Because we sure would hate to start pointing out that they are backwoods inbred zealots that should be caged until they are no longer a danger to civilized society.
Define defeat. Define victory. One thing you can do to “defeat” a set of ideas is not to admit the ideas have ANY credence at all. Plus, when an idiot wants to bait you into a fight, do you stick out your chin and say, yeah, go ahead, hit me? Why would you do such a stupid and I’ll advised thing? When some delusional jerk tells you that you have to come and fight them according to their apocalyptic vision, do you then say, YES, I’ve been waiting for the moment to engage in your end times fantasy? Not hard to see how THAT course of action would be suboptimal, is it?
First we’ll eliminate all the Muslims, then we’ll eliminate all the Buddhists, next the … …then the lutherans, next the Mormons, followed by the 7th day adventist, continuing with the… … finally anyone else that is not us. THEN WE WILL HAVE PARADISE! (my cousin George is exempt cause he’s just touched in the head)
Talk about your made up crisis. I guess it plays well with the GOP base.…… Look he’s playing golf…… Look he’s wearing a tan suit…… Look is that a muslim fist bump…….Look he was born in Kenya…….Look he’s not a leader like Putin…… Look he’s an imperial executive…….Look his daughters don’t dress right……………………………………………………….It’s a daily cornucopia of excrement that the right wing message handlers put on the plate of their hungry masses. It reflects more on the audience’s appetite for fake outrage than actual controversy. There are plenty of reasonable criticisms that can be made and should be made and discussed about this administration and our other elected officials. But that might mean that we would have to have a discussion of relevant issues, that those we elected would have to govern and stop using inaction as an acceptable method of governance.
@wmconnelly – To some extent…I lump together those who preach the violence, those who commit the violence, and those who whine and snivel about how their religion is being hijacked by extremists but are unwilling to speak out against it themselves for fear of bringing violence down upon their family.
I hold all those (from any religion) that preach, commit or tacitly tolerate violence in the name of their god as equally disgusting.
At the point where your god is telling you to commit violence in his/her/their name – You need to get a new god and stop tolerating those around you who haven’t figured that out yet.
I think the same about Christians that turn a blind eye to abortion clinic bombings or shake fake fetuses at young women looking for health care.
Too many people have forgotten what Bush & Cheney said about “radical terrorists” after Sept. 11, 2001! America was/is not at war with the Muslim world.
@feverjr – And you continue the excrement by lumping all conservatives together as one angry mass. As though anything conservative is a cartoonish hate group.
Obama has made plenty of mistakes and we call him on it. But all we see in the Media is when one of the Right wing doofuses makes a gaffe.
Serb Christians raping and murdering Bosnian Muslims, recent history of the kindness in the Christian heart.
Obama has long been calling it terrorism, and the ISIL gang terrorists. He just recognizes that they represent the majority of Muslims just as well as Milosovic represented ALL CHRISTIANS!!
Now Americans are supposed to be afraid to go to the mall, meaning ISIL and Boko Haram ( a small group of African nut cases) and Al Shabab (Another small group of African nut cases) have MUCH BETTER PR GUYS THAN US!
Of course, the real issue is making funding of Homeland Security, with it’s 33 new departmetns that ended all hope of communication under Bush, at a huge increase in wasted spending.
“He is more clueless than Billy Boy before 9/11.”1) 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, not Clinton’s.2) Clinton was the first US President to start taking terrorism seriously. He installed a “terror czar” to monitor terrorism and to advise the President who’s doing it and how to deal with it. That same terror czar saw his budget slashed when Bush took over and couldn’t even get an audience with President Bush until after the 9/11 attacks.But don’t let that stop you from your predetermined narrative. Tell us again how it’s all Clinton’s fault.
