(01-30-2016 07:41 PM)JOwl Wrote:  

(01-29-2016 11:27 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  [quote='Owl 69/70/75' pid='12769399' dateline='1449591380']

Treat your friends better than you treat your enemies. Obama treats our enemies better than Bush treated our friends.

Obama's unnatural determination in that respect is certainly bizarre, and possibly psychotic. It's one of the most startling aspects of his administration. The fact that two Rice alums are among his high-profile apparatchiks is also discouraging (though far less important).

(01-30-2016 07:41 PM)JOwl Wrote:  Policy disagreement = mental disorder, huh.

No, not at all. But in Obama's case there is an unnatural attachment (a bitter clinging, perhaps) to a bizarre and infantile fallacy. It would be unfair to normal people (including normal liberals) to not suspect a mental disorder as possibly at the root of it.

(01-30-2016 07:41 PM)JOwl Wrote:  As for disappointment in fellow alums, for me it's much more that Jim Bridenstine was the nice but quiet roommate of a friend at Lovett, but is this guy nowadays: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/...e-executed

We will see in a few decades which ones have done more damage to civilization. We probably won't have to wait that long, but that will certainly be enough time.

(01-30-2016 07:41 PM)JOwl Wrote:  Also, cute Communist dig there George. Brings me back to the good ol days.

I am glad you appreciated it. We all know that Communism was one of the greatest man-made disasters in the history of the universe, but at least the vocabulary of it is fun: it manages to be both descriptively precise and colorfully ludicrous at the same time. In this case, I chose "apparatchik" because it is functionally accurate (enough) as well as deliberately disparaging, both as to substance and to character -- all of which is exactly what I intended.