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Really?? New Hampshire more racist than Boston???
Hey! Only Americans can America bash! Everyone else must bow down!
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Reasons for my "behavior":
1. He's the only viable anti-war / pro-civil liberties candidate for President.
2. When I see his views misunderstood or misrepresented, I can't help but try to set the record straight. I know how it must look when I'm the only one defending him but I try to back up my arguments with evidence.
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Or, failing that, by overwhelming denial of evidence.
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Or not having a conversation about the morality of Paul's positions. Which is why he always fucking goes back to Paul being anti-war/pro-civil liberties and hardly ever engages in anything much beyond that. Because trying to explain how a decentralized Libertarian government DOESN'T cause certain minority groups distress, or would be disastrous for the economy is something he probably understands fuck-all about.
Unless you do understand these things Barry, in which case you need to lay it all out and have a goddamn conversation with us. Argue why YOU vote for Ron Paul, with YOUR words, and not a video clip or a goddamn link.
Otherwise the piehole should remain shut.
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Or not having a conversation about the morality of Paul's positions. Which is why he always fucking goes back to Paul being anti-war/pro-civil liberties and hardly ever engages in anything much beyond that. Because trying to explain how a decentralized Libertarian government DOESN'T cause certain minority groups distress, or would be disastrous for the economy is something he probably understands fuck-all about.
Unless you do understand these things Barry, in which case you need to lay it all out and have a goddamn conversation with us. Argue why YOU vote for Ron Paul, with YOUR words, and not a video clip or a goddamn link.
Otherwise the piehole should remain shut.
Seriously, how many times do we have to get Barry to face exactly this before we all give up in disgust at the dudes intellectual dishonesty - he's seriously taken up pages and pages of differing threads with this bullshit myopic idolatry.
Oh and Lauren - fantastic post.
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Hey guys, let's just go to the Salma Hayek thread until Ron Paul's campaign collapses due to lack of support.
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Case in point: one of the superPACs in Gingrich's corner is set to release When Mitt Romney Came to Town, a thirty minute video about Romney's job killing tenure at Bain Capital.
The Daily Beast quotes the narrator in the video: “Wall Street’s corporate raiders made billions of dollars. Their greed was matched only by their willingness to do anything to make millions in profits … nothing spared. Nothing mattered but profits. This film is about one such raider and his firm.”
AmericaBlog's John Aravosis points out, "I just find it interesting that Gingrich, of all people (well, a Super PAC "associated" with Gingrich), is smearing Wall Street. That's about the best tribute to Occupy Wall Street you could make, that even Newt Gingrich is trying to climb on board the message machine. (emphasis mine) The video even includes the hecklers going after Romney for claiming corporations are people."
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Glenn Greenwald posted a follow-up to his article criticizing progressives with one-dimensional views on Obama and Ron Paul. I put the first article in the Ron Paul thread but the issues he brings up aren't so much about Paul as they are about the election and American politics themselves:
He links to a Rolling Stone piece, also worth reading in its entirety:
The reason 2012 feels so empty now is that voters on both sides of the aisle are not just tired of this state of affairs, they are disgusted by it. They want a chance to choose their own leaders and they want full control over policy, not just a partial say. There are a few challenges to this state of affairs within the electoral process – as much as I disagree with Paul about many things, I do think his campaign is a real outlet for these complaints – but everyone knows that in the end, once the primaries are finished, we’re going to be left with one 1%-approved stooge taking on another.
And that's why I can't work up the "We gotta stop the evil Republicans!!!" rage for the umpteenth time.
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Republicans are right, liberals ARE pussies.
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Just got around to watching that Huntsman bullshit. Fuck that. Nobody goes after my boy Huntsman and gets away with it.
Seriously though, how despicable is this shit? I'm not sure if it should bother me this much, but I'm seriously a little infuriated right now.
