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Country First

by David Sirota

Let's say that you enjoyed watching last week's Republican National Convention on television.

Let's say you drank in the almost uniformly white faces and the regimented revivalism, you clapped when speakers belittled Barack Obama's work organizing impoverished communities, indeed, you cheered with Rudy Giuliani's zinger, "Drill, baby, drill!"

Let's further stipulate that you were not at all discomfited by the convention's incessant "Country First" mantra that ...

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Posted by: rueben
Comment: #1
Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:33 PM

There's not a single paragraph in Sirota's vacuuous column that doesn't contain a gross distortion or outright lie. From the complete misrepresentation of McCain's exhortation of "country first" to misquoting and misrepresenting the words of Barry Goldwater, this column is a steaming pile of manure worthy of a half-wit, brainwashed Josef Goebbels (National Socialist Party). When McCain said, "Country first", he said that in the context of castigating those, including Republicans, who put personal and party power and position first. Sirota's attempt to represent this as meaning that one must put the Republican party first is as dishonest as it is conceptually absurd. Sirota's representation of Barry Goldwater's words is an outright lie! Goldwater did NOT simply say, extremism is "no vice", as Sirota so dishonestly put it. Nor did Goldwater suggest anything that compares even remotely to Islamo-Fascism and terrorism, as Sirota so slanderously wrote. Barry Goldwater said exactly, "...I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" This is hardly somthing that can be compared to driving airliners into buildings full of innocent non-combatants or burying women up to their waists and stoning them to death for winking at a strange man, or other such 'transgressions'. In case Sirota and similarly afflicted boobs don't know it, the money we spend defending this nation is Constutionally mandated. The things for which Sirota thinks is that money is "needed at home" are NOT Constutionally mandated, and in fact are usually in direct violation of the Constitution, especially the Tenth Amendment. We are NOT refereeing a civil war, as Sirota and other typical socialist twits like to say about Iraq. Iraq is NOT a separate war. It is just one strategic front in a wider war against a murderous, primitive, worldwide movement to destroy modern civilization in favor of a world Islamic Caliphate. In Iraq, our valorous fighting men and women are close to the completion of securing a nation from a hostile, world supporter of terrorism into a friendly nation. And yes, despite not finding them at the moment of the invasion, Iraq DID have WMD, and we DID recently find and secure 500 kilograms of enriched uranium designated for Saddam's weapon development program. Now I understand that Sirota is a socialist, and that socialism is a complete failure and the most murderous ideology in history (over 200 million dead thanks to socialism in all its forms), and that Sirota cannot promote his ideology without lying. But Sirota must be pretty stupid to come up with such easily demonstrable falsehoods! I could easily dissect and demonstrate the rest of the falacies and lies that comprise Sirota's column, but I have a real job, unlike Sirota, that I must get back to. And speaking of socialism, why does Sirota have to call himself "progressive"? Why can't he come out and call himself a Marxist, as he clearly is? Oh yeah, I just wrote why: because socialism is a lie. A very cruel and worthless lie!

Posted by: dgates
Comment: #2
Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:48 PM

Oh, brother! This is pitiful. At least not be so obvious when laying out your Democrat Talking Points. At least come across as putting some of your own thoughts into your reasoning behind why you hate Republicans.

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