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Thread #153553   Message #3597848
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
03-Feb-14 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's State of the Union Address, 2014
Subject: RE: BS: Obama's State of the Union Address, 2014
Well Akenaton, All you have to read of GfS's post is the part where he expects an honest man to be elected President. Honesty to the level that GfS expects would require omniscience, supernatural knowledge of every upcoming event untainted by optimism.

Do you it is possible to know every event in advance? Do you think it is possible to be "brutally honest" and be elected?

We know that we are choosing among politicians. We know that politicians tend to tell us what we want to hear. On the other hand I know that in President Obama's case, a lot of people took "Hope and Change" as a promise to end all war and give everyone a pet unicorn that pooped skittles. At the time I believe that GfS was insisting that there would be no such unicorns and that we would have to buy our own Skittles and we were saying "We know. But we think the other guy will be worse." Does anyone doubt that if McCain was president we'd have boots on the ground in Iran now? And Syria and Libya Not to mention 8 years under the shadow of the probability of the emergence of President Palin.

So, if he wants to, on this forum Mr GfS has every right to go ape shit and spread his hyperbolic, naive, nonsense all over the walls of these threads like a person in a padded cell with no access to ink he does not produce with his own body. What he does not have a right to do is say things like this. "and all you fuck-nuts ever talk about" but you know that and he knows that, so it seems rather pointless and futile to point it out. About as pointless and futile and railing about politicians being dishonest.