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Yes, we do still have to press Obama. Electing him isn't enough, we still need to make our voices heard, and will need to do so in 2016 as well. I'd love it if we had two parties palatable enough to make withholding support from Obama feasible, or at least morally acceptable. Voicing support for the guy who earned Stormfront's endorsement because his vision of a 21st Century Wild West would stop the crimes you don't like and enable crimes that you don't care about isn't a choice that I would make. I love my country at least that much.
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It's funny how the GOP ads are not so different than the "Steve Holt is a Bastard" campaign ad from Arrested Development. Especially that John Huntsman ad....
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If Greenwald has any suggestions as to how we go about reforming the two party system that we're stuck with, he should say so. That's not what he's doing. Given the choice between a party with an imperialist foreign policy, but who can be nudged toward progress on domestic issues, and a party with an imperialist foreign policy who also wants to erase every civil rights, worker's rights, reproductive rights, and environmental protection victory that the people of this country have fought for over the last century, Greenwald is baiting an already miserable liberal public for fighting to save what we can. His fellow columnists at the same site have been calling him out for it, in what has to be a rare breach of workplace decorum.
Yes, we do still have to press Obama. Electing him isn't enough, we still need to make our voices heard, and will need to do so in 2016 as well. I'd love it if we had two parties palatable enough to make withholding support from Obama feasible, or at least morally acceptable. Voicing support for the guy who earned Stormfront's endorsement because his vision of a 21st Century Wild West would stop the crimes you don't like and enable crimes that you don't care about isn't a choice that I would make. I love my country at least that much.
This so much. I love Matt Taibbi but without lifting a finger to change or even address our system of elections his rant serves no real purpose but to further demoralize voters. Even though the hedge fund billionaires donate to both parties, one is trying to put curbs on Wall St. while the other is trying to say this country somehow didn't deregulate Wall St. enough.
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<applause>...is there anything that a little Arrested Development can't improve upon?
I keep wondering if we'll ever get a "I've made a huge mistake" post from Barry.
(unless...there is always the possibility that RPaul supporters have been buying "Forget me Now's" in bulk)
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Reasons for my "behavior":
1. He's the only viable anti-war / pro-civil liberties candidate for President.
2. When I see his views misunderstood or misrepresented, I can't help but try to set the record straight. I know how it must look when I'm the only one defending him but I try to back up my arguments with evidence.
1. Obama promised to end the war in Iraq, and just did so. He's proposed massive spending cuts for the Military. He's set a departure date for the Afghan conflict.
2. Ron Paul is in favor of strong property rights and individual Civil Liberties. But as Lauren and others have pointed out, there are many cases where ethnic and religious minorities suffer at the hands of tyrannical majorities.
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Here's a Reuter's article on Romney's Bain experience in gutting a Midwest Steel Factory:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-campaign-romney-bailout-idUSTRE8050LL20120106
I really look forward to the pro and con arguments about Bain and it's effects on the American economy.
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Here's a Reuter's article on Romney's Bain experience in gutting a Midwest Steel Factory:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-campaign-romney-bailout-idUSTRE8050LL20120106
I really look forward to the pro and con arguments about Bain and it's effects on the American economy.
heh heh....
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Romney’s A ‘Job Cremator’
“Mitt Romney, I think, is more of a job cremator than a job creator,” Schultz said. She added: “He was a corporate buyout specialist at Bain Capital. He dismantled companies. He cut jobs. He forced companies into bankruptcy and he outsourced jobs and sent jobs overseas. That’s not a record to write home about, that’s not a record to be proud of, and it’s something voters need to know.”
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Ricky boy is just hitting them outta the park these days....
Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage
He suggests to a New Hampshire audience that an imprisoned father is preferable to a same-sex parent.
Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, "He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children's lives."
Allowing gays to marry and raise children, Santorum said, amounts to "robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn't true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it's true."
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But that's the harder question that can't even be asked if people are going to be brow-beaten into the mindset that we have to support the Democrat because he's Not A Republican. That issue should've been dealt with back in 2000. Instead, the lesson many wanted us to take away was "...if only that evil Ralph Nader hadn't spoiled everything". Yay, third party power.
