{"id":38708,"date":"2012-10-03T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=38708"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:03:46","slug":"dear-obama-voter-this-is-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/10\/dear-obama-voter-this-is-on-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Obama Voter: This is on you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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And, by the way, this piece of stupidity from the comboxes<\/a> over at Conor Friedersdorf\u2019s site is all yours too:<\/p>\n

I think Rachel Maddow said it best.(I think last Thursday?) We as a nation can not have a logical, reasoned argument about national security, privacy, warrants, trials of terrorists because the Republican Party has completely abdicated rationality and now resides permanently in screeching hysteria- land.\u00a0 Where anything Democrats do to bring up any rights for anyone means you are \u201csoft on terror\u201d, an apologize-r in chief or to once again dig up Chamberlain- an appeaser!\u00a0\u00a0 When Obama tried to have real trials for Gitmo detainees or bring them to the US in the Federal prison system you would have thought they were super villains with death rays shooting out of their eyes.\u00a0 Republicans ginned up so much Fox enabled hysteria you would have thought Obama was playing Russian Roulette with a Predator drone on a bus of nuns and preschoolers.\u00a0 As a result we have nothing in our political process trying to see where the line needs to be.\u00a0 The overwhelming pressure is to start at draconian and see if we can think of somewhere even more oppressive to go from there.\u00a0 I do think we need to have a serious conversation, or even a modern day Geneva Convention where we as a world seriously discuss the new reality of asymmetrical warfare.\u00a0 What to do about failed states, multi-national crime syndicates, money laundering, terrorists and drone attacks.\u00a0 The game has drastically changed and the old rules don\u2019t apply in many situations, but where should they?\u00a0 Do I wish Obama had thrown someone in prison for committing torture? Yes.\u00a0 Because something isn\u2019t really illegal unless someone goes to jail when they do it.\u00a0 But we can\u2019t have the conversation anymore because we have a two party system where one party wouldn\u2019t be happy with anything less than Jack Bauer as dictator of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Poor President Obama.\u00a0 That mean old Bush and those\u00a0mean mean Republicans just *force* him to\u00a0unilaterally murder civilians, women and children and then lie about it!\u00a0 If he doesn\u2019t, all the Republican kids on the playground will make fun of him!\u00a0 Everything is\u00a0somebody else\u2019s fault.\u00a0\u00a0Good\u00a0Lefties are never ever to blame for the bad things they do!\u00a0 They are victims too!<\/p>\n

Grow up.\u00a0\u00a0Face the fact that your guy has taken the murder of civilians (and citizens) to a whole new level and, at the end of the day, that your spokesoids like Maddow are making excuses for it instead of screaming bloody murder about it and refusing to support it.<\/p>\n

You\u00a0don\u2019t have to vote for this man, you know.\u00a0\u00a0And don\u2019t give me a song and dance about how Romney is worse.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to vote for him either.<\/p>\n

So again, Obama voter: How can you sleep at night?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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