# Obama Kicks Bush Torturers in the Nuts

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 16, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-kicks-bush-torturers-in-the-nuts/493338 "2009-04-16T21:24:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-kicks-bush-torturers-in-the-nuts/493338/259 "2009-04-20T01:42:33Z")

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> [@Scylla](#):
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> I think I remember dismissing you as a dishonest and immature flaming left-wing nutjob. Now I remember why.

Dishonest? Immature? Nutjob? Strong words. Care to back them up?

> [@Red Rover, Red Rover, send Rand Rover over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-rover-red-rover-send-rand-rover-over/490739/145):
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> A recent study seems to indicate that Republicans are more charitable than Democrats:
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> [http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm](http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm)

In a thread that had nothing to do with a partisan approach to charity.  
And this:

> [@Bonuses For AIG](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonuses-for-aig/489541/574):
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> Some of the same people that were so upset at Bush’s wiretapping, really have no problem with the government seizing the assets of public citizens, and inciting death threats against them while suggesting they commit suicide.
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> I seem to remember a lot of folks throwing around the term “cognitive dissonance” about that whole Bush thing. What do those words mean again?

is, to put it charitably, creative logic.

> [@Sarah Palin - Religious Conservative Wacko](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-religious-conservative-wacko/488621/10):
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> > [@The Tao's Revenge](#):
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> > Would Jesus approve torture? Republicans do.
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> Yeah, we do, in the same sense that Democrats hate America, want to turn all school children gay, and encourage them to have sex in the 1st grade.  
> Stupid comments like that, make you a stupid person. Show a little intellectual discipline, for chrissake.

**TTR** ’s comment was entirely correct, as many Republican officials, in the mainstream even, approve of the CIA’s conduct over the last several years, which is also the opinion of a majority of self-identified Republicans. You then proceeded to construct a strawman of ridiculous lies and claimed that the two were equivalent.

I will concede that the posts I quoted are not one line long. There is not a significant difference, for the most part.

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