Posted on 09/16/2009 9:54:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
“As a liberal, I must ask: Why can’t liberals who support Obama make an intelligent argument without accusing those who disagree with us of racism, and sideswiping other liberals who, like me, when I heard Obama’s speech, reflexively agreed with Wilson’s sentiment - to wit, “Mr. President, you lie!”? “
That is a powerful sentence.
Excellent!
Racism on both sides, eh?
Big difference between a guy in a crowd with a sign and a former President of the United States, Congressmen, Representatives, etc.
I’m sick of the “both sides are acting badly” argument.
Democrat leadership has consistently shown they are valueless, biased and in need of quite a few hours of intense therapy.
Sorry, I’m not accepting ANY comparison of what the tea party folks do and what the left does. The president lied. He didn’t lie because of his race. He lied because he is a liar. He hangs with liars. There is not talent there. NONE.
The left has lost any capability for rational thought. Perhaps they might like to read some history...if they can indeed read considering the joke of an education which the majority of them appear to have received.
OMG - a thinking liberal - and a non-totalitarian one... Thank God.
“The promises he listed simply did not add up. I said to myself - not being on the floor of Congress at the time - “you lie.” That heretical thought did not make me a “racist.” Nor did the expression of the idea make Joe Wilson a “racist.” “
Sanity from the left. Are pigs flying outside my office?
I realize that I am in a small minority on this website holding this heretical position.
Evidently everyone who disagrees with conservatism (however poorly defined) is an evil, amoral (or immoral) enemy that is completely incapable of rational thought.
Trying to work with some liberals on a case-by-case basis where we happen to agree is supposedly a fool's errand.
We conservatives are not like the Taliban so we will not demand that all our enemies be eliminated or relegated to some second class status. But somehow we are supposed to believe that any conversation with liberals is a total waste of time, and that they are all out to undermine our way of life. How anyone can hold those two positions simultaneously mystifies me, but it is evidently something that most Freepers are able to do.
Thanks for posting this.
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“As a liberal, I must ask: Why can’t liberals who support Obama make an intelligent argument without accusing those who disagree with us of racism, and sideswiping other liberals who, like me, when I heard Obama’s speech, reflexively agreed with Wilson’s sentiment - to wit, “Mr. President, you lie!”?”
The answer is simple - THEY DON’T HAVE AN INTELLIGENT ARGUMENT!!
Michael Meyers is a superior person.
Um, note to Mr. Meyers: He's lying about that too. The radical racial slurs are exactly what Obama wants. He wants anything that will help him acquire power.
liberal/intelligent.
Oxymoron!
Your right on with your post
I believe in a color blind standard - I can't stand most liberals - whatever their color. And I like most conservatives - whatever their color.
And the thuggy "race card" is easier.
In Iran the thugs use the "Allah card" - if you disagree with one of the goons running Iran - they say you're disagreeing with Allah.
Odd how evil people are cut from the same cloth.
Beginning by refusing to use the word itself, in polite company, and instead calling it "the R word", and treating it as offensive as it is...
And when the talking heads on TV start referring to it as "the R word", we will know that we've suceeded.
Amen.
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