Of course, in light of the presidential debate being aired live last night, many people felt the need to let their thoughts on it be known via Facebook statuses. A very good friend of mine let her thoughts be known, which I agreed with, but which a friend of her's didn't care for too much.
Toward the end of his two early posts, he said, "Obamacare is what scares me."
In response, I asked the question, "What about Obamacare scares you exactly?"
He responded with, "The list is too long to go through. I don't have the time to explain the bill to you."
Yes, he sounded exactly like Paul Ryan right there when responding to Fox News' Chris Wallace when being asked about the Romney/Ryan tax plan. "It would take too much time to explain!" Sure it would...
So I then called the guy out on his nonsense and pointed out that I didn't appreciate his condescending tone. He then said he wasn't going to get into this "childish" debate with me.
I finally said, "If you didn't want to run the risk of getting into a 'childish' debate, why did you let your political thoughts be known? Didn't you realize you'd run the chance of someone inquiring as to why you felt the way you said you did and if you did happen to provide reasons, of being fact-checked?"
When someone goes about a political "debate" like this guy did, the fact is they don't know what they're talking about. He claims he doesn't have enough time to go through all the reasons he's frightened of Obamacare? Nonsense. He had time to make 5+ comments, including stating that he's scared of Obamacare. If he had all that time on his hands to make multiple comments like he did, I find it incredibly difficult to believe he didn't have time to provide even just one reason Obamacare makes him tremble in fear. Chances are he doesn't know why Obamacare scares him. The guy has decided he's Republican, voting for Romney, has been told to be frightened of Obamacare and that's about as far as it goes. He just didn't have the time (supposedly) of Googling Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent or Jesus' comments on Obamacare, so he attempted to try and come across as intelligent and tough by being condescending, when he wound up just making himself appear to be ignorant.
People can try all they'd like to come across as intelligent and tough when making their political opinions be known, but if when they're asked to elaborate on why they feel the way they do, they provide nothing of substance and instead attempt to cast the other person in a weak and ignorant light, the only one they're truly casting in such a light is themselves.
Toward the end of his two early posts, he said, "Obamacare is what scares me."
In response, I asked the question, "What about Obamacare scares you exactly?"
He responded with, "The list is too long to go through. I don't have the time to explain the bill to you."
Yes, he sounded exactly like Paul Ryan right there when responding to Fox News' Chris Wallace when being asked about the Romney/Ryan tax plan. "It would take too much time to explain!" Sure it would...
So I then called the guy out on his nonsense and pointed out that I didn't appreciate his condescending tone. He then said he wasn't going to get into this "childish" debate with me.
I finally said, "If you didn't want to run the risk of getting into a 'childish' debate, why did you let your political thoughts be known? Didn't you realize you'd run the chance of someone inquiring as to why you felt the way you said you did and if you did happen to provide reasons, of being fact-checked?"
When someone goes about a political "debate" like this guy did, the fact is they don't know what they're talking about. He claims he doesn't have enough time to go through all the reasons he's frightened of Obamacare? Nonsense. He had time to make 5+ comments, including stating that he's scared of Obamacare. If he had all that time on his hands to make multiple comments like he did, I find it incredibly difficult to believe he didn't have time to provide even just one reason Obamacare makes him tremble in fear. Chances are he doesn't know why Obamacare scares him. The guy has decided he's Republican, voting for Romney, has been told to be frightened of Obamacare and that's about as far as it goes. He just didn't have the time (supposedly) of Googling Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent or Jesus' comments on Obamacare, so he attempted to try and come across as intelligent and tough by being condescending, when he wound up just making himself appear to be ignorant.
People can try all they'd like to come across as intelligent and tough when making their political opinions be known, but if when they're asked to elaborate on why they feel the way they do, they provide nothing of substance and instead attempt to cast the other person in a weak and ignorant light, the only one they're truly casting in such a light is themselves.
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