onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Yes get it all out.
Yes get it all out.
I had the same reaction to that quote, but Commodore already said he was using that hyperbole for comedy purposes. And usually it would have been recognized as such.
It's just unfortunate that he posted it in this thread where loonier claims than that have been made quite seriously. For instance the same poster claims:
Which describes Obama ramming through healthcare ... with his feet?
So you see Commodore, this is why people have a hard time realising you were exaggerating for comedy purposes.
Yeah, I see how my sarcasm was lost in the sea of right-wing extremism, but I still have a problem with the fact that he completely missed what my viewpoint on the matter really is. He thinks I'm on the "Obama is Hitler reborn!" side based on one sarcastic sentence that I wrote. If he had bothered to read the entire post and my posts after that, he would realize that is not my position at all. I'm more on the "Obama is completely ineffective as a leader" side of the argument.
Honestly, anyone who feels there's a tension between "someone is a weak leader" and "someone is a tyrant" has to have a certain romanticism of tyranny.Yeah, I see how my sarcasm was lost in the sea of right-wing extremism, but I still have a problem with the fact that he completely missed what my viewpoint on the matter really is. He thinks I'm on the "Obama is Hitler reborn!" side based on one sarcastic sentence that I wrote. If he had bothered to read the entire post and my posts after that, he would realize that is not my position at all. I'm more on the "Obama is completely ineffective as a leader" side of the argument.
Aren't tyrants, by nature, essentially weak? They really only have the one trump card: blind force.
Aren't tyrants, by nature, essentially weak? They really only have the one trump card: blind force.
So tyrants don't use argumentation and emotional appeals?
And the Carter v. Reagan hijacking is not an odd turn of conversation for a thread about a President who is in office 30 years later?