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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Being consistently wrong is nothing to brag about. Let me ask you and the other lefties that unilaterally defend Obama's spending, a question? Where are your posts on Bush's spending? Had you raised the issue perhaps the people on the right may have been willing to debate you. Of course none of you are complaining about the spending except in rebuttal to our complaints which are just as or in some cases more valid because of the enormity of the money being bandied about. My biggest question concerning the entire thread is that if this guys rights were violated why do some feel he should get "millions"? I mean does that supposed violation, not letting a guy pee during a song, really be the cause of such sustained agony that he should be rewarded by hitting the lottery? Pay his lawyers fees, give him a couple grand for his trouble and ask him not to come back seems like a fair penalty to me.
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I'll quote myself earlier today:
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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
Neither, really. They're both probably too much, and once the floodgates are open, let's just do it the American way and go as big as we can.
That's the thing, is that I'm not the one complaining about Obama's spending, so I don't need to be accountable for not complaining about Bush's spending...why would I have done that? Obviously, like Bob says, I disagree with what he was spending it on, but I certainly wasn't complaining about the amount. That was supposed to be your job based on how we now know you feel about spending as of three months ago...
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I didn't complain about Bush's spending because it doesn't frankly bother me that much, inasmuch as we're talking about raw dollar amounts, even though it was clearly "too much" by your guys' standards. I'm a liberal, I'm pretty behind a great deal of government spending, so like I said, there would have been no reason for me to go out of my way to criticize the spending.
That's exactly why I never talked about it, because I didn't care that much...and guess what? I still don't care that much. It's ONLY relevant whether you guys that are complaining NOW were complaining back then when his spending was out of control...and you weren't.
I shouldn't be expected to complain about something that doesn't bother me, right? But you should be expected to complain when YOUR guy does the same thing you're mad about when OUR guy does, even if it's on a smaller scale. That's why it only comes up in response to your current complaints, because pointing out transparent hypocrisy is usually a pretty easy thing to show that people aren't being intellectually honest in a discussion.