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“We need to get on school boards nation-wide and emand a return to teachings civics and to start teaching logic at a very early age.

These people not only do not understand deductive reasoning, they don't believe in it.”

“Except, of course, doing them the greatest honor of never sending them unless every other option has been exhausted, instead of making excuses to send them for business and profit.”

“I'm kind of thinking that's the message of his visit.

And I'm kind of thinking he's going to go out of the box on a solution - no big escalation or complete withdrawal. I think he'll go for a middle ground approach to descalate the violence immediately to save lives in the short run, and then a multi-faceted approach to extricate us without sending the whole Middle East into a flame out.

The problem isn't whether the Afghanis will go along with this - the problem is the American right-wing military industrial complex, you know, the gang Cheney is a lobbying for - they'll see that as an attack on their bottom line. And I wouldn't put it past them to engage in terrorism just to keep the defense money flowing.....I would love to be wrong about that, but, well, I don't think I am.

The Right has a long and bloody history of conflating war and business, and there certainly is ample precedent of them starting trouble to get the blood and the money flowing.”

“Has it not occured to you that this may be President Obama's way of responding to those on the Right, like Cheney, who accuse him of taking too long to decide.

I see this as a way to remind his critics that throwing 40,000 more troops into Afghanistan will mean more caskets coming back to Dover - so, before we commit to burying more of our children, maybe we should stop and remind ourselves of exactly what that means.

Less than 2% of Americans serve in the military - a little reminder of the price they pay is definitely in order, don't you think?

Take a look at what the families of the fallen are seeing, and then weigh the costs of further action.”

“Thank you for your service and your words.

Thank you for my son, who is a Marine. Thank you for one of his best friends, who I have known since he was 6 and who is a 22 yr old Army Ranger who just returned from Afghanistan with a Purple Heart.

I am hoping from the depths of my heart that this is President Obama's way of telling us all that there are other important considerations in what course of action he decides to take in Afghanistan - and some of them just came home last night, for the last time.

I never want to hear another President say that we must keep sacrificing more of our bravest to honor those who have already sacrificed thier lives. I think the best way to honor them may be to say, "enough".”

“Except, of course, he didn't really give it up - but he said he did, and with Bush, I guess we're supposed to accept that it's the same thing, right?”

“They can't stand that the man has class and dignity.”

“Obama gets out of bed in the morning; Republicans are OUTRAGED!!!”

“See, as soon as you incloude lies, you lose credibility.

The "teabaggers" identified themselves that way. It wasn't until they found out the more common cultural reference that the revisionist history started.

Remember all the teabags they wore? They called themselves teabaggers. Now, rather than acknoweldge the truth and move on, you, as a typical winger, will make up lies and then manufacture indignation when anyone busts you on your dishonesty.

If you can't even tell the truth about that, why should anyone give you ANY credibility about important things?”

“Now, when President Obama shows good sportsmanship and congratulates Rio, anyone on the Right willing to put on their big boy pants and act like grown-ups too?
I will not hold my breath.”

“Well said.”

“Ummm, I hate to be a downer, but, for the uninsured, any idea what it costs to get any of these tests he refers to?

How much to get tested for heavy metals or celiac disease?

What will a work-up by a functional medicine doctor who can help you address autoimmunity run? Thousands?

It ain't cheap.

In fact, it's so expensive that it is not even a consideration for most people.

Let's keep it real, shall we?”

“65 years is not rushing.

And trying to portray passing health care against total Republican obstructionism is a straw man arguement by the obstructionists, whose words you are now mindlessly mouthing.

If it was so critical to take the time and "get it right", why did the obstructionists do absolutely nothing every time they had a majority? Why did they NEVER try to do anything at all about health care?

Because they don't want to. They have their health care and lots of cash to keep denying it to everyone else, which is all they've done.

They, and you, have absolutely NO credibility now to suggest that this is being "rushed", when in truth those who are screeching the loudest about rushing are those who want nothing at all to be done.”

“AND THIS IS WHY THE RIGHT SHOULD HAVE NO INPUT WHATSOEVER IN HEALTH CARE REFORM.

THEY HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES TOTALLY UNWORTHY OF BEING INCLUDED IN BRINGING OUR COUNTRY IN LINE WITH THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD AND AWAY FROM BEING NO BETTER THAN THE WORLD'S WORST DICTATORSHIPS.”

“Having read your posts here, I can see why you're confused. But the Left has nothing to do with it.”

