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In reply to the discussion: Tired of Malignant Amnesia Anti-Obama Syndrome [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)move the intended audience and "tricked" the people that are supposed to be on the wink and nod end and actually damaged the Democratic party on trust on the issue generally.
I don't care what the ever wrong crowd thinks, I'm not about to call my own eyes liars.
To accuse people of lying because you can spin up a more favorable rationalization for hard facts is dishonest as fuck, reprehensible, and odious.
Doubly so when the only real "evidence" touted is "See! It didn't happen" when we just saw a President on the other side with his party in the majority fail on his own scheme which means by that same tenors logic that Bush was also heroically but shrewdly working to preserve Social Security because if he actually wanted to he would have with those cards in hand, right?
This explanation doesn't make sense to me at all and even if I could swallow it, the whole thing was Mayberry Machivellian nonsense strategy that only resulted in mudding the waters on a key issue which is probably even worse than just being wrong on austerity because you can't fix stupid.
Yes I said stupid which makes it very hard for me to buy. A series of stunts over a number of years to trick the TeaPubliKlans into *something* that nary a one fell for but many other did and even as the truth of the practical workings of the application were more than clear he kept on pushing?
How does one believe any such fairy tale?