MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:38 AM
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Barack Obama is not even NEARLY as leftist as I am and the Right Wingers are calling him "socialist"
Which means the law of averages should plop him down right smack in the middle of a generalized political spectrum.
However, the difference is that I would NEVER classify him as anything other than what he is, which is a CENTRIST.
I'm totally cool with that, because that's where most of the country is, and that's the idealism that he's seeking to serve.
One has to be pragmatic about this, right?
But you know, when I hear the other side refusing to see where Mr. Obama actually stands and repeatedly seek to project every fear and hatred that they own upon him, especially when they can go from communist to Nazi in a single breath, it's clear to me that there is a whole lot more behind their bombastic rhetoric.
The fact that their side is the home of just about all the racist bastards in country is a fact that has not escaped my notice.
I don't doubt another name for a black man in this country has the tendency to pass their lips when they are in familiar company.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6281769#6281827As the dems proved in the 2008 campaign, the only reason anyone would oppose the jug-eared
Kenyan is racism. After all, he is The One, isn't he?
DUmmy MannyGoldstein is a shrewd judge of political philosophies:
MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:43 AM
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1. Obama's close to Reagan on the political spectrum
Or Hoover.
No, I'm not joking.
If you aren't joking, then you are an imbecile.
DUmmy Manny Goldstein is an imbecile, but poor stupid Beth makes him look smart:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:49 AM
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5. Racist thuggery. That's all they have. They don't even know the definition
of the words they spew.
Poor stupid Beth doesn't know the definition of "spew", and can't even look it up since
Doug tossed her unabridged dictionary into the fire.
Ron Green (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:49 AM
6. You got it, Scorpio.
"Socialist" is a vague enough term (for them; it means something like "he wants to take away my freedoms") that they can throw it around pretty freely, but what they really mean is that he's that other name. They're 'way to chicken-shit to use it, but that's for sure what they mean.
He's what other name? You mean "Kenyan citizen"? Does he have another name goofier than "Barack"?
Suicide run:
Caspian11 (2 posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:59 AM
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12. Socialism
......is when government controls the means of production (i.e. the banking industry, auto industry, mortgage industry, healthcare, your salary....).
Sound familiar?
DUmmy depakid tries his hand at political science, and fails:
depakid (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:52 AM
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9. On many issues, he's center right- more or less a Rockefeller Republican
Of course, most Republicans these days are even farther off the deep end than Goldwater was in 1964- and the have the corporate media firmly behind them.
Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:52 AM
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10. I said he was a bit too "status quo" for my tastes
and just naive enough to think he could work with Republicans and get anything done.
That was during the primaries. I've always known he isn't even as "left" as I am.
He's getting both barrels from the Republican shit machine now... wonder if he still thinks he can work with them. I have a feeling that naivete is vanishing faster than a buffet with Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh in attendance.
DUmmy Mythsaje has irretrievably lost his chance to study the writer's art at the knee of franksolich.
He will therefore continue to be destitute for the remainder of his life, and will never be able to afford
to fix that big hole in his kitchen ceiling from the toilet leak in the apartment upstairs.
Uh oh, we make DUmmy SeattleGirl sick. I think she may report us to flag@whitehouse.gov.
SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 01:03 AM
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17. Their words are all code for ni***r, plain and simple.
They are foaming at the mouth in part because he's a democrat, but mostly because he's a black man, occupying the Oval Office.
They sicken me, they really do.