Obama warned Republicans to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats [modified]

Stan Shannon · modified on Monday, January 26, 2009 3:50 PM

Limbaugh had a typically brilliant response [^]also. One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama's ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy's Rules for Radicals: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Indeed...

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon · modified on Monday, January 26, 2009 3:58 PM

Oakman wrote:

"I hope America goes into the toilet so I can say I told you so."

Limbaugh never said any such thing. Limbaugh is on record as supporting the new president, in fact. He just doesn't support any of his policies.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon

BoneSoft wrote:

That may just be Stan's defense mechanism for dealing with the fact that it is going down the toilet and there's nothing he can do about it. I see the same thing, but with a 3 year old, I have to hold on to some kind of hope. I don't want America to fail, I'd much rather Obama did instead.

The sad fact is that this country has been little more than a reanimated zombie of Jeffersonian democracy for a long, long time now. It just keeps getting harder to keep it propped up. I do in fact blame that more on the republicans than I do on Obama. I have kids also, one still in high school in fact, another in college. I think they are gonig to have very hard lives, but as the descendents of scots-irish, red-neck frontier folk - they will be uniquely qualified to survive. When everything else on earth has gone extinct there will still be rats, cockroaches and the scots-irish.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Oakman

Mike Gaskey wrote:

I happen top agree with Rush. If Obama succeeds with his current plans then we will have realized the fatal flaw of Democracy ala South America (Chavez, Morales): the central government will be in absolute control, individualism (excepting the black market and recrational drug sales) will die and 3 maybe 4 generations hence will be thrilled that this current generation purchased arms and hid them in closets.

And the flip side is that Obama succeeds then there will be beer flowing from the taps, angels on the streetcorner, and a chicken in every pot. I don't think that either scenario is all that likely. The U.S. is neither Venezuela nor Bolivia and assuming that it will follow the same path they did is pretty much on a par with assuming that the form of government prevalent under Jefferson would would today. Scare tactics from the left or the right do not contribute to getting out of this mess. Rooting for the leader of America to fail is, according to Stan, the act of a traitor, but I figure it is just unhelpful - unless you're serving in Washington.

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BoneSoft

Oakman wrote:

The U.S. is neither Venezuela nor Bolivia

We shall see. He's already hit a lot of the hard left agenda in his first week in office, proving himself an ideologue. I won't assume he's here to turn us into a communist nation, but I won't let down my guard either. As soon as he starts quieting dissention in the media (talk radio & FNC mainly), nationalizing more industries, confiscating land, rewrite parts of the Constitution istead of just ignoring it, or placing his own people in key positions in the military, then I'll really start to worry. In the meantime, I'll just worry about the damage he's doing to the nation with socialist junk that's almost always impossible to repeal. When most of what he plans on doing will be highly damaging in my opinion, I do hope he fails. If that makes me a traitor, well then viva la revolution. :-D

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Mike Gaskey

Oakman wrote:

The U.S. is neither Venezuela nor Bolivia and assuming that it will follow the same path they did is pretty much on a par with assuming that the form of government prevalent under Jefferson would would today.

not at all. people are people and you get what you pay for. we've made a signicficant down payment on socialism and we're about to pay for the failing of society to teach the young that they and they alone are responsible for thier own success, hands are out and wallets waiting to be filled. society hads brought us to this sad state of affairs by: distorting history taught in our schools, eliminating the concept of failure by giving awards for showing up and not scoring atheltic contests, making play "safe", and on and on and on. the current situation with our tax structure with only roughly 50% of workers paying income tax with an earned income tax credit ($3,000 or more) recieved IF YOU PAY NO INCOME TAX exacerbates the school and parental failings. combine all the above with a "leader" who cut his teeth on radical literature and you have a willing partner to Chavez and Morales and an electorate ready to roll with him. I sincerely wish I were wrong but I've lived long enough to have an understanding of how people will react. I repeat, I hope he fails because if he doesn't, we do.

Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

Oakman

BoneSoft wrote:

We shall see.

Trust me. It isn't. I can prove it. The equator is south of here.

BoneSoft wrote:

As soon as he starts quieting dissention in the media (talk radio & FNC mainly), nationalizing more industries, confiscating land, rewrite parts of the Constitution istead of just ignoring it, or placing his own people in key positions in the military, then I'll really start to worry.

But that's already been happening for the last four years. :confused: (except for rewriting parts of the Constitution instead of violating it)

BoneSoft wrote:

If that makes me a traitor,

In Stan's opinion you should be taken out and shot.

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Jim Crafton

Stan Shannon wrote:

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Which could probably be applied just as much to Limbaugh, Coulter, et al, as anyone else. He spent all 8 years of Clinton's Presidency doing just that. Granted I'm not sure I'm so kean on Slick Willy anymore, but Limbaugh is an ass.

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Oakman

Mike Gaskey wrote:

we've made a signicficant down payment on socialism and we're about to pay for the failing of society to teach the young that they and they alone are responsible for thier own success, hands are out and wallets waiting to be filled.

