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Some people are just delightful. Especially those who choose to be controversial for the sake of being controversial. For example, this guy is all about PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY(if only you could hear the booming conservative echo chamber around that word) and some other barely intelligible nonsense. He seems like he'd be nice to have at a party, but he'd have to be wearing a big red nose and big shoes.

Here's an example of non-controversial controversy:

All of a sudden, after we use to consider America to be a rational and balanced country... All of a sudden, it violates international conventions, cancels treaties, ignores the U.N., acts on its own accord, attacks nations, kills innocent people, and claims it has the right to do so - and all this is based on lies. These were lies from beginning to end, and we were not used to lying - not in policy, not in our discourse, and not in the media.

Hmmm . . . controversial. Well, actually, I'm going to have to say no. I think what he's actually hit on is an example of his own ignorance of what happened prior to the Bush presidency. That is, if he actually looks at the historical record, the real left was saying that Bill Clinton did pretty much the same crap that Bush has done, but generally was able to do so without looking so damn smug.

I promise you, if you take out your old copies of Zmag you'll find that they were pretty merciless on Clinton too. Of course, it's the conservative perception that everyone on the left thought that Clinton was hunky dory. That's because conservatives were too busy looking at semen stained dresses and eating their hearts out at Clinton's popularity during the '90s. It's amazing what a little politics will do to one's perception of history.

Again, the MSM (mainstream media, for those lefties who aren't accustomed to the retard conservative nomenclature) underserves vritually every group when reporting, not just you.

Where to Start?

What's so great about certain conservatives is the strength of their ideological blindness. One could easily say that a conservative is someone who will continually vote against their own interest for no apparent reason. When offered health care, they listen to rich conservatives tell them that the cost is too great for our country. When sold out to big business, they listen to [now wealthier] conservatives tell them the problem of environmental pollution will cost them their jobs (so they'd best shut it).

That said, it's definitely not all conservatives. Certainly, some of the greatest contributors to our country have been conservatives. No doubt about it. Hell, my parents are conservatives (well, fiscal, anyway).

Sadly, all it takes is one bad apple. Let's start with this Gem. I don't really want to contribute to his infamy, so I'll just link to his blog and you can decide for youself, but I'll pull a few choices phrases for you:

"I'm about like Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men." I have no respect for those who sleep under the blanket of freedom in which I provide and then question the manner in which I provide it."

Well, that's very interesting. It sounds like he'd prefer not to live in a Democracy at all! Last time I checked, the military did report to our government. Not to mention that Jack Nicholson's character was definitely not the model soldier. Well, some people don't really get movies (and often admire the anti-heros).

After that comment, he gets down on liberals for denegrating the service of others (YAWN):

" He has also never seen a second of conflict in his entire life, yet questions our veterans of this country who fight to keep him free. Liberals like [name deleted] are mentally disturbed, jealous, spineless and extremely cowardly."

This is a tired argument -- well, it's not really an argument at all, but, whatever. For starters, no one I've ever encountered has had much to say at all about our troops (other than that it's a hard job and it's a shame that it often falls to everyone but the sons and daughters of politicians and the rich). It's a real conservative sham to say what this guy is saying. Having read the person's blog who he is trashing, it's evident that the author of those comments need to do some soul searching of his own.

It's truly tragic because a person like this gives a bad name to all conservatives.