flip-flop wrote:soxfan22 wrote:thanks flip. you truly speak for all the "moderates" on this forum.
Again, I only speak for myself here. If what I have said resonates with others or helps someone more clearly understand what it is that you are really saying, I am all the happier for it. However, I would never presume to speak for anyone but myself.
Are you having a hard time parsing the words in my last posting?
Though there are many here that probably agree with you about the actual issues (the importance of military might, that abortion is a horrible evil, or that higher taxes are not the answer), I have yet to hear one willing to publicly walk in lockstep with you and your position that the rest of us are on that train to a concentration camp. You seem to out there on that one alone twisting in the wind.
If you will note, I have never once in any of my postings said anything directly derogatory toward you. No matter what I believe of you I have never called you a name or thrown out a nonsensical attack. I have only debated the logic, relevance and true meaning of your beliefs.
Flip, et al...
If you would allow me to explain my comparison to Obama supporters and the holocaust. On it's face, it certainly can be construed as an irresponsible and reckless description.
However, you are taking what I said literally. Do I think you are headed for a concentration camp? C'mon flip, seriously. But do I think that in your idealistic and socialistic view of the world, that you are being misled by a man who has not been properly vetted by those that we trust to do that job? Absolutely.
If you ask an Obama supporter why they support him - do you ever get a 'policy' answer? No, it is usually platitutes and soaring rhetoric about the world respecting us again...or we need change (but nobody can ever tell us what he means by change)...Or, well, he's not Bush...Or, the actuarial tables say Mccain will not live through his term...
Yet, those same people ignore the things he is slapping us in the face with. A day or two after the ACORN controversy began, Obama in his stump speech said "You know, the acorn doesn't fall too far from the tree"... What is that? I always thought it was the 'apple'? This guy is misleading us as if we are a bunch of rubes, and then turning his back and laughing at the ease with which he is allowed to do so (thanks to the media).
You know, he's going to move everybody out of poverty, yet he has an Aunt that he refers to extensively in his book who lives illegally in a Boston slum for the last 5 years - and he has a bother who lives in a hut in Kenya on less than $1.00/month. And he says we need to be our brother's keeper?
He even commented on his aunt's situation in his book, saying something to the effect of "government puts the honus on the family members to help the least among us, well suddenly I found myself as "the family"...Again, in reference to that aunt in Boston. What did he do for her? How did he help her?
But you guys keep making excuses for all of these things - because you are so strong in your ideology, filled with so much hatred for Bush, that you cannot see the forest from the trees.
That is what I meant with my comment. BTW - whatever happened to all of those 'fainting' Obama supporters that were so conveniently seen rally after rally during the primary? They have all disappeared, no? At least the media is not showing them anymore. I guess that point was made - time for them to build on the Robin Hood story.
I am sorry if I insulted anyone - especially those personally affected by the holocaust. But I stand by my thoughts that I believe for the most part, Obama supporters are sheep, following their leader into the financial ruin of this country.
And please - don't be 'scared' for me. Contrary to what you believe, I am not a nutjob. If Obama is elected, I will have respect for him as our President, and I will fall in line in support of the office. That is a lot more than I can say for the treatment Bush has received for the past 8 years (warmonger, terrorist, war criminal, criminal, he hates black people, terrorist, dunce, stupid, ignorant, etc).
And also - some of you guys should get off your high horses...Do you want a replay of some of the mean, nast, vile comments that you have made towards Governor Palin?
Here's one for now: "Sarah Palin makes it embarrassing to me that I have ovaries".
That's classy.
