An honest conservative whom I've known for years on youtube admitted to me that the right wingers (including him) whom often accuse President Obama of many things (without proof of any of their outrageous claims about him or evidence just circular reasoning, lies, misinformation, fiction, conspiracy theories, logical fallacy's, no logic, hateful, evil thoughts about Obama with no basis in logic or reality, etc.) such as "being Anti-American, Muslim, Kenyan, hate filled, unpatriotic, not Christian, not American,, a Communist a Socialist, a Fascist, like Hitler, etc." and other such vitriolic filth, garbage and hate have, the ones he knows of which are dozens, never read any of Obama's books and have never done any research (or little if any) on him or his life nor any research or little on Kenyan culture, Muslim theology, customs or culture, American History and politics, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Liberal Ideology and History, Christian theology and History, The Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, etc.
They are racist in thinking that every black or bi-racial person looks angry all the time. They often repeat the same hateful (and sometimes) racist, bigoted, and ignorant filth without knowing why and can not answer why. Example: I've asked anti-Obama conservatives why they call him such names as the ones I've just posted above. None of them have ever really told me why (e.g. Why is President Obama Anti-American? Why is he Angry? Why... You get it) My conservative right wing friend finally broke down and told me that he's called President Obama all those names. Apart from some issues he disagrees on Obama with, he has no idea why him and others call Obama such hateful names and are so often mean spirited towards him for no reason or trivial reasons besides political ones. President Obama is just like any other Democrat and liberal ever elected President of the U.S.A. except for his skin color, being born into a newly incorporated state off the mainland USA and living in Indonesia as a child as well as family background (Americans often have complex family backgrounds with different nationalities marrying each other as well as interracial marriages and interfaith ones, sometimes a combination of the two taking place)
I would guess that racism comes into play and change i.e. progress in society as well as dealing with people who strongly are traditionalists, have never had any non-white friends, are uneducated on many issues in many areas of life and ignorant of reality as well Not to mention, again, racist, bigoted and hateful views of those different from them and the propaganda and rhetoric they read from extreme right wing websites, books and personality's on TV, the internet, print and radio which mainly runs and is fueled by fear and conspiracy theories and mainly lies and fiction about liberals and Democrats and those different from them.
Something to think about.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
More Proof That President Obama is an American
Such as this, which applies to Obama I would think:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;
(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property;
(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person;
(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States;
(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;
(f) a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States;
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person
(A) honorably serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, or
(B) employed by the United States Government or an international organization as defined in section 288 of title 22, may be included in order to satisfy the physical-presence requirement of this paragraph. This proviso shall be applicable to persons born on or after December 24, 1952, to the same extent as if it had become effective in its present form on that date; and
(h) a person born before noon (Eastern Standard Time) May 24, 1934, outside the limits and jurisdiction of the United States of an alien father and a mother who is a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, had resided in the United States.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Conservatives without Conscience
From the book Conservatives without Conscience:
"This section is largely based on a series of books by Bob Altemeyer: Right-Wing Authoritarianism (1981), Enemies of Freedom (1988), and The Authoritarian Specter (1996) (pp. 54-55):
Altemeyer's data provides additional information about the dispositions of right-wing authoritarians. Here are a few examples that provide further perspective. These have not been deliberately isolated as negative characteristics; rather, they are traits that authoritarians believe to be positive:
They travel in tight circles of like-minded people.
Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them rather than on their own critical judgment, which results in their beliefs being filled with inconsistencies.
They harbor numerous double standards and hypocrisies.They are hostile toward so many minorities they seem to be equal-opportunity bigots, yet they are generally unaware of their prejudices.
They see the world as a dangerous place, with society teetering on the brink of self-destruction from evil and violence, and when their fear conflates with their self-righteousness, they appoint themselves guardians of public morality, or God's Designated Hitters.
They think of themselves as far more moral and upstanding than others -- a self-deception aided by their religiosity (many are "born again") and their ability to "evaporate guilt" (such as by going to confession).
It is authoritarian followers who filled churches across the United States on "Justice Sunday" to lobby for right-wing judges in federal courts; who can be seen on C-Span seated at dinner tables, after paying ten times the cost of their meals, to listen to Bill Frist or Karl Rove give a speech at the Federalist Society; who are the well-scrubbed young people who join college Republican clubs, whose parents or grandparents are delegates at GOP presidential conventions. By and large these Americans have never been troubled by the execution of a prisoner, and there has never been a war in which the United States engaged that they did not support."
See here:
http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/books/dean-conservatives.php
"This section is largely based on a series of books by Bob Altemeyer: Right-Wing Authoritarianism (1981), Enemies of Freedom (1988), and The Authoritarian Specter (1996) (pp. 54-55):
Altemeyer's data provides additional information about the dispositions of right-wing authoritarians. Here are a few examples that provide further perspective. These have not been deliberately isolated as negative characteristics; rather, they are traits that authoritarians believe to be positive:
They travel in tight circles of like-minded people.
Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them rather than on their own critical judgment, which results in their beliefs being filled with inconsistencies.
They harbor numerous double standards and hypocrisies.They are hostile toward so many minorities they seem to be equal-opportunity bigots, yet they are generally unaware of their prejudices.
They see the world as a dangerous place, with society teetering on the brink of self-destruction from evil and violence, and when their fear conflates with their self-righteousness, they appoint themselves guardians of public morality, or God's Designated Hitters.
They think of themselves as far more moral and upstanding than others -- a self-deception aided by their religiosity (many are "born again") and their ability to "evaporate guilt" (such as by going to confession).
It is authoritarian followers who filled churches across the United States on "Justice Sunday" to lobby for right-wing judges in federal courts; who can be seen on C-Span seated at dinner tables, after paying ten times the cost of their meals, to listen to Bill Frist or Karl Rove give a speech at the Federalist Society; who are the well-scrubbed young people who join college Republican clubs, whose parents or grandparents are delegates at GOP presidential conventions. By and large these Americans have never been troubled by the execution of a prisoner, and there has never been a war in which the United States engaged that they did not support."
See here:
http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/books/dean-conservatives.php
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Happy 95th Birthday JFK !
Add a great quote I found via Tumblr:
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago today. (via think-progress)
Well said Jack.
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago today. (via think-progress)
Well said Jack.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Happy Memorial Day 2012
God bless all of our troops and keep them safe.
“Heroism is latent in every human soul. However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all self-denials; privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself ? For some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”| — | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain |
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