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09-07-2009, 01:53 PM
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Scoping out vermin
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Location: currently in the frozen midwest
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Originally Posted by irspow
I will add my "I" so that bentlebee can say "we". I too believe that the Red Menace needs to be watched very closely.
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That choice of wording really stood out to me.
Coupled with recent C-D statements pining for 'tradition' and 'the way things used to be'...derogatory name-calling of our President, the First Lady, and others...and accusing complete strangers of being 'commies', while also applauding McCarthyism, the 'Red Menace' statement makes me wonder:
Are some people simply missing the Cold War...no, the entire world as it stood before the 60's?
The world was indeed a very isolated, fearful, and paranoid place then.
Why on earth do so many people appear to want a return to it?
If indeed they wax nostalgic over that era, perhaps they should remember that it was also the norm to be particularly patriotic and supportive (or at the very least, respectful) of the POTUS.
I highly doubt there would have been this kind of ignorant outrage over a POTUS' speech to American children about their education back then.
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09-07-2009, 01:56 PM
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OMG!!! 
It didn't take long for the backlash to start.
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Originally Posted by bentlebee
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09-07-2009, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Queens2QueenCity
OMG!!!
It didn't take long for the backlash to start. |
an hour ago, i said that in an hour or so the blogs would start telling the right-wingers on this forum how to respond. well there you go. |
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09-07-2009, 01:59 PM
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Location: NorCal
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Has anyone tried reading the speech backwards? That's usually where the hidded message is.  |
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09-07-2009, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by groar
an hour ago, i said that in an hour or so the blogs would start telling the right-wingers on this forum how to respond. well there you go.
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We aren't liberals, we have our own brains to use and know how to response and what to say  |
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09-07-2009, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by bentlebee
We aren't liberals, we have our own brains to use and know how to response and what to say |
says the guy who couldn't find anything bad to say about the released speech (except that the previous version that no one saw was objectionable) until a blog told him what was wrong with it. |
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09-07-2009, 02:04 PM
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"Nostalgia, the past through fog tinted glasses!"
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Originally Posted by Ceece
Has anyone tried reading the speech backwards? That's usually where the hidded message is. |
Good point. It makes as much sense, if not more, as the criticism that I'm reading. |
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09-07-2009, 02:05 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: um....guess
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Originally Posted by irspow
As a side note, he could have left out the environmental and social justice crap that he alludes to which has nothing to do with a speech on education and responsiblity. Otherwise the speech is great. Even with my extreme level of hatred of this man, I find nothing troubling about this speech.
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Yes actually it does have to do w/the choices they make now & in the future. How you can have a problem w/talking about being responsible for the environment & social justice, I have no idea. |
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09-07-2009, 02:13 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Northern Virginia
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Originally Posted by Ceece
Has anyone tried reading the speech backwards? That's usually where the hidded message is. |
Damn - you beat me to it!!!  |
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