You are ignoring the point. Rove and the Swift Boat Liars were not civil when they smeared people with the purpose of putting GWB into office. Can you answer the rest of my points or are you just going to continue posting inane cartoons?
Nope. I mean that snidely giggling at Coretta Scott King's life's work on the occasion of her death is repulsive.
Back that up. For as much as you moan and groan because people say you share common cause with the terrorists and hate Christians, you have a lot of nerve calling Bush a racist. Back it up with proof, Batman.
i wasn't aware that blaming bush for a hurricane was part of CSK's life's work. what was repulsive, and classless, was the turning of a funeral of one of the most important americans of the past 50 years into yet another partisan mud slinging fest. no one is denying the causes she fought for, it's just too bad the current democratic party has zero ideas about how to honor that legacy themselves, so they've chosen to sling poo at a man who has done more to advance the cause of women and minorities in governement than any president in history.
Jorge, the evidence that CSK and GWB were on clearly different sides of every issue dear to King's fight is all over the place. Look for it yourself if you want to find it. (I'm sure you don't.) I'm not wasting time tracking down articles for you anymore. And I didn't call Bush a racist. I said he was one of CSK's opponents in her lifelong causes. Well known, documented fact. Look it up yourself. You've long since given up the right to argue with me. If CSK posted here you'd call her a libpig and post pics of crying babies. You're a troll, you should have been banned long ago and any time spent talking to you here is time wasted. I've wasted enough already. Bye.
Who has EVER blamed Bush for the hurricane? He got bashed for his "response" to the hurricane and to the poor, predominantly African-Americans who got the shaft while Bush was on vacation. No, what is "repulsive and classless" is the GOP smear machine trying to color the comments at the funeral by saying things like you just spouted. CSK lived through illegal surveillance. CSK lived during times of unjust war. CSK fought for the poverty stricken. The comments that the Bushies are so up in arms against all had to do with those three issues. A celebration of CSK's life without mention of those issues would have been empty. No, they did a mighty fine job. They brought up her life's work, compared it to current events, and spoke powerfully to the people in power, just as CSK would have done. Unfortunately, it seems to be ONLY women and minorities that are actually IN the government that Bush cares about. And even then, it is only the women and minorities that choose to fall into lock-step with his agenda. Ask minorities and women outside of government what Bush has done for them and all you will hear is the crickets chirping.
You must be daft if you think that the funeral (and by funeral I mean memorial service, which is traditionally less somber than a funeral) was a "partisan mud slinging fest". It was a couple of lines from Lowery and from Carter, which were a miniscule portion of their speeches and an even smaller portion of the overall speeches. Calling it a "partisan mud slinging fest" indicates that a) you didn't read the speeches or b) you're buying into propaganda from Drudge Report.
Nobody has ever blamed Bush for a hurricane, basso. This is why I don't talk to you anymore here either. You absolutely refuse to engage in an honest discussion. If you want my arguments for the rest of your silly post read the rest of the thread. If CSK posted here you'd say she loved Saddam. In this thread, more than virtually any other, I'm not responding to your crap.
The people who knew and loved her didn't feel that it was turned into a mudslinging fest. They obviously felt the speeches did honor her work, and showed that appreciation. That is ludicrous. Bush did more than passing the civil rights act of 1964? That is laughable. I'm sorry but I can't help it. That is one of the most assinine things I've seen on this board. Bush did more than passing the amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote? Appointing people to positions and shutting one of them out, while making a fool of him in front of the UN, and then glorifying a yes man (woman) isn't doing more for minorities or women than giving them the right to vote. Surely posted before you thought.
strawman: a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted [syn: straw man] You're the most dishonest poster on the forums, and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to pawn off your crappy logical fallacies on us and expecting us to fall for them.
this took all of two seconds: A long-time advocate for world peace, in 1957, King was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. King was vocal in her opposition to capital punishment and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, thus drawing criticism from conservative groups. She was also an advocate of women's rights, lesbian and gay rights and AIDS/HIV prevention. Her support for gay and lesbian rights, including same-sex marriage, sometimes put her in conflict with some members of her family including her daughter Bernice and her niece Alveda King. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King
It's all over the place, yet you can't find a single reference? Why not? ...yet another baseless claim from Batman Jones. zero cred
Did you not read the post directly above this one, which gives the proof to exactly what batman was saying? I won't laugh at it, because you may have been crafting your post while the other one was posted and you didn't see it. If not then it is pretty funnny.
