Posted on 05/29/2009 10:19:03 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
i never ever foresaw the day when i would comprehend Ted Rall’s viewpoint, let alone agree with most of it.
...going out to check for flying pigs... brb
Rall is like Paul Craig Roberts. He will viciously attack whoever is in power. The problem is that what they write says a lot more about their own psychological issues than it does about whoever is in power.
So maybe Rall has a point about Obama on these issues, but I would give Rall’s opinion absolutely no weight on the matter. I would verify his claims from other sources first.
There’s a word for these kind of people- “Contrarian.”
“Ted Rall: It’s increasingly evident that Obama should resign”
Yeah, that’s gonna happen. Real soon. In fact, any time now.
These clueless liberals are so.... clueless!
Denunciations from Marxists like Rall only benefit Obama.
Tell Rall that those whom Obama intends to use “pre-emptive detention” on are right wingers,
and he’ll be OK.
Either that or my coffee fermented into some sort of hallucinogen because I can not believe that ted rall of all people wrote that.
It breaks my heart that Ted Rall, this ultra-liberal, lying POS is disappointed.
The key there would be to look at Rall's opening complaint: Obama's unwillingness to "acknowledge the Armenian genocide."
Well, OK, it was genocide, and very few people would disagree with that.
The problem is that Mr. Rall's thinking stops there. Genocide is horrible and wrong and thus we must condemn it, even if it happened 80-90 years ago. The mindset seems to be that calling something "wrong" is enough -- that we need not think beyond that.
Like much of leftist rhetoric, his views are childish -- not necessarily wrong, but incomplete; lacking in both context and perspective.
In this particular instance, the problem is that this is not a matter of what "people" will do, it's a question of relations between to countries, in a world where actions must be balanced against their consequences. Where international relations are concerned, very few things can be considered as black and white. In the case of Turkey, we must balance "acknowledging genocide" against the very real negative strategic consequences of doing so.
What's really ironic is that Rall is upbraiding Obama because he said all the right childish things, but has failed to act childishly as well.
I would not call Obama a grown-up, by any stretch of the imagination. But I would say that Obama has been learning some pretty unpleasant lessons about the difference between saying and doing.
“He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.”
On that, I agree with Ted, but for polar-opposite reasons.
LOL! This guy is just figuring this out? Anyone that would call their own potential grandchild, "a mistake", that should be aborted- is rotten inside.
Of course this guy Rall sees nothing wrong with that. It's just really funny to see a leftist come to the same conclusion as most conservatives- but for different reasons.
I’m no fan of 0bama, but it is nice seeing Ted Rall this worked up... =:-D
Popcorn!
Well-stated in a thread of good posts.
True. Somehow I don't see Biden bowing to any Muslim.
Why can't you? Rall is attacking Obama for being insufficiently far to the left.
I'm the sort of person who always looks for silver linings when the bad times strike. I'd hoped that one (admittedly picayune) good thing to come of Obama's election would be that maybe this very sick man could finally let go of his rage and his hate and learn to be happy and love life. Apparently not. Pity.
THAT kind of marionette show about foreign policy?
“Somehow I don’t see Biden bowing to any Muslim.”
I can easily see Biden inadvertenly offending Muslims, though.
If he p*sses them off enough, maybe they’ll discover his birth certificate . . . .
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