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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
4. A Republican criticizing Obama!?
Wed Dec 28, 2011, 12:14 PM
Dec 2011

Someone alert the presses!

Seriously, Republicans criticize him and every other Democratic politician for existing. If Obama walked down the street, they would criticize him for something, even if it was because he accidentally stepped on an ant. Limbaugh would be demanding he be arrested for animal cruelty.

When you aren't interested in anything except taking lobbyist handouts, and have no urge to change the status quo unless it is to make it worse for everyone but yourself and your cronies, all you have to inspire support is criticism of your political opponents.

It's petty, it's childish, and even if the 20% on the hard right fall for it, the rest of the country doesn't. More and more people around me are starting to call the right-wing talking heads idiotic blowhards, including some conservatives. People don't give a shit anymore about petty criticisms, they want our nation's problems to be solved. Blowhards gassing off with criticism of everything while offering no solutions except "cut taxes for the rich" are useless and they only people that don't realize it are blowhards themselves.

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