Posted on 04/30/2014 8:13:49 AM PDT by Flame Retardant
The guy is a nutcase, and worked for Mondale.
“”Amy Sullivan of Time magazine and Rod Dreher of The Dallas Morning News examine the growing appeal of Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama.””
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/1194817109967/bloggingheads-politics-as-unusual.html
Noah Millman observes that by most measures, Barack Obama is a conservative. Excerpt: **In the core areas of policy, the goal of the Obama Administration has been the preservation of the status quo, and where the Obama Administration has sought to move longstanding Democratic priorities, it has generally done so with an eye to minimally disturbing existing economic and political arrangements.**
I think this is basically right, and this is why I have such a difficult time getting worked up about Obama. A conservative friend said to me the other day that if Obama was re-elected, “we might lose America.” He was totally serious. I don’t get this at all. I would much rather have Obama running US foreign policy than Mitt Romney. On the economy, with regard to the outsize power of the banks, Obama has been too Republican.””
Tell you what, ansel12. I think you should investigate select FReepers and see where they were at at age 17, provided it was 30 more more years ago. What fun you could have, identifying nutcase liberals.
Have a nice--- or at least, a busy --- day.
You love the guy, well here he is, sharing some brilliant insight that you admire so much.
Why I’m Not Returning To Catholicism
By ROD DREHER • September 30, 2013
that the primary reason I’m not a candidate for returning to Rome is because I simply do not believe Catholic doctrine any longer. If I had the essay to write over, I would have added these lines:
“”To be sure, the primary reason I’m not for turning back to Rome is because I do not believe Catholic doctrine any longer. Even if I thought Francis was the second coming of John the Baptist, I couldn’t rejoin a church in whose ecclesiological claims I have ceased to believe. The point here is simply that the aspect of Francis’s papal ministry that the world sees as a feature is, for people like me, a bug.””
If you look at the more recent posts on this thread, you will see that you are correct, he is liberal, and has hated Palin from the beginning, leans Obama, and doesn’t vote republican.
He thinks Obama is too “conservative” and too “republican” in some areas, and of course a conservative like Palin, is off the charts to a liberal like him.
From Mondale to Obama.
In your case, I do not attribute anything to intentional dishonesty or malice, because I think you may be quite unaware.
Yhis is the end of the conversation as far as I am concerned. I have been out all day, I am weary, and I do not care to spend any more time on this wearying expense of the spirit.
Peace to you.
Wow, you are something. You even ignored his rejection of the Catholic religious teachings and his leaving the Catholic denomination. You must really, really, dislike Palin to embrace this guy and his opinions so completely.
“”Amy Sullivan of Time magazine and Rod Dreher of The Dallas Morning News examine the growing appeal of Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama.””
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/1194817109967/bloggingheads-politics-as-unusual.html
The Conservative Obama
By ROD DREHER • August 22, 2012, 1:05 PM
Noah Millman observes that by most measures, Barack Obama is a conservative. Excerpt: **In the core areas of policy, the goal of the Obama Administration has been the preservation of the status quo, and where the Obama Administration has sought to move longstanding Democratic priorities, it has generally done so with an eye to minimally disturbing existing economic and political arrangements.**
I think this is basically right, and this is why I have such a difficult time getting worked up about Obama. A conservative friend said to me the other day that if Obama was re-elected, “we might lose America.” He was totally serious. I don’t get this at all. I would much rather have Obama running US foreign policy than Mitt Romney. On the economy, with regard to the outsize power of the banks, Obama has been too Republican.””
A non-sequitur. This has nothing to do with the question at hand. The question I took up with you was whether Dreher is a nutcase liberal. He is not; and it has nothing to do with the fact that he went from Baptist to Catholic to Orthodox. I have in fact taken this up with him personally, which is, I suspect, a great deal more than you have done.
"You must really, really, dislike Palin to embrace this guy and his opinions so completely."
Your statements are unfactual.
For the first, you are imputing attitudes to me that I do not hold. Palin is the only, singular, candidate I have voted for warmly and with pleasure in the past 6 years.
For the second, I do not embrace Rod's views completely, nor do I reject them completely.
I do defend him from the charge that he is a "nutjob liberal". It would be slanderous if it were not eye-rollingly ridiculous. You do yourself no credit for pushing such nonsense.
You would be much more convincing if you would argue principles, platforms, and policies rather than personalities. But if "ad-hominem" is your preferred mode, have at it: but leave me out of it.
I really don't wish to hear from you again.
Actually you haven't, you have evaded and ignored everything that I have posted regarding his nutty pro-Obama, anti-Republican, anti-conservative politics.
For instance, your childish evasion of post 221.
The guy is a nutcase liberal, that is how he can write so favorably about Obama, and attack him as "too republican".
He has already been zotted, so, it looks like he was a troll.
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