Obama Continues The Slander

Filed under: Politics — 3 Comments

June 4, 2008

Completely ignoring what McCain has actually been up to, and misrepresenting him.

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3 Comments:

chunque

June 4, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Your banner is at odds with the content of this post. Conervative politics and the conservative political machine despise anything minimalist or smart. For example, see this post:

Conspicuous waste

If you’re advocating smart and self-organizing the attitude described in that blog is not you. This may be why McCain is getting slammed by Fox/CNN: they believe in big, wasteful and command managed because they are conservatives.
taoist

June 4, 2008 at 2:10 pm

???

The content of my post is that Obama is saying that McCain hasn’t been visiting the midwest, even though he’s been touring the country, while at the same time Obama has been skipping notable midwestern states.

I don’t see how that has anything to do with conservative politics, or political philosophies at all.
taoist

June 4, 2008 at 2:26 pm

As for minimalist government, the post you link has very little to say about that. When I advocate smart, minimalist, self organizing government and politics, I’m advocating for a government that encourages good behavior with as simple market devices as possible, and consequently a government that is as small as possible. I’m not arguing for a society that lives in a minimalist/green/yuppie sort of lifestyle as your link seems to think conservatives despise, and I in fact will argue quite fervently against any government that tries to make its citizens to live in such a manner. Not only should people be free to live their lives in the manner they want (whether that life is filled with starbucks, public transportation, and recycled paper, or if that life is hummers, guns, barbecues, and fireworks), but government efforts to encourage those sorts of lifestyle choices tend to go significantly beyond the simple encouragement of market forces that already exist, and those government activities are areas that I think government shouldn’t be involved in anyways.