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A better analogy is this:
You know that covering yourself in pollen will attract bees. Your friend wants to cover herself in pollen because she thinks the bees will respond "peacefully", collecting pollen from her without stinging. You hope she fails in her experiment, because you feel confidently that it will end badly. People confident that Obama's policies will end badly are perfectly logical in hoping those policies fail. The illogical stance is to hope for success blindly, despite evidence that a policy will be largely negative.
His policy is not open borders, but to actually try to get congress to do real reform such as expanding legal entry, guest worker program, increased border security, etc.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.) said:“We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and this is not only a reality but a necessity," she said. "And that it would be harmful--the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrested them all.”
And if that's not how you act? Then I'm not talking to you.
That would be very anti American to want the President to fail. If he is a success than his agenda is not bad for America. If he fails you may be correct but to hope for that is blatantly anti American
A better analogy is this:
You know that covering yourself in pollen will attract bees. Your friend wants to cover herself in pollen because she thinks the bees will respond "peacefully", collecting pollen from her without stinging. You hope she fails in her experiment, because you feel confidently that it will end badly. People confident that Obama's policies will end badly are perfectly logical in hoping those policies fail. The illogical stance is to hope for success blindly, despite evidence that a policy will be largely negative.
If they dont work they dont work, didnt say you have to AGREE with them or support them
But wanting him to fail is illogical unless his goal is honestly to hurt the US which it is not.
Your OPINION on whether a presidents ideas are good or bad are no more valuable then anyone else but you still root for success.
To dumb it down as simple as possible, youre on a football team, coach and QB deiced a QB sneak is what we are going to run, do you hope the coach and QB fail just because you wanted a pass play? of course not lol
You can verbally disagree
You can hope/vote for a new president / QB
but you always root for your own team because their decisions were made because they wanted to WIN, they were trying to loose.
Its pretty simple actually, dont confuse disagreeing or wanting things done differently with hope he fails.
You realize if he fails WE ALL LOSE because then no progress is made for 4 years.
Just like the QB if he doesnt score what good is that? You still want him to score because it means WE ALL win.
Also just to really address your analogy, no I hope it works for my friend that way she didnt get stung LO
If I had your "logic" for eveything we would still be in the dark ages.
no planes, earth is still flat, no open heart surgery etc etc
I hope the next person that wants success fails because its not MY idea of success
sorry thats illogical. Thats not american.
no this is called dramatic bias and appeal to emotion. We arent talking about your OPINION of policies.
Your mind is already made up that you dont like the policies (I dont like some of them) so you hope they fail so you root for him to fail, well thats dumb becuase if they fail we all fail.
The QB/Coach is the more accurat analogy because its void of bias and its Objective.
If we new what actually worked we would all just do it, funny no president congress etc etc has figured it out? LOL
The goal is for AMERICA to win, Ill NEVER root against that because it makes no sense. Will i disagree on how we COULD win, of course but to root against him is to root against winning, no thanks, ill never od that to any president.
Basically if I believed in things 1,2, and 3 and the president believed in things 4,5 and 6 I might not like it but what if 4,5,and 6 gets us the win? Then I am HAPPY because WE WON lol
Of I guess I could just hope for the worse, root against us winning and assume that my way is the only way forget the rest of america.
Also just to really address your analogy, no I hope it works for my friend that way she didnt get stung LO
If I had your "logic" for eveything we would still be in the dark ages.
no planes, earth is still flat, no open heart surgery etc etc
I hope the next person that wants success fails because its not MY idea of success
sorry thats illogical. Thats not american.
.......... The QB/Coach is the more accurat analogy because its void of bias and its Objective.
If we new what actually worked we would all just do it, funny no president congress etc etc has figured it out? LOL
The goal is for AMERICA to win, Ill NEVER root against that because it makes no sense. Will i disagree on how we COULD win, of course but to root against him is to root against winning, no thanks, ill never od that to any president.
Basically if I believed in things 1,2, and 3 and the president believed in things 4,5 and 6 I might not like it but what if 4,5,and 6 gets us the win? Then I am HAPPY because WE WON lol
Of I guess I could just hope for the worse, root against us winning and assume that my way is the only way forget the rest of america.
tessy, you are wasting your time, my friend
Hyperbole much? :roll:
American said:Hyperbole much?
