The Partisan Mind

Nmysys wrote: I can agree with what you say SC, but I think it is hypocritical of Scruffy to claim you are speaking for him or for Archer, LJ, and some of the others on this forum.

There have been too many claims of posters that are indicative of truly hating this country, to accept your premise as standing for them.

While I wouldn't presume to say that absolutely everything I say most of those you named would agree with me on, I can state with enough confidence, after having seen them mention multiple times themselves the same type of ideas, that I'm mostly on track, but they can certainly speak for themselves as well.

There have been too many claims of posters that are indicative of truly hating this country, to accept your premise as standing for them. Yes, I believe that anyone who claims so vociferously to defend Obama's policies, Reid's policies, and Pelosi's policies, can only hate America.

Everything they have done has been against what this country has stood for. By your arguments and complete defense of all the crap they have pulled has me convinced. Nothing you have stated for months has been anything else but blind defense of it. Transparency, hope and change, pass this and then we can read it, shoving these bills down the throats of the American people knowing damn well that they weren't wanted. I have stated my complaints about Obama many times and always you came up with inane arguments, this proved to me that you are haters of what America has stood for and want to change it to the bastardized ideas that you think make sense.

I am curious to know why you think that they vigorously defend Obama and/or his policies, as I haven't seen that from the other posters on every subject, nor do I believe that to support our Commander-in-Chief is indicative of hating America. Also, I do not believe that "every" argument is inane that I've seen; just because you don't agree with the ideas doesn't mean that they aren't well-reasoned or supported. I didn't agree with much of what Bush did, but he was our president and, good or bad, he was our leader and I tried to make the best of it. And I certainly didn't lay all of the blame at his feet, just as I think it's unfair of you to lay all of the blame at Obama's - Congress and our court system have had big hands in steering us wrong for decades as well - our problems started well before Obama ever took office. The president is not omnipotent in this country, much as its easy to have made him the scapegoat over the years. Don't you wonder why it's evolved over recent years that partisanship has gotten so acrimonious, that to support a president who is not of your party is tantamount to treason and hatred? And what that means for the future? I do, and it scares me. We must get off of this path if we are to face the challenges ahead of us.