An experiment to see if your republican friends are truly reasonable...ask them this:

[Demonaut]

but preface it by saying to them listen to the whole proposition from start to finish and consider the whole and not just the beginning.

"Obama is the greatest president of the United States in office right now" " would you not agree?"

You would have to press them to answer.


to see if they are listening but more if emotion overrides logic

stupid "grants tomb" joke I know.

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[edgineered]

1. Maybe next week, still recovering from picking rwnj up at airport last night.

He is still pressing me to explain why I was waiting for him on the arrivals level; his plane already landed and he wanted to depart the airport and go home - that's why I was there to pick him up. I should have been waiting on the departure level. (He's a Carson supporter)

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Had to mull that over. I see what you are doing

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

3. And if they ask if GW was the greatest potus in office in 2003? [nt]

[Demonaut]

5. if your'e reasonable you would have to agree

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. LOL ... You could ask this of DU and get a quick unreasonable rating ...

NO ONE ... listens to the complete proposition.

Thank you Cable News and X-Box.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Seems to me he just did. I didn't see any objectionable answers.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

6. This is stupid.

There are plenty of ways to criticize Obama legitimately. I'd vote for an Obama third term, but stating the choices like that is idiotic.

[Demonaut]

11. no question it is but it's meant to be more to test of those that react emotionally versus logically

those logical obviously would either laugh or think you're a an idiot..which you would have to recover from but
spittle spewing Obama haters would hear only the first part and react accordingly with anger

[Marrah_G]

8. I have one republican friend, he would look at me funny for asking such a stupid question

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

9. I agree,

my conservative friends would probably look at me like I was stupid and ask me when we had more than one potus at the same time or say he's the only potus currently. They would never say he was the greatest.

[hfojvt]

10. that's an unreasonable statement though

Would YOU have agreed with that when Bush was in office?

I am pretty sure that I would NOT have.

In fact, I KNOW it, because I had an EGD in 2005 and when I woke up from surgery they asked me "who is President of the United States?" A question to see if my brain was working after anesthesia. Barely awake though I was, I was NOT gonna say George W. Bush. Instead I had to decide "Gore or Kerry?"

Well, if there was any justice in the universe, Al Gore would have been re-elected to a second term by 2005. So I said "I think it's Al Gore"

There's a funny thing about politics these days. Back when Bush was President, I was reading things like - a blog called "the daily outrage" and columns by Ted Rall and articles on Counterpunch and the Top 10 conservative idiots.

All of those sources were daily telling me that Bush was a terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad President and that he should be shipped to Australia, preferably in leg irons.

NOW, though, many conservatives are getting told daily by a variety of sources that Obama is a terrible, horrible, awful, no good very bad President.

Seems to me that there is an industry on both sides, dedicated to stirring people up - that's how they make their living. Rile up those viewers and readers so they watch your show, so the click on your articles.

I know the tendency here is to have the firm belief that our attacks our accurate while theirs are ginned up, and I often get slammed for this (and so does Somerby) but some times our own side is spewing out a bunch of crap and spin and hype and it seems to me - they OUGHT to know better.

Their integrity is often suspect. I feel like Diogenes with his barrel and his lantern, searching for an honest journalist. Futile, since there's no money in honesty.

Truth sells, but who's buying?