Thread: Bullet holes in Obama T-Shirt

Originally Posted by Blah

Using political partisanship to interpret behavior is just another way of saying "I'll just go ahead and be insisting on whatever the worst motivation I possibly can applies to everything you do".

Isn't that pretty much what we do here daily on both sides because we believe partisanship is at the root of most problems?
(the trick is to be persuasive & that's a decision the reader makes, not the debater)

Originally Posted by Blah

Yea...



I don't think that's why people do it, but it is the final outcome.

Then explain the why of it, @Blah . I am interested to hear what you think.

Originally Posted by tubig

Ahhhhhh, so prosecutorial decisions should now be delegated to police? Talk about a reversal of constitutional due process. This is the "why" of how close America is to being a police state under the r/w.

They're the ones who conducted the investigation. Who else would make a prosecutorial decision?

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

Nah, they didn't do anything wrong. If you were target shooting and somebody put an Obama t-shirt up at the target you would shoot it too. I know I would, it's meaningless.

Maybe a Justin Bieber t-shirt.

Originally Posted by bonncaruso

Then explain the why of it, @Blah . I am interested to hear what you think.

Because it's a way of attacking the root of the argument. A poison tree bears bitter fruit. If you can successfully paint your opponent as a person of bad will, then that invalidates anything they say.

Originally Posted by Blah

Just a guess but people can get caught up in the political rhetoric they hear from the media and members of their party, both being sources that tend to focus an the dramatic. If you are inundated every day with cries that "those other people are ruing the country with their ignorance" (because they have different opinions and values) people become polarized, angry, and contentious.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. As I have written to Macduff and others, my opponent is not the enemy. He is merely my opponent.

Originally Posted by Macduff

Because it's a way of attacking the root of the argument. A poison tree bears bitter fruit. If you can successfully paint your opponent as a person of bad will, then that invalidates anything they say.

Indeed. See: Tea Party vs. Obama
See: Gary Cass vs. Obama
See: GOP vs. Obama
See: Orly Taitz vs. Obama

Oh, it is a long list, here...