Thursday, September 24, 2009
I'm a racist
...or so says Maureen Dowd, Janeane Garofalo, Former Pres. Carter, Former VP Mondale, and an many other Obama supporters. I am racist because I oppose his policies. The apparent logic is that Obama's policies are so obviously correct that the only explanation for opposition to such policies must be racism. I am growing weary of it and it is becoming clear that many Obama supporters resort to calling people racist when they can't win the debate about an issue. For strategic electoral purposes at least, the Democrats should speak out against such statements because it is offensive to seniors and independents who have doubts about the pending health insurance reform legislation. Offending such groups is not only electorally dangerous, but such talk does not make any useful contribution to dialogue about pending issues.
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I find it almost the norm now that anyone opposed is a racist. I think that will be the case for some time now.
On a different note but on this post...Wolfe Blitzer called the bombs made by recent terrorist arrested here in the states as weapons of mass distruction. If that be the case, all the roadside bombs in Iraq were weapons of mass distruction which would mean that we did indeed find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
But yet he still insists that we did not.
Just as anyone dissenting and opposing the Republicans were not true Americans, not patriots.
Such accusations ceaselessly paired with the word liberal was just a way of branding the opposition.
Villainizing the opposition is a tactic. Let's recognize it as that. Too bad such a low practice is entirely common on both sides.
I don't care what Wolfe Blitzer thinks.
Doug is right. It happens on both sides from both parties to every President and to every party in the majority.
I know....my last statement was ever so profound and deep. Arn't you glad that I contribute?
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