Matter of fact, yes. To my ever-lasting shame, I was a passionate supporter of his after 9/11. For maybe a year, I wanted to give him anything he asked for as long as he was searching, as he claimed, for Bin Ladin. I suspect that’s the reason I came to hate him so much, when I realized that he was using my passionate support (and that of many, many other Democrats) to justify his own evil, twisted ambitions, resulting in my country’s unending global disgrace.
But for a few months there, you couldn’t find a more loyal Bush-supporter than I was.
Given that I’ve never made even the slightest comment calling him a Muslim terrorist, I’m wondering why the notion would occur to you?
As you’ve shown with each of my attempts to show you what you’d ‘like to see’, it would be a total waste of time. You would misrepresent what I’d said, you’d leap to ficticious conclusions, you’d move the goalposts, and you’d equivocate like a motherfuck.
Translation: ‘Since I’m afraid SA might come off looking better than I thought if you read his cites, I’m gonna pick out the most recent one (as if that made any difference) and misconstrue it so that passing readers will be more favorably inclined to my impotent argument.’
No, dumbass. (And you wonder why I treat certain posters around here with disrespect :rolleyes:.) Why would you even think such a thing?
I’ll tell you why.
You don’t!
You know perfectly well that I meant I’m hoping he’ll be less the leftie ideologist and more the man of the people…just like I said in the posts I cited.
Now, having said that, I have, as a matter of fact, expressed (and still hold) considerable fear that he may be assassinated. It is my urgent wish and hope that he is not.
And now, having said that, you really are a detestable dumbass, aren’t you. Can you still be bought out for the princely sum of $500 measly dollars?)
Having a positive attitude will depend on his actions. I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’m far from convinced. I don’t see how this is unreasonable.
What a surprise.
So you were wrong. Again.
And what, exactly, does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I agree that ignore them is the best approach. There are several posters that I can’t seem to have a reasonable discussion with. For the most part I ignore their posts or , if they seem to be behaving, I’ll make an attempt at discourse without any real expectations. Nobody is forcing anyone to spend time in a useless discussion that isn’t going anywhere. If I spend too much time beating my head against a wall it’s as much my fault as it is theirs. I try to avoid it.
Rather than prolong your agony, I’ll end my participation in this now- tiresome thread (tiresome to keep writing, and certainly tiresome to read) by making a few, perhaps superfluous, closing remarks (after which you can open a whole nother thread, if you like, though I won’t promise to post there, only if there’s any promise of remotely new material to respond to).
I hope you realize that you have done exactly what you accuse me of doing in this snip:
when you immediately procede to translate my remark into Starving Artist bullshit, as follows:
Misrepresent? Check–you call it translation. Leap to fictitious conclusions? Check–examining closely one representative passage is somehow unfair to a casual reader? On what planet? Move goalposts? Check–that’s a given with you. Equivocate like a motherfuck? Check–that’s your middle name. No, I simply gave your most recent self-quotation, thinking that would represent fairly your most current position, which I then proceeded to analyze in a pretty objective way. If there’s any part of my analysis, which you characterize as a deliberate misconstruction, that’s faulty, I’d sure like to see you explain what the fault is:
Did you not include two (of three) paragraphs of Hillary-bashing in what was allegedly a post noting some virtues of Obama? Did you have anything substantial to say about Obama in the final paragraph, other than praising yourself for making the effort to hope he does well and then bashing his first two major appointments? We’re supposed to interpret this as support? Praise? Admiration? Please remember, this is YOU selecting from thousands of posts the one post that expresses your fairness to Obama, and it’s nearly all about Hilary and Obama’s lousy staffing choices. If you’re not actually retarded, you’re assuming all of us must be.
And sorry to disappoint again, but I think the Mods will not allow any more bidding to silence members. Should have doubled or tripled **Liberal **'s offer when you had the chance.
Now you get the final word. If I may, a request: could we have another meltdown like your previous post, to which a specific rebuttal would be again superfluous? Thank you.
Once again SA masterfully punctures the hypocrisies and pretensions of the left! Mallard Fillmore, eat your heart out!
(Hey, its almost Christmas, and Santa is watching! I’ll never make the “nice” list, but maybe if he checks it twice, I can get to the “naughty” list and off the “shoot on sight” list!)
Regards, Shodan! Just popped in to say I don’t consider you a troll. The idea that saying your posts provide “sheer entertainment value” means you don’t really believe what you’re posting is fucking idiotic. Also, watching prr lose so badly to Starving Artist is sheer entertainment. And that’s a statement I can believe in. I have an idea: I’ll wait until he responds to this tomorrow and then crow about how many hours it took him to come up with his response! Zinger.
(but mostly, I just wanted to open a post with “Regards, Shodan!”)
I don’t think that’s what the Democrats stand for or what the Obama Administration has in mind or what Democracy is about.
MNO Democrat.
L,MNO Liberal either.
Hi, Shodan! Hey, Starving Artist! I heard a rumor the other day that Republicans and social conservatives don’t really want to make me get pregnant and learn how to hunt. Is that true? I will donate to your next campaign if you will let me keep the trees in my yard.
Aaaanyway … this thread needs to die. It has turned into a shining example of exactly what I want to see less of. But at least it’s all in its own dedicated pit thread. I haven’t been around for a couple of days … did it stop happening in the other forums yet?! No? Crap. I tried.
I suppose if this particular trainwreck serves to remind anyone in the future to think twice before they bother to respond to some of the more asinine posters around here … that’s progress. Before you go typing out that 1000 word quoted, cited, and formatted reply, carefully stating and restating and translating your probably-obvious point … to somebody who is clearly just picking a nit to get under your skin and sidetrack the point at hand … think of this shitty thread.
And Edison … you will do as you are told.
No, at this point his best bet is to make it drag on as long as possible, if he wants it to be “a reminder of what happens when you respond to the more asinine” OP’s. A brilliant plan if I ever heard one.
But at least it’s all in its own dedicated pit thread. I haven’t been around for a couple of days … did it stop happening in the other forums yet?! No? Crap. I tried.