When an Obamaton Says Everyone’s Entitled To Their Opinion…
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Nov 07 2008 at 9:30 am | Filed under: Feature Article, Free Speech, Media Watch
…they never mean it, and don’t you forget it. That’s the truth, boys & girls. When they say they want a discussion, what they want is an echo chamber, nothing more and nothing less. I’ve not yet seen it fail.
The blogosphere is chock full of weary but optimistic comments from those who share my views, but have more class. The leitmotif is to roll up our sleeves, swallow hard, and find ways to work together.
Sorry. When the party in power has the idea to tax the businesses and people who are responsible for providing jobs to everybody else…and it’s already well established what happens when we do that…I don’t think being a good American has too much to do with bucking-up, sucking-up, and falling in line. I don’t think it has to do with protests or strikes or revolutions or riots, either.
Sure, respect High Holiness as the legitimately elected President of the United States and Commander in Chief. A deeply flawed Commander in Chief. Corrupt, mistaken…one or the other, perhaps both. Talk reasonably about the issue to whoever will listen.
But the policy doesn’t work, and that’s just a fact. It’s provable. It’s been tried. Many times. We know it’s counterproductive…what we don’t know, is the extent of the consequences of giving it one more go.
Obama himself is smart enough to know spreading the wealth does not work. If he isn’t that smart, certainly, more than a few of the people working for him are. Somehow they’ve got loopholes built in so this doesn’t hurt them.
We are not in this together.
And Obamatons do not want a free and open exchange of ideas.
We are not laboring toward the same goals with different methods in mind for getting it done.
No, this is a cold civil war. A war in which the enemy has won the latest battle, and that means if we play by the rules we give them the respect the deserve as the victors of the latest battle. Nothing more, nothing less.
And never ever forget — that is far greater civility than they ever showed when they were out of power. It is far greater respect than anything demonstrated at the Wellstone Memorial.
Some tax policies don’t work. It’s just a fact.
Some strategies of “diplomacy” are tantamount to surrender. It’s just a fact.
Some dialogues are nothing more than a monologue. It’s just a fact.
And calling out a small girl in your class because her daddy’s in Iraq and you want to ridicule what he’s trying to do, is being a classless turd. That’s just a fact too.
H/T: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler who, true to form, has lots of well-chosen dirty words about the occasion. And a snail-mail address by which you can reach the superintendent’s office of this schoolteacher’s district, to let ‘em know what a swell job you think she’s doing.
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