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Cary

(11,746 posts)
41. I don't understand the obsession with personalities
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 12:39 PM
Feb 2016

I understand it from "conservatives" who are 100% emotional and 0% logical. They are hate driven. They're not even sure what they hate, exactly. They just know it's "Liberal."

They have their empty bumper sticker slogan like "fiscal responsibility" and "limited government" but they have no idea what this means, and they accept garbage like "starve the beast" and tax cuts for billionaires.

But here we have some kind of strange attack on Bill Clinton's personality, like 30 years ago already. You're playing to the exact same gut level emotions as "conservatives," to what end? Because you like someone else's personality better?

The job of POTUS is just that, a job. We couldn't elect saints even if we wanted to. If you what to find fault in people who have done or will do the job you will either in fact or just some nonsense you perpetuate. It's a job. The idea is to find the person who will best do the job. In "conservatives" we do not and never will have a viable partner, because they are in extremis and 100% emotion.

What do we have in the radical left?

No. I could not imagine saying it non-sarcastically Sanity Claws Jan 2016 #1
Used by a friend it may mean something. Used by a politician it's a crock of shit platitude. CBGLuthier Jan 2016 #2
It usually means I understand. But if Bill is trying to tell jwirr Jan 2016 #3
Considering the source (the 1992 source that is), at best it's insincere tularetom Jan 2016 #4
It is a statement of empathy. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2016 #5
On the contrary SheenaR Feb 2016 #29
Is yelling I feel your pain at an AIDS activist really an expression of empathy from a Presidential merrily Feb 2016 #37
I only use it when I can relate it to mine own personal experience. SamKnause Jan 2016 #6
I know there are no words.. Fumesucker Jan 2016 #12
I agree with your point . TheFarS1de Feb 2016 #34
Mark of a good politician HassleCat Jan 2016 #7
How long will it be before Hillary says it? Fumesucker Jan 2016 #13
I don't think she will HassleCat Jan 2016 #15
I have never said it to anyone, but I don't find it offensive Glorfindel Jan 2016 #8
It's a sign of human empathy. Tho there are other tones of voice, I'm going with empathy... Hekate Jan 2016 #9
I'm personally convinced that universal health care would have saved my child Fumesucker Jan 2016 #11
As I already said, I go by personal history and other interactions. In your case... Hekate Feb 2016 #39
Most other times it is glib and insincere unless you have suffered the same thing. snagglepuss Jan 2016 #10
It's called having empathy. Beaverhausen Jan 2016 #14
Actually, that was sympathy and compassion loyalsister Feb 2016 #25
Context is everything. It can be cruel or empathetic Arazi Jan 2016 #16
Thank you.. Fumesucker Jan 2016 #17
It's better than saying that having to work 3 jobs is "fantastic" DefenseLawyer Feb 2016 #18
A high bar indeed Fumesucker Feb 2016 #19
THIS is your apology? NanceGreggs Feb 2016 #20
You might recall I apologized to you in the earlier thread, you continued to insult me Fumesucker Feb 2016 #22
That's not the point ... NanceGreggs Feb 2016 #23
I really didn't want to drag this all up again Fumesucker Feb 2016 #28
Fine. NanceGreggs Feb 2016 #31
Here is your hero proving your old opinion of her Fumesucker Feb 2016 #32
So you have no link ... NanceGreggs Feb 2016 #35
That is a response to said post. sheshe2 Feb 2016 #36
Fumesucker.... Hekate Feb 2016 #43
Maybe you shouldn't have started it, if you can't finish? Cary Feb 2016 #40
Nance... Hekate Feb 2016 #42
Thanks, Hekate. NanceGreggs Feb 2016 #44
If they would actually take my pain, that would be a nice thing. Live and Learn Feb 2016 #21
For the most part, I wouldn't trust anyone who said that. SMC22307 Feb 2016 #24
It depends aswanson Feb 2016 #26
Or experience Fumesucker Feb 2016 #33
I might say it over trivial matters. "My boss is such an asshole. He's making me work this weekend Ed Suspicious Feb 2016 #27
It would be offensive to me, jen63 Feb 2016 #30
Jury results. merrily Feb 2016 #38
I don't understand the obsession with personalities Cary Feb 2016 #41
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