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Get in their face!

independent_thinker2002 said:
Oh blast it! Carl Cameron and McCain are sinking to the low of Ghetto speak. The horror.
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Carl Cameron might as well change his name to Eazy-C and begin a gangsta rap group with called HWA.

Honkaloids With Attitude.

Their first single off of the upcoming album, "Straight outta New Hampshire", can be called "Get in Yo' Face!"
 
Tucker Case said:
Carl Cameron might as well change his name to Eazy-C and begin a gangsta rap group with called HWA.

Honkaloids With Attitude.

Their first single off of the upcoming album, "Straight outta New Hampshire", can be called "Get in Yo' Face!"
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Can the tour bus be called "The Feigned Outrage Express"? :mrgreen:
 
"Get in their face' is urban speak for getting serious with someone - not fighting. It does have a connotation of confrontation, but not violent or abusive confrontation. I believe Obama is challenging his supporters to become more aggressive in face-to-face debunking of the lies about him in McCain's ads with those they know - their friends, neighbors and family members.

Here is an example of it's use on a web page for a sales training seminar:
The legendary Paul Harvey himself once told him that if you have a great speech you don’t change the speech, you change the audience. Hutson’s favorite stories appear again and again in his speeches, books, and tapes, punctuated with carefully practiced punch lines. To illustrate the importance of "get in their faces" service – a Tom Petersism- he tells a story about an airport employee, Keith Bennett, who went to great lengths to return a lost pocketbook to Hutson’s wife minutes before her plane lifted off."Now that’s great service," he says, then, after a pause, he flips away a cardboard frame for an overhead transparency. "I don’t even have the wife anymore, and still use Keith Bennett."
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Felicity said:
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,"

~~Barack Obama in Elko, Nevada

Obama mocks McCain in Nevada stops


What do you think of that?
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I think it's about time.
 
Landay adds: "I think this administration may have a fairly punitive policy when it comes to journalists who get in their face. And if you talk to some White House reporters, there is a fear of losing access." He says that fear may have played into the relatively uncritical approach of news organizations like the Times.
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Laura Bush enters the No-Spin Zone - War Room - Salon.com

I have made the same mistake people. I jumped on something before I had proper perspective. Felicity and Talloulou, I think this was your error. I have put up many non-ghetto examples here for you.
 
Tucker Case said:
I think it's a brilliant thing to say. I think that anyone who is not clouded by partisanism will see that he is speaking metaphorically, especially because of his delivery of the line. He was not angry nor aggessive. He was unemotional when he said it.

He's giving credit to his Base's intelligence by assuming they are not metally handicapped and thus, they can tell the difference between a literal request and a metaphorical one.

EDIT: I'll leave it up to you all to decide if that credit is unfounded or not.
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Oh, his base is definitely possible of understanding metaphores and not taking things at their absolute literal connotation...unless Palin is saying it, in which case it all must be taken in the most absolute literal translation possible.

He's not advocating violence here. At most its a very poor choice of wording politically because it does give your opponents some possible fuel. But mostly its over blown.

We are not robots. We are all not perfect. And almost NO ONE talks in 100% literal terms all the time. I see this as a figure of speech.

Though the liberals on this forum talking about people on the right being partisan because they are taking him "literally" but didn't say a PEEP over the number of different things Palin's been railed against lately that has not only had the context ignored and her words taken at the most absolute literal face value, but outright contorted at times, is laughable. Whine a little louder about the republicans here being hypocrites and then go look in a mirror.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Do you have any issues other that abortion that you vote on, or other than that is it all just some stupid personality contest?
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That's an asinine thing to say and it says much about you--the supposed "open minded liberal.":roll:
 
Zyphlin said:
Oh, his base is definitely possible of understanding metaphores and not taking things at their absolute literal connotation...unless Palin is saying it, in which case it all must be taken in the most absolute literal translation possible.
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Well said. There is no monopoly on asinine posts.


Just like Palin's base get's what she means about hoping Iraq is part of God's plan. She is praying that what we are doing is right and just, not wrong and unjust. It shows her humility. Only a person who is actively trying to distort her words, or ignore the context of them, would paint it out otherwise.

(P.S. I spent a large part of this week trying to get that last point about Palin through to my mother who is so biased against the Repubs this year she is believing anything and everything negative said about them)
 
I think we can conclude this thread by agreeing that one can put lipstick on a metaphor. :2wave:
 
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independent_thinker2002 said:
Yes, like I am confronting you. I could comment once and move on or I could get in your face about it. Guess which one I am doing. :mrgreen:
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If you were my neighbor, getting in my face with your arguments, I'd think you were one rude SOB and I sure as hell wouldn't be swayed by your "assertiveness." In fact, I'd likely avoid you at the next block party picnic.:blah:
 
Tucker Case said:
What I'm doing cannot be spin. I'm actually leaning McCain. I just can see what is reality and what is bull****.

You can't call that spi... Wait a minute... aren't you the one that just got done claiming "fight" is a peaceful term?
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You're changing what I said. I said "fight" is a more ambiguous term. :roll:
 
missypea said:
Here's the clip:

YouTube - Obama Says "Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face"


It seems to me that he was charging his supporters to go out and engage people. Granted, "get in their face" could have been worded differently but looking at the clip, it seems to me that Obama was saying "there's work to be done and we (collective) need to do it.

or........just look at my signature for a better understanding of where I think he was going with this.


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Okay, I watched the video. It's not as bad seeing it as it was reading it. I was picturing him pointing his finger with anger in his voice saying, "Get in their face." I wouldn't label this as grossly partisan. However, if I were working on his campaign, I would never have used that kind of terminology.
 
Obama is a ****ing liar.


He "stands" for the 2nd amendment?


oh my.... i didn't realize this goldmine.....
 
Felicity said:
You're changing what I said. I said "fight" is a more ambiguous term. :roll:
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Yeah, and then you said it could mean peacful resistance. You failed to note that it can also mean kicking someone's teeth in, and that it means the teeth kickign thing far more often.
 
Tuck,

Did you hear that weasle say that with a straight face? He owes me a beer, and almost a computer..... I heard that and oh my....


Who does he think he is fooling?
 
Felicity said:
And you join Southern Democrat with your contribution.:roll:
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Oh, c'mon Felicity, I mocked your post that insinuated that I wasn't reasonable. I've put up evidence. Nuff said.
 
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