Trying to figure out if there’s really any difference. I think the only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats are at least a little embarrassed when caught breaking the law.
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Morph me! This is too funny!
The difference is black and white?
The democrats deliberately use blacks in key positions to deflect all criticism of the Party as rayyyysist.
The whole “Bush/Obama the same” is BS by liberals desperate to deflect the stunningly bad record of Obama on all fronts, there’s no question they are far, far worse than the previous admin, the “same” defense is an attempt to retain power by reduction of the alternative.
“Trying to figure out if there’s really any difference.”
Remember the Doctor Dolittle stories? Recall the Pushmepullyou? With the left over parts two polities were fashioned with each end spewing sh**. A Republidemiyou perhaps. Each are headed to oligarchy asap, they conspire to meet in the middle.
No, not completely. There is Progressive Left (Obama, Pelosi,…) and Progressive Right (Bush, Boehner,…) and they are the fractions which love BigGovernment be it Left or Right. There are (some, few) Democrats who wouldn’t stand for Progressive abuses and some (more than on the Left) Republicans who wouldn’t stand for it too. Just, Progressives sell their shit quite well as they promise Nirvana/Utopia/… without shame for actually delivering 1984.
You might want to think that over a little more. Here’s one fact you can’t deny: liberals (aka “progressives”) get away with their political agenda so much easier than any other party. And that’s because of the news media and their inability to tell the WHOLE story.
Just why that is may be open to more of a debate. But I personally blame the brainwashing of the press on the overwhelming liberal presence in our upper education (colleges) that essentially trains news journalists. It’s so hard for today’s news reporters to admit they are wrong and then go report on a story that so obviously goes against their own political beliefs/agenda. So they don’t!
So the question is really more like this: can you call it a lie when you don’t tell the whole truth? Or is it a lie when you knowingly say the opposite of the truth? Because that’s really about the only difference between the main stream news agencies and the government – the news agencies really just tell half truths!
You might look at this another way: telling half truths is probably an even better way of misdirecting people from knowing the truth because you can’t exactly be exposed as a liar when the facts come. All you can claim is ignorance!
Yes. One of them can pronounce “nuclear”.
Nice tan, Mr. Bush — You blue-gummed half-hatian bastard.
I remember something in the Patriot Act that OK’d all this?
I was a victim of Bush’s warrantless wiretapping.
Here’s one difference — Obama got warrants… and he didn’t wiretap.
Don’t get me wrong — I don’t defend this “metadata” program. But it’s not to be confused with what Bush did.
i’d love to think i’m safe in canada, but we prolly helped code the good stuff
It’s not that the Dems are embarrassed or shamed when caught, it’s that they’re shocked when their allies in the news media (anything pre-1994) call them out the Dems on their behavior like what happened on this issue.
Repubs are so used to being consistently attacked by these vary same people for the “crime” of Holding Public Office While Republican that they simply ignore the “call outs” as normal background noise from the news media. Thus the perceived lack of shame, regardless of whether or not they experience it.
Obama would have had a much easier time shrugging this issue off if he hadn’t already been caught red handed using government resources (the justly feared IRS) to attack his political and ideological foes, which gives the NSA’s prying and spying extra sinister overtones. That and the news media is almost certainly still privately pissed about the recent wire tapping of the Associated Press.
Not surprised. I always called Obama… Bush 2.0, Bush started with the spying and BO just continued with the handoff. The fact that the spying intensified is only a natural occurrence very similar to Moore’s law. If you’ve nothing to hide why worry.
“… a dime’s worth of difference …”
You The People, and Moore’s Law
simpe lawesome.. more please
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18q38gyuqtgufjpg/k-bigpic.jpg
You left out IBM!
Many more corps spying than just IBM. Actually too many to list or bother to realize.
It’s been 1984 for a long time.
And yes, you did that!
I’m a Little Stinker!
I can list 50 similarities between D and R and then list 50 dissimilarities.
