censorship land. Canada is having to poke at their own little bizarro political party but they'll probably survive it. Obviously, those are all horrible sweeping generalizations. That just seems to be the trend lines.
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2012-09-13, 21:59 | Link #382 | |
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Too many people live in the Faux News bubble and don't even realize that they're fed ridiculous lies. Add in the "Librul Media" meme for self-inoculation against unpleasant facts and doubts, and there you go. Heck, it took FOUR YEARS before people were realizing that Iraq wasn't all that hunky-dory after all. It's sad. |
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2012-09-13, 22:05 | Link #383 | |
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2012-09-13, 22:37 | Link #384 |
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I can't understand people who actually believe the last 4 years was worse than that nightmare 8 years of Bush admin.
I mean, really? Are we looking at two different realities here?
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2012-09-13, 22:38 | Link #385 |
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Probably. It depends entirely on their preception of what is good and reasonable....or how their money situations was in those time frames.
Also for some, how they felt in terms of America being powerful. Did they feel good to be an Americans? Because a lot of things in politics really don't matter to most people. (The "America! Fuck Yeah!" groupings. Those were American is first and the rest of the planet doesn't matter at all)
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2012-09-13, 23:03 | Link #387 |
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Well, I thought of an imagery thing from the past: a black man walks into either an all white club, or a prodominately white store back in the early 1950s. Everyone stops doing what they are doing at look at him. Some might threaten him, some might ask him to leave, but no one continues on as if nothing is going on. Nothing continues to happen normally until the black man has left the building (one way or another). Even if it is not illegal for him to be there, or he'd a servant for some white family and just picking up something for them as ordered. Normal life stops for everyone there until the black man leaves. The shop clerk might tell the black man to leave...he might just hand him what he needs. It all depends on the situation. Just that everyone else stops going about their own business until the black man is gone.
I'm sure you've seen films about the era or television shows where this happens. The analogy is similar. It seems like America stopped once the black man was in office, and they won't stop looking at him until he leaves. Then they will continue on like nothing happened. It be like if you had 99 white kids on a playground and than one black kid comes to play. And for some reason everyone stops playing. No one has any fun until the black kid leaves. They might even try to deny fun while he is there. Take down the swing or something. It is entirely illogical...but whoever said the human race was logical? At least it isn't as bad as Chris Rock thought it would be back in 1992...with the first black President having to jump around for all speeches to avoid snipers and the like.
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2012-09-13, 23:12 | Link #388 | |
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But that's a pretty good visual metaphor for how bizarre it is here in the US at the moment. I have a couple of relatives who live in a red state who have had all their "friends" and some relatives turn vicious on them because they support Obama. They're torn between wanting to stay near their grandkids and just leaving the state. Not an over-reaction, its that bad.
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2012-09-13, 23:14 | Link #389 |
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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
While Chuck is riding the GOP dick, his equal opposite, the "Most Interesting Man in the World" decided to go the other party. Dos Equis man is hostng Obama fundraiser. "I don't always endorse presiential candidates, but when I do...."
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2012-09-13, 23:16 | Link #390 |
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But maybe not that far, didn't they say than he received at the begining of his mandat more death threat than any other president and than the Service Secret did beaf-up his protection ?
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2012-09-13, 23:19 | Link #391 | |
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2012-09-13, 23:31 | Link #393 |
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This is very relevant to this topic! Good for Obama. Netanyahu has very little ground here considering Israelis themselves are divided on this issue and when his Deputy Minister, Dan Meridor, for Intelligence and Atomic affair says he doesn't want to see a "Red Line", this push for a deadline can only be considered as one last push for Netanyahu's own political survival.
There sure to follow a Romney sound-bite pretty soon..!
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The Right Response to the Libya and Egypt Attacks http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._smirked_.html Quote:
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2012-09-14, 00:07 | Link #398 | |
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If I were Netnyahu, I would forget everything Romney promised me in his last visit to Israel. Romney may very well have lost this election with those stupid comments.
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2012-09-14, 00:08 | Link #399 |
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yeah, Texas (like other so-called red states) has a strong streak of blue through it, but gerrymandering has given some really unpleasant people more feelings of power than they really have and they act on it.
Unpleasant people tend to act out if they think they'll get away with it.
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2012-09-14, 01:18 | Link #400 |
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Well, what do you know? As proof for the utter ignorance bubble I talked about before, here's the newest from the Romney campaign:
Under a President Romney, the Libya Attack would have never happened in the first place - America would have been held in too high regard The fact that a politician can spread such callous BS publicly says everything. In Germany, if any politician had DARED to say something like that, all media would have had a field day on him, and his career would be over. |
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