Response to comment [from a Catholic]: [It is irrelevant...The topic is not irrelevant.]

It is not the form (of government) that is bad--it is the people connected with it. J. Vernon McGee, 1, 2 Sam

Response to comment [from other]: "Once again you've made a real balls up of a thread and contradict yourself all over the place..."

Proof please.

Response to comment [from other]: "Do you think that Obama will seek a third term?"

I'd tell you what I think but then you'd make this thread about me and not the issue at hand.

Response to comment [from other]: "What does your sig stand for?"

Argument Ad Nauseam

"Well your sig is certainly nauseous..."

It's awesome. You wish you had my signature.

Response to comment [from other]: "What's the issue at hand?"

I'll tell you what it's not-- I am not the issue. The issue is the issue.

"...[Y]ou don't have the guts to share your opinion on?"

Do you need a tissue for your issue?

Response to comment [from other]: "...[A]ccording to your OP the "issue" is 'Stansberry Research: Obama will seek a third term'.

[What is the topic?] "Which you've subsequently claimed is irrelevant..."

An Obama third term would be irrelevant to my mind. Totalitarianism in general is not an irrelevant topic for discussion.

See:

Totalitarianism

Response to comment [from other]: "...[Y]ou don't have the guts to share your opinion on [the topic]?"

Too bad you spent most of your time in this thread attacking me rather than attacking the issue.

"Attack what issue? Obama having a third term? It's not worth attacking. It's idiocy..."

You do not believe that Obama will seek a third term. Thanks for participating.

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "He can't. Thanks..."

You don't believe he will seek a third term. Thanks for participating.

[Why attacking Iran may give Obama a third term in the White House 2 Oct 12] "Mission seekers are ready to unleash multiple beefy arguments at President Obama during the upcoming debates. But demanding military action against Iran should not be one of them.

Why? Because, it might help President Obama win, not just the second, but also a third term.

“He can’t do that; we have the 22nd Amendment,” you quip. Yes, we do. But imagine the destabilization the Iranian war will cause in a region which is home to a nuclear Pakistan, a bleeding Syria, and a wounded Russia. Add to it the perpetual Arab-Israeli conflict, with China and Japan posturing over deserted islands to its right and a mercurial Arab Spring to its left and all you have is red meat.

A recent Tel Aviv University poll found over 50 percent of Israelis afraid that a war with Iran would endanger the Jewish state. According to retired Israeli defense officials, a preemptive strike would precipitate an unpredictable Middle East war.

If others jumped in and the conflict turned into a Third World War, Americans may prefer to rehire a sedulous president who pulled their car out of the ditch during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

That’s exactly what happened during the Second World War when America trusted Franklin Roosevelt with third and fourth presidential terms, partly because he had pulled the country out of the Great Depression..." Full text: Why attacking Iran may give Obama a third term in the White House by Faheem Younus

Response to comment [from other]: "...Irrelevant is sd's middle name..."

But enough about me. What do you think of me?

"I think you're great!"

[Barrage of ad hominem attacks (:yawn: see thread)] You must. If I were "irrelevant", you would not follow me from thread to thread to discuss-- not the issues-- but me.

[] "I cannot fathom anything more interesting..."

It's something I'll have to live with.

Response to comment [from a Satanist]: "Is this old bat still going on with her latest load of malarkey?"

The Satanist and his ilk do not care for me (Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10, Eph 4:14). How will I go on?

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Does this mean I can drop the "former?" when referring to Granite's Satanism status?"

We'll have to ask the Satanist why he no longer identifies as "Satanist". I think he had PR problems.  

South Park Damien

Response to comment [from an agnostic]: "The only way that Barack Obama can try for a third term is to prove that he's Harry Truman because the 22nd Amendment sure as hell isn't getting repealed."

Obama won the popular vote. Do you think he would have the country's support if he sought a third term?

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "I just wish you wouldn't push the worst conspiracies and shams..."

Proof please.

"I imagine..."

"...in the same unjustified cloud of self-righteous indignation you always do..."

"...You do suffer..."

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"...loudly..."

"...and for everyone to see."

You have an over-active imagination.

The Raven - Simpsons

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "I'd join in, but I see my friend serpentdove is having fun with the pagans, atheists & dope smoking Libertarians all by herself."

If that's all they've got, we're in good shape. Re 2:10

Good to Know: Obama Is Apparently Ruling Out Third Term as President  

Stansberry Research: Obama will seek a third term