Mephistopheles about 9 years ago
Because we sure would hate to start pointing out that they are backwoods inbred zealots that should be caged until they are no longer a danger to civilized society.
twclix about 9 years ago
Define defeat. Define victory. One thing you can do to “defeat” a set of ideas is not to admit the ideas have ANY credence at all. Plus, when an idiot wants to bait you into a fight, do you stick out your chin and say, yeah, go ahead, hit me? Why would you do such a stupid and I’ll advised thing? When some delusional jerk tells you that you have to come and fight them according to their apocalyptic vision, do you then say, YES, I’ve been waiting for the moment to engage in your end times fantasy? Not hard to see how THAT course of action would be suboptimal, is it?
kaffekup about 9 years ago
Odd how, when the Sunnis are empowered and feel part of their country, they don’t feel the need to support the savages.
eugene57 about 9 years ago
First we’ll eliminate all the Muslims, then we’ll eliminate all the Buddhists, next the … …then the lutherans, next the Mormons, followed by the 7th day adventist, continuing with the… … finally anyone else that is not us. THEN WE WILL HAVE PARADISE! (my cousin George is exempt cause he’s just touched in the head)
feverjr Premium Member about 9 years ago
Talk about your made up crisis. I guess it plays well with the GOP base.…… Look he’s playing golf…… Look he’s wearing a tan suit…… Look is that a muslim fist bump…….Look he was born in Kenya…….Look he’s not a leader like Putin…… Look he’s an imperial executive…….Look his daughters don’t dress right……………………………………………………….It’s a daily cornucopia of excrement that the right wing message handlers put on the plate of their hungry masses. It reflects more on the audience’s appetite for fake outrage than actual controversy. There are plenty of reasonable criticisms that can be made and should be made and discussed about this administration and our other elected officials. But that might mean that we would have to have a discussion of relevant issues, that those we elected would have to govern and stop using inaction as an acceptable method of governance.
Mephistopheles about 9 years ago
@wmconnelly – To some extent…I lump together those who preach the violence, those who commit the violence, and those who whine and snivel about how their religion is being hijacked by extremists but are unwilling to speak out against it themselves for fear of bringing violence down upon their family.
I hold all those (from any religion) that preach, commit or tacitly tolerate violence in the name of their god as equally disgusting.
At the point where your god is telling you to commit violence in his/her/their name – You need to get a new god and stop tolerating those around you who haven’t figured that out yet.
I think the same about Christians that turn a blind eye to abortion clinic bombings or shake fake fetuses at young women looking for health care.
DrDon1 about 9 years ago
Too many people have forgotten what Bush & Cheney said about “radical terrorists” after Sept. 11, 2001! America was/is not at war with the Muslim world.
Mephistopheles about 9 years ago
@feverjr – And you continue the excrement by lumping all conservatives together as one angry mass. As though anything conservative is a cartoonish hate group.
Obama has made plenty of mistakes and we call him on it. But all we see in the Media is when one of the Right wing doofuses makes a gaffe.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Serb Christians raping and murdering Bosnian Muslims, recent history of the kindness in the Christian heart.
Obama has long been calling it terrorism, and the ISIL gang terrorists. He just recognizes that they represent the majority of Muslims just as well as Milosovic represented ALL CHRISTIANS!!
Now Americans are supposed to be afraid to go to the mall, meaning ISIL and Boko Haram ( a small group of African nut cases) and Al Shabab (Another small group of African nut cases) have MUCH BETTER PR GUYS THAN US!
Of course, the real issue is making funding of Homeland Security, with it’s 33 new departmetns that ended all hope of communication under Bush, at a huge increase in wasted spending.
Jason Allen about 9 years ago
“He is more clueless than Billy Boy before 9/11.”1) 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, not Clinton’s.2) Clinton was the first US President to start taking terrorism seriously. He installed a “terror czar” to monitor terrorism and to advise the President who’s doing it and how to deal with it. That same terror czar saw his budget slashed when Bush took over and couldn’t even get an audience with President Bush until after the 9/11 attacks.But don’t let that stop you from your predetermined narrative. Tell us again how it’s all Clinton’s fault.