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Arguing with the Brainwashed
Conclub ^ | 05-03-11 | Cultural Limits

Posted on 05/03/2011 8:50:02 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen

Don’t. Just don’t. It’s not worth the heartburn.

It was a great temptation, though, Sunday night when the most satisfying news of the current round of Islam vs. Everybody Else started breaking. Osama bin Laden wasn’t just captured, he was dead and the U.S. had the body. Okay, kudos to the person who gave the order to go in: the current resident of the White House. The vast majority of thinking and fair Americans out there have no problem with that.

It’s the rest of what the brainwashed have to say that’s a problem.

Like everyone else who grows up in the U.S. of A., Cultural Limits (that’s me) has a circle of family, friends and acquaintances that runs the entire spectrum from hard-core leftist vegan nutcases to suspicious, gun under the pillow, bury the cash in the back yard nutcases. It’s really rather interesting that the ones more toward the bury the cash in the back yard side are more patient when it comes to actually gathering facts to be sure they are correct than the holier than thou lefties are. That surfaced with a vengance Sunday evening.

Nothing has demonstrated the power of brainwashing more than the blind loyalty to the current resident of the White House I see in these people. I mean nothing. “This happened on his watch, so he gets the credit. ALL the credit. Not like that “stupid” Bush, who couldn’t find him. Take THAT, you conservatives.” One normally fairly mild mommy complained that so much credit was going to soldiers (I didn’t want to break it to her that S.E.A.L.S. are in the Navy, but, to be fair, she didn’t grow up in a defense household like I did.) and not nearly enough to Obama. She didn’t say a word about the CIA.

Trying not to laugh and cry at the same time – or respond to the nitwits who apparently have no clue how covert ops work or that Obama didn’t even appoint his own defense secretary – is not an easy task. I mean seriously, are people determined to worship the man going to listen when you explain that: the intelligence alone took almost four years to gather (there was a CONSTITUTIONALLY mandated election during that time in which W was no longer eligible for the office); no defense policy has been put in place by the current regime in Washington and they are still using “stupid” Bush’s (it’s always a temptation to ask how many of them are fighter pilots or have an MBA from Harvard, but that just gets you nowhere); Pakistan, an “ally,” didn’t quite tell us the whole truth; the dreaded prison camp interrogations produced the first pieces of info that led to the raid; or that Obama didn’t face the bullets or do the shooting.

Yeah, don’t bother. None of that seems to matter to them. Listening, reason and sensible deduction has been removed from their political thought, if you can call it that. Regurgitation is closer. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t doom us next November.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; conservatives; debate; obltermination; progressives
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To: TheConservativeCitizen
Not like that “stupid” Bush, who couldn’t find him.

Do they forget that eight years after the first WTC attack, Clinton didn't find him either?

I say didn't, because I believe he could have.

41 posted on 05/04/2011 1:01:24 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

BUMP for later reading


42 posted on 05/04/2011 3:21:26 AM PDT by politicianslie (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders)
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To: Bockscar

My tagline.


43 posted on 05/04/2011 5:31:24 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: TheConservativeCitizen
There is this 0bot that works for me. He hates Bush and started taking credit for 0 on the OBL thing right out of the gate on Monday. I pointed out to him that waterboarding and Gitmo led directly to the event. He denies that it was a factor. Showed him the news story about it and he claimed that the press was in the tank for W. I laughed right in his face.
44 posted on 05/04/2011 5:35:14 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: unkus

Liberals will ask you a convoluted, many factored question or a, “Do you still beat your wife” question and insist on a yes or no answer but if you ask them if the Sun rises in the East they will yammer for five minutes without answering.


45 posted on 05/04/2011 5:35:40 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: lp boonie

Today they are saying that the SEAL shot the wife in the leg.


46 posted on 05/04/2011 5:38:02 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: West Texas Chuck
He looked to me like a boy that had been hauled to the principle's office. The General and even Biden looked more in charge.
47 posted on 05/04/2011 5:39:48 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: RipSawyer

It is very frustrating. I’d like to find a short, concise explanation on what makes their minds work so convolutedly.
As many say, it is a mental disease.


48 posted on 05/04/2011 7:54:44 AM PDT by unkus
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