54% Of Republicans Believe Obama Is A Muslim

[piasabird]

I never met a slave.

 

[realibrad]

I never met a slave.

Go to a sex club.

 

[piasabird]

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
― Barack Obama


tags: inauguration, president, speech

 

[Vic]

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
Barack Obama


tags: inauguration, president, speech

I agree with this. Does that make me a Muslim too in your mind?

 

[Vic]

That's particularly interesting coming from Jefferson, who kept his slaves for his entire life. Interesting that he could see his own contradictions and then keep going with them.

Jefferson was neither a large landholder, like Washington, nor a successful businessman, like Franklin. His slaves were the source of his wealth, and all of the Founding Fathers were wealthy men.

 

[realibrad]

Jefferson was neither a large landholder, like Washington, nor a successful businessman, like Franklin. His slaves were the source of his wealth, and all of the Founding Fathers were wealthy men.

Eh, Jefferson was in large amounts of debt. Still lived a great life, but was having money problems.

 

[ttown]

I'm pretty sure Obama will tell you he is whatever it takes to trick you into voting for him... again. And you will.

 

[Jhhnn]

I agree with this. Does that make me a Muslim too in your mind?

I'll second that.

It's been like continuous hate week on the right fringe ever since Obama was elected. They'll necessarily believe all kinds of bullshit to validate their feelings. They eschew introspection entirely, reject anything that provokes it, needles them to re-evaluate. Obama hate provides the certainty they crave in an uncertain world, and nobody can take that from them.

Remember how they Booed McCain when he described Obama as a good family man? Even the guy they just voted for can't lead them to the light.

 

[Jhhnn]

I'm pretty sure Obama will tell you he is whatever it takes to trick you into voting for him... again. And you will.

Third term? Really?

 

[rudeguy]

I'll second that.

It's been like continuous hate week on the right fringe ever since Obama was elected. They'll necessarily believe all kinds of bullshit to validate their feelings. They eschew introspection entirely, reject anything that provokes it, needles them to re-evaluate. Obama hate provides the certainty they crave in an uncertain world, and nobody can take that from them.

Remember how they Booed McCain when he described Obama as a good family man? Even the guy they just voted for can't lead them to the light.

Just imagine. ...

Soon we will have a new president and we will be blaming Obama while you are blaming Bush.

 

[MongGrel]

I'm pretty sure Obama will tell you he is whatever it takes to trick you into voting for him... again. And you will.

So much fail it hurts.

 

[Jhhnn]

Just imagine. ...

Soon we will have a new president and we will be blaming Obama while you are blaming Bush.

I don't believe I mentioned Bush.

Start out from where the unthinkable has happened- near economic collapse brought on by implementation of right wing economic policy, followed by the election of a new Dirty Democrat as president- black, raised by his white grandparents, spent a few years as a child in Indonesia, with a funny mooslem sounding name. Their world is upside down. Way too weird. And there are plenty of propagandists willing to work that denial & distrust for all they can get.

We get the sekrit mooslem pitch for the truly gullible.

We get the notion that we really did find WMD's in Iraq.

We get Birtherism.

We get Death panels.

We get a lame paranoid scandal about gun grabbing BATFE agents running guns to Mexico so that they can grab more guns, obviously.

We get conspiracy theorizing about the tragedy in Benghazi.

We get even lamer conspiracy theorizing around the IRS

We get politicization of Bowie Bergdahl.

We get Congress stabbing Admin foreign policy efforts in the back.

We get all kinds of irrational reasons for Obama hate, and True Believers will cling to every one of them.

What we don't get is any sort of admission that the great recession couldn't have happened w/o the greatest flimflam in the history of finance, the Ownership Society & the failed ideology behind it.

What we don't get is any admission that the invasion of Iraq was a counter productive trumped up waste of lives & resources.

What we don't get is the sort of change that might prevent more of the same from the Lootocracy, harder & deeper.

The Believers are too busy hatin' on Obama to think of much of anything else.