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In reply to the discussion: Noam Chomsky blasts Obama: He has no moral center [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)28. Anyone, ANYONE, who criticizes our leader is a fool
Chomsky simply does not understand hyper-dimentional chess played on the astral plane of fractal trans-reality.
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Hang on, I must be missing something here, this is the guy us and Chomski were waiting for
buddybrown
Jan 2013
#153
And he was correct then as well. Right and wrong are real measures and one's capacity
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#32
Do you have a graphic, or are you wasting the few posts you will get here on DU?
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#40
I accept you point as true on its own terms. I'm not here to argue against it. I just really
patrice
Jan 2013
#94
Thanks very much for your thoughtful reply. I can see that, like me, you don't think any of this is
patrice
Jan 2013
#99
Your logic is easily refuted by simply reversing its terms. Consider the following:
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2013
#110
Thank goodness for people like Noam Chomsky who aren't afraid to state the obvious.
limpyhobbler
Jan 2013
#6
Yes, it is called "fucked up, manipulative cherry picking" where I come from. nt
Bonobo
Jan 2013
#39
Being a sociopath is pretty much a requirement to want to be the President.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#33
What a nasty thing to say about your fellow DUers. You just don't respect us at all, do you?
DevonRex
Jan 2013
#133
Pedantic? I'll take that any day over the trash talk, curse-filled bitterness you spill.
Bonobo
Jan 2013
#175
No, he's just another fraudster who says stuff to get himself attention rather
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#56
"put Osama bin Laden in the same category as Robert Kennedy Jr" Why in God's green
Number23
Jan 2013
#102
What's up with this? That's not analysis, it's more like rumor without foundation. Disappointed.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#88
I have listened to him for years. Maybe he's slowing down. Or maybe I didn't notice this.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#105
"Fraudsters like Chomsky" - I'm surprised I had not yet put you on Ignore. But there's
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2013
#112
Funny thing about that. If you listen to the video Freshwest posted above, you realize the 800 pound
patrice
Jan 2013
#96
Indeed. Apparently, the most salient point about these women is that they are "African American."
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#125
Is the statement supposed to be more powerful coming from "disappointed black....
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#103
Ah, but you see, to Obama's defenders, the dead and wounded aren't 'civilians' but rather
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2013
#114
And some of us know that perfection doesn't exist but expect a little more
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#172
You're muttering angrily while hunched over a can of reheated Campbell's soup, aren't you? nt
Bonobo
Jan 2013
#177
HA!! + a million. It must be bad when something this popcorn-drenched gets a whopping 18 recs
Number23
Jan 2013
#188
There is such a thing as distinguishing between policy-based critique and
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#121
Sorry, but I do have to wonder about someone who thinks that keeping the Afghan war going
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#126
This little anecdote reeks of bullshit. He had to mention their race to give it credibility?
DevonRex
Jan 2013
#131
He lied in saying it. He used fictitious "African American activists" to smear Obama
DevonRex
Jan 2013
#138
I would have been just fine with a drone strike to Tora Bora and number of other targets after 9/11.
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#142
Principles can be ANYTHING, e.g. End Times, so some people base their "morality" on the facts
patrice
Jan 2013
#157
The morality of politicians is always questionable. Centrist politicians even more so.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2013
#136
well,obviously that is true. But if he did, he would never have been elected President of the United
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2013
#147
but we don't live in a world without power hierarchies and we do not know if such a world is possible
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2013
#183