The Politico is staffed by wealth redistributing half-breed muslins? Who knew...

/dnrtfa

Considering the track record of Republican congress critters over the past eight years--increasing spending, enhancing federal power, expanding the bureaucracy--I'd say this article is more deserving of an 'obvious' tag rather than an 'ironic' tag.

Peter von Nostrand: wealth redistributing half-breed muslins?

Muslins? Really?

ukiah: Peter von Nostrand: wealth redistributing half-breed muslins?

Muslins? Really?

Sadly, yes.

BWAHAHA!

Suck it Kool-Aid drinkers!

But I thought he was "the most liberal member of the Senate."

Make sense or stop talking.

Peter von Nostrand: ukiah: Peter von Nostrand: wealth redistributing half-breed muslins?

Muslins? Really?

Sadly, yes.

Very nicely played. I rescind my uniformed call-out.

B-b-but... I thought Obama was the most liberal candidate in the history of the known universe?

This... This makes no sense!

indylaw: But I thought he was "the most liberal member of the Senate."

Make sense or stop talking.

He is, but since this is a center-right country, it means that the Most Liberal Member of the Senate counts as a conservative, unless he's from San Francisco, in which case he's a Commie.

ukiah: Peter von Nostrand: ukiah: Peter von Nostrand: wealth redistributing half-breed muslins?

Muslins? Really?

Sadly, yes.

Very nicely played. I rescind my uniformed call-out.

Muslin: It's the new Moran.



/I love a call-out in uniform

indylaw: But I thought he was "the most liberal member of the Senate."

Make sense or stop talking.

It's hard to keep track. Is this week he the "most liberal" and "socialist" or is this the week he he is fooling everyone being "center right"?

It must be hard being a Republican some times.

Shark feeding frenzy.

Fun to watch as they eat their own tails.

NYZooMan: Shark feeding frenzy.

Fun to watch as they eat their own tails.

Who exactly?

The article just seems to state Republican's saying they will work with Obama.

The only one saying the Democrats in congress might be split was a Republican.

Corvus: indylaw: But I thought he was "the most liberal member of the Senate."

Make sense or stop talking.

It's hard to keep track. Is this week he the "most liberal" and "socialist" or is this the week he he is fooling everyone being "center right"?

It must be hard being a Republican some times.

No, no, no, it's easy to figure out -

Before the election he was the most liberal senator in the history of senates - even the roman senate where there was one guy who advocated getting drunk off wine and farking goats in the name of "Zamphus the Goat Lord" so as to ensure that your daughters by 15 different wives would have enormously engorged breasts that would make them perfect for selling to arabs and beating unborn babies to death with.

Now after the election, he's the product of a secret eugenics program started by the Red Skull in the last days of Nazi Germany to help preserve the DNA of Adolf Hitler - the black guy stuff is just make-up (He's actually white, since the GOP have graciously rescinded the "one drop" rule just for him). Now of course that he's been elected his true nature will come out and we're all fools for thinking he would champion our whacko liberal causes (like not raping our economy).

It's really quite easy, just think of one of those weight loss commercials with the "Before and After" pictures, except instead of a fat chick and a skinny chick, think of two retards side by side "GOP Before: Very Retarded", "GOP After: Sexily Retarded".

See??

Corvus: Who exactly?

I know you weren't expecting reasoned discourse, or even a direct answer, from NYZooMan.

Mentat: He is, but since this is a center-right country, it means that the Most Liberal Member of the Senate counts as a conservative, unless he's from San Francisco, in which case he's a Commie.

It's worse than that, I am afraid. Obama's political ideologue is a hodgepodge mix of everything that can ever be conceivably bad and harmful to America.

From the "Feels Good, Do It" decadance of the Pelosi-West to the FISA loving, unilateral invasion of foriegn countries on the American-Right.

From the sense of entitlement that riddles America's African American community, to the gnorent-but-well-meaning bleeding hearts of America's stupid, stupid White People.

Pro-Big governement, Pro-Bailout, Pro-welfare, Pro-Union, he is simultaneously a Fascist, a Collectivist, a Socialist and Concervative.

