I keep hearing from RWers that President Obama is or wants to take away their rights
Is it the right to be a burden on the state if they don't want to buy insurance?
Seriously, does anyone know what they are talking about?
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The latest I heard was on my sister's FB wall. It starts out with a call for women to vote...
Me: When you get a chance you should watch Iron Jawed Angels. Knowing what they went through really makes you think.
Sister: I've seeen it!!! Those ladies went on a hunger strike among other things... if nothing else, our vote can stand just to honor those divine courageous women!!!
Me: I talked to a woman who was probably in her 70s. when I was waiting to vote one day. She told me that she never saw her mother so mad as when she told her she didn't vote. Her mother knew what it meant to not have that right.
Enter Crazy uncle: DON'T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN THE GOVT. TROUNCES ALL OVER OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ?
Sister (you go girl!): Yes I do Jim 
If you know that so well why would you be voting for the candidate that intends to deny rights to certain people, admittedly??? If you deserve your rights, doesn't everyone??? Hmmm. Which mainstream media outlet do you watch?
Crazy Uncle: THE ONE THAT THINKS PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUPPORT THE ONES WHO WON'T . THE ONE WHO THINKS THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THOSE WHO DEFEND IT SHOULD BE RESPECTED . THE ONE WHO KNOWS THAT HUSSEIN OBAMA DOES NEITHER . THE ONE WHO KNOWS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BOW AND APOLOGIZE TO MUSLIM TERRORISTS . LAST , BUT NOT LEAST , THE ONES WHO QUESTION HIS COWARDICE HANDLING OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACK ON AMERICAN CITIZENS .
Me: Mainstream?
Crazy uncle: MY STREAM --- KIND OF AN AMERICAN STEAM
Me: Neutral stream? MSNBC kind of reaffirms many of my biases. FOX reaffirms that of some other people. Both are more opinion than facts. CNN is more neutral.
He's a little too hysterical for me to ask him any kind of serious question. lol
Faux News tells lies, and MSNBC does not. Perhaps they both have a bias, but they aren't the same thing.
Understandable, and I didn't think you were doing this, but MANY people (not on DU) say "both sides do it" and "MSNBC is just as bad, but on the other side" and I get sick of hearing it! It's just not true...I feel that if anything, MSNBC is scrupulous about showing proof of the things they cite, and giving legitimate sources for the things they report.
And yeah, I (clearly) have a bias, too! But a well-founded one.
That's a keeper! 
These creatures are loons.
Just call this for them:
To legally and lawfully require CAR insurance,but somehow the notion that health insurance be legally required/provided is nothing short of blasphemy......Questionable priorities?.....I just can't grasp how one is good and the other,MUCH BETTER one,is so bad.......
When I hear it from a white man, who has never been denied his business permit, lives in a nice house, while his small business keeps him comfortable but not actually wealthy. His rights have never been challenged.
Maybe what he's talking about is his "right" to be as wealthy as romney. Which would be a "right" to be born into generations of wealth and have opportunities to be a ruthless venture capitalist. Who knows. 