Tessy said:I had my coffee this morning, though. I'm fired up, man!
tessy, you are wasting your time, my friend
i believe the president's agenda is bad for America and thus I wish to see him fail in implementing it. i believe that said agenda will not magically become better for America on January 20th 2013, and thus I wish to see him fail in his reelection bid, so that we can put into place policies that would be better for America. I will thus highlight his (past tense) failures so as to continue to argue that continuing to engage in the same foolish policies and hoping for better results would be a poor decision on our part. because I want better policies for America.
which is sort of the opposite of what you seem to be suggesting.
yeah. that and "lol"ing as if derision made up for lack of logic. I tend to think of it as the "14 year old girl who watches jersey shore" debate method.
:lol: go get'em, tiger.
You are having to excessively distort the point. If someone is doing something that you believe will make you worse, you do not just sit on your ass, have things end up worse, and shrug "well, at least we tried". That is being stupid.
I root for a different plan, not for one where I know its result makes us worse. My opinions are very valuable to me, btw.
Football ? Yeah, that is dumb. Why such a struggle in realizing that God gave you a brain, and that combined with experience, some wisdom is expected ?
Whether Obama has good intentions or not matters not a twit. If someone has a plan, that being a succession of steps, that you believe will end up making you and your family worse off, you don't just sign up and hope for the better.
I choose to not be a lemming.
except of course, in the case that the person in question's version of "success" is a matter of your country being destroyed;
and replaced with something "unAmerican". it seems you're the one having more the problem with logic. every policy and
executive order this man has initiated has been destructive to this nation. this clown is george bush times 10. and you
want people to wish him success on his initiatives? sorry. but wishing this man success IS unAmerican.
if you say so but we are talking about the president of our country, last I checked nobobdy knows how to run our government perfectly so rooting for YOUR OPINION of what will fail is rooting for AMERICA to fail LOL
You are in fact being a lemming, a partisan one.
The problem is you are speaking in absolutes when there are none, we survied 4-8 years of other presidents that people thought sucked and DID do damage I still didnt root for them to lose, I rooted for them to change or to compromise NOT TO LOSE because their lose is my loss and Im not dumb enough to think in absolutes in situations there arent any in.
Like I said if everybody shared your logic the earth would still be flat and we'd be living in the dark ages.
That's not what this thread is about, although it's nice to you turn the point around in order to make yourself look better. The thread is about those who want policies to fail in helping the country.I think the most interesting point is that it's "UnAmerican" to hope for a failure in policies that would be detrimental to the country.
If bad policies are enacted, the country loses.
If bad policies are not enacted, the country does not necessarily lose,and will probably win.
If good policies are enacted, the country wins.
If good polices are not enacted, the country will probably lose.
So if, based on the available evidence, one feels that a policy is "bad", they would want that policy to fail in being enacted to prevent an almost guaranteed negative affect on the country. Based on available evidence, many of us felt that Obama's policies (which, by the way, are opinions...not sure why you're emphasizing opinion as if this debate is anything else) were bad and would have a detrimental affect. So we want those policies to fail to be enacted, which, by proxy, means we want Obama to fail.
The success of a president isn't directly linked to the success of America. Bush was very successful in getting many of his policies enacted. Would you say the country succeeded because of it? Clinton was very successful in his cuts to intelligence and his moves to separate the operations of the CIA and FBI. Given that intelligence breakdowns were a key component of the 911 attacks, would you say Clinton's success led to America's success?
My analogy was in no way an emotional appeal. It was a a tongue-in-cheek analogy of the Obama failure/America failure discussion.
As far as "everybody knowing what's right", well...that just isn't possible. We debate daily on what is right, what is wrong, what is best, what is worst. We use evidence from history and wisdom to make the best choice. Because nobody is identical to anybody else, there will always be disagreement on which path is best, which programs are most important, what program will be most successful. It is silly to assume that there would ever be 1 "correct" answer or methodology. That doesn't mean we can't feel as though our methodology is the best, based on evidence. Obama thinks his methodology is best, even though history doesn't lend to that belief and most of his ideas were widely untests in the American system. Others thought his methodology was bad, based on what has and hasn't worked before, and based on projecetions made on untested ideas.
It's true - if he fails at helping the country, the it's our failure as well.You do realize that saying "his failure is our failure" is an absolute statement, right? Also, so is "rooting for YOUR OPINION of what will fail is rooting for AMERICA to fail"
Hyperbole much? :roll:
Why? I'd rather read one well-considered and -written post than all the rest of the thread combined.
centrist said:if you say so but we are talking about the president of our country, last I checked nobobdy knows how to run our government perfectly so rooting for YOUR OPINION of what will fail is rooting for AMERICA to fail LOL
You are in fact being a lemming, a partisan one...
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