The tale of two tapes
The tale of two tapes
Both of these speeches are not new, yet both got pushed out there tonight. You may well ask yourself, which one are you better off with running the country for the next four years?
And so God is asking us today to remember that miracle of that baby. And He is asking us to take that bullet out once more.
If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it's time to take the bullet out. If we have millions of people going to the emergency room for treatable illnesses like asthma; it's time to take the bullet out. If too many of our kids don’t have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out. If we keep sending our kids to dilapidated school buildings, if we keep fighting this war in Iraq, a war that never should have been authorized and waged, a war that's costing us $275 million dollars a day and a war that is taking too many innocent lives -- if we have all these challenges and nothing's changing, then every minister in America needs to come together -- form our own surgery teams -- and take the bullets out.
Today, 70 percent of Americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes. So you could argue that we're already past that [moral] tipping point. The good news is survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right 70-30 country. Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state. What that tells us is at least half of those people who are currently in that category are there not of their wish or their will.
Say what you will about the 2012 candidates, and about the state of American politics. But you can't say the American people don't have a real choice.
- You're the poster boy for the dumbing down of a once-great party. The people I mentioned love people like you, who have no critical thinking skills.
Any new Stern videos?— wokmaster 
I like Bunch, I really do. But I feel sorry for him and his nostalgic naiveness. He reads blogs all day from the Times and salon.com with MSNBC on in the background. He's smart, but has no smarts.— tudorcity- Wok. No new stern video's, actualy moron it was an audio but i'm sure in your warped libtard mind you saw it. But anyway, you're posts' provide me with more humor than anything stern can do. Keep it up, you brighten my day.— Phishface
- They also provide you with more facts than you'll get for the entire week on Drudge. What did "Rush" have to say yesterday? Anything to share, my wannabe Republican blogger friend? — wokmaster
- I'm looking forward to the debate tonight. This is Romney's big chance to dispel his unfavorable image. The problem is he is losing in battleground states by double digits and really needs a knockout performance. I predict that he will totally over compensate and end up with his foot in his mouth or just look completely unhinged.— chasing history
- Interesting pair of candidates, and interesting reactions to them. Obama is half black, but nobody could ever call him half white without getting a fist in the face. Romney's father was Mexican born and raised, but nobody is offering him an enchilada. These candidates have been so carefully packaged and marketed that if they were supermarket items, they would have aisles named after them.— DonQ
- Wok, yesterday Rush and his African American sidekick Bo Snerdley had a great parody on the "ObamaPhone". It was awesome. I don't know who it was that he had that did the voice of that lady that was hired by the SEIU, for $11.00 an hour to protest Romney, but the voice was spot on. They did a parody of her calling Obama on her Obamaphone complaing that her phone "sucks" and that she wanted to upgrade it. It was a real whoot. The guy that did the Obama voice was reall good too.— Phishface
- Sounds good. Now wonder you "know" so much!! — wokmaster
- Wok, Lest we forget this balst from the past. This doozy preceded the Obamaphone lady. And it's the conseratives that are the idiots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ojd13kZlCA— Phishface - Does anyone know what Rachel Madcow means by this statement: "Right Wants You To Believe He's Way More Black Than He Seems To You Now" ? Seems like a racist statement to me. What is "way more black" in her mind.?
— Phishface - Remember the 2004 exit polls? Whatever happened to President Kerry? Was he scrubbed from the history books or something?— teardownthisfishwrap
//And so God is asking us today to remember that miracle of that baby. And He is asking us to take that bullet out once more.///
I think I get what he is trying to say, but this is a really bad metaphor. For one thing, it evokes violence.
For another, it implies that someone else is at fault for many of the problems. Bullets don't just end up in a person, there is someone else on the other end of the weapon causing the bullet to be fired. Likewise, the metaphor implies others at fault yet many of the problems mentioned involve at least some sizable personal responsibility: emergency room visits and prison, for example.
Finally, there is the oversimplification: you don't just pull a bullet out of someone and -- poof -- fix the problem. Many times pulling a bullet out causes bigger issues (bleeding, infection). In fact, many times it is best to leave the bullet in!
This is just really bad rhetoric.- This "bullet" speech is the kind of rhetoric that was responsible for the shooting of Gabby Giffords.— Mr. Smith
- Yes, Mr. Smith, you are correct. This president is always making heated statements like that. Remember he said "if they bring a knife than you bring a gun"(paraphrasing).— Phishface
- Wok, " Now wonder you "know" so much!". Did you mean "No wonder" FYI, I did get your point, your spelling notwithstanding, but you are the one who is always correcting the grammer of others.— Phishface
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