"How can someone be all these contradicting things?" you may ask. "That's a lot of contradicting oxymorons?", you may say if you were particular to the lanquage of linguistic redundancies...

No, he's just being a bi-partisan appeaser.

The guy at the end of the thread: No, he's just being a bi-partisan appeaser.

Or, he could be seeking a consensus, perhaps attempting to reach compromise between disparate groups with different agendas. At times, this has served the country well.

Corvus: The only one saying the Democrats in congress might be split was a Republican.

Don't you understand? In his world, a Republican prediction that's bad for Democrats automatically becomes elevated to the level of historical fact, even before it happens.

If you want to catch a Heffalump you put the trap where the Heffalump is.

Winnie the Pooh

tryptik: Or, he could be seeking a consensus, perhaps attempting to reach compromise between disparate groups with different agendas. At times, this has served the country well.

But he's so much more nefarious than that. I would prefer to say that he was "undermining his party's principles, in order to trick political favour from his opposition."

But yeah, I guess it really is about perspective.

The guy at the end of the thread: Mentat: He is, but since this is a center-right country, it means that the Most Liberal Member of the Senate counts as a conservative, unless he's from San Francisco, in which case he's a Commie.

It's worse than that, I am afraid. Obama's political ideologue is a hodgepodge mix of everything that can ever be conceivably bad and harmful to America.

From the "Feels Good, Do It" decadance of the Pelosi-West to the FISA loving, unilateral invasion of foriegn countries on the American-Right.

From the sense of entitlement that riddles America's African American community, to the gnorent-but-well-meaning bleeding hearts of America's stupid, stupid White People.

Pro-Big governement, Pro-Bailout, Pro-welfare, Pro-Union, he is simultaneously a Fascist, a Collectivist, a Socialist and Concervative.

"How can someone be all these contradicting things?" you may ask. "That's a lot of contradicting oxymorons?", you may say if you were particular to the lanquage of linguistic redundancies...

No, he's just being a bi-partisan appeaser.

What is amazing to me, is the absolute screaming, batshiat crazy, drool-form-the-mouth, spittle-flying-all-over-the-room, gut-wrenching desperation on the Right these days.

It's gone beyond silly, beyond entertaining, and is starting to enter into this-is-creeping-me-out territory.

I mean... good God... the Roght can't keep track of their batshiat insane talking-points from moment to moment now.

One day, (according to the Right) Obama is an inexperienced and naive fool who will get us all killed because he's not bad-ass enough to deal with the real world.... and then the next, he's a scheming and machiavelian mastermind of eviiil bare-knuckled Chicago-style corruption and backroom deals who will sell us all down the river.

Then, (according to Republicans) Obama is the most Leftist, Communistic, marxist-befriending, red-underwear-wearing, Chè-Guevara-worshipping Senator ever in the history of life on Earth... and then the next day, he's secretly a centrist who will betray everyone to the Left of Richard Nixon by being a pal and best friend ever to center-right Republicans.

And you know.... if it was just right-wing kooks and authoritarian wierdos with half-assed political blogs on the web doing all this wierd flip-flopp-of-the-day attacks on Obama, it wouldn't be as absolutely nutsoid as watching Fox jump in bull bore on this fail train, with MSNBC and CNN kind or siddling on in as well, trying to be all sneaky about what they're doing, so that they can pretend that they aren't Fox in drag.

I mean... damn people... when these farks control 90% of the media, own almost every damn newspaper and radio station in the country.... and STILL can't find enough half-way qualified bullshiat artists to keep on-message from week-to-week... then it's obvious that the Right is messily dying.

I don't usually click on people's profiles, but for some reasons the handle The guy at the end of the thread clicked in my brain. Then I remembered that I had seen a few other posts by this Farker and for the most part they were fairly nonsensical.

Anyway, this literally made me spit my coke-zero all over my keyboard:

"I am the assistant-regional director for the northeast's 3rd largest Christian-themed model tain distribution company."

Chistian-themed model tains - that sounds dirty, in a biblical sense.

