Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (97692)	7/24/2011 2:17:44 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

I watched Candy Crowly interview Pawlenty. I am not sure why, he can't win and he can't think. Probably the CNN corporatists wanted him, or someone like him. She asked him about gay marriage. His answers were childish and as usual Crowly didn't press him although she Clearly saw how illogical he was being. she could have ripped his logic to shreds, but instead told him how wonderful it was having him on the program. And that is what is wrong with our MSM. They seldom challenged the logic of their guests, which fellows like Dick Gregory could do with ease when interviewing Republicans because they are either blatantly lying or being illogial. By the way Candy, the question you are supposed to ask the brain dead Pawlenty is:" isn't it cruel to deny gays the right to marriage"? And these guys are our presidential timber; are the guardian press?

To: koan who wrote (97692)	7/24/2011 2:35:28 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

There is no enlightened middle. It is a myth. The middle, IMO, are decent folks who do not really pay that much attention to politics, or can't figure it out, which really means they pay little attention to modern social theory or the downtrodden. That's pretty much exactly what Rush Limbaugh says about the "middle" or "independents" every day. If you have an agenda, the middle sucks because they're going to side with the opposition to keep the radical agendas from becoming law. This country used to be a middle country. People laughed at the John Birch society and they laughed at the far left. And both sides knew they couldn't put the country into default, that that was insane. We got by with a balanced approach, nobody got everything they wanted, but everybody got some, and it worked. Country not ideology first. "Enlightened middle"? Maybe not. But the zealots on either side of the middle can't govern. They've proved that.