tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post4923662685732093721..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Obama’s Questionable Ad StrategyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-33423531340857840232012-02-29T18:30:36.641-05:002012-02-29T18:30:36.641-05:00D. Bandler, at least you are consistent: You batte...D. Bandler, at least you are consistent: You batted, here, nearly 1,000, by my reckoning, in that every single one of your sentences—excepting perhaps (and only perhaps) the last—contains a baseless assertion. (And whether the last is baseless is best decided by Ed, who all too obviously can certainly speak for himself: but, the last time I checked—in a previous reply to you—he made it very plain that he considered both Islam and Christianity to be equally threatening, with which estimate I generally agree; except I think the latter might be at least slightly more threatening than Islam, to what remains of America, owing to its greater acceptance and long-standing entrenchment in American culture and politics. It is virtually taken for granted now, by both the Left and of course the Right, and most in-between, that Christianity ought to have some place at the political table. We haggle, now, only over the size of the placemat.)<br /><br />Your first two sentences, and your fifth, of course merit no reply.<br /><br />But your third sentence is interesting, and does merit rebuttal. Here, you imply that being a “milquetoast” obviates the threat one poses, as a politician. To see the folly of this misguided appraisal, one needs only to enumerate several of the more obvious milquetoasts who have recently finagled themselves into high political office, by virtue of a clueless American citizenry, and managed to wreak, during their tenures, untold havoc on what is left of America. To wit: Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. To this gallery of dimwits, I would also add the person of Ronald Reagan—who was far more of a milquetoast than most anyone seems to realize, and was probably more damaging to America, in his accommodation of religion, than any other president in U.S. history. (In fact, all four of the cited milquetoasts were devoted to Christianity, which devotion was hardly only coincidental to their shared character.)<br /><br />You appear to consider Christianity as a rather innocuous evil, compared with the depredations of Islam. In fact, it is no less potent as a religion—and is currently even more of a threat to America, as I noted above, precisely because the vast majority of the U.S. population has been conditioned to accept and accommodate it. But that is not so for Islamism (yet).jayeldeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-89153633751500779982012-02-28T23:45:47.505-05:002012-02-28T23:45:47.505-05:00Jayeldee,
You are unhinged. And you are exactly t...Jayeldee,<br /><br />You are unhinged. And you are exactly the type of "Objectivist" which legitimizes the term "Randroid". You are saying that a milquetoast like Santorum is more dangerous than the Leftist/Islam unholy alliance that the article I linked to represents. That is INSANE. <br /><br />You live in the Blue Pill world. Ed is starting to emerge from that and to understand that the greatest evil we face is Islam and the Left, not Conservatives. <br /><br />D. BandlerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-87240503810449584132012-02-28T17:59:47.084-05:002012-02-28T17:59:47.084-05:00I would suppose that most "O"-bloggers A...I would suppose that most "O"-bloggers ARE outraged at this. And they SHOULD be "screaming their heads off" at Santorum (if they aren't already)--who is way more of a would-be menace than these lackey airport screeners (who are only doing the bidding of their organizational superiors, so that they, the screeners, can safely retire to the south of France, or Florida). Santorum, on the contrary, has no one to answer to, at present, than himself--making his true colors all the more obvious.jayeldeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-20589955624862554542012-02-28T15:29:26.057-05:002012-02-28T15:29:26.057-05:00Ed,
Did you see this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk...Ed,<br /><br />Did you see this?<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106631/Fireman-Sam-creator-Dave-Jones-detained-branded-racist-burqa-joke-airport-security.html<br /><br />Why are Objectivist writers, bloggers, organizations not outraged at this? No but they'll scream their heads off at Rick Santorum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-78476920572025504872012-02-23T00:25:14.716-05:002012-02-23T00:25:14.716-05:00MSM, et al., gives this racist pandering a pass ow...MSM, et al., gives this racist pandering a pass owing to the entrenched notion of blacks as victims. (Which, being on the receiving end of stuff like this, they are, in a way!)<br /><br />It'll be interesting to know whether your intended post is accepted. I see your strategy, but I'm pessimistic.jayeldeenoreply@blogger.com