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Ron Paul is mother-fucking KILLING IT at this debate. He may have some crazy ass beliefs, but he also seriously makes the rest of these shit bags look like the clowns they are.
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Be interesting to see Ron Paul and Obama running against each other. It'll muddy the waters on the hard right, as they won't like how left Ron Paul is on certain subjects, but also won't be able to vote for the black guy.
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God these chicken hawk pussies are annoying. I love how they keep saying Obama is somehow a weak pussy with foreign policy when this is a guy who ordered Seals to violate Pakistan's sovereignty to put a bullet in Bin Laden skull.
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Perry should have just walked off the stage and went home after that Iraq comment. Damn idiot.
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"What would you be doing tonight if you weren't debating tonight?" Hardball final question from the liberal media.
Also, it's amazing Mitt Romney can speak alot but not say much.
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Also I think tonight's debate all but shows that the rest of the candidates not named Romney is either running for the VP spot or for 2016. Romney hardly broke a sweat. I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning's debate. We should get some nice sleep deprived truthiness from it.
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The President could eat cheerios out of Bin Laden's empty skull on television and they'd still say he was soft. They only have one play book, and it's a thin one.
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I was getting that impression as well. I kind of think Romney is basically going to tell them all to fuck off and pick his VP elsewhere. Why would he want any of these clowns?They've proven that they are too incompetent to compete in any way at all.
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I don't know why people were impressed with Romney tonight. He basically filibustered and said pleasant plattitudes except for the part where he went after Huntsman. And Mr. Huntsman, please stop speaking Chinese in front of Republicans. It freaks them out. They get weirded out enough when someone speaks English words that are more than 2 syllables. Also, I forgot to mention how the GOP candidates, now that Bachman is gone, tried to out man each other on the "what would you rather be doing tonight" question.
Perry: "I'd go and shoot some guns!"
Santorum: "Grab a beer and watch the game!"
Newt: "Watch the game"
Romney: "Watch the game"
Paul: "Read up on economics"
Hunt (for the win): "Call up my two sons who are serving in the Navy to remind myself how great this country is and how our military rocks."
Funniest exchange of the night belongs to Newt and Ron Paul. According to Newt, being an Army brat equals serving in the armed forces. And he used that exact term. Army brat.
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On another forum I frequent, there are a bunch of pretty hard right leaning Texans who are(were?) Perry supporters.
I keep asking them why Perry was such a great Gov....seeing as he was being painted as the next "big thing" out of TX.
After the GOP debates started up, they have been almost completely mute regarding Perry....little to no verbal support whatsoever...not even any attempts at excuses for him.
I realize that every state has their share of ignorant voters (AK?!) but I keep thinking to myself: "how god damn gullible is the electorate in Texas...first Dubya, then Perry"?
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Damn. I stood up and cheered when Ron Paul all but called Gingrich a pussy. One of the best moments in debate history.
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Romney spent the war in a mansion in France. I'm amazed nobody brought that up; do the fuckers not bother with opposition research? Has just lying every day spoiled them? You're on a stage, competing for the Presidency against a half a dozen assholes who all disintegrate on contact with the truth about their political careers. Dish some fucking dirt already.
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I didn't watch this or any of the GOP debates but Paul was the best thing about the '08 presidential primary debates. He may want to eliminate so many of the services that make this country great but he's not afraid to speak the truth when it comes the endless wars.
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Go fuck yourself Perry!
I know that isn't a intelligent response, but its how I feel.
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Looks like Huntsman is at 11% in the polls in NH behind Romney and Paul. I doubt Huntsman will get the nomination but that's really the best case scenario right now,
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I expect Huntsman will finish second or third. He plays well to NH and Paul is concerned about him more than Romney at this point. NH should be Paul's chance to break away, but I'm guessing Huntsman plays better to them than Paul does. I think it'll go Romney, Hunstman, Paul with Santorum and Gingrich picking up the scraps. Then on the South Carolina, after which Romney will probably (unfortunately) be the nominee. Depending on how they do down there, Santorum and Hunstman might kick around a little bit longer but the writing will be on the wall. Mitt's got the money, and as with everything else these days, that's all that matters.
