I just saw this video about Ben Stein, who apparently is an expert on something or other since people seem to want to put a microphone in front of him, and once again we have an example of Republicans accusing the President of "dividing the nation" or "being the most divisive president in our nation's history".
The quote I'm responding to is at the very beginning of the video.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/ben-st...s-pathetic
Apart from the comical projection, paranoid crackpottery and perplexing assertions that Obama is even left wing, never mind radical leftwing, I'm always amazed at the conservative whines and pearl clutching over how divided America has become and it's all the fault of this (sarcasm) scary black man in the White House.
Excuse me, weren't you people the ones who used "wedge issues" in your political strategy during the last administration? Weren't you the ones who demonized the political opposition and critics as "traitors" during the last administration? Does the term "50+1" ring a bell?
This isn't an accusation. This was your published strategy, which you publicly discussed without any hint of shame. You gave no sign that you cared at all about the partisan divides you fostered ten years ago. You were too busy strutting about shouting "we won, you lost, get over it". As long as you managed to squeak out that magic "50%+1" number, by hook, by crook or any other means necessary, you couldn't have cared less about the rest of the nation.
Division was your means. Power was your only end.
And that strategy wasn't abandoned when the scary black man invaded your White House and stole your birth right to rule the land as white Republican men, was it?
Obama had barely taken his oath of office when your leaders made it their "#1 priority" to "make Barack Obama a one term president". Good thing the nation wasn't mired in two quagmire wars and suffering from an economic calamity not seen since the Great Depression, huh?
For the GOP, it's partisanship first, country a very distant second.
And the scary black man offered you olive branch after olive branch, and finally chopped down the whole damn olive tree as a gift to you. He squandered his own mandate, threw his base under the bus and unconditionally gave an effective blanket pardon to all the abuses of the previous administration, all in a vein effort to heal the divides of our nation.
But your hatred of all people different and your insatiable lust for power could not be appeased, could it? A year ago, your foaming hatred brought the nation, and with it, the entire world, to the brink of financial calamity and political disaster, the likes of which Osama Bin Laden could never even dream of inflicting upon us. You did it all as a political stunt, heedless of your fellow human beings who would suffer for it. Fortunately, the relatively sane faction in your ranks blinked at the 11th hour and thus America was saved with a mere $24 billion in damages to our economy.
And yet, the very peddlers of "wedge issues" and "50+1" now have the gall to publicly whine and shed big salty tears about all this division and rank partisanship that plagues our nation. This is what you wanted. This is the America you worked so hard to create. Don't blame the scary black man in the White House. These Rovian strategies of division were your celebrated tactics long before Obama was even a Senator.
But that's not the worst part. Do you know what's really galling?
No one, absolutely no one, in our nation's media will ever call any of these pigs out on their hypocritical pearl clutching and faux-resentment over our nation's political divide nor will anyone in our media ever fact check their baseless assertions that Obama is to blame for the partisan divide. Their bullshit assertions will simply be allowed to go unchallenged as the moderator looks the other way.
Know-nothing hacks like Ben Stein, who aren't even qualified to be in front of the microphone in the first place, will never have to worry about being on camera and have a reporter or anchorperson ever ask them any questions that start with, "hey, weren't you guys..." Every moderator, anchorperson and reporter knows the day they do is the day they lose their job.
Pigs will be pigs. Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Ben Stein, et. al. will always be with us. The real crime is we have a media who will both give them a platform and never hold them to account.
The quote I'm responding to is at the very beginning of the video.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/ben-st...s-pathetic
Apart from the comical projection, paranoid crackpottery and perplexing assertions that Obama is even left wing, never mind radical leftwing, I'm always amazed at the conservative whines and pearl clutching over how divided America has become and it's all the fault of this (sarcasm) scary black man in the White House.
Excuse me, weren't you people the ones who used "wedge issues" in your political strategy during the last administration? Weren't you the ones who demonized the political opposition and critics as "traitors" during the last administration? Does the term "50+1" ring a bell?
This isn't an accusation. This was your published strategy, which you publicly discussed without any hint of shame. You gave no sign that you cared at all about the partisan divides you fostered ten years ago. You were too busy strutting about shouting "we won, you lost, get over it". As long as you managed to squeak out that magic "50%+1" number, by hook, by crook or any other means necessary, you couldn't have cared less about the rest of the nation.
Division was your means. Power was your only end.
And that strategy wasn't abandoned when the scary black man invaded your White House and stole your birth right to rule the land as white Republican men, was it?
Obama had barely taken his oath of office when your leaders made it their "#1 priority" to "make Barack Obama a one term president". Good thing the nation wasn't mired in two quagmire wars and suffering from an economic calamity not seen since the Great Depression, huh?
For the GOP, it's partisanship first, country a very distant second.
And the scary black man offered you olive branch after olive branch, and finally chopped down the whole damn olive tree as a gift to you. He squandered his own mandate, threw his base under the bus and unconditionally gave an effective blanket pardon to all the abuses of the previous administration, all in a vein effort to heal the divides of our nation.
But your hatred of all people different and your insatiable lust for power could not be appeased, could it? A year ago, your foaming hatred brought the nation, and with it, the entire world, to the brink of financial calamity and political disaster, the likes of which Osama Bin Laden could never even dream of inflicting upon us. You did it all as a political stunt, heedless of your fellow human beings who would suffer for it. Fortunately, the relatively sane faction in your ranks blinked at the 11th hour and thus America was saved with a mere $24 billion in damages to our economy.
And yet, the very peddlers of "wedge issues" and "50+1" now have the gall to publicly whine and shed big salty tears about all this division and rank partisanship that plagues our nation. This is what you wanted. This is the America you worked so hard to create. Don't blame the scary black man in the White House. These Rovian strategies of division were your celebrated tactics long before Obama was even a Senator.
But that's not the worst part. Do you know what's really galling?
No one, absolutely no one, in our nation's media will ever call any of these pigs out on their hypocritical pearl clutching and faux-resentment over our nation's political divide nor will anyone in our media ever fact check their baseless assertions that Obama is to blame for the partisan divide. Their bullshit assertions will simply be allowed to go unchallenged as the moderator looks the other way.
Know-nothing hacks like Ben Stein, who aren't even qualified to be in front of the microphone in the first place, will never have to worry about being on camera and have a reporter or anchorperson ever ask them any questions that start with, "hey, weren't you guys..." Every moderator, anchorperson and reporter knows the day they do is the day they lose their job.
Pigs will be pigs. Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Ben Stein, et. al. will always be with us. The real crime is we have a media who will both give them a platform and never hold them to account.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