“Bush had a renter who was out of control? He should have just called Cheney.”

“It worked for Bush - well, that and daddy's inherited Nazi money.”

“Boy, do I agree with you! I believe the vast majority of us are in the middle and want solutions we can live with and get ahead with.

I knew when I voted for Obama that he is not as far to the Left as I know I am. In fact, he is a much more pragmatic middle of the road person than most give him credit for - and that is what really scares the crap out of the powers that be on the Right.

They know that Obama could actually get things done that might pull this country away from being a profit-driven corporatist state, and that would affect their bottom lines. So they will do anything, ANYthing, including fomenting violence, to stop him.

I'm just disappointed in the number of idiots willing to parrot anything they hear Limbaugh or Beck or Hannity say. It would be different if these men actually had a philosophy they espoused, but they don't. It's all hyperbolic drivel.

Ask one of the teabaggers to define communism, or socialism, or facism, or any of the isms they claim to be so frightened of - and they can't. They're only mindlessly repeating what they're told. That's really disappointing.

Thank you for your thoughtful post.”

“Bill O told you?”

“Being a paid corporate spokesperson is not the same as a citizen using their right to Free Speech. How is it you don't get that? Fox is a foreign owned corporation spending millions to influence our government, Color of Change is a non-profit Amerian organization. Are you so blind or so ignorant you don't understand that?

I don't care if Glenn Beck get to speak his mind, but, let's face it, without a wealthy foreigner supporting him, he'd be yelling on a street corner.

By the way, it takes either a lot of balls or a lot of ignorance to say, "His, (Jones), radical racist views are extremely disturbing" and not mention the truly hateful, racist, inflammatory, unpatriotic drivel that Beck spews every day at the behest of his foreign boss.

You may want to rethink your allegiances. Are you American or Australian?”

“And, by the way, your Washington quote, "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.", is one of the reason the Fouders believed in a strong, free, public education, so that there would not be a "dumb and silent" population that could be led. The mobs being deliberately fomented by the Right are a repudiation of what this country was supposed to be; educated self-rule, not blind and enraged mob rule.”

“Freedom of speech! Freedom of speech!!

Listen, Brainiac, Freedom of Speech is an INDIVIDUAL right, not a corporate one. Beck is speaking as a corporate employee, not an individual. If he ever said anything his corporate boss did not like, he'd find out exactly how limited his freedom is if he wants to bloviate in front of the corporate owned cameras.

Of course he'll find sponsors - it's profit-driven corporations which are paying for the town hall howlers and the rest of the traveling fringe festival that's making all the noise across the country. They'll keep supporting Beck as long as their bottom lines warrant it. The minute it looks like their profits are taking a hit, Beck will have the same Freedom of Speech you and I have - he'll be able to post on blogs as much as his preening ego wants.”

“Actually, if you're an unethical corporate profiteer, Fox is the perfect place for your ads, since it's viewers are the most desirable consumers; uneducated, undiscerning, suggestable and incapable of deductive reasoning and independent thought. They're willing dupes who fall easily for any line as long as it spoken with breathless hype and a dash of faux patriotism.

"Look, honey, it's a dessert topping AND a floor wax! Grab yer cost, we're going to Walmart!"”

“"Neither side can ignore the other half"

Agreed, but that isn't what's happening. Well over half want health care, including a single payer option. Well under half, a very well-funded, very small minority, are using every deceitful lie and bullying technique they can to get their way. It isn't "a large portion of this country", that "is vehemently opposed to those ideas", it is the antithesis of democracy; a small, over-vocal, intimidating, threatening group of bullies, funded by the profiteers, who are trying to force minority rule on all of us.

Unfortunately, the other side has already declared war on us. They have already murdered, they will not stop until they are stopped. They are willing to do anything to get their way, they have no respect for this country and no understanding or concern for the Constitution.

The first thing we have to do is really understand what we are up against. This worries me too, because I understand how very little respect the Right has for anything other than themselves. There is no love of country, only greed, prejudice and hatred.

It will be our downfall if we underestimate the evil they are willing to do to get their way. These are not just sore losers, unwilling to get over the lost election. These are fanatics, and everything but their profit and comfort is expendable, including you, if it will get them their way.

Better come to terms with that, because they have already armed themselves.”

“Oh, and Joe's daddy never ran the CIA - which went a long way to effectively covering up Jr.'s indiscretions.”