Republicans Don't Understand Introspection

[The Rabbi]

Liberals have this self image as being warm sensitive people who care about children and others less fortunate than they are. Conversely they see conservatives as mean heartless patriarchs intent on dominating those less fortunate than themselves.
The truth is that Liberals are exactly right, except that they are looking in a mirror so everything is opposite. They are the ones who are mean (check pics from Obama rallies and other left wing events), who are patronizing to minorities and working class people, who hate children by toeing the teachers' union line, and who want to keep poor people dependent by expanding government programs and increasing the min wage. This guarantees that they will never enter the work force.
The OP was a great example of this. As was Obama's speech.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Good one frankie ... looking back on my last post I see exactly what you are saying

It's a perfectly relevant question, Lancelot....What's the harm in answering it?

Ummmm??? perhaps it is irellevant to me because I do not speak for dems or liberals.

Neo cons biggest failing is that they do not own up to nor do they learn from thier many mistakes.

I find that hopefull and wish them well on thier path to self destruction. Then maybe intelligence will find its way back into the republican party.

Frank is not a republican. He only seeks power for his fundimentalist christian fascist viewpoint and is using the republican monikar for his advantage. A true republican believes in country first. Franks only REAL interest is anti-abortion and is willing to destroy anything and everything meaningful in our country to achieve his goals. Heis a traitor working from within.

You dud are a hollywood imbicile that jumps on the most convenient bandwagon to get attention for your weak ego. God I hate californians! They are the most self absorbed assholes on the planet.

I tried avoiding you but you're like bubble gum on my shoes

I haven't put you on ignore because whenever I start to get mad at some of the stupid things you post about me I refer back to my mental image of you: a little Pooh Flinging Monkey in the Primate House at the Old Bronx Zoo.

And I laugh.

 

[pal_of_poor]

Republicans, and their politicians, and media hounds apparently, don't understand the concept of introspection. They rarely look into their own feelings, motivations, and motives.

So, Obama goes out into the world, and shows a little of this concept, rarely used by republicans, as they are action driven, and don't really think about much, about whether anything is good for everyone around them, or right, or perhaps if it preys on others, or has bad motivations, and they all freak out. Oh, he hates America, he thinks we've been doing bad things.

But folks, no country, and no person is perfect. It is the tool of introspection through which we improve. I mean you don't have to sit around and worry if what you've done is wrong for all of your spare time, but it is helpful to occasionally take some time to think about whether you could have done a better job, in one way or the other. Might you have done something differently, or perhaps do something better in the future. Then, when you do, if you thoughtfully come to a conclusion, often you, or your country ends up being better.

You see, to republicans, we've never done anything wrong, or I guess that's the only idea they find acceptable that we put forward. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that idea is patently absurd. People screw up. Countries have inadequate leaders, and they screw up too. We do things for various motivations, like the war in Iraq, being all about oil, for one. Smedly Butler wrote a good book way back in the early 20th century about how our military is used for corporate benefits. Apparently we had banana wars going on in South, or Central America, for one. Our country was initially built on legalized pirating, well, we put a different word in usage, because as you know, we never actually call anything we do wrong! How crazy would it be to call it pirating??? No, we called it privateering. We made it legal just after the Revolutionary War, for our ships to just go around and take shit from other ships, you know, gold, silver, rare materials, muskets, just about anything those ships had on them, we could take. Nothing wrong with that right? I mean, we needed it, and our government pretty much said, hell, take their shit.

And there are the Indians, nothing wrong with the slaughter of a whole indigenous population.

Come on Sarah, and FAUX News, and any of the rest of you Republicans. We've done some pretty terrible shit. Now I don't expect you to own up to all of it, or to sit around and spend an ounce of your town hall yellin' time worrying about it. But at least face up to the fact that at times, we've done some pretty God-awful things. It doesn't make us a bad country, but our "behavior" was pretty darned bad. So, by looking at this "behavior," we examine our country's actions, and see if we can improve it, if we can make it better.

So, don't deceive yourselves. As good as we are, we can improve, we can get even better. And remember, anyone who tells you they are perfect, well, saying they are untrustworthy is an understatement. You should run the other way from anyone, or any candidate who says we're perfect, that we've never done anything wrong. How about slavery? Oh yea, I forgot, about 20 percent of you wish we still had it. Sorry, bad example.

You should seek office. The blame AMerica first club needs a President.

Maybe he could join up with President Obama on the next international "America Sucks" tour.

I'm always amazed at how most of you guys feel you can leave all the points unrebutted, and use the "a little slogan will do you," brillcream analogy.

