Thursday, July 30, 2009

WELL SAID: A Response

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A response to this Conservative Action Alert Group post

Making judgments on President Obama’s presidency after less than 200 days in office is immature and irresponsible.

Using demagoguery to support ones cause or ideology by using words and phrases that incite people does not enhance the views of those who may be concerned over the policies of this administration.

Using phases such as the Socialist-Marxist anti-God crowd, Marxist’s concept of re-distributing wealth, America is Arrogant, America is not a Christian Nation, giving more to illegal's than to American Citizens, Radical Islam is our friend and Israel is our enemy, I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public) are an impassioned appeal to prejudices and emotions, and are intended to mislead Americans.

When those who may be functionally illiterate read these words and phrases they will certainly be mislead. Of course, this may be exactly the intention of this message.

Further, the use of demagoguery is intended to obfuscate and not explain the fundamental issue itself in meaningful and logical terms.

Additionally, this message contains many untruths, or what is written is out of context, or contains read into thoughts:

Marxist's concept of re-distributing wealth
that America is Arrogant
that America is not a Christian Nation
giving more to illegal's than to American Citizens who need help
that Radical Islam is our friend and Israel is our enemy
I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public)
they have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech

President Obama has said publicly, repeatedly, and emphatically that he is a Christian.

I have written previously to address these sorts of criticisms. They can be read at Horatio’s Perspective and specifically here: A not so excellent letter to the President.

Beyond that, I challenge anyone to support the contentions of this message
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