Given this multitude of facts, the partisans will run wild.
Just look.
Please don’t do that to President Obama’s face.
What about just the ears? Is it safe to do them with Caligula’s dick and stalin’s ass pushin’??
Well, he hasn’t gutted the 3rd amendment in the bill of rights yet.
Holder must be working on it.
My point being the rest of the Bill of rights is pretty much shot to hell.
If YOU take the Declaration of Independence seriously, its time for the thing in DC to go.
Oreally? That was gutted long ago. Some might argue that it’s the same thing with the NSA equipment housed in ATT buildings for a declared *war on terror*. What about Ruby Ridge, Idaho and the Weaver family?? They were pretty much killed for not cooperating with federal officials to ‘quarter’ in their house to spy on their neighbors as a corillary part of the declared *war on drugs*
As long as something is called a war, I guess maybe the third is not busted altogether.
addendum:
In 1765, the British parliament enacted the first of the Quartering Acts, requiring the American colonies to pay the costs of British soldiers serving in the colonies, and requiring that if the local barracks provided insufficient space, that the colonists provide space for the troops to live in alehouses, inns, and livery stables. After the Boston Tea Party, the Quartering Act of 1774 was enacted; it was one of the Intolerable Acts that pushed the colonies toward revolution. The later Quartering Act authorized British troops to be quartered wherever necessary, including in private homes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#History
They must pay for the equipment and train and monitor employes on how to keep silent about it. But that is ok because they pass the cost on to us as a kind of *phone-tap tax*.
I’m sure that would be a “phone-tap fee”.
Clinton wasn’t and still isn’t. Anybody want to know where the money for Haiti is? Any of you remember Monica? I stopped watching TV for months because I got so sick of that story.
He at least was different from the other repubes and dumb-o-craps we’re had in office in that he wasn’t trying to do to everybody what he was doing to Lewinski.
He waited until he’d had a cardiac bypass before he got to that level of scumbum-iness.
Anybody who wants office should be barred from it.
Anyone watch Bill Maher last night? I almost threw up listening to his machinations regarding the second and fourth amendments. Maher has to go away again. It seems someone is pulling his puppet strings. Maher is now a communist except for the wealth distribution.
There’s a need for someone on the left but it’s not Maher.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/08/jack-welch-bill-maher-lindsey-graham-we-support-obamas-nsa/
Dear George,
I am sorry that, as a United States senator and presidential candidate, I was critical of you about so many things I now, myself, am doing.
I am sorry about saying Guantanamo would be closed immediately and it was a blight on America. It is still wide open for business.
I am sorry for criticizing you and your administration for intrusions on American’s privacy and invasions into personal liberties. My NSA took what you did and put it on steroids.
I am sorry for criticizing the way you waged the war on terror. I have personally approved a number of drone strikes and actually have said it is OK to kill an American on foreign soil without due process. I know you are probably saying, “Aren’t you the expert on the Constitution?” but, as you know, being president is hard work.
And, by the way, between you and me, I know your vice president was probably upset my administration got Osama Bin Laden (I get the sense he might have some anger issues and I sure wish he would have kept quiet like you have), but it was really thanks to you and my continuation of your national security policies.
I am sorry for all my overheated rhetoric about your administration not being transparent and saying my administration would be the most transparent in history and most open to the media. Boy, was I off on that one, and certain reporters at the Associated Press and Fox News don’t seem to understand why we might put them under secret scrutiny.
… You can take heart that, even though I am a Democrat, I decided to keep going nearly all your vision and plans on national security and even take it to all-new levels.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
Awesome!
Bush I & II are still scum tho, too.
Here is the imagined letter on the web by
Matthew Dowd.
June 8, 2013
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/imagined-letter-president-obama-president-bush/story?id=19350973#.UbSyKOdtiJ0
A lot of words to say that W handed the football off to BO and BO ran with it unimpeded.