Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:02 PM
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I didn't think I'd ever do this, but I've pulled the content of this post. I wasn't able to phrase it in the way I intended - as a reminder to maintain critical thought during election time. Instead, it almost came across as a weird comparison between Barack Obama and one of the more heinous leaders in human history, a distortion that I'll choose not to propagate.
Brian Rinaldi wrote on 08/04/08 10:14 PM
Not sure how that means much. Those short phrases taken so completely out of context could be from any politician and its part of a coordinated smear campaign in my opinion (notice how many political sites/blog have comments with this?) .
Mike Rankin wrote on 08/04/08 11:31 PM
My first guess would have been Marx or Lennin. I've been following Barak Obama pretty closely (as much as I can stand), and I don't recall him saying anything quite as communist as those quotes. No matter how much they might want to, I doubt even the Democrats would put public interests AHEAD of personal interests. You'd have Rush Limbaugh peering under rocks looking for commies everywhere.
Joe Rinehart wrote on 08/05/08 6:49 AM
Sorry guys - rereading this morning, this post just came out all wrong. I have to admit I was suckered in to what I was reading (it wasn't a chain e-mail, rather an article in a fairly respectable online magazine), and it was its a startling reminder to me to think instead of accept that I wanted to pass along.
Joe Rinehart wrote on 08/05/08 7:02 AM
@Mike - Bob Barr will probably be my vote as well. I typically vote Libertarian, although here in NC it feels a bit like tossing my vote away. I've just spent a while reading Barr's web site, and his platform looks to be the best fit for me, from money policy to keeping laws out of marriage.
Scott Stroz wrote on 08/05/08 7:20 AM
Can someone please explain why, when a politician changes their mind on an issue, it's called 'flip-flopping' and it always has a negative connotation?
Joe Rinehart wrote on 08/05/08 8:11 AM
Eh, Scott, I think it's just a cheap way to punch another person's credibility in the gut.
marc wrote on 08/04/08 10:13 PM
c'mon, joe. You're better than that. You know that those quotes were cobbled together to evoke precisely the reaction you had.trying to tie obama to hitler is pretty fucking sick. it'd be equally sick if someone did the same thing to mccain's policies.
my response when reading your post, if i were asked "who said this?", was "some f**kface who wanted me to say [insert politician here] but would pull out some historical tyrant".
it's cheap, it's typical, it's designed to manipulate, and it's beneath smart, informed people. I hope dumb shit like this isn't putting you in you rock-and-a-hard-place mentality, because shit like this is the equivalent of political v1agrA spam.