NObama

[Nathan Poe]

Most Americans seem to vote for hype rather than substance, and that's sad.

And as for Iraq, Bush asked for and received Congressional approval for that war by votes of 296-133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate. There is that bipartisanship you folks on the left are always whining about.

Proving that Americans vote hype over substance on issues as well as on people.

America actually has me thinking that democracy doesn't work. Because the majority of people are idiots and they elect idiots to govern them. At least the idiots on the right elect strong leaders, the idiots on the left elect people just because they can give a speech even though they have no experience.

So, Bush was a "strong idiot" voted in by the right?

 

[SOAD]

Of course it is. Just because you may not find a joke made at your expense funny, doesnt mean it isnt.

Wrong again! It is not humor, it is ridicule. The point is that somebody who claims to tell it like it is cannot be honest enough to say she was insulting instead of trying to be funny. That makes her "intro" a worthless statement.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Wrong again! It is not humor, it is ridicule. The point is that somebody who claims to tell it like it is cannot be honest enough to say she was insulting instead of trying to be funny. That makes her "intro" a worthless statement.

Indeed -- it's exactly that kind of cowardice to come out swinging, then retreat to "I was only joking" when the responses start coming in.

If you meant for your posts to be nothing but meaningless drivel to be laughed at, you shouldn't have to tell us -- most of us have probably already figured it out.

 

[lordbt]

Wrong again! It is not humor, it is ridicule. The point is that somebody who claims to tell it like it is cannot be honest enough to say she was insulting instead of trying to be funny. That makes her "intro" a worthless statement.

Ridicule can be humorous too, sport.

 

[SOAD]

Ridicule can be humorous too, sport.

I shouldn't expect somebody like you to understand, buckaroo, pal, buddy, dude, chum, guy, or whatever silliness you desire.

 

[Avatar]

My, but aren't you the charming one.

 

[Pommer]

Ridicule can be humorous too, sport.

True.
Google "Lenski affair" for an excellent (if long) example of this, (NSF-YECists).

 

[RETS]

Humor at the expense of others is not humor. Apparently you do not tell it like it is.

Wrong again! It is not humor, it is ridicule. The point is that somebody who claims to tell it like it is cannot be honest enough to say she was insulting instead of trying to be funny. That makes her "intro" a worthless statement.

Indeed -- it's exactly that kind of cowardice to come out swinging, then retreat to "I was only joking" when the responses start coming in.

If you meant for your posts to be nothing but meaningless drivel to be laughed at, you shouldn't have to tell us -- most of us have probably already figured it out.

Would I be correct in assuming neither of you are into satire?

And I actually must apologize- I have a truly bad habit of making jokes and cracking wise according to my own sense of humor. That sense of humor is far from a shared thing, so I believe I should begin to put the beside every instance.

Apologies if your feelings were hurt, but insulting you maliciously was not my intent.


By the way- I'm a he, not a she.


@Nathan: You of all the members here ought to know (maybe) that when I'm insulting someone, I do come right out and say so. Look at any of my responses to Ibrahim and that becomes all too clear, thanks to the nature of his... Virtual persona, I guess.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Would I be correct in assuming neither of you are into satire?

Just preferring it be done right.

@Nathan: You of all the members here ought to know (maybe) that when I'm insulting someone, I do come right out and say so. Look at any of my responses to Ibrahim and that becomes all too clear, thanks to the nature of his... Virtual persona, I guess.

Alas, you haven't merited quite enough attention to notice your particular posting habits.

 

[salida]

There is a difference between bashing and exposing corruption.

 

[JBJoe]

Are they? How do you figure that? And as for Iraq, Bush asked for and received Congressional approval for that war by votes of 296-133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate. There is that bipartisanship you folks on the left are always whining about.

Every intelligence agency in the US government exists in the executive branch. It is the job of the executive branch to gather the intelligence, interpret it and make a case for action based on it to congress.

The Bush administration cooked the intelligence. You do remember things like Bush mentioning Saddam trying to buy Uranium in the State of the Union Address, right? How about Saddam's alleged mobile biological weapons factories - a story that came from a single person trying to get asylum in Germany which the Germans gave to us under a cooperative agreement but reiterated that the intelligence came from an unreliable informant - do you remember that? How about besmirching the names of incredibly honorable Americans, such as General Eric Shinseki, when they didn't repeat what the Bush administration wanted them to say? These are just the few we know of.

Congressional approval purchased with the volume of lies such as what the Bush administration spun is hardly a golden example of how the guy wasn't so bad.

 

[questftbest]

I say NObama!! However I don't attack him personally like the left does to Sarah Palin's children. The government is not my god. I don't believe that expanding govenment and borrowing from foriegn countries is right.

 

[SOAD]

I say NObama!! However I don't attack him personally like the left does to Sarah Palin's children. The government is not my god. I don't believe that expanding govenment and borrowing from foriegn countries is right.

You may not personally attack Obama, but the right personally attacks him all day long. None of this has anything to do with Palin.

 

[Nathan Poe]

You may not personally attack Obama, but the right personally attacks him all day long.

Along with his family -- do I need to hear more about his parents?