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SMACKDOWN!!!!! Bless Ron Paul for this. And Newt's pathetic response by throwing his veteran dad in front of him as a human shield is vile. Paul expresses perfectly what these wars are and how cowardly and sick chicken hawks like Newt Gingrich are. Love it.
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Ron Paul did a masterful job there but the funniest thing about it was Newt Gingrich equating his experience as an Army Brat to actually serving when called.
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Quick question for the "support Obama because he's the best we've got crowd" - what exactly would have to occur in the american political process for people holding this view to decide the system was broken and corrupt enough to call for it to be over-hauled completely?
What is YOUR personal line in the sand? Do you have one, or is a broken corrupted 'democracy' always worth defending and propping up regardless?
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If I could snap my fingers and change our system so that it works like it's supposed to, I would have done it years ago. There are so many problems, its hard to know where to begin. And although I support Obama somewhat reluctantly, I think there are legitimately good things about him (chief among them that he's an excellent politician, which is rare to find among so many spineless, witless democrats). There's also legitimately negative things about him too, but that's pretty much any president. I don't think of it as "well, he's better than anyone else," although that's true too at the moment. And it's not as if third party candidates have never ran, and it's not the case that an incumbent president hasn't been challenged. Obama may have faults, but he's no Lyndon Johnson. Like Johnson, he got handed a shit hand. Unlike Johnson, I feel like he's doing everything he can (with an incredibly shitty congress) to improve things, not escalate them.
I really don't get what you're going for here, and to tell the truth, your question sounds a little condescending. Yeah, there's a lot of shit I would change. At the same time, that's not the way it's supposed to work. It's not supposed to be all about me, but all of us, as a society. That's how democracy works. It just happens that it's led to an incredible amount of gridlock, but I honestly believe that kind of shit can only last so long.
At the same time, the system's not supposed to work like it has (or hasn't) been working. But it's also nothing new. We're a capitalist society and capitalism fuels the fire. It bugs me a little when people talk about government and industry in bed together as if this were a brand new concept. This shit has been happening since money first rolled off the presses. In many ways, we're better off than we've ever been because with the internet, all the bullshit is easier to detect. There are more opportunities to be informed than ever before, and that's with a corrupt industry-run national media. So, yes, I support change of our system. I believe in progressive change. But I'm not ready to rip up the constitution and call "do-over" just yet.
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Not trying to be condescending, am honestly fascinated as to what peoples limits would be before they start calling for widespread change. Obviously for some those limits have already been reached, manifesting itself in forms as diverse as Occupy to The Tea Party.
You touch on another point too that about capitalisms effect on democracy, they're actually not the best ideological bedfellows imo, and certainly not when capitalism is allowed to run rampant and essentially make democracy it's prison bitch as is the case today.
I think at the heart of it, I'm wondering how long it's going to be before the system itself, the nuts and bolts of what the supposed democratic political process in the united states has become, is completely called into question. To a degree it's happening, but there's a big difference between the 99% pointing it out and the 1% actually being compelled to do anything about it.
American democracy as it stands right now tho is broken and corrupt. So's my countries as well, being the loyal little lapdog that we are, following about 3-5 years behind your cultural wake.
So I'm not asking why you're not calling for the system to be completely over-hauled, I'm asking what would it take to make you call for that.
Matt Taibbi touches on it nicely at the beginning of his Rolling Stone piece...
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Holy shit Rain Dog, I'm not sure if you could be more insufferable if you tried. Perhaps consider changing your name to " The Condescending Know-it-all Perpetual Doomsayer Dog".
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Cool, thanks for sharing.
I don't get the condescending call at all - how exactly am I being condescending? Does it just get up your noses that someone who's not a fellow yank has the temerity to question these things at all? I seriously don't understand as condescending is the last thing I'm trying to be.
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