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Ah, the persistence of belief. It's getting worse. Used to be folks would torture facts to arrive at a preconceived conclusion. Now they just believe what they want to believe not matter what.
Like a guy I saw speak recently. He was a banker. The first statement out of his mouth was that Obama hated bankers. Then he went on to speak positively about all the things the Obama administration has done to help the financial crisis. I take that back. He talked about all the things that needed to be done in a crisis like the financial crisis and they were all the things that have been done.
He never gave the Obama administration credit for doing them.
So why did he hate the Obama administration? Just because, I guess. Finance people are supposed to hate democrats. I suspected the banker for my own prejudices. He said crisises when he meant the plural of crisis. It's just crises.
And also because of my 401k.
Then there's Sheldon Adelson, the SuperPac guy who single-handedly financed Newt Gingrich's failed campaign. He's now giving $10 million to Mitt Romney and $100 million to other candidates and conservative causes. He thinks Obama's a socialist. Yet according to Forbes magazine, Sheldon has made more money than any other American during the Obama administration.
Maybe he just knows how to capitalize on socialism.
Then there's the state of Virginia. They're suffering from the effects of climate change with a growing flooding problem. Sea level has risen 10 inches on their coast. Republican lawmakers had a recent study remove the phrase "sea-level rise" because it’s a left-wing term.
Really? Sea level rise? When the sea level is actually rising?
If we're politicizing words for the ocean we're in serious trouble.
Surf’s Up! (But only for communists…)
America, ya gotta love it.