see funny thing is I actually defended McCain against attacks that where not merited...and those palin Africa things...that comes from Fox news reporting from her own campaign not the left.
I never saw the right go against anyone for those worthless attacks on Obama. ( also Note I am not a Dem, I dont call the left my side...just the side I happen to lean to.)
Er... I have personally had some pointed conversations with specific people over their use of invalid attacks. More than a few times.
The problem is, I don't consider all of those worthless. Others you seem incapable or willing to understand the point of the comment.
For example: The claim Obama is unpatriotic does have some evidence. He refused to say the pledge of allegence to our flag. He refused to wear a flag pin, and made it an issue. He went to a church for 20 years that openly hated America. Now how are we supposed to respond? Do we have to wait until he starts chanting "death to america" and burning flags on the white house lawn?
So I think that's a legitimate issue that is worth discussing.
Another example is "obama is hitler". No one said Obama is hitler. Obama can't speak two languages like Hilter could, and Obama is not overtly against the Jews the same way hitler was.
What was said, is that in nearly every evil dictator of our history, the way in which a dictator rises to power in a largely democratic country, is through manipulation of the ignorant public by empty vague speeches that say very little about what the person actually believes.
This is a speech Hitler gave in Munich MAY 1, 1923. Notice the how he doesn't say what he really wants to do... just some ambiguous phrases.
There are three words which many use without a thought which for us are no catch-phrases: Love, Faith, and Hope. We National Socialists wish to love our Fatherland, we wish to learn to love it, to learn to love it jealously, to love it alone and to suffer no other idol to stand by its side. We know only one interest and that is the interest of our people.
We are fanatical in our love for our people, and we are anxious that so-called 'national governments' should be conscious of that fact. We can go as loyally as a dog with those who share our sincerity, but we will pursue with fanatical hatred the man who believes that he can play tricks with this love of ours. We cannot go with governments who look two ways at once, who squint both towards the Right and towards the Left. We are straightforward: it must be either love or hate.
We have faith in the rights of our people, the rights which have existed time out of mind. We protest against the view that every other nation should have rights - and we have none. We must learn to make our own this blind faith in the rights of our people, in the necessity of devoting ourselves to the service of these rights; we must make our own the faith that gradually victory must be granted us if only we are fanatical enough. And from this love and from this faith there emerges for us the idea of hope. When others doubt and hesitate for the future of Germany - we have no doubts. We have both the hope and the faith that Germany will and must once more become great and mighty.
We have both the hope and the faith that the day will come on which Germany shall stretch from Koenigsberg to Strassburg, and from Hamburg to Vienna.
Now... that to me sounds very much like Obama. Very nebulas, very void. Yes we can... Hope... Change... Believe. He doesn't say how he would do this, or what policies he thinks will accomplish these things. Nor does he state what his ultimate goals are other than to expand Germany.
If Bush was saying a speech similar to this, would not the similarities be an alarm to you? Yes it would. So why when we see these similarities, it's a worthless argument?
