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The idelogical debates/arguments are fair game and what politics used to be about. Your opposition to the other side was based on the merits that you thought your position was right/stronger.
Even the partisan overreach & blame games are based on fact, just fact covered in faux outrage.
What I don't understand are the outright fabrications. The presentation of things that are easily disproven by facts as fact. The lies. The distortions. It's disgusting.
It seems 4-5 times a week Conservatives on here would rather froth at the mouth over a lie than actually admit they are pushing a lie. Again, I'm not talking about opinion on policy or ideology. I'm talking about facts that are misrepresented, distorted, or omitted just to paint a picture.
How many threads have there been these past few weeks? Off the top of my head...
Obama removing voting rights for the military...
Obama telling business owners they didn't build their business...
Obama is cherry-picking UE data...
DOJ is about to give Islam special rights against criticism...
Obama is spending the 4th of July in France...
Are Republicans that desperate that they'll happily resort to lying? Or are they so deluded about the truth of politics that any lie about Obama or Democrats is assumed to be true?
I was going to post a similar sentiment in a thread I saw earlier today.
It seems like the Republicans on this board are more focused on winning an argument, rather than being factual and accurate.
Maybe it's asking bit too much of the resident Conservatives to address the known lies they push. Maybe I should just link to this thread everytime one of them starts a thread based on lies.
One thing that internet forums like this one have made clear to me that I genuinely didn't realize 5 or 6 years ago is that there is a segment of the population who will believe ANYTHING NEGATIVE about "the other side." No matter how warped, wrong, false or grossly inaccurate, if it's about the person(s) they dislike, they they buy it hook like and sinker, no matter how ridiculous.
While that negative light is shown on President Obama right now (and even more disgustingly, the First Lady) there were plenty of GWB-haters who played very similar games. While I don't think it ever went as far as what I've seen with this President (no one ever called Laura Bush "Chewbacca"), I'm willing to accept that my own dislike for GWB colors my recollection.
Sadly, the only bi-partisan thing around here is partisanship.
Comrade obama is corrupt. If you don't see it, you need to open your eyes and your mind.
A vote for obama is a vote for communism.. The German's didn't see it coming, either
The idelogical debates/arguments are fair game and what politics used to be about. Your opposition to the other side was based on the merits that you thought your position was right/stronger.
Even the partisan overreach & blame games are based on fact, just fact covered in faux outrage.
What I don't understand are the outright fabrications. The presentation of things that are easily disproven by facts as fact. The lies. The distortions. It's disgusting.
It seems 4-5 times a week Conservatives on here would rather froth at the mouth over a lie than actually admit they are pushing a lie. Again, I'm not talking about opinion on policy or ideology. I'm talking about facts that are misrepresented, distorted, or omitted just to paint a picture.
How many threads have there been these past few weeks? Off the top of my head...
Obama removing voting rights for the military...
Obama telling business owners they didn't build their business...
Obama is cherry-picking UE data...
DOJ is about to give Islam special rights against criticism...
Obama is spending the 4th of July in France...
Are Republicans that desperate that they'll happily resort to lying? Or are they so deluded about the truth of politics that any lie about Obama or Democrats is assumed to be true?
Uh ohhhh, I'm just going to sit back and watch the fireworks.
Of course Obama doesn't lie. He has his minions do it for him. And he will honesty tell you that when something goes wrong it was because of the Bush administration.
Likely about the same number started about Romney.
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