You'd be in the America is perfect crowd, who sees slavery, indian genocide, privateering, killing people for oil, CIA coup in Iran that started all of this, all as good things? Face it, no country and no person is perfect. If you bothered to actually read, and understand the point, rather than leaning your mind-crippled ass on the cane of idiot sloganeering, then you'd see that introspection is a process that helps people get to a better place, in this case, a better America. But thinking you are perfect, on the other hand, well, in your case means you can just use a slogan, and it makes everything all right. It avoids thought. It avoids bettering of yourself.

 

[WillowTree]

You should seek office. The blame AMerica first club needs a President.

Maybe he could join up with President Obama on the next international "America Sucks" tour.

I'm always amazed at how most of you guys feel you can leave all the points unrebutted, and use the "a little slogan will do you," brillcream analogy.

You'd be in the America is perfect crowd, who sees slavery, indian genocide, privateering, killing people for oil, CIA coup in Iran that started all of this, all as good things? Face it, no country and no person is perfect. If you bothered to actually read, and understand the point, rather than leaning your mind-crippled ass on the cane of idiot sloganeering, then you'd see that introspection is a process that helps people get to a better place, in this case, a better America. But thinking you are perfect, on the other hand, well, in your case means you can just use a slogan, and it makes everything all right. It avoids thought. It avoids bettering of yourself.

Like we said. You should be president of the Blame America First Crowd. You fit the mold perfectly.






[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo&feature=fvw[/ame]

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I love closed minded thread titles like this, they always get my attention.

 

[The Rabbi]

And if Liberals would get their collective heads out of their collective asses they might see America as the country that liberated millions of people from totalitarianism (and more when we vote Obama out), that has inspired many more millions to take control of their own destiny, that has provided economic opportunity to literally billions of people both here and abroad, and has done more for more people than any other country in history.
Mistakes? Yeah. But look at all the good we've done and the mistakes are insignificant by comparison.
Liberals always see the glass as half empty. So they discount the greatness of America and carp on one or two things.
Indians? They're still here, right? Where are the indigenous peoples of England, France, Japan, or Australia?

 

[Liability]

You should seek office. The blame AMerica first club needs a President.

Maybe he could join up with President Obama on the next international "America Sucks" tour.

I'm always amazed at how most of you guys feel you can leave all the points unrebutted, and use the "a little slogan will do you," brillcream analogy.

You'd be in the America is perfect crowd, who sees slavery, indian genocide, privateering, killing people for oil, CIA coup in Iran that started all of this, all as good things? Face it, no country and no person is perfect. If you bothered to actually read, and understand the point, rather than leaning your mind-crippled ass on the cane of idiot sloganeering, then you'd see that introspection is a process that helps people get to a better place, in this case, a better America. But thinking you are perfect, on the other hand, well, in your case means you can just use a slogan, and it makes everything all right. It avoids thought. It avoids bettering of yourself.

You liberoidals are the ones with unlimited room for betterment.

Your OP was way too fucking long and unduly preachy. If you care to make an alleged point, son, get to it.

Here is how you might want to go about it: provide a brief declarative sentence and perhaps a supporting sentence or two. MAYBE, if absolutely necessary, you can support your opening paragraph with some facts and a link in a brief second paragraph. Otherwise, your request is that we wade through all your verbal clutter to seek out whateverthefuckitis you seem to imagine you're saying. And you give no reason to imagine that you have anything worthwhile to say to warrant even that much effort.

So, here's a second tip just for you. Try to be at least a tiny bit interesting.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwog6E08CFU]YouTube - Obama and the National Anthem[/ame]

Obama would rather ball handle during the National Anthem

 

[G.T.]

Grow-the-fuck-up-partisans.

 

[WillowTree]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudy7hy940Y]YouTube - Not anti American, we Just hate America[/ame]

 

[Liability]

Wait! Breaking news.

This just in.

Slaves emancipated!

Film at 11.

 

[Oddball]

Good one frankie ... looking back on my last post I see exactly what you are saying

It's a perfectly relevant question, Lancelot....What's the harm in answering it?

Ummmm??? perhaps it is irellevant to me because I do not speak for dems or liberals.

Neo cons biggest failing is that they do not own up to nor do they learn from thier many mistakes.

I find that hopefull and wish them well on thier path to self destruction. Then maybe intelligence will find its way back into the republican party.

Frank is not a republican. He only seeks power for his fundimentalist christian fascist viewpoint and is using the republican monikar for his advantage. A true republican believes in country first. Franks only REAL interest is anti-abortion and is willing to destroy anything and everything meaningful in our country to achieve his goals. Heis a traitor working from within.

You dud are a hollywood imbicile that jumps on the most convenient bandwagon to get attention for your weak ego. God I hate californians! They are the most self absorbed assholes on the planet.

Right....Post a long-winded poo flinging deflection, rather than answer the question.

