You do know that this planet has experienced evils beyond just slavery related things right? I'm baffled that these are the first two items you can name.
The national average of african american voters that voted for Obama was around 95% so he was only mildly exaggerating, though obviously there is much more variation between individual states. That said, this seems like much ado about nothing. They didn't do anything illegal and from a moral perspective, I can't really see why this is any better or worse than the myriad of questionable campaign tactics employed by both parties. Besides, I doubt that any significant number of people dumb enough to be fooled by such a cheap trick would even bother to vote, especially in lower level elections.
So much failed attempt at deflection in this thread. It's laughable. Between the Christie scandal, Michael Grimm's death threats, and these shenanigans, the current Republican party is truly being exposed as a bunch of bullying con-artists.
? Mine were quite civil. A hilarious joke about website construction and the obvious comment that Obama and team are trying to deflect from the job loss bomb that leaked earlier this week.
tex got schooled so hard about the good-news CBO report that he had to find another thread to lie about it in.
Self-interested immorality posing as the defender of traditional moral values in a digital world where the real and the fake are indistinguishable? Seems evil, even antiChrist-like.
No kidding but don't single him (he is a total troll anyway and can occasionally be hilarious) out, many posters make me want to stop reading the D&D. Why can't this just be a bad thing for Republicans instead of crying "fake scandal" or a "distraction from obamacare"? Why can't people just look a bad thing that someone in their party did and say "that was messed up, that doesn't need to happen"? These websites are clear attempts to spread misinformation through sleazy practices. Voter intimidation (yes the Black Panthers) and voting fraud at any level are also despicable.
revisionist history alert! Nope, I let the non-partisan CBO do the talking. Disincentive to work, 2.5 million equivalent jobs lost. next.
Of course, it wasn't 2.5 million jobs lost, but keep lying, I'm certain that deception is the best tactic for the Republicans over the next few years.
Yes, like I said it was an exaggeration but not anything that bad, so I wouldn't accuse him of lying or even being inaccurate on that account.
Any thread where conservatives are claiming victory or trying to make a point by showing they have no understanding of the CBO report, and even when shown the mistake they were making, just get louder about trumpeting it, then it's a victory for those on the opposite side of the issue. Just let them keep showing they have no clue what the CBO report actually said. It's hilarious.
You bring up a good point that this could backfire on the GOP but dirty tricks like this aren't new and have been a part of US elections since the 19th C. Doing it with websites is just the latest wrinkle. Even if this does spectacularly backfire I doubt it will be the last we will see of these type of tactics.
I'm just surprise that they openly and proudly claim such tactics. Dirty tactics (way more than this) happens but usually unknown to the general public and so the Party isn't usually automatically associated with such. But this is a new one. Weird that they don't care about how this is viewed or maybe they do and believe this is viewed as very smart and clever or not that big of a deal. I don't know.