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It can't be "another" baseless claim since there wasn't a first baseless claim. You might have us mixed up Jorge. It was you that said Bill White was Jesse Jackson's puppet and was circling the drain, not me. It was you that insisted repeatedly that Iraq not only had WMD's but that they'd been found, not me. It was you that said the illegal wiretapping was necessary because we'd tip off the terrorists when we served them warrants. It was you that said we didn't get warrants because they were too hard to get and also too easy to get. And on ad infinitum. You're the baseless claim guy. And it's not that I "can't" find a reference (read basically any story about what CSK stood for then read basically any story about what GWB stands for - there's your reference), it's that you're only on here to tell jokes and I don't think this CSK story is funny. That and I've learned my lesson where you're concerned. FranchiseBlade and others can keep talking to you like you're not here just to troll but I've done my time and I'm bored with it. There are stories all over the place detailing the fact that CSK and GWB were on opposite sides of any number of huge issues. thegary posted some pretty big ones for you. Who wants to bet Jorge goes poof in the face of thegary's post? Is it any wonder I'm not wasting the time anymore?
That's fine, Batman, feel free to call President Bush a racist without backing it up. There's no question that you are implying as much, despite your attempts at denying it. Just don't get upset when others call you a terrorist sympathizer or a Christian hater. Since you are so consistent with your arguments (lol), you ought to be able to comprehend this one. Pretty simple, really.
What did Clinton do, again? To be fair, Clinton didn't do that badly during his presidency. In fact, he didn't do much, at all. I liked the Funeral ref. regarding Bush. However, that is too fresh for any of you. So let me ask you this: Surely some of you thought Reagan did a good job. Or at least some of you respected him. At his funeral, all presenters discussed who he was, and what his life's work was about. Had Reagan died during Clinton's administration, and had I seen politicos getting up on stage and bashing Clinton, I would have been just as offended by that, as well.
Get bent, Jorge. You are a liar and a jerk and you're doing what you do best here -- trolling to try and piss me off. That part always works, since you're willing to do anything -- even including calling me a terrorist sympathizer and a Christian hater -- to accomplish it. Of course, when I do understandably get pissed about that kind of base slander, everybody here tells me I was a fool to take you seriously enough to get pissed off. Whatever. I say again, how you have not been banned is this site's greatest mystery. I never called Bush a racist. I said he was in opposition to everything CSK fought for. There's a clear difference and you know it. For the record, if I had to guess I would say I think Bush is probably a racist. I can't know for sure. He certainly legislates like one, but that isn't proof. He certainly sends those signals. I don't remember the exact details (someone here will) but the last two times he met with CSK to honor her husband, one time he went directly to sign anti-affirmative action legislation (or give an anti-AA speech or something) and the other time he went directly to appoint Pickering, controversial for his consistent rulings against Civil Rights, to the bench. Draw your own conclusions as to what sort of message he was trying to send. It kind of recalls the old maxim that not all Republicans are racists but all racists are Republicans. But that has nothing at all to do with any of this. Maybe you're simple enough to believe that all Coretta Scott King stood for was the elimination of racism. It wasn't. Read a book or something. Or hell, read the Reader's Digest capsule version thegary provided. Or just go poof like you do when you puff up your chest, demand backup, receive it, lose the argument and declare victory. Do whatever you want. I don't care.
