AW, SNAP!

But seriously, well done, my friend. A perfectly crafted retort in a comment on a perfectly done cartoon.

Competition/Conflict breeds progress (to an extent), telling people to bugger off is actually anti-patriotic, because if we did not have democrat-republican conflict, we’d be something like an African country right about now (except Africa has a lot more historical culture than we do).

But too much of something is counterproductive too. “The Bureaucracy is expanding to meet the expanding needs of the Bureaucracy”.

Deephurting had reasons for what he believes. Do you?

Agreement with you is not a requirement for living in this country. That’s WHY this country is great, you fucking idiot.

Let me remind you of what the exact quote is: “The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” For this to be a true statement, the reforms need not contain provisions excluding illegal immigrants–the threshold for accuracy is satisfied by omitting provisions which specifically include illegal immigrants. I can see how that might not be good enough for you, but objectively speaking, you have to admit he was not lying.

Not that this matters here. The cartoon’s punch-line does not turn on Obama’s statement being factual or not. That merely adds an additional level of irony for those who find no falsehood in it. Instead, it turns on the irony of Joe Wilson and others sitting through 8 years of President Bush lying through his teeth about: the decay of the economy made worse by his policies, if not entirely caused by them; the poisoning of civil liberties, an act which threatens the rights and safety of both Americans and non-Americans; and the destruction of the lives of thousands of American servicemen and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians for no reason other than the personal enrichment of himself, and his war-profiteering pals.

Throughout all that, Joe Wilson and the rest of the GOP didn’t make a peep, except when shouting down those who questioned the President’s lies by calling them traitors and terrorists. Yet now that he perceives Obama as, at worst, bending the truth so he can pass something designed to heal people instead of kill them, that, that is what it takes to set off his moral alarms! Seriously. And we’re supposed to consider this some kind of courageous stand against corruption or something, a large number of people supporting it monetarily?? I must assume that these people fit into at least one of three categories, listed in order of decreasing size: Ignorance, stupidity, and evil.

I’m curious, Sean, while we’re on the subject of selfishness, does your opposition to illegal immigrants receiving healthcare coverage follow anything more than “FU GOT MINE”? Stop thinking with your id, and enjoy some food for the more undernourished parts of your brain: Healthcare is one of those things that, in benefitting the individual, also benefits the community. The more people in a given area are covered for preventative treatment, the more potential vectors for disease are likely to be eliminated before they have a chance of spreading all over the globe.

Let’s pretend you’re an infectious disease–shouldn’t take much imagination! As an infectious disease, you don’t discriminate between rich or poor, male or female, black, brown, red, yellow, or white. You don’t care if some guy is a Republican or a Democrat or a Fascist or a Communist, and you don’t distinguish between citizens, legal immigrants, or illegal immigrants. Everybody’s fair game, as far as you’re concerned, and you don’t infect people only up to the point that you reach a legislative boundary or a national border. Like the Bush Administration, you respect no law.

That’s why it’s better for everyone, including the wealthy, for more people to be covered. That’s how plagues are prevented, or at least mitigated.

Like King Midas, your selfishness and greed will result in your own undoing if left unchecked.

“I’m all for Obama trying to make the US more like Canada. Then Canada can talk to US using bigger words (maybe four even with syllables)!”

Move to Canada then, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

I am so jealous (in a nice way).

Take a look at this article speaking about how Obama is pushing to reinstate all of the unconstitutional Bush-era Patriot act legislation for warrantless spying on Americans..

http://newsofinterest.tv/neocon_globalist/2009_09_16_pp_wiretapping.php