huskerfan2000 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Thanks for taking the time to show everyone I never called anyone personally a liberal or another name. Nice homework by the way. Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Huskerboard should autocorrect liberal to l*****l like they do with blackout (b*******). Liberal as a term has been more solidly abused than blackout ever was. Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Thanks for taking the time to show everyone I never called anyone personally a liberal or another name. Nice homework by the way. What not even a +1? Well I never!!! No problem. I'm always down for doing my homework. Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Can we all just preemptively agree that the "Nazi salute" last night was not, in fact, a Nazi salute, and that calling a simple mistake like that something so egregious is stupid? Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Can we all just preemptively agree that the "Nazi salute" last night was not, in fact, a Nazi salute, and that calling a simple mistake like that something so egregious is stupid? It's so refreshing not having tv and having nonidea what you are talking about! Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 One of last night's speakers ended her speech and waved to the crowd. It looked like she got caught mid-way between a wave and pointing at someone, and her hand/arm went out in a way that detractors could interpret as a Nazi salute. I've seen incredulous tweets galore this morning about it. "DID SHE REALLY DO THAT?!?!???" No. No she did not. So my post was a preemptive appeal to everyone not to make a deal out of it. Link to comment
Red Five Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 It's so refreshing not having tv and having nonidea what you are talking about! Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 It's so refreshing not having tv and having nonidea what you are talking about! O.M.G. she even has blonde hair and blue dress!!! But seriously, that's the weirdest gesture I have ever seen for a simple wave hahaha! Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 After looking at it again, it looks like the "Pope wave" that people do. Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 The meme of Laura Ingram is totally out of context and totally unfair. But kind of funny. Because she's just awful. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Can we all just preemptively agree that the "Nazi salute" last night was not, in fact, a Nazi salute, and that calling a simple mistake like that something so egregious is stupid? yes Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Looks kinda like Little Rascals "Otay" wave in reverse. Landlord! Make it happen! Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 There is plenty of data that gives credence to my statement about Obama being more socialist than anything even remotely close to republican.. I mentioned his upbringing and those around me being communist. Those are facts... His mentor Frank Marshall Davis is a communist. http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/15/obamas-influential-communist-mentor/ I see the problem. You're stuck on guilt-by-association and fairly flimsy arguments from the past. I'm talking about how Barack Obama has chosen to govern as President. • In the wake of of the 2008 financial meltdown, with the best political cover for nationalizing the banks since the Great Depression, Barack Obama did no such thing. He appointed Goldman Sachs and Wall Street heavyweights to run the economy, bailed out the banks, allowed executives to keep their bonuses, and set the private sector back on its feet to record stock market growth. When it came time for Wall Street Reform, the Obama administration proposed a few toothless regulations that did virtually nothing to keep the banks from acting and profiting as they had before. Those are not the actions of a socialist. It's what Reagan, McCain, Romney, Bush and Hillary Clinton would have done. • When Obama came out of the gate with health care reform -- and I think the timing was a mistake, too -- he did not shove Single Payer down America's throat. That would have been socialism (although interestingly enough, 60% of Americans preferred Single Payer when it was explained to them). No, he came back with the ACA, which had existed in similar form since the Nixon administration and endorsed by Republicans as the alternative to socialized medicine. Some liberals and the palty handful of actual socialists in the country criticized Obama for letting the private, for-profit insurance industry basically write and approve the ACA. That makes Obama a pretty sh**ty socialist. • Also in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it seemed like a logical time to repeal the Bush tax cuts, which were supposedly designed to be temporary. Meaning some tax rates on the wealthy would go up 3%, or back to where they were when we had the 5% unemployment everyone missed so much. Obama did not lift a finger to raise taxes, thinking he was compromising with Congressional Republicans on other economic legislation. Poor, naive, not-at-all communist Barack Obama. • Not really a socialist issue, but Obama chose to maintain the secret military rendition sites established by Bush, backed off his insistence on the closing of Guantanamo, captured, killed and dumped Obama bin Laden into the ocean, pursued a highly effective but morally questionable drone war against Islamic terrorists, drew the ire and contempt of Vladamir Putin, and compiled a near perfect rating from the NRA and a failing grade from gun control advocates because Obama has done nothing to take away our guns beyond publicly mourning the senseless gun deaths and wondering aloud if we might want to do something about it. • His most recent choice for the Supreme Court was a well-respected centrist, a friend and mentor to Chief Justice John Roberts. Man, there's so much more I could come up with that you have already decided to ignore. If you think about it, his actual record makes him a pretty lousy socialist, Muslim and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Conservatives should have been relieved. But Barack Obama is such a great fund raiser for right wingers who hysterically mis-represent his actual record that no amount of fact is allowed to wedge in. If all it takes is a Saul Alinksy reference, the truth is pretty f'd. 8 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Come on Guy....that doesn't fit the narrative that he is out to destroy everything that is good. Link to comment
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