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Politics The Marginalization of Ron Paul (or How Media Plays Favorites)

Discussion in 'Tilted Philosophy, Politics, and Economics' started by Derwood, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. Eddie Getting Tilted

    I don't listen to any of those people.
     
  2. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    Show me a specific flat tax proposal that works, w/o putting a greater tax burden on the middle class and working poor, and we can discuss it.
     
  3. Joniemack

    Joniemack Beta brainwaves in session

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    How are liberals politically correct? Are you suggesting that we are closet racists and islamophobes - that we don't have the balls to let our prejudices all hang out like the right wing candidates do? Have you ever considered that might be because liberals don't harbor those same prejudices?

    And I'm sorry but, by all measures of crazy, Michelle Bachmann is crazy. One need only look in her eyes. A truly maniacal human being. The rest pale in comparison, I'll admit.
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    Wow, that's original. I've never heard that before. :rolleyes:
     
  4. Eddie Getting Tilted

    I believe liberals are nothing more than naive idealists, not practical thinkers.
     
  5. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    Well lucky for you, there aren't any actual liberals in DC
     
  6. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Are you sure you didn't mean libertarians?
     
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  7. Eddie Getting Tilted

    You kidding me? Obama is the king of the liberals. He has no answers, all he has are empty ideals and empty promises. Now he's cowering in a corner while his nation drifts further into economic ruin. His only attempt at fixing the problem was spending more money...that we don't have. Laughable. He's completely clueless...like most liberals I know.
     
  8. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    he'd be considered a conservative in most countries. He's center-right even on the US political spectrum
     
  9. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    Since your initial post with the bombastic characterization of liberal rhetoric, all I have seen from you is the same old baseless right wing talking points, none of which you document with any supporting facts, while the clueless liberals have provided fact after fact that you refuse to accept.
     
  10. Eddie Getting Tilted

    You see exactly what you are conditioned to see. As is often the case in political debates.
     
  11. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    says the guy who claims Obama is a far-left socialist. LOLOLOL
     
  12. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    If I missed any of your facts, please repost.
     
  13. Eddie Getting Tilted

    I never once said Obama was far left.
     
  14. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I think a visual helps demonstrate this. Below is a graph that I think is fairly accurate, and it compares U.S. politicians to elected Canadian political parties.

    Notice where Obama is. If he were in Canada, he'd be akin to the Conservative Party of Canada.

    Notice how even the Liberal Party of Canada is centrist.

    Notice how Canada has a left wing. Notice how America doesn't.

    [​IMG]
     
  15. Eddie Getting Tilted

    Or, maybe you could actually try reading my posts, rather than picking and choosing the words you're going to react to.
     
  16. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    your post are factless, twisted, reactionary partisan rhetoric
     
  17. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    I have read and responded to your post and you have chosen to ignore my response or any substantive response that is counter to your ideology.

    Lets try again.

    Please tell me how a health care system that provides a private marketplace for 30+ million people through greater competition of private insurers is government run health care.

    Please provide a flat tax proposal that would not significantly burden the middle class and working poor and benefit the wealthiest taxpayers.
     
  18. Eddie Getting Tilted

    Baraka, that's a nice graph. Did your 3 year old make it?
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    ooh, this is getting fun...
     
  19. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    A very mature response to factual data that belies your pre-conceived notions of American politics.
     
  20. Eddie Getting Tilted

    I have answered both of those questions. As I said, I agree with Ron Paul's tax policy.