Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama

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111. Where did I call you a name?

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I associated your posts with Third Way policies, goals, and manipulations, which is wholly accurate and amply demonstrated by your own prolific posting here. Third Way has a meaning, not to mention a website. It is shorthand for a very specific set of political goals: namely, liberal positions on non-economic social issues, but general agreement with corporate Republicans on issues related to economics, war, and the police state. You can go to the website to see for yourself.

What you just tried here was an attempt at another predictable, manipulative Third Way maneuver: trying to mislabel the use of accurate descriptors for policy positions as "ad hominem" so as to discredit and discourage their use.

It's a typical tactic of authoritarians; Orwell even wrote about it. To prevent people from accurately describing what you are doing, you make the words unavailable. If you can't take them away, you pretend that they are epithets and protest their use. I have written about this before re: Third Way whining about the word "authoritarian" and the descriptor, "Third Way":

The purpose of the "Ad Hominem!" cry when accurate political descriptors are used.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3171893

I believe there was also a recent huffy post complaining about use of the word "corporatist." Predictable as hell.

Okay, I'm really going now. But nice try.





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