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Originally Posted by molson
This is a totally acceptable sentiment from liberals - the exact same thing from the other side you'd consider close-mindedness.
You're not tolerant, you're close-minded, you're set in your ways, and that's NO different from a Republican that doesn't want gays to get married and is set on that.
You can't even see it because you're SO set in your ways.
It goes back to the majority of this thread. Obama = 100% correct, any dissenting idea = stupid. Nobody can have the slightest fleeting thought that maybe, just MAYBE, they don't have all the answers, and that maybe there's people who have alternate opinions that are actually worth listening to. If it's not identical to your view, you think it's stupid. That's a liberal. Ya, that some conservatives, but look at this thread. The very small minority who aren't 100% devoted maniacs for Obama aren't 100% all over McCain. They actually think for themselves and have different ideas. Even JIMGA, probably the biggest Obama-hater here, is pretty quick to criticize McCain. The Obama disciples are simply NOT capable of that. They can't criticize the savior, on ANYTHING. It makes their opinions completely meaningless because it's 100% predictable how they feel about anything.
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One could also argue that liberals are less likely to criticize the liberal Obama since his stated positions more or less coincide with their liberal world-views. Conservatives are more likely to criticize McCain, since he is perceived as being slightly to the left of the conservative mainstream. There is a reasonably significant faction of conservatives who remain suspicious of McCain, and whether he is in fact a "true" conservative.