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Originally Posted by bomelia
Good point Tommy. But to the Conservative's detriment, liberals openly wish ill well on their opponents and cry foul when anything close to bashing from the other side of the aisle occurs. And rarely do conservatives retaliate with hopes if ill will to the other side. Being good means you finish last in the short run but first in the long run.
Say what you want about Bush, but your will NEVER hear him yelling from some stage that "Obama Lied!"
Mike
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Mike, your heart's in the right place but unfortunately the negative behaviors that you lament exist on both sides of the aisle. You see them yourself but they just don't register in the same way.
Without even looking too far, here are a few quotes from a couple of threads on Ted Kennedy's initial seizure and his subsequent death. And this is only the mild stuff from the nice folks here on CC
. To you credit, you did comment on the ill will, though not as passionately as you do in this case:
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Originally Posted by bomelia
Man, yoose guys are a tough crowd!
Mike
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Here are some of the comments that prompted your remark:
Can't wait for the "Captain of the Chappaquiddick Rescue Squad" to stroke out.
That old "fat A**" is finally getting his payback for all the crap he's done in his privileged life.
The ONLY reason that SOB didn't die is GOD does not want him either! Worthless, waste of skin!
It was around mid-afternoon,it had way earlier been determined the sorry SOB was going to live and be just fine
Time to hasten their departure from this world if you ask me.
I've Mother F***ed him for 30 + years.And he deserves every word of it.I just hope that on his slide down to hell he moves just slow enough for Mary Jo to kick him square in the nuts.
Perhaps just pouring salt on that "Slug" will make him just go away in a mass of foam.
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Ted Kennedy has passed away.
So what ?? 1 less scum sucking murdering a-hole.
Actually, he is a: LIBERAL scum sucking murdering a-hole.
So the " Hero of Chappaquiddick " has gone to his rewards .
etc, etc, etc.
I could post just as many mean spirtited quotes directed at Bush, Obama, Cheney, the Clintons and Jimmy Carter. The point is both "sides" do it, and trying to establish otherwise is just plain wrong.
I didn't put these up to agree or disagree with the sentiments expressed, or to criticise the original posters; but only to show that the same crap goes on in both camps and a set of political beliefs or opinions does not make one person any more or less a moral, ethical human being than the other.
Disagreement on issues is inevitable, but the drive to dehumanize and paint the other side as evil, immoral and unethical is just a side effect of the two major party political system that has people playing into the hands of vote-hungry politicians by reducing analysis of their political worthiness to a tribal "us vs. them" orgy of emotional dogmatism.
The ugly, unpalatable truth is that the people who have been conditioned to despise each other because of political loyalties just ain't all that different from one another at all.
