Comments on: Political Tidbits Of The Week

By: MTHOMAS

MTHOMAS — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:38:56 +0000

Obama just ordered the rescue of the ship's captain,whats the right wing nuts gonna complain about that they only killed 3 out of 4 pirates?

By: MTHOMAS

MTHOMAS — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:09:47 +0000

same old same old beating that dead horse

By: Da King

Da King — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:12:45 +0000

averagejoe,
At this point, I think the Constitution is just getting in the way of our out of control federal government. The feds want to run everything, so they'll keep chipping away at the Constitution until there's nothing left of it. It's pretty much shredded already.

Ironically, wasn't Obama a professor of Constitutional Law ? You'd never know it.

By: Da King

Da King — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:06:52 +0000

Rev,
As for spreading Obama's enormous tax liability over the 50% of families who would still be paying income taxes, you're right – the burden would not be spread evenly. Some households would only have like a $50,000 burden, others would have a $250,000 burden. However, that argument entirely misses the point. No matter how the burden is spread, IT'S STILL A MASSIVE BURDEN that must be met. In your unique way, you make Boskin's point for him.

On our Judeo-Christian ideals and values, that isn't even debatable. All you have to do is look at where our Founding Fathers got their beliefs, just as angryc said. You have to rewrite history to deny it, and you tried with your caveman example. I got a real chuckle out of that.

And Rev, you're the master at picking out one dumb statement from the crowd and then pretending it's representative of the entirety of Republican thought, so don't even go there. It's called propaganda, and it's your bread and butter.

By: angry conserv

angry conserv — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:21:34 +0000

Anyone who denies that our founding fathers did not embrace or use Judeo-
Christian as their quiding principal either has not seriously studied the writings of our founding fathers or is to immersed in their agenda to honestly approach the subject with an open mind. Unless Iam mistaken various states had offical religions and the founders were not attacking that priciple. To a large degree their fear was the establishment of a national sanctioned church which would discriminate against those of other sects being allowed to follow their beliefs. I am constantly amazed at how the seperation of church and state has been redifined as seperation of religion and state. It only proves the that revisionist history is alive and well.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:13:36 +0000

Here's the problem with Mr Boskin's fearmongering…

"If spread evenly over all those paying income taxes (which under Mr. Obama’s plan would shrink to a little over 50% of the population), every income-tax paying family would get a tax bill for $163,000."

It's not spread evenly over all those paying taxes.

I could say, "if spread evenly over crackers, the tax bill would be $2 million per family"….but we don't spread tax bills over crackers. Not yet.

If you go back and check my blog posting with the Tea Party picture link, you'll see that what Jacobson says here is not the case….

"they will try to find someone in a crowd who says something stupid, will post it on the internet, and build an argument around it trying to demonize the movement."

It isn't a matter of finding a single sign bearing an anti-Obama message. It's the majority of those attending who are holding up rabid, hate-filled, messaged signs.

When Obama said this…."a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."….he was talking about our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which are totally secular in nature. And what of those Judeo-Christian values you speak of? Don't Jews and Christians get their values from previous civilizations, and didn't those previous civilizations get their values from, like, cave-men who had their own values? So, there's no point here with this Judeo-Christian nation junk.

Fundamentalist Christians don't like to hear stuff like Obama said….even though it's true. That's too bad. America couldn't possibly be a Christian nation because our system of ideals and values state clearly that our government is prohibited from promoting, endorsing, or involving itself in religion, no matter what the variety.

Finally, the Apologist in Chief baloney is….baloney. It's convenient to not include the total context of Obama's description of what America has not done so well, in which Europeans were called out concerning their anti-Americanism. Obama, far from being an Apologist, stated the truth about both sides. I know we haven't heard truth for quite awhile….but that's what it sounds like.

By: averagejoe5

averagejoe5 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:03:04 +0000

Good post King

"This guy knows liberals" I especially enjoyed this section because I have said this all along and have been told I was nuts and without faith. Libs have been using this strategy for a long time, including during the Bush/Cheney admin just to gain power. Just look at the pics Rev puts on his site concerning the tea-parties.

Does it seem that the constitution is being set aside and demonized to futher our govt's agenda?