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Old 05-05-2008, 02:40 PM   #1
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Considering our government is giving tax breaks to companies that export jobs over seas, Id say that the definition of 'unpatriotic' or 'un-american' doesn't quite mean what it used to.

If you ask me, the most patriotic person out there is the one screaming and yelling to get everyone to wake up and realize that our country has been hijacked by corporate puppets to suck every dollar out of our economy and line the pockets of the rich.

Would you like me to define 'ignorant' or 'naive'?
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Considering our government is giving tax breaks to companies that export jobs over seas, Id say that the definition of 'unpatriotic' or 'un-american' doesn't quite mean what it used to.

If you ask me, the most patriotic person out there is the one screaming and yelling to get everyone to wake up and realize that our country has been hijacked by corporate puppets to suck every dollar out of our economy and line the pockets of the rich.

Would you like me to define 'ignorant' or 'naive'?
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Old 05-06-2008, 09:32 AM   #3
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MMMMMMMM Nafta.
I was meeting with the VP of Engineering for an automotive supplier the other week who was praising NAFTA as a great thing.

While I did try I just couldn't get into ScottW's rant above, although one thing that does seem clear is his deep inability to reconcile moral relativism and the real world.

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MMMMMMMM Nafta.

Yep.. Nafta sucks.
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scenes from Obama's Houston supporters offices...but don't believe your eyes...it's probably just a case of "untrained ears" or untrained eyes too unsophisticated to understand the subtleties...RIGHT?

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine "Marxist" revolutionary, politician, author, military theorist, physician, and guerrilla leader.

Hillary was for NAFTA before she was against it...wasn't she?

Spence, are we banning ranting now? Just because you have fancy pants it doesn't make you the smartest guy in the room ...

on your buddy Marx, I've read his stuff....actually it's very appealing in many ways, and he did have a great beard...but like most "academics", the real world has effects that are never accounted in the "closed system" where thay are created, I mean, look, if I wanted to hang around smoking pot all day with my buddies, John Lennin softly singing IMAGINE in the background, then I would probably be a big Marx fan, there's a lot there to justify my lay-aboutness, and afterall, can you really hold a guy accountable for other people that read his writings, get inspired and then go out and cause death, misery and repression an massive scales...funny though Marx, in all I've read about him, I can't find anything anywhere that says what he did for work...he was a self-annointed expert on social order, industry and commerce, government and I guess pretty much everything, yet having never held a job in the private sector, at least for very long...sounds remarkable like most elected democrats that come to mind...experts because they deem thenselves experts on everything and everything with little or no actual experience except maybe lawyering...hmmm

Marx was not able to hold a regular job. He was a parasite to his wife, Jenny (she had more class than Marx and was from a higher class than Marx), and his more affluent philosophical comrade, Friedrich Engels

Dad, can't disagree with that, but it seems that the TRUTH increasingly is becoming arbitrary and subject to political expedience...

Nebe....never mind

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scenes from Obama's Houston campaign headquarters...but don't believe your eyes...it's probably just a case of "untrained ears" or untrained eyes too unsophisticated to understand the subtleties...RIGHT?
Can't you even vet your own posts, or do you just not care if you spread misinformation?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/chavez.asp

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Old 05-06-2008, 02:27 PM   #8
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Can't you even vet your own posts, or do you just not care if you spread misinformation?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/chavez.asp

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I bet I read Snopes before you did?!?! Did you just stop at the first evidence that supported your view? what misinformation....did you watch the actual News Report?
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Spence, whay do you think Hillary is so happy right now? I heard her yesterday and she's downright giddy...because she knows...in politics, if you don't define yourself you run the risk of allowing your opponent to define you...she knew that like in sports an upstart underdog team might make an early run at you but over time, the adrenalin will wear off and they'll make mistakes, Obama was exciting and new but he hasn't been around long enough to have a solid track record and these little things keep popping up that in the long run will result in doubt in the minds of the voters in the middle that you speak of...in my opinion the middle doesn't vote for the one they most support but against the one they have the most doubt about

those pics were from a news story immediately after super tuesday showing two Obama offices opening in the Houston area which were "opened by supporters and expected to be full of paid staffers by the end of the week", I gusee I should have said Obama's houston campaign supporters offices to be staffed in a few days or something....noone ever disputed the story, noone ever disputed the existence of the flag and never explained it either..it was not photoshopped, you should watch the follow up interview with the woman involved...pretty funny

bottom line, stuff like this along with Bill Ayers, the Rev., the things his wife says on occasion, Retzko, and a number of others are beginning to add up to larger questions, Hillary has artfully stayed away from directly attacking because she'll need his supporters in the long term, she'll attempt to place the blame for Obama's failure on the right...which makes perfect sense...she's going to have one hell of an argument come the convention, we'll see what hapens
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I bet I read Snopes before you did?!?! Did you just stop at the first evidence that supported your view? what misinformation....did you watch the actual News Report?
So you read the Snopes report, understood that this wasn't in fact Obama's Houston campaign headquarters, understood that the Obama campaign condemed the display, and then posted otherwise to make it look like the Obama campaign was using an image of Che Guevara as a mascot...

But you weren't trying to mislead anyone? I'd say you and Barak have something in common.

A credibility problem

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