E Pluribus Unum

Wat.

Aarontology: E Pluribus Unum

We're done here.

OH. MY. GOD.
THESE ASSHOLES WILL biatch AND COMPLAIN ABOUT FARKING ANYTHING.

Wait. Aren't these the same people who are always saying things like "The Founders believed X" or "The Founders wanted Y", as if they were a cohesive whole with only one mind and no disagreement? Aren't these the same people who quote the Federalist Papers as if they were the absolute and final word on the function of government, and not merely one side of a messy argument?

These are the people biatching about Obama's lets all work together message?

GOP, 2001: "you're with us, or you're with the terrorists".

GOP, 2011: "why should I lift a hand to support America? I got mine, f*ck the rest of y'all".

Patriotism used to mean something more than wearing a T-shirt (imported from an asian sweat shop) with a picture of a flag on it. Still does, to some people.

Disgraceful... Which is the norm for NRO, I suppose.

E pluribus unum is not Latin for, "Hey, bro, let's invest in some infrastructure together."

The author is right. It meant something quite different a few centuries ago. It as more like... "Hey, let's get those bros to build us an infrastructure"

VictoryCabal: Wait. Aren't these the same people who are always saying things like "The Founders believed X" or "The Founders wanted Y", as if they were a cohesive whole with only one mind and no disagreement? Aren't these the same people who quote the Federalist Papers as if they were the absolute and final word on the function of government, and not merely one side of a messy argument?

These are the people biatching about Obama's lets all work together message?

They're quite an amusing bunch, aren't they?

He's kidding, right?

Zombie Lincoln just came back to cockslap this douchebag.

This is, without a doubt, the dumbest article I've ever read. Why, if it didn't have specific details of last night's SOTU speech, I'd wonder if it weren't written on Christmas Eve

Is this what the death throes of the Republican Party looks like?

He hath invoked the name of St. Ronald, thus it must be true

/f*cking moron

Well, it was a nice experiment. Make sure to turn the lights off in the lab when you leave.

"The notion that this nation is one big team that acts collectively toward shared goals would be completely foreign to the men who founded it."

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

United we stand, divided we fall and our competitors will be glad to pick up the pieces.

How dare the government of, by, and for the people do things for said people's interests...

The preamble itself states that liberty and common purpose aren't mutually exclusive.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately

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Commie crap! What language is that anyway? Muslim?

Yup, the concept of throwing in together for the common good, is entirely foreign...

So that victory garden Great Grandma grew, the time she spent as an air raid marshal, and making Grandma collect aluminum....covert communism?

Y'all rationals postin' in an NRO thread.

How sad is the conservatives thought, that the basic concept of a military unit- working together for the survival, is hated because Obama is suggesting it.

Republicans: Now against society and common cause!
Because each American in WWII should have said, "fark it, unless they attack my yard I'm not contributing."

I can't wait to see how the trolls spin this one

THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

Darth_Lukecash: How sad is the conservatives thought, that the basic concept of a military unit- working together for the survival, is hated because Obama is suggesting it.

To be fair, the SOTU Address last night was a Clintonian move. It slid Obama directly into ground that the GOP used to occupy. It was populist, it was filled with ideas and programs that the GOP used to tout, and now that the Kenyan Commie-Pinko-Fascist-Jew Hater-Muslim Thug Extraordinaire suggested them, they have to be against them. To be fair, he probably should have included notes about apple pie, football, and NASCAR to watch the Lockstep Elite come down against such things as well.

If he's fer it, we'us be ag'in it!

And that's the problem. It's not about what is best for the nation, it's about who is suggesting it. Time to get off the team mentality at this point. It's not about sides, except Americans standing with Americans, and doing the right thing for our posterity. Anything else? Just games and more games...

Wow, thirteen separate colonies deciding to mutually aid and support one another in an uprising against the largest military power on the planet, but that isn't collectively shared goals. A few years later, those same (now) states gather together and hammer out a document that collectively shares power amongst very disparate economies and political philosophies, but that isn't working toward a collectively shared goal. Eighty years later, they split, declare war on one another and both sets of competing states collectively unite toward the mutual goal of winning, but that doesn't count. After the war, the same states who tried very hard to kill one another find a way to become one nation again, that of course does not count as collective action and shared goals. Through the Great Depression and into the WW2, no one ever worked toward a mutual goal, sacrificing comforts, money, not to mention their very lives...NONE of that is collective effort?

Wow, did I really not understand what I learned in history.

Oh, wait, that is why Republicans keep trying to destroy education, so people will actually believe the bullshiat they spin.

Darth_Lukecash: How sad is the conservatives thought, that the basic concept of a military unit- working together for the survival, is hated because Obama is suggesting it.

It's really, really, REALLY time for Obama to make a prime-time speech coming out against tying a plastic bag around your head with a rubber band.

GAT_00: Zombie Lincoln just came back to cockslap this douchebag.

i don't think a zombie lincoln in 2012 would still have cock meat left on his body. i think he'd probably just have to pelvic thrust this douchebag, which would probably be less satisfying for both parties.

"We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Some guy who apparently wasn't a founding father, 1776.

You're right, who needs to be a United States of America anyway.

BunkoSquad: Darth_Lukecash: How sad is the conservatives thought, that the basic concept of a military unit- working together for the survival, is hated because Obama is suggesting it.

It's really, really, REALLY time for Obama to make a prime-time speech coming out against tying a plastic bag around your head with a rubber band.

Fox News would "Fact Check" the speach, and find that most people who tie plastic bags around their heads with a rubber band actually survive, tearing the bag from their face before losing consciousness.

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QFT

What does this guy have against capitalism?

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oh crap I give up. Look at a dollar bill

quickdraw: oh crap I give up. Look at a dollar bill

Have you ever looked at a dollar bill, man? There's all kinds of crazy stuff goin on. And it's green, man!

George Washington was in a cult. And that cult was into aliens.

Uh, if you have an issue with how united our states are, take it up Lincoln, NRO

One Nation Under God, except for those liberal parts like California and New York, but not the Wall Street part of New York, just the part where Barbara Streisand lives. Central park, I think.

quickdraw: oh crap I give up. Look at a dollar bill