Here, have a banana.

 

[G.T.]

Wait! Breaking news.

This just in.

Slaves emancipated!

Film at 11.

!!! lol.

When was this proclomated? two-thousand-and-? I must have been asleep at the Carriage.

Edit: proclaimed? Hmm.

 

[WillowTree]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkmS6JrWSPU&feature=related]YouTube - Greatest Line Ever Against Democrats[/ame]

 

[Oddball]

Wait! Breaking news.

This just in.

Slaves emancipated!

Film at 11.

Followed by: Child labor laws enacted!!

Don't miss a moment of the hard-hitting and spellbinding coverage!

 

[pal_of_poor]

I've imagined what it must be like to storm the beaches of Normandy and end up in a French cemetary. only to have assholes all over the world give the US of KKKA the finger. many times. yep. many times. and then to have a whole brigade of dixie chicks say God Bless America? No NO NO God Damn America!

You do a great disservice to WW 2 veterans in comparing them to our excursions in the world since then.

WW 2 was the last war we really needed to be in, in which we were actually attacked by another country.

Yea, the media has pretty much driven out any empathetic qualities in people, as with empathy, you end up with more democrats. Spawning a new generation of people with only an interest in worshipping money, and with pretending to be religous, but not actually keeping to any religious tenets, sort of squeezes out any empathy.

Ah, I remember a time when we didn't execute folks, the most pre-meditated murder there is, the most barbaric of acts, but now, we've got throngs of people outside, with no deference to death, cheering and celebrating the injecticution of people. I don't expect people to celebrate the lives of killers, but with common decency, you at least have the proper amount of deference to those who are being killed by our government. But we've had the decency driven out of us, by our media. It's yet another thing you can blame them for, the right-wing media.

 

[Oddball]

Those aren't Willow's words, numbnuts.

 

[WillowTree]

I've imagined what it must be like to storm the beaches of Normandy and end up in a French cemetary. only to have assholes all over the world give the US of KKKA the finger. many times. yep. many times. and then to have a whole brigade of dixie chicks say God Bless America? No NO NO God Damn America!

You do a great disservice to WW 2 veterans in comparing them to our excursions in the world since then.

WW 2 was the last war we really needed to be in, in which we were actually attacked by another country.

Yea, the media has pretty much driven out any empathetic qualities in people, as with empathy, you end up with more democrats. Spawning a new generation of people with only an interest in worshipping money, and with pretending to be religous, but not actually keeping to any religious tenets, sort of squeezes out any empathy.

Ah, I remember a time when we didn't execute folks, the most pre-meditated murder there is, the most barbaric of acts, but now, we've got throngs of people outside, with no deference to death, cheering and celebrating the injecticution of people. I don't expect people to celebrate the lives of killers, but with common decency, you at least have the proper amount of deference to those who are being killed by our government. But we've had the decency driven out of us, by our media. It's yet another thing you can blame them for, the right-wing media.

sure comrade sure,, maybe you like it better in China? or perhaps N. Korea. no right wing media there. no sirreee bibittty bob.

 

[HUGGY]

It's a perfectly relevant question, Lancelot....What's the harm in answering it?

Ummmm??? perhaps it is irellevant to me because I do not speak for dems or liberals.

Neo cons biggest failing is that they do not own up to nor do they learn from thier many mistakes.

I find that hopefull and wish them well on thier path to self destruction. Then maybe intelligence will find its way back into the republican party.

Frank is not a republican. He only seeks power for his fundimentalist christian fascist viewpoint and is using the republican monikar for his advantage. A true republican believes in country first. Franks only REAL interest is anti-abortion and is willing to destroy anything and everything meaningful in our country to achieve his goals. Heis a traitor working from within.

You dud are a hollywood imbicile that jumps on the most convenient bandwagon to get attention for your weak ego. God I hate californians! They are the most self absorbed assholes on the planet.

You DUDE, need to learn how to spell. Seriously, you're not very bright. Just reading this highlighted post proves that you're a friggin' dumbass!
Nice glasses BTW!
$12.95 Foster Grants from CVS pharmacy or Wallmart. Yeah, you're one cool DUDE alright!
You hate Californians?
GOOD!
Keep your ass in whatever podunk, dirtwater town you're from. You show up here, i'll kick the shit out of ya'!

That little bit of stupidity could get a newb like you banned.

The glasses I got from a Hawwian running a limo service on Waiikiki. He was wearing them.

You don't want any part of me. You should research a tad bit more before you make idle threats..good luck with the mods.

 

[rdean]

What we don't understand is how we elected an anti-American Marxist as President

What's a Marxist?

Republicans Don't Understand Introspection - well, there is not a lot they do understand. They express that by screaming dirty talk.