We've grown accustomed to a certain sort of right wing phrenology over at NA Health, and have even lived through an unfortunate bout of race baiting.
Even so, it seems the good doctor's political hankerings linger unsated as evidenced by his latest foray into electoral malfeasance. As Healthblogger explains:
As we get closer and closer to the election, I am going to spend every other week posting articles, commentaries and opinions on the candidates and their positions.
The health of Floyd County as well as the nation will be drastically different depending on who gets elected. This site, unlike the mainstream media, will have a conservative slant and will have commentaries that may not be read in other places.
Fair enough, though I'd appreciate a heads up when he decides to forward unattributed chain emails. I detest those things, especially when the content is so plainly characterized by fabrication enough to redden the cheeks of a compulsive machinist.
Dr. Dan's latest salvo is centered around said email, which purports to provide "data" on the proposed tax policies of our current presidential candidates.
His cribbed list is so egregious, however, that FactCheck.org determined that "...readers may already have noted that this chain e-mail does not provide links to any of Obama's actual proposals or cite any sources for the claims it makes. That is because they are made up. This widely distributed message is so full of misinformation that we find it impossible to believe that it is the result of simple ignorance or carelessness on the part of the writer. Almost nothing it says about Obama's tax proposals is true. We conclude that this deception is deliberate."
FactCheck then goes on to debunk line after line before offering that "...this message isn't real. It's a pack of lies."
You'd never make it as a thief, Doc. You have to know what's worth stealing.
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But, as long as the conservatives pump out this stuff, there are sadly throngs of people who believe it (or want to believe it badly enough not to question it).
When one looks at the political environment and all of the constant negativity, name calling, lying, cheating, and juvenile insults, it is no wonder we are in the shape we are as a country right now.
I think it was Mr. Lamb from fox 41 who said, "If you think I am bad, look what my opponent did".
Are we really down to this, where our choices for elected officials are such bottom of the barrel that we are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils?
And why do we even support any candidates who would be so dirty as to dig up ancient history on other candidates to only use it as personal attack?
Ronald Reagan once observed, "Facts are stubborn things." I didn't agree with him often, but he did get it right on occasion.
The problem is that we all get e-mail and all find ourselves on websites with scurrilous information. We often read it and believe it to be true because we happen to agree with what is written.
The problem is that a lot of what floats around the Internet masquerading as 'facts' is nonsense and created by someone who seeks not so much to promote their candidate, but to defame the other. We've seen it with all of them. Both Obama and Palin lead the league in having specious material circulating about them and their positions.
My two best friends on the Internet are factcheck.org and snopes.com. I check e-mail material on them, web material on them, and I even use these sites in sermon preparation, lest I pass on some 'myth' as fact.
Facts ARE stubborn things and if we are passing something along with bad facts, we continue to allow our political process to roll in the mud. Both sides are guilty of it and both sides need to begin being more diligent with what gets passed on.
Sadly, the country is a mess and my preference will be that we vote on facts, rather than just what we want to believe.
Wonder how those irrational righteous republicans over at NA Health feel now about "socialism" given Bush et al are currently half-way through socializing our financial system? Don't worry, we can just devalue the dollar into a peso-like substance; your no-tax, laissez faire officials will just repeat "God's Will" over and over as they destroy your retirement.
I would like to make it know that not all Republicans are "irrational righteous republicans". I call myself Republican but that is because I just so happen to be more conservative in nature.
I know you were referring to the people at NA Health in that quote; however, I felt as though there may have been a generalization made, as well.
Also, in regards to "as long as the conservatives pump out this stuff": Liberals and conservatives both have black sheep that will say just about anything--true or not--to get their candidate elected.
"I call myself Republican but that is because I just so happen to be more conservative in nature." l. summers
What is it about the republicans, in your experience, over the last 8-30 years, that strikes you as "conservative"?
What is it about the republicans, in your experience, over the last 8-30 years, that strikes you as "conservative"?
To tell you the truth, the Republican party has not been as conservative, especially fiscally, as it should be.
That is why I am running for office to bring back some of the fiscally conservative principles that once were the onus of the Republican platform.
Since the office of County Council is solely a fiscal office, it would make since to elect fiscal conservatives to this office to ensure tax revenue is not squandered.
Larry, with all due respect to your candidancy, haven't we seen that fiscal responsibility is neither inherent in being Dem or Repub? Being fiscally conservative for it's own sake, as in "no new taxes" as the be-all and end-all of Republican political philosophy, leads us where exactly? Could you be more specific?
Fiscal conservatism was a hallmark of the Republican party until the current administration came into power. I hope that whomever wins in November takes this country back on a path toward fiscal conservatism.
As for my candidacy, If you get a chance, please go to my blog and see what I have proposed to help the county's current financial situation.
I will never say that I will not raise taxes--because if it necessary, I will; however, I will do everything in my power to curb wasteful spending and make our government more efficient so that such actions are not necessary.
I will not cover all of things I would like to do in this space because they have been covered on my blog.
Also, if you have a question about a specific Floyd County issue that I have yet to cover, I would be more than willing to answer said question.
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