Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
I provided a valid form for the same question above. Did you miss that?
No I didn't, but saying that there are rules and regulations on how questions are to be asked are ridiculous. I purposefully ignored it because to me that just seems stupid.

Her question was a lot like the kind of technique a troll would use. It was more about the labeling and putting someone on the defensive and provoking an emotional response than it was about getting a straight answer. So the fact that she DID get a straight answer after the initial emotional response is a credit to Biden.
She got an answer that was a flat out lie. Giving back taxes to the people that they used to have? We're paying the lowest taxes than we ever have.


Let me know if you think any of these question are fair:

Hey Daihashi, Joe McCarthy called people Marxist. You call people Marxist. How are you not a red-baiting witch-hunting McCarthyite?
This is a generalized statement but I would rebuttal with. "My accusation of calling someone a marxist is due to their personal philosophies that seem to fall in line with Marxism. I would not call it witch hunting but rather I would say I'm trying to find an answer to something that people seem to be otherwise avoiding. Does this not strike you as peculiar? The question is a simple yes or no question but people fail to answer it."



Hey Daihashi, you grow weed. The Taliban grow weed. How are you not a terrorist?
The definition of the word terrorism means "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."

I am simply growing weed. I am not trying to intimidate anyone through means of force or coercion.

Hey Daihashi, you live in Texas. George Bush lived in Texas. How are you not George Bush?
Well the most obvious would probably be the fact that my last name is not Bush, have any blood relation or personal relation with the Bush family, my ethnicity is from Mexico and the Middle east and in addition physically we look nothing a like and non of our documents are linked to each other. He was born in an entirely different era from me.. do I need to go on?


Hey Daihashi, you are a meticulous and organized person. Hitler was a meticulous and organized person. How are you not a Nazi?
Well, nazism follows the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers party; which is something I do not believe in. Nazism actually had nothing to do with being meticulous or organized. Some of the things the Nazi party supported was:

Anti-parliamentism, Welfare state spending, exorbiant corporation taxes, progressive taxation, racism, and totalitarianism.

This is just to name a few. I do not support these beliefs nor do I condone them which is the bare minimum that would be required in order for me to be a nazi.


The reason these questions are stupid is that the connections are so weak and unestablished, and they rely on offensive labeling to put the other person on the defensive. They are not about getting a straight answer. Asking Biden to defend why Obama is not a Marxist based on the same kind of flimsy connection is the same thing.
There's a difference between the question West asked and the questions you asked.

Obama has actually said something that falls in line with Marxist philosophies and asked how he was not being a Marxist by saying that. Biden could've easily gone into detail about Karl Marx, his philosophy and how it differs. Similar to how I did it with Nazi-ism, terrorism, and your George Bush questions.

Your questions had nothing that directly tied me to any of those things because the ideology involved in all of them have nothing to do with something I've said or done..

Obama has expressed an ideology that falls in line with Marxism. Which believe it or not is not necessarily a bad thing. Karl Marx was a very intelligent man who had genuinely good intentions.... it simply just didn't work out.

Again, Biden avoided a question that was very easy to defuse regardless of the agenda or hostility behind it.