TwistedFark: I don't usually click on people's profiles, but for some reasons the handle The guy at the end of the thread clicked in my brain. Then I remembered that I had seen a few other posts by this Farker and for the most part they were fairly nonsensical.

Anyway, this literally made me spit my coke-zero all over my keyboard:

"I am the assistant-regional director for the northeast's 3rd largest Christian-themed model tain distribution company."

Chistian-themed model tains - that sounds dirty, in a biblical sense.

Is it assistant-regional director or the assistant to the regional director?

/schrute bucks all around tonght

The guy at the end of the thread: But he's so much more nefarious than that. I would prefer to say that he was "undermining his party's principles, in order to trick political favour from his opposition."

That seems less nefarious at this time than many of the neo-conservative actions.

I hope Obama is as good as I think he is. He may not be, but we, as a nation, need a person as good as he could be in this time.

It seems like people have embraced rhetoric and crap on both sides, obscuring the issues and in favor of mindshare. We need to stop treating politics like sports - it's not just my team against their team, and the game isn't over when the election is won. Politicians need to be held accountable in a way sports teams aren't.

You don't "do good policy" like you "do good dope", motherf*ckers. You need to practice it.

tryptik:

To be honest, I don't think America will ever be able to move beyond an "US vs. Them" system of political dialogue.

It caters too much to our whole "Black/White", "Good/Evil" was of describing and arguing our beliefs.

Americans by and large are total idiots. Hell, I can't even spell the word "train" properly in my bio. But I do love the fark out of sports.

And if it's one thing that sports tells me, it's to have unbending, irrational loyalty to a team, regardless of track record.

With politics, it's a loyalty based out of percieved stereotypes and gross generalizations... for sports, it's often no other reason than I happen to live with in a local proximity to their stadium.

Couple this with our collective facination with Profesional Wrestling, and I begin to understand why more Americans watch American Idol and listen to Nickleback, than watch CSPAN and listen to NPR.

FreshCliches: Muslin: It's the new Moran.

And I know I can believe you because of your handle.

General Zang:

What is amazing to me, is the absolute screaming, batshiat crazy, drool-form-the-mouth, spittle-flying-all-over-the-room, gut-wrenching desperation on the Right these days.

[. . .]
One day, (according to the Right) Obama is an inexperienced and naive fool who will get us all killed because he's not bad-ass enough to deal with the real world.... and then the next, he's a scheming and machiavelian mastermind of eviiil bare-knuckled Chicago-style corruption and backroom deals who will sell us all down the river.



Google this:

"Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."

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The guy at the end of the thread: tryptik:

To be honest, I don't think America will ever be able to move beyond an "US vs. Them" system of political dialogue.

It caters too much to our whole "Black/White", "Good/Evil" was of describing and arguing our beliefs.



To bad those goddam Persians injected their binary universe into the religious dialogue. We could have had the Jewish "two faces of the same God" theosophy driving us.

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DistendedPendulousFrenulum: To bad those goddam Persians injected their binary universe into the religious dialogue. We could have had the Jewish "two faces of the same God" theosophy driving us.

You forgot the </snark> tag.

There is a Talmudic phrase: "[there are] seventy faces of the Torah." '70', being Talmud-rhetorical-speak for "myriad" (they routinely talk of Abraham being the ancestor of "the 70 nations"), what it means to say is that there are many "correct" ways of looking at the world (and even - *gasp!* - myriad ways of interpreting the original Biblical text. Suck it, literalists).

I like this phrase as it applies to secular politics, too. I can have a differing opinion from yours and we can both still be right. I believe there once were politicians who could agree to disagree, and hope we can return to that (and not in a Jefferson-Adams "You're a hermaphrodite" kind of way).

// tmyk
// why did I respond? no idea

DistendedPendulusFrenulum: To bad those goddam Persians injected their binary universe into the religious dialogue. We could have had the Jewish "two faces of the same God" theosophy driving us.

I think you misread me. I wasn't saying that I agreed with limiting dialogue. I was just saying that's what American culture devolved into, at this point.