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Originally Posted by The Demon
If you don't have an answer to the rhetorical point that certain factions don't blame Obama but instead continue blaming the right, better to be silent or emphasize some other issue. Stop attempting to be a pseudointellectual.
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de nada. and by definition I am a psuedointellectual, this is gofuckyourself.
An Answer To The Rhetorical Points
to the extent that Bush and teh republicans are liable for the wars, they should be held responsible for them, and they will be, and are.
Republican base attempts to transfer that blame to obama are shallow and obvious, and except for the republican base, nobody takes them seriously (polls shouldn't be trusted, but polls do seem to agree on this).
to the extent that obama is continuing republican AND democratic policies of pro war, and continuing to fund these wars long after it's become clear they were insane mistakes at best,
he and democrats should and will be held liable for that, and they will, because substantial numbers like myself will never put a check next to obamas name for anything ever again.
Democrat base attempts to excuse obama for acting like a republican dickhead are disgusting to me personally, but are fundamentally no better or worse than what the republicans did, are doing, and will do.
so ultimately, it's about a draw on the asinine political and rhetorical behavior meter.
personally I blame obama more, because he campaigned in a way that took advantage of peoples hopes, lied, and betrayed everyone to the corporations. he was weak when we needed somebody willing to fight like hell.
but Bush started the war, it will always be Bush who started the war, and republican base attempts to rewrite history in their own minds is pathetic to watch.
that it's pathetic will not stop your side from doing it. that it's disgusting will not stop my side from doing it.
that means, as a rhetorical point as a whole, it's a null. no effect, a rhetorical dead end. thats why its popular, it's a useful distraction to trap an unskilled opponent.
because it's a dead end, I dont usually bother to address it, but what the hell, right, since we're buddies and all.
blah blah blah - one of the problems with a rhetorical dead end is that it's impossible to be original with it. the endless loop keeps out any new information.