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In reply to the discussion: Here are some lies you can tell about Glenn Greenwald. [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)And actually, those were NOT my issues in the first place
there stands another strawman
one thinks their wedge issue, is my wedge issue.
It isn't.
I didn't like Bush or Reagan or Ford or Eisenhower, because they are all bad for minorities and women and anyone not specific to who Thomas Jefferson refereed to.
I care about stem cell research and Bush didn't, but Obama does
I care about racism, Bush is a racist and uses it.
Bush's family was involved with the Nazi's in WW2. I am Jewish. I don't like Bush family.
There are 1000 issues.
Some likes one wedge, some others.
My issues are not your issues
Therefore I am consistent in what I don't like.
I do like President Obama's viewpoint, because on my wedge issues, he is there 100% of the time.
I like that my health care premium is 65% less now than it was just a year ago.
The Bush's? No I don't like them.
Don't like what they did to Mike Dukakis and Jesse Jackson
but to me, this other stuff, is not in my Top 10 of issues.
Why do people always assume all wedge issues are the same to anyone?
But then, I know there are people who don't like LBJ, but I always did and will.
That's what is great, we are all free to like whatever we want, and are not forced to like or dislike in unison.
and no one is stopping us. NO right has been lost just a concept.
Except that all rights were lost this week to voters in the red states who now may have an even harder time to vote.
That is here and now, that is a concrete lost of right.
The others are just political board arguments, but no one has lost anything tangible with regard to the information problem.
(the one we all knew about, and had safeguards put in by Obama that Bush specifically didn't).