Herman Cain, not afraid to look stupid AND hypocritical in the same article

[angrysoba]

Can someone explain to me what this means? Typically when one claims a right is being "abused," it is another way of saying that someone is using it to go farther than they should. For example, it is often said that the Westboro Baptist Church "abuses" their right to free speech.

But when there is an infringement of a right, it is not that it is being used too much, but that the ability to use the right is being restricted. Throwing Fred Phelps in jail for saying mean things is an infringement of his right to free speech.

These two things are very much in conflict. How can they both exist simultaneously?

(This post was not meant to start a discussion on Fred Phelps)

I refudiate your snooty, liberal academiac attachment to the meaning of words. Don't you know the beauty of the English language is that words change their meanings all the time depending upon what someone in the Tea Party wants them to mean?

 

[Puppycow]

Cain is yesterday's news. Even republicans seem to have figured out that he doesn't have a clue. He makes Alan Keyes look like a serious candidate by comparison.

 

[leftysergeant]

I was listening to Bill Press on the radio on my way home from work a couple days ago, and they played a sample of a Gospel recording that Cain is trying to promote right now.

He really shouldn't have. FLAT. Utterly bad idea to have that out there.

I have heard Obama sing, too. Not inspiring but at least in the same key throughout.

So Cain is the REAL black man? Dude, the brutha can't even sing.

 

[BStrong]

Yeah, I never understood this nonsensical refrain from right wing crybabies either. Apparently, anyone who has the audacity to not be like them is "infringing on their rights" by merely existing.

A friend puts it this way:

The problem with the Left is they don't like guns.

The problem with the Right is they don't like rights.

 

[Darth Rotor]

A friend puts it this way:

The problem with the Left is they don't like guns.

The problem with the Right is they don't like rights.

That doesn't make much sense, and it isn't even close to right.

It's just another stupid sound byte.

 

[Almo]

That doesn't make much sense, and it isn't even close to right.

It's just another stupid sound byte.

The Right are the ones who scream loudest about getting tough on crime and how criminals shouldn't get the protections of the Constitution; they voilated the law, and are therefore not entitled to be protected by the law. I have to say that sound bite has a ring of truth to it.