I think it’s naïve to think that documentaries are not slanted at least since the demise of cinema verite. They are. The problem with my fellow leftist Moore is that his slant is plainly dishonest.
As for my choice, is Bill Maher a liberal? If so, then him.
Our current mayor, the mayor before him, and the boy-buggering mayor before that who is now working for the current mayor.
Al Sharpton.
I understand why Manchin does what he does, but he still pisses me off. He’s not serving his voters; he’s just pandering to them.
I don’t despise any of those listed. Some I quite like. Others, I get the hostility even if I don’t share it.
There’s only one left leaning politician I truly despise, but that’s for personal reasons that I won’t air here.
I have a hard time thinking of anyone specific on my “side” of the political spectrum (I’m an extreme centrist with convictions attributable to both left and right), but in general I loathe people who make up shit to push their beliefs and attempt to demonize those who don’t agree.
I forgot Joe Manchin and Kristen Synema were “on my side”.
I guess you have to be pretty extreme, one way or the other, to have a side. Centrists can despise people for not being centrist enough, but that sort of means they’re just defining “centrist” narrowly.
I’m going to go out on a limb on this one.
Politics: I’m a centrist moderate.
I won’t say I despise Barack Obama but I am disappointed in him.
I think he’s a great person but he was a bad politician. He was too interested in being liked and he made too many compromises. He should have used his popular support to get more done in the eight years he was President.
I think the country would be better off if Hillary Clinton had won in 2008. She had no illusions about being liked and she was willing to fight back against her opponents. I think she would have accomplished more than Obama did.
Ditto. Smug antivax troll.
oh, i despise all of them on my side, just not as much as i despise the ones on the oppo side. I only like john mccain cuz he dead. his wife is okay too. daughter is a big ol no.
In all honesty I think the reason Obama did NOT accomplish more had to do more about the limitations of the powers of the Presidency of the United States than any personal failings on his part.
And that Hilary would have ran in to the same roadblocks Obama did and not have accomplished much more than him.
I got piled on for saying John Edwards a few months ago, but my opinion is unchanged. He was a sleaze and an embarrassment to my state. Soon after he won the Senate seat, he started looking towards running for US President. He skipped meetings, fooled around on his cancer-ridden wife, and did nothing of any service to the American people except make himself look nice for the camera.
Ooh, John Edwards is a good one. Also, to a lesser degree, Cal Cunningham. How hard is it to just not have an affair while running for public office?
Well, if you want some UK examples for comparison, I’m a left liberal (in the UK sense). “Despise” is a very strong word, but in my lifetime both Liberal/LibDem and Labour parties have found room for some pretty manky people, like Robert Maxwell (ended up robbing his company’s pension fund), Robert Kilroy-Silk (raging egotist and political lightweight, who waltzed through increasingly rightwing parties who wouldn’t live up to his estimation of himself), Chris Huhne (ended up going to prison for faking evidence to get himself off a speeding ticket, for heaven’s sake), Nick Clegg (party leader - not so much for making difficult compromises to go into coalition with the Tories, more for making performative pledges that he should have known he’d have to abandon if he went into a coalition), and Jeremy Corbyn - tin eared, stiff necked, “all out of step but me”, superannuated student politician with no idea how to actually get on with the people he needed on his side, and tone-deaf to leftwing anti-Semitism.
That is my answer, Maher is a racist, idiot and our answer to Limbaugh.
And to think, Robert Maxwell wasn’t even the most loathsome member of his own family.
Not sure what Bill Maher morphed into, but he needs to lose his time slot. It’s all ‘Dad Jokes’ about Repugnicans before spouting Repugnican talking points about Democrats.
I’m not sure just how much pot it would take, but America needs him to have a joint stuffed up both his ends so fat that we never ever have to hear from him again.
I lean right. I disagree with the extremists who toe the line just to make the point that we’re Republicans and we won’t vote for anything, anything!, that’s Democrat. We have a country to run, people, and just because Biden is in the WH doesn’t mean you can’t work together to run the USA.
I’m religious, a Christian, and I disagree with the extremists religious far right. Yes I believe in God and Jesus too but not everyone does. Don’t attack those who do not believe. Don’t thump the Bible on their heads. Pray for nonbelievers, and help them when we can. We are on this earth to help those who need some help.
I disagree with Rush Limbaugh. I can’t listen to anyone who says that everything the Dems do is bad.
I didn’t vote for Biden but now that he’s in the WH he is my President, because I’m an American. With how he’s handling Russia and the Ukraine, I am hopeful the economic sanctions work.
I didn’t vote for Obama but once he was elected I was grateful for the message his election sent to the world: this is America, a great nation, and we are not haters. We can elect an Afr-Am person to be POTUS.
Obama is a brilliant man. Absolutely brilliant. I too wish he had gotten more done in his eight years. See above about extremist Repubs who simply toed the line. They are part of the reason why he didn’t get more done.
I’m more or less in the center, or what used to be the center anyway (generally voted Republican, but not exclusively, back when they were sane). But these days, I suppose I’m somewhere on the right-most fringes of the Democratic big tent, as I’ll be damned if I’ll vote for a party ruled by religious wackos, conspiracy theorists, and explicit self-avowed racists.
As such, I despise all the far-right Republicans and their stranglehold on the party’s ideology and platform. And I despise all the Democrats who are so ideologically motivated that they can’t see past it and not say moronic stuff like Beto did about taking guns. I mean, he went from someone who seemed mature, sane and responsible, to just another dingbat who can’t read the room.
Independent of whether or not you agree with his gun-taking comments, it shows a breathtaking lack of awareness of what is important in a state like Texas. Any Democratic candidate that wants to have a reasonable chance of election in this state pretty much has to be one of two things- an ethnic candidate running in an ethnically gerrymandered district, or a Democrat who’s on the right-most fringes of the party. And Beto apparently does not get that if he’s saying he’ll take guns.
Similarly other progressive Democratic politicians do a lot of national grandstanding on Twitter and social media, which can send mixed messages. I mean, if there’s one thing the Republicans do well, and the Democrats do poorly, it’s singing from the same hymnal at all levels. It makes the Democrats look scattered and weak, and worse, it confused potential voters as to what the party’s position actually is. Is the Green New Deal official Democratic party platform material? Is it AOC’s personal crusade? Is it somewhere between? A lot of people assume the former, and without doing a fair amount of research, it’s not at all clear what it is. Same thing goes for Sinema & Manchin- WTF was their point? They should have worked all that shit out behind closed doors before it ever came to a vote.
Maybe I don’t despise maverick/rogue Democrats, but I sure think they don’t help things by causing the party infighting to be part of the larger legislative process, or by grandstanding on national media about their pet causes/ideologies.
The Beto/guns thing reminds me (of the Howard Dean scream, and) of the famous “Newsroom” scene with Jeff Daniels:
If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamned always.
My sense of Beto, after he got the national spotlight, was that he actually was a bit of what Obama had (wrongly) been accused of being during his first campaign: an empty suit … a vessel upon which hopeful liberals projected their most fervent desires.
I wanted to like Beto, but failed fairly early on, even before he did.
I left out James Carville, who looks like some sort of alien spawn and talks like a used car salesman.