PolitiFact posted a great guide to the seven key distortions in this year's campaign. Lots of barely-truths, half-truths, and outright lies running around out there, from both sides.
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Everything you know about the candidates is wrong
PolitiFact posted a great guide to the seven key distortions in this year's campaign. Lots of barely-truths, half-truths, and outright lies running around out there, from both sides.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
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Thanks Kensey! I heard something about this group on the radio the other day, but didn't catch enough of it to find the group or the article.
Clears up a lot of BS. I also really like the pants-on-fire category.
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I decided that I can not vote for anyone with a sign... that was put up around litter.
- How can these folks cover a littered hillside with signs and not clean up anything (do they really care about our community?).
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Looking for another quote on space, I found this from a 1936 letter:
“As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.”H.P. Lovecraft on Republicans
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bret,
Are you EVER going to actually participate in a discussion, or do you really just log on here to spam us with crap from other internet sites and leave?
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