Middle hears Stupid in Stereo

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Anyone who has a Serious Debate Question, list it below and I'll re-post(spare you the points lost).

Chip in on your own question and edit your response as many times as you see fit to counter argue.

If any, each debate question will have a democratically chosen Best Answer, by vote.

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Where there is an excess of liberty, the effect is the same, though from an opposite cause.

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own."

-James Madison.

Isn't this government more interested in taking your property away from you rather than protecting it? We argue about things that the federal government was never intended to be a part of anyway. They should be arguments within each state, not on the federal level.

Feel free to edit answers as many times as you want for counter arguments with other answers.

-(credit goes to 'BekindtoAnimals22' for original post).

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Feel free to edit answers as many times as you want for counter arguments with other answers.

-(credit goes to 'acid victim 25' for original post).

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Anyone who has a Serious Debate Question, list it below and I'll re-post(spare you the points lost).

Chip in on your own question and edit your response as many times as you see fit to counter argue.

If any, each debate question will have a democratically chosen Best Answer, by vote.

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..like Sinclair Lewis quote?

Why or why not?

...Other than, you know, that whole primary phase?

Let's face it, Obama was handed an absolute cakewalk for his two elections.

First McCain with an idiot VP candidate(hoping to get those Hilary supporting women liberal enough to vote for a woman...ernnt)

...and then Romney with an idiot VP candidate (who scared the crap out of even moderate Republicans with his rhetoric while confusing them with his Big Government voting record under Bush)?

At least Biden's a professional idiot.

Sure I've heard that Obama won because people are lazy and wanted "free stuff." But do you honestly think "free stuff" isn't an election ploy played by both sides?

What? Big Business, Big Oil, Halliburton, Defense Contractors, didn't all want "free stuff?"

When Franklin said “when the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic,” he also meant the people that lobby the government night and day like it was investment work...because it actually is to them.

They see quite a yield on the investment, while we are too busy fighting amongst ourselves to be anything more than useful idiots.

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..as H. L. Mencken believed? Or was he wrong?

I mean it's FACT?!!

What else can be said?

Over, Done, Case closed, Thanks for playing. Right?

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And which belongs to which party, in your opinion?

Or is it something else?

I'll be the first to admit the liberals did bash GWBush, daily it seemed--above what most Presidents have had to endure oftentimes. I think that also speaks to our surge in media during those times--the beginnings of the 24 hour entertainment/news cycle--but I'll admit, whatever the cause, it was noticeable.

However, Bush was able to pass, with the support of Republicans and Democrats alike, just about anything he wanted(save the privatization of Social Security). And this was even after the 9/11 'rally around the flag mentality' had faded, and the Iraq and Afghanistan War fatigue had set in.

Obama faces gridlock at every turn. I'll admit his own party is to blame on many occasions. The Democratic Party has as many opinions as it does representatives, and is running twice as few on backbone.

But the lockstep blockage by the Republicans is stuff of legend.

Why?

What gives?

He did what you wanted...that is if you weren't hoping for a bogus impeachment trial. So shouldn't Obama be given a little respect for being overly-democratic in this instance?

I mean it wouldn't have been the first time a Commander in Chief called for a single strike of this nature on his own, with no regard for Congress' approval.

Do you agree? Why or why not?

-Quote by Edward Livingston Youmans

Please explain why, or why not?