Re: I am the enemy
Date: November 01, 2010 01:43PM
enemy Wrote:
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> First, brown people aren't scary. We all know it
> is whites that need to be watched.
Whatever. I'm terrified of Brown People.
> Second, it was an imbecilic statement by a
> President who is slowly losing touch with reality.
> He once said: "because we are not a collection of
> Red States and Blue States, we are the United
> States of America." (Go look it up, I am not
> searching for a source.)
You were biased before you heard this statement; all it does is conveniently fit into the opinion you already have of him. "Losing touch with reality" is right-wing parrot-speak.
Regardless, both sides are made of POLITICIANS. Both sides say whatever they think you want to hear to get you to vote for them, their party, their agenda, etc. Democrats, liberals, and the left are just as guilty as Republicans, conservatives, and the right. Politicians exploit this "us vs. them" mentality to great effect; you yourself have bought into it, whether or not you realize it.
> How do his recent statements stand next to his
> previous statements? Simply put, they don't.
> When he calls Americans "enemies," he is more
> divisive than Bush and as divisive as Nixon.
He's calling the politicians enemies, not regular American citizens. This is different than the post-9/11 mentality of "If you don't want to go to war, you are unpatriotic and the enemy," which was directed at American citizens.
> If I were to come on here and call Obama "my
> enemy," I bet you would pounce all over it. He
> says it, and you have all the lameass defenses
> lined up. Really quite pathetic.
When Obama says something abrasive that is in-context and intentional, then I will gladly join you in talking about how wrong it was of him. You interpreting what he says to fit your worldview doesn't count.
And yes, I stood up for Bush in a similar manner.
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