Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Wow. It's funny that you guys feel the best way to defend Obama's actions...
I wasn't defending Obama. I was laughing at your lack of knowledge of world history and lamprey-like attachment to stock GOP talking points ("Oh no! French!")
Given that you're reaching back to the Napoleonic wars to find the last time the French were considered a significant aggressive military power to make your point, I might suggest that you're exhibiting that behavior far more than I.
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I don't think Obama's actions in Libya need any defense.
I'm sure you don't. And the sheer size of that moving target is part of my point. Somehow the talking heads on the Left went from "no illegal wars", to "it's ok, he can initiate military action without having to ask congress for 60 days" (despite that actually not being true in the absence of a direct threat to the US itself, but whatever), to "did the time pass and he never bothered to get authorization, we'll it's not that big a deal anyway". Really? I love how the Left's principles kinda move all over the map apparently based solely on who they're applying them to.
Which basically means "no principles".
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I do find a bit of mirth in the fact that you apparently believe the Republicans got totally rolled by Obama and allowed him to wage this incredibly illegal war with barely any pushback.
No. I'm pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of liberals yelling and screaming about waging illegal warfare suddenly falling silent when Obama does it, not just in a "if you squint and look at it from the right angle, you can say he violated the war powers act", but by just plain ignoring the act entirely. That you feel the need to turn this into some kind of "Republicans got rolled" riff only underscores the need you have to dismiss what Obama did and focus attention any something, anything, else. It shows me that you know that what he did violated everything he claimed he stood for, and everything that the liberal rhetoric had been arguing about for years, but your loyalty to your "side" can't allow you to admit it. So you perpetuate the lie.
Bizarre behavior. And a bit scary. What would Obama have to do before you'd say "He was wrong to do that"? I'm honestly curious.
Oh. Which, in case you're paying attention, is why I'm quite sure that while everyone insists that "of course Obama would be strong if we were attacked", if we were attacked and Obama did nothing, most of you would either stay silent, or loudly insist that he was actually being brave or something for not fighting back. The pattern of the rank and file liberal utterly ignoring what their own leaders do is pretty well established. Simply "being a liberal leader" appears to be all that matters. You will silently accept anything he does, or will come up with an excuse for why what he did really was ok after all. Cause that's what liberals do. As I said, no principles.
Edited, Apr 9th 2013 6:32pm by gbaji