Originally Posted by
Havakasha
S&L, that article was TOTAL BS. You're the one who should be ashamed of yourself. Do you usually publish what you admit is some stuff which is "just plain stupid"?
You say you are a non party affiliate but you certainly don't act like it 90% of the time.
Stop putting out nonsense on a whole group of people.
My reference to Sarah Palin and the rest is to the fact that the article you published is an example of the kind of lies they traffic in. But please do tell us how you disagree with Michelle Bachman, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul for starters.
Steven Pearlstein the writer of the article (about investment by the way) which started this thread happens to be in the center. It was certainly interesting how threatened you got by it. It is a TOTALLY mainstream and centrist point of view. Read it again.
P.S. Are you for raising of the debt limit? Agree with Bill Gross (another centrist person)?
Since you're a centrist you must be REALLY concerned at the political game the Republicans are playing with debt limit huh?
And you must be really offended by these lies told by Boehner and other Republicans about Obama's speech huh?
Ben Smith at Politico flags this bit of Republican dissembling from John Boehner (R-OH) during an appearance on CNN last night, where he complained about what the President didn't say in his State of the Union address:
BOEHNER: Well, they -- they've refused to talk about America exceptionalism. We are different than the rest of the world. Why? Because Americans have -- the country was built on an idea that ordinary people could decide what their government looked like and ordinary people could elect their own leaders.
And 235 years ago that was a pretty novel idea. And so we are different. Why is our economy still 20 times the size of China's? Because Americans have had their freedom to succeed, the freedom to fail. We've got more innovators, more entrepreneurs, and that is exceptional but you can't get the left to talk about it. They don't -- they reject that notion.
Did I say "dissemble"? I meant lied.
Because during the President's State of the Union, besides talking about "what sets us apart as a nation," what "America does better than anyone else," that we're a country where "anything is possible," and that "there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth," Obama said:
What’s more, we are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea -– the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny.
... and:
America still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world. No workers -- no workers are more productive than ours. No country has more successful companies, or grants more patents to inventors and entrepreneurs. We’re the home to the world’s best colleges and universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth.
The American "exceptionalism" claim, which is pseudo-patriotic code for you're not cheering loud enough, has been enjoying a resurgence in popularity among Republicans since Obama was elected, because, hey, everyone knows that the commie, marxist, socialist Kenyan isn't a "real American."
But the lie, said by the Speaker of the House on national T.V., usually isn't this blatant.
The traditional media will be all over it ... just kidding.
Based on your definition Centrism must have taken on a WHOLE NEW MEANING.
