Some people are blind because they choose to be.
Posted on 11/14/2007 9:29:37 AM PST by shrinkermd
...But Bush hatred is different. It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene.
...On the contrary, they argued, Bush hatred was fully warranted considering his theft of the 2000 election in Florida with the aid of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore; his politicization of national security by making the invasion of Iraq an issue in the 2002 midterm elections; and his shredding of the Constitution to authorize the torture of enemy combatants.
...Many of my colleagues at Princeton that evening seemed not to have considered that in 2000 it was Al Gore who shifted the election controversy to the courts by filing a lawsuit challenging decisions made by local Florida county election supervisors. Nor did many of my Princeton dinner companions take into account that between the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, 10 of 16 higher court judges -- five of whom were Democratic appointees -- found equal protection flaws with the recount scheme ordered by the intermediate Florida court. And they did not appear to have pondered Judge Richard Posner's sensible observation, much less themselves sensibly observe, that while indeed it was strange to have the U.S. Supreme Court decide a presidential election, it would have been even stranger for the election to have been decided by the Florida Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Hate is all they have. But they do seem to just love it more than they love winning. So, I’m all for letting them continue to lose by highlighting how deranged and hateful they really are.
We’ve all seen how well their hatred has lead them to govern in the House. All that insanity resulted in a bunch of phony conservative demoncrats who keep having to split with Queen Pelosi in order to have any chance of keeping their ill gotten seats. Heath Shuler - I’m talking to YOU!!!!
‘...Many of my colleagues at Princeton that evening seemed not to have considered that in 2000 it was Al Gore who shifted the election controversy to the courts by filing a lawsuit challenging decisions made by local Florida county election supervisors. ‘
This fact is the one lied about by liberals the most when you ask about their BDS illness. They insist Bush filed the lawsuit.
Every time. Doesn’t matter what you cite, or put before them to read for themselves.
When you are so ate up with the goofies you lie TO YOURSELF over and over again...you really need therapy.
Some excellent points in the extract. But I don’t want to sign up for Yahoo Finance to read the rest of it.
I tried to convince my liberal friend of Gore’s involvement of this election issue in 2000. You simply can’t do it, no matter what facts you throw at them.
When I mentioned that the Florida Supreme Court was going to basically allow Gore to continue to recount past the legally bound time, he said “Every vote most count!” over and over again.
Of course when they did the recounts Bush won anyway.
I’ve had the exact same experience numerous times, both in these kinds of forums, and in the real world.
Its like trying to decribe the color ‘red’ to a person blind from birth.
After pretty much picking apart his faulty points, he said, “Well we should get rid of the electoral college.”
Man oh man....that’s some logic right there huh? Because your guy didn’t win, let’s just change how we elect people until he does.
--One of the best single-sentence wrap-up's I ve seen in a while---
Some people are blind because they choose to be.
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Look at how they attacked Newt, DeLay, Frist, Cheney, Condi, Rumsfeld....
‘After pretty much picking apart his faulty points, he said, “Well we should get rid of the electoral college.”
Man oh man....that’s some logic right there huh? Because your guy didn’t win, let’s just change how we elect people until he does.’
Its no accident ‘get rid of the electoral college’ was basically the first public utterance by newly elected Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Looks like a woman with nice boobs to me.....(chuckle)
Bush Derangement Syndrome is a disease.
Can any of us here imagine having that much hatred inside of them? The hatred the liberals have embraced has to affect EVERY aspect of their life. It must suck to be them.
I find that when citing facts to some of these insane zealots, their eyes glaze over, they zone out, then continue on as if I never said anything at all. Not every time, but way too often. It’s as though they don’t hear anything that’s not in their brainwashing script.
“Can any of us here imagine having that much hatred inside of them?”
I couldn’t STAND the Clinton Presidency but I had nowhere NEAR the disdain for Bubba that Liberals (who claim to be open minded and compassionate) have for Bush. It’s simply irrational.
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