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Originally Posted by Gaolee
As a person who opposed the Iraq invasion from the outset, I have seen far worse and far worse recently. Obama supporters who post online don't hold a candle to the fascist pricks who threatened me and my family when we didn't toe the line in 2002. Sorry, but YOU FAIL!
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I'm curious. What position do you hold that would have subjected you to threats from "fascist pricks"?
Or did you visibly protest the war? If so, that's your right to do that...and PHYSICAL THREATS against you or your family are CRIMINAL ACTS, and not excusable. And how did your "family" not "toe the line"?
I'm curious how it applies here? Because it obviously has had an effect on you.
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Originally Posted by Gaolee
As far as the military supporting Obama, they tend to vote Republican. The military is the most conservative organization in the country. The military, any military, is a conservative, heirarchical organization by nature, and necessarily so. As a result, people who gravitate toward the military will also gravitate to a heirarchical political party like the Republicans. It doesn't bother me one way or another, it just is.
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Okay..I can see your reasoning there. But doesn't it seem like that a person responsible for ultimately being in control of that "conservative organization" at least understand the views of that organization?
It is funny you mention that the military is a "conservative" organization. By the nature of your posts, I would assume (again I could be wrong) that you do NOT consider yourself "conservative"...is this correct?
So basically your description of the military as a whole, describes and organization that is a NECESSARY part of this country. Something that we have to maintain to be an independent nation, but the members of that organization, who are all VOLUNTEER, happen to be a "conservative" organization in your opinion?
Isn't it strange how "conservatives" are painted as bad for this country, but yet...when blood has to be shed for this country, it seems to be the predominant nature of that organization (by your own words) is "conservative".
Funny..not a whole lot of "non-conservatives" willing to put their life on the line for the country that creates the politics they so hotly debate...
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Originally Posted by Gaolee
And, if presidential elections were more than a dumbass popularity contest, dumb'ya would have stayed in Texas where he couldn't have done near the damage he has done. McCain would have been the Republican nominee in 2000.
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You are probably correct. Again..tread very lightly where you "assume" that because someone doesn't agree with your candidate / position, that they automatically support the opposite. Just because someone doesn't agree with Obama's beliefs, and doesn't want to vote for him, doesn't automatically make him / her a Bush or McCain fan.
One of my favorite quotes from my time in the service...
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups..."