On Thu, November 6, 2008 10:06 am, Charles Bennett wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Roger Howard wrote: > >> >> On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Chuck Bennett wrote: >> >>> said better than I could ever hope to. >>> >>> <http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000192.html> >> >> Which part, or all of this crap? >> > > POV.
Still, looking for which part of this thread you agree with, and which part you would classify as derangement. Derangement to me: 1. The continued assertion that a large part of Obama's appeal was his race, and thus was an inherently racist campaign. Most who voted for him were not black, and my general impression is that people voted for Barack because he was the inspirational, articulate, and clearly intellectually superior candidate, regardless of his color. In fact, I would say he had a much higher bar to cross in terms of his qualities than a white candidate, not the other way around. 2. The notion that he's a socialist - the right seems to have just learned the phrase "redistribution of wealth" and seems completely oblivious to the real meaning of that phrase - taking land, nationalizing foreign businesses, and confiscating private wealth. It does NOT apply to minor adjustments in tax policy - otherwise every president of the past century is a "redistributionist". You may not like the fine points of his tax policy, but it is just that - fine, subtle differences, compared with any true re-distribution. 3. The Bush Derangement Syndrome - yes, some of us had concerns from the start, much like with Palin, that we was a lightweight, anti-intellectual, fundamentalist. That said, I think *most* of the anti-Bush sentiment arose specifically because of his policies and actions in office - we didn't really know him well before he was elected. Once in office he was kinda quiet until 9/11, after which point a lot of us felt like the country veered far off course and into untested waters - preemptive warfare, torture, Guantanamo, Patriot Act, tax cuts during a huge war, the massive enlargement of homeland security. So what in that thread do you agree with, or maybe more importantly did you disagree with? _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
