Comments on: What Would You Tell a Seven Year Old About America?

By: Jeff Cook

Jeff Cook — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:37:37 +0000

Your site isn’t independent or unconventional. It is full of assertions based on emotion that don’t meet the basic rules of evidence. I teach the rules of argument at a major university, I should know.

McCain’s experience is a logical fallacy. Name the positions that McCain has been right about and explain why.

McCain’s experience is simply another way of saying “he’s old, therefore he must have learned something.”

Looking at his positions, it is clear that he has flip flopped on a number of issues. He is clearly willing to take unpopular positions, but he is also clearly willing to change his positions (on evangelicals and immigration for instance) in order to further his ambition.

By: CKA in Red State USA

CKA in Red State USA — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:49:08 +0000

I stand corrected. Thanks. Best regards.

By: kmorrison33

kmorrison33 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:37:10 +0000

CKA, That wasn’t intended as an apology or excuse, just a recognition that I’m agreeing with one particular candidate’s position more than normally have in the past. The ‘sorry’ wasn’t for my views, but basically a recognition that he’s upset, and that he’s entitled to disagree with me. Also, to be fair I have to admit that I’m invested in a McCain win; and I’m invested not just because I don’t think Obama is qualified, but because I think McCain is supremely qualified.

I’m happy my site provides an independent and somewhat unconventional view, and am perfectly fine with people disagreeing with me. Good debate leads to better politics. Thanks for the comments.

By: CKA in Red State USA

CKA in Red State USA — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:14:55 +0000

Now there’s a cogent, succint, intelligible, enlightening response from an apparent Obama supporter, the response from cousinavi.

Notice, too, that he/she talks about being open minded and even that some perspectives demand belittlng–yet offers nothing other the pedestriam response offered.

Hey, if you’ve got the stones, literal or figurative, then offer some substantive belittlement, not that fluff you did. Defend Obama. Tell why he wasn’t cynical.

As for you, kmorrison33″”"Maybe I am drinking the Kool-aid too much now; but something tells me I’m not the only one.”

What? You get some hyperventilation from an Obama supporter and your knees wobble? And you start offering excuses for your point of view?

C’mon.

I don’t know about how much Kool-Aid you drink–and, no, I don’t think that McCain offers the figurative kind, unlike Obama does–or what flavor, but could it be simply that you saw or sense something that changed your views?

And that Obama and/or the Democrat Party aren’t among them any more?

By: kmorrison33

kmorrison33 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:44:54 +0000

Cousinavi, sorry you don’t like my political philosophy. If you told me a year or so ago that I’d be strongly supporting a Republican this election, I would have thought you were crazy. However, I’m a New Hampshirite so I had the privilege of going to see 3 Republicans and 4 Democrats in person, and Senator McCain showed himself as the most qualified. He took courageous positions on both the war and on immigration policy, and while I don’t agree with him all the time, I don’t agree with any politician all the time. I certainly don’t like how the war started, but Senator McCain’s position on the surge helped turn that situation around. Maybe I am drinking the Kool-aid too much now; but something tells me I’m not the only one.

By: BA

BA — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:12:00 +0000

I guess it takes a kid to show that the Emperor has no clothes.

By: cousinavi

cousinavi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:42:42 +0000

Your “Welcome Purple People” left text is about as opposite your blog role as philosophically possible.
You McSurgers have gone so far down the rabbit hole you can’t even maintain a cogent political position.
Your desperate and obvious insistence that you’re some sort of open-minded, independant perspective…what a giveaway. Some opinions deserve belittling. The idea that all opinions are of equal value is done. The past eight Republican years wore it thin and then stabbed it in the liver.