You misunderstand me. I don't deny that there are changes being made right now in our socio-economic system (many of which I am unhappy with) that will be hard or impossible to undo. I just don't think the result will be a thugs-on-top one-man rule type of government as is prevalent in South and Central America whether the guy on top is considered right or left wing. (And there have been plenty of both. Hell, if Eisenhower had spoken Spanish, we might have El Presidente Castro as one of our staunchest right-wing allies.) However, the House and Pelosi are the holder of the purse and the American people have given them all of power they need. Obama may be in league with 'em or fighting a rear-guard action or totally dismayed as his plans are destroyed by her. Ultimately it doesn't matter. It probably wouldn't have mattered if McCain had been elected. The choice isn't between us going more socialistic and returning to some glorious days of yesteryear when "sound as the dollar" meant something; the choice is between more socialistic and what we have now going on and on and on. I'm old enough and finacially stable enough that I can probably outlast even a ten year global depression, but an awful lot of people - good hard working people who don't have their hands out - aren't. The question isn't about how we got here (you and I agree about that in large part.) The question is whether we do nothing (50,000 job cuts were announced today according to FNC) or something. I have always believed that doing nothing was not a survival trait.

Mike Gaskey wrote:

I've lived long enough to have an understanding of how people will react.

And I've lived longer enough to know that the future cannot be predicted. I have no reason to believe that you have been annointed a prophet any more than I have been. ;)

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Lost User

Yes sir, "I hope Obama fails", that's what I call support!! About as much support as CP has for vb6 posts...

Stan Shannon

If that were true I wish more conservatives would follow Limbaugh's lead. Limbaugh, coulter et al, are not in policy making positions. They are mere pundits. Obama applies those rules as a means of achieving an actual political agenda from the inside in a seat real power. He, like the democrats, are relentless, ruthless and fanatical in the pursuit of that agenda. I wish my side had that kind of tactical resolve. I admire it.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon

EliottA wrote:

Yes sir, "I hope Obama fails", that's what I call support!! About as much support as CP has for vb6 posts...

Yes, but as we all know, rooting for the failure of your political opponents is the greatest form of patriotism.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Lost User

that, and foxnews has a reputation for quoting people exactly as they speak. Such a credible news source aren't they.

Lost User

Stan Shannon wrote:

If that were true I wish more conservatives would follow Limbaugh's lead. Limbaugh, coulter et al, are not in policy making positions. They are mere pundits. Obama applies those rules as a means of achieving an actual political agenda from the inside in a seat real power. He, like the democrats, are relentless, ruthless and fanatical in the pursuit of that agenda. I wish my side had that kind of tactical resolve. I admire it.

It's amazing how stupid some people can be. Try to understand that being "democratic" isn't a black and white thing, neither is being Republican. You're pro-life, they're pro-choice. You're pro-gun, they're pro-restriction. Half of your own country is "democratic", the other half is "republican", about 50% of each side doesn't know what the fuck it means to be either, but hate the other side either way. Furthermore, another 15% on top of that probably has traits bestowed in the core fundamental principles of either republican or democratic. Dumbasses.

Stan Shannon

Oakman wrote:

In Stan's opinion you should be taken out and shot.

Isn't that what you are supposed to do with traitors?

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon

EliottA wrote:

You're pro-life, they're pro-choice. You're pro-gun, they're pro-restriction.

Well, for my part, I'm neither "pro-life" "pro-abortion" "pro-gun" or "pro-restriction". I am basically just an "anti-" kind of guy.

EliottA wrote:

Half of your own country is "democratic", the other half is "republican", about 50% of each side doesn't know what the fuck it means to be either, but hate the other side either way. Furthermore, another 15% on top of that probably has traits bestowed in the core fundamental principles of either republican or democratic.

I think things divide up pretty much in a traditonal way. You have a third thats fairly firmly committed to one side or the other, and understand the issues pretty well. Than you have a third which we call "the center" which has no strong ideological foundation but sort of forces those on the extremes to temper their policies to gain their vote one way or another. In the last few election cycles the conservatives were successful at making the liberals look more extreme, in this last election the reverse happened.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

modified on Monday, January 26, 2009 8:32 PM

BoneSoft

It is supportive of America (at least one could argue). Much like hoping Al Qaeda fails, or the Institute for Policy Studies fails. Depends on what you're supporting. ;)

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Yes, compared to most others, they are a shining beacon of truth. Of course, the others don't set the bar very high, do they.

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BoneSoft

So we've been told for about 8 years. :laugh:

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Oakman wrote:

Trust me. It isn't. I can prove it. The equator is south of here.

Yes, their geologies are easy. But you'll have a much harder time finding distinction between the idiologies of Chazev, Castro, Morales and Obama. Silencing dissenting media? Confiscating land? Nationalizing huge swaths of the private sector, is Bush largest screw up by leaps and bounds. But he's out, he obviously wasn't setting himself up as a socialist dictator.

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