On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:05:04 -0400, Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:33:51 -0700, Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, given you can find idiots in places like Florida that actually 
>>> state things like this:
>>>
>>> "Obama is a Marxist... What's a Marxist anyway?", and be seriously 
>>> apposed to what they don't even fracking know the definition of...
>>>
>> 
>> Surely Marxist/Communist is just a generic insult from the right?
>> 
>
>That is a quote from someone in the video.
>

Ah! That shows how much I have learned from these newsgroups :)

>>> http://www.youtube.com/v/2wLYgbS8HeA&hl=en&fs=1&
>> 
>> I could not view it 
>

I still can't see it, all I get is a popup asking if I want to download a
shockwave flash object. <Grrr!>

>Guy with video camera goes out to a Teabag Rally, and asks people to

What's a Teabag Rally?

>describe what they have against Obama or health care reform. One lady
>was debating with herself, in range of the microphone, whether Obama was
>a Marxist, Socialist, or Communist. She settles on Marxist, because he
>doesn't match all the points of the other two. When asked what those
>points were, or what makes a Marxist, she wanders off to find someone to
>tell her.
>

Well at least she has an opinion LOL

>The rest is even stranger, as people with printouts try to poke holes in
>"The Health Care Bill". They quote section, paragraph, and line numbers
>of one of the many versions of the bill, but manage to cut short most of
>what the line says. 

Don't a lot of people do that with your constitution as well? Especially when
talking about the Second Amendment.

>The shining example was "This tax is not a tax..."
>which sounds outrageous, but the line reads more like "This tax is not a
>tax for the purposes of determining, via total taxes paid, how much
>something costs."

Let me guess. A lawyer made that one up or an accountant :)
>
>Debate would be lovely, but the video isn't debate. It is funny though.

I'm loosing my sense of humour when it comes to politics, nowadays :(
(But not my fecking vocabulary ;) )

Thanks, Sabrina. You're up late or early.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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