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Anyone who calls for the assassination of an American president because they disagree with his ideology is a piece of human garbage

One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.

So, ya might ask, what did Wapo have to say?:

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

I never quite know whether Moore is as ignorant as he looks, or even if that would be humanly possible.

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Let me repeat their last bit there... That’s true as far as it goes Why did they feel the need to continue from there I have no idea.

Probably because it only paints a partial picture. They inherited a "poor economy" compared to that of the '90s but it was a growing economy compared to the situation in early 2009. Our shitty 2% growth would be the envy of many other developed nations.

Okay, let's quibble. When someone engages in political speech, as opposed to a scientific explanation or a philosophical discourse, it isn't held to the same standards of accuracy and proof. I accept that. But I would think that you could accept that such claims invite further scrutiny. If a politician wishes to avoid risk of looking inaccurate or dishonest after having been fact-checked he either needs to provide a hell of a lot more context in which to frame his assertions or else he needs to restrict himself to making more generalized statements about his intentions and beliefs. It's good to dispute "facts" because it focuses attention on the veracity of the statements and, more importantly, on the setting in which they must be interpreted.

The issue was that he used it for every single speech. Without it his "uh"s became distracting. It appeared that he was incapable of giving a speech without it.

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Anyone who calls for the assassination of an American president because they disagree with his ideology is a piece of human garbage

That's not the reason though, because Trump has no ideology to speak of. No, I just think he is the enemy of the American people (and of mankind as well, for good measure), and as such he should be disposed of. I don't really care about the means, e.g. if you guys just impeach him that's fine too.

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The issue was that he used it for every single speech. Without it his "uh"s became distracting. It appeared that he was incapable of giving a speech without it.

Obama's allegedly distracting "uh" vs. Trump's long-winded convoluted word salads that reporters throughout the world find nearly impossible to translate ....

which of the two is more egregious?

Blatham provides as much witty personal content as he does post from the press.
However, nobody here writes like ELmore Leonard. Many try to sound like faculty, others try to sound like Delta blacks, and others just try to vent.

You and blatham sound pretty much the same, with the exception that you hqve almost as many typos as I.

I really think blatham is about as close to a professional newswriter as we have.Most of the Trumpies dont like him cause hes good at his craft. (Obviously hes gotten you pissed)
WHY wont Trump go to the correspondents dinner??

However, nobody here writes like ELmore Leonard.

France is safe from Radical Islamic Terrorism, right?

. But rest assured that we doing what we can to identify and stop these threats.

I think it's perfectly rational to be concerned by this guy. It would IMO be irrational to have no concern at all, when Trump is totally unpredictale, behaves as a bad tempered brat whenever he's got a chance, treats the press as the enemy of the people, and makes buddy-body with Putin. Your country has more weaponry than the rest of the world combined, so when you play with fascism, the rest of the world gets understandably nervous.

Then there is climate change. This guy rolled back all the progress achieved during Obama, making sure my and your grand kids will live on a pretty hellish planet.

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France is safe from Radical Islamic Terrorism, right?

We haven't been hit as hard as the US yet, and statistically speaking the risk is infinitesimal but not equal to zero. But rest assured that we doing what we can to identify and stop these threats.

Trump broke the Dow. It soared to an all-time high this morning. What do you make of that?

Approval of his speech: 76%

Seems like only hard core Hillary-ites panned him.