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Andy McCarthy on How Barack Obama is Just Like Ahmadinejad
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Andy McCarthy on How Barack Obama is Just Like Ahmadinejad |
06/22/09
So take your revisionism--and your own religious and ideological fundamentalism--and shove it up you ass.
As for K-Lo, I won't read this insane person's rants, but I can tell you that every prominent conservative politician and religious "leader" in this country is a flaming philandering asshole.
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And so is this: "But it is all especially shameless because neo-conservatives-not the "hard Left"-were the only Americans publicly begging for an Ahmadinjead victory, so that they could-as they are now!-demand that Obama take a harder line against the Iranian regime."
Neither side has any love for this asshole and it is as disingenuous to assert that conservatives wish ill upon the Iranian people (by extension) as it is to accuse liberals of the same.
06/22/09
but hey the easiest way to excuse the dumbest and most indefensible statements by any group is to play the old THEY DO IT TOO card so keep it up mr latrigue
06/22/09
Proof? He was elected a president of US, which is the rightmost industrialized, democratic country in the world. He is promising some changes in this country, but even if and when implemented, those changes will still leave the US where it is relative to other industrialized democracies countries: farthest to the right.
Enough with this ""socialist", "far left" and "hard left" crap. You'd crap your fucking pants if we really had a hard left president.
06/22/09
*Yes, I know it's not Francisco Franco, but Pareene used an asterisk so I wanted to use one too. If people don't like it they can blow me.
06/22/09
So, without further attempts to caricature my words or meddle the issue:
Can you please name a modern-day economically and politically upstanding country in the world which is to the right of US, and to the right of Barack Obama's stated goals?
06/22/09
Really, I wasn't implying that you were the one that was making the facist argument, but I have heard it on here before. So, apologies if it came off as a shot across your bow. I guess it did.
My concern with Obama is the level of spending. This irks me much more than what he is going to spend it on. With that said, entitlement programs rarely shrink in size. So, the "what" does concern me more than a little.
06/22/09
1. Health care (raise of hands: how many of us actually do have insurance?)
2. Education (if your parents are not rich, you are fucked.)
3. Labor laws (vacation anyone?)
4. Social programs ("3 strikes" laws is not it)
5. Arts and culture support (no BBC here. Why does Jim Jarmusch have to make movies financed by Germany and Israel?)
6. Military (our doctrine seems to be "bomb the bastards")
7. Political System (only two parties? Really? Really And is it one person = one vote, or more like one dollar = one vote?)
8. Gun rights (everyone for themselves! yeee-haw!)
9. Financial system (up-down, up-down... your 401(k) still OK?)
10. Sports (care about Olympics? Of course not, there's no money in it)
I could go on.. but really, if you ever visited Europe (or Canada, or Japan) the differences are clear. I am not saying they are better in all of the solutions, I am just saying: they are all to the left of us.
06/22/09
I was going to argue the merits or lack thereof of each of your points, but I think you were just trying to demonstrate how far left other governments are by comparison. I will point out that some of the most facist, reactionary governments have poured money into every one of your points with the exceptions of 7, 8 and maybe 9. For example, Hitler hosted the 1936 Olympics and hoped that it would be a showcase for his "superior" athletes.
06/23/09
I am going to say this only once more, and never again: we are talking about modern day industrial democracies. Drop that Hitler shit already.
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Wasn't he in St. Elmo's Fire, too, and/or The Breakfast Club?
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To quote from "The Critic" Jay Sherman, when the character was a guest on "The Simpsons" - Talking to action star Ranier Wolfcastle....
Rainier: The film is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost $80 million.
Jay: [contemptuous] How do you sleep at night?
Rainier: On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.