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Mr Khan on 27 September 2012
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:

We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.

I've never actually seen anyone say that.

Let alone the Romney campaign.

In a rare change of pace, the democratic campaign has actually been the MUCH more blantalty dishonest and ghoulish in this election.

Fair in that it hasn't been the Romney campaign saying that, but you seriously haven't seen the meme floating around facebook of "SEAL Team Six removed one threat to America, it's your job to remove the other."?



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Rafux on 27 September 2012

Here's Romney, another corporate slave president:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNv7lY-ZhKA



famousringo on 27 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:

But they are suggesting that.

Everyone says "He strapped a dog to the roof of a car, and we can't have a sociopath like that as President!"

This just gives some sort of balance. He is at worst, a decent human being who doesn't share your ideas. Fine. Stop lambasting him as the anti-Christ (not directed at you, but at his critics in general).

We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.


There needs to be a catchy term for arguments which use the most strident/shrill/maniacal members of a group as a weapon against the group itself.



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Mr Khan on 27 September 2012
famousringo said:
Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:

But they are suggesting that.

Everyone says "He strapped a dog to the roof of a car, and we can't have a sociopath like that as President!"

This just gives some sort of balance. He is at worst, a decent human being who doesn't share your ideas. Fine. Stop lambasting him as the anti-Christ (not directed at you, but at his critics in general).

We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.


There needs to be a catchy term for arguments which use the most strident/shrill/maniacal members of a group as a weapon against the group itself.

"Guilty by Association?"

Point is, achieving civility in political discourse is as tricky as achieving peace in an armed conflict. Whoever tries to make a unilateral gesture is going to get cut down in a hail of machine-gun fire/attack ads.



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Kasz216 on 27 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
 

We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.

I've never actually seen anyone say that.

Let alone the Romney campaign.

In a rare change of pace, the democratic campaign has actually been the MUCH more blantalty dishonest and ghoulish in this election.

Fair in that it hasn't been the Romney campaign saying that, but you seriously haven't seen the meme floating around facebook of "SEAL Team Six removed one threat to America, it's your job to remove the other."?


Haven't actually.



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Allfreedom99 on 27 September 2012

Basically Romney quite often gets smeared as a nasty filthy rich mean guy that dosn't care about the average American. Thats part of the campaign strategy against him.

These stories are just simply showing that he is actually a decent guy that has a record of helping people in need and those less fortunate. He is a charity guy. He regularly gives to charity.

The point of it is to counteract the slime and smear campaign about his character to show that its not true. In Reality helping others and giving a large percentage of ones income in charitable donations is in fact more of a rarity in society. For instance Romney's percentage of charitable donations put people like Joe Biden to shame. Just look up how much Biden gave to charity in comparison. Its nothing to be proud about.

weather you agree or disagree with him on his policies is besides the point. It just shows at his core he is a giving person and thats all.




Kantor on 27 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:
Mr Khan said:
No-one was ever suggesting he was some sort of Montgomery Burns-esque plutocratic supervillain. His fault is more that he's out of touch (like the thing with the dog on the roof of a car. It's not deliberate animal cruelty, it's just kinda dumb)

Politicians are people too, and people tend to be generally decent when you get to know them

But they are suggesting that.

Everyone says "He strapped a dog to the roof of a car, and we can't have a sociopath like that as President!"

This just gives some sort of balance. He is at worst, a decent human being who doesn't share your ideas. Fine. Stop lambasting him as the anti-Christ (not directed at you, but at his critics in general).

We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.

I don't think anybody has ever said that.

Indeed, if you look at Obama vs Romney ads, the Romney ads attack Obama for being well-intentioned but wrong. The Obama ads attack Romney for being evil, hating poor people, and so on.



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HappySqurriel on 27 September 2012

From my experience, nothing in this list is all that unusual for good people who have become successful but it is highly unusual for a successful politician ...



gergroy on 27 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
No-one was ever suggesting he was some sort of Montgomery Burns-esque plutocratic supervillain. His fault is more that he's out of touch (like the thing with the dog on the roof of a car. It's not deliberate animal cruelty, it's just kinda dumb)

Politicians are people too, and people tend to be generally decent when you get to know them


oh really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/jon-stewart-romney-47-percent-video_n_1896310.html



HappySqurriel on 27 September 2012
Kantor said:

I don't think anybody has ever said that.

Indeed, if you look at Obama vs Romney ads, the Romney ads attack Obama for being well-intentioned but wrong. The Obama ads attack Romney for being evil, hating poor people, and so on.


This started long before Obama came to office and has been occurring around the world ...

Essentially, conservatives believe that progressives are wrong while progressive people think conservatives are evil; and the progressives will rarely notice how their distain for conservatives poison the debate.