Stupid is as stupid does and stupidity votes Obama

[Asher]

"My name was actually spelled with a 'u', dude." - Edmund Burke

[Ben Kenobi]

I never said people should die, I said people shouldn't be breeding.

So you're against abortion? Good to hear.

[Ben Kenobi]

Then go back to Canada, dickbag.

Last I checked dissent is patriotic, or does that only apply to republican presidents? Obama's policies are terrible for America long term. I don't like Romney - but hell - he's not going to bankrupt America on his watch.

[kentonio]

To be clear, I also wouldn't find it unjust if the government stopped recognizing traditional marriages. Is there great human suffering from being denied a signed letter from a state judge saying "yep, those two are married"?

Did you miss the little story I posted in the other thread about the gay couple who were on holiday when one of them discovered that he had a tumour in his spine, and his partner was told nothing, treated like an outsider etc etc because he wasn't 'family'? You think gays just campaign for gay marraige because they want to dress up and have a ****ing party?

[Wezil]

It doesn't have to be either/or does it?

[regexcellent]

****ing party

So that's the kind of depraved **** they get up to in gay marriages!

[Imran Siddiqui]

The issue is inequality and the fact that the government (and many organizations) grant privileges based on marriage status.

The issue is two classes of relationships, not the existence of marriage itself.

This.

[Straybow]

Did you miss the little story I posted in the other thread about the gay couple who were on holiday when one of them discovered that he had a tumour in his spine, and his partner was told nothing, treated like an outsider etc etc because he wasn't 'family'? You think gays just campaign for gay marraige because they want to dress up and have a ****ing party?

Luck favors the prepared. Anyone can give a medical power of attorney to his or her significant other, and if the gay couple didn't prepare for medical emergencies, that's on them.

[Straybow]

The issue is inequality and the fact that the government (and many organizations) grant privileges based on marriage status.

The issue is two classes of relationships, not the existence of marriage itself.

The same applies to hetero couples who do not choose to marry, at least in states that don't have common law marriage. Those legal privileges can usually be provided via powers of attorney. It's a non-issue.

[SlowwHand]

You should probably throw in the fact that a power of attorney isn't something to be taken lightly.

[Straybow]

And marriage is? PoA is far more easily revoked than marriage if the partner turns out to be a loser.

[SlowwHand]

I didn't say marriage was, I just pointed out that it's not either.

[onodera]

HC is a little ass, but I'm also against gay marriage, since it's a privilege, not a right for your cohabitation to be recognized by the state, and the state has every right to support one form of it, but not the other.
Frivolous abortion is also something I oppose, but I even more strongly oppose any legislation that restricts abortions.

[Jaguar]

There are two kinds people who vote Republican: The incredibly wealthy and the incredibly stupid.
There are two kinds of people who vote Democrat: The compassionate and the incredibly stupid.

If you are not incredibly wealthy and you are voting Republican, you are incredibly stupid.
If you are not compassionate and you are voting Democrat, you are incredibly stupid.

I don't think anyone has ever accused you of being compassionate, Asher.

[Lonestar]

Yeah, that blaming Bush thing. Last I checked that was 4 years ago. Obama's got to run on his record now.

The Obama Presidency is like being the motel manager cleaning some rooms after Mötley Crüe got finished with them. They will never be quite clean, the smell will never be quite gone, and everyone else who uses that room will find something to complain about.

8 years of cutting taxes and relaxed regulations(well, I blame Clinton for that too) got us into the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. And Because Obama couldn't turn around the economy when the House GOP had a mission statement that preventing Obama from getting re-elected was more important than fixing the economy "whelp, he gots to run on his own record."

Sure thing, but let's be serious here, the Congressional GOP has, from day one, been instangient as all hell in sabotaging Obama at every turn. This isn't hyperbole, every single house Republican, minus one who didn't vote, voted against the Stimulus Package for example. That's the framework the Dems and Obama were starting at, with an opposition that refused to negotiate on anything subtsantial.

It is completely reasonable place up to 51% of the blame on the Congressional GOP and Bush policies.