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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Obama and the Democrats: Too Far to the Right?

While right-wingers think of Obama as a Leftist, Taner Edis of the Secular Outpost think he, and the Democrats, are way too far right.

Sometimes, you can't please anybody.

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posted by Victor Reppert @ 10:59 AM  

6 Comments:

  • At April 23, 2011 11:39 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Taner is a Leftist, and as an atheist he won't be satisfied until we have an officially atheisitc Communist Government.

    I just wish he had the guts to say it straight out.


    Jeremy Mancuso, MU at Columbia

     

  • At April 23, 2011 12:01 PM , Blogger Crude said...

    Really, I'm with anon on this one. I'm sure there were people who thought Stalin was too far to the right.

     

  • At April 23, 2011 12:58 PM , Blogger steve said...

    What's ironic about Taner's moral outrage is that Taner is a moral relativist. So why does he care about the "Religious Right" or evil corporations?

     

  • At April 23, 2011 1:24 PM , Blogger Bilbo said...

    I haven't read Taner's essay, but I've thought for quite a while that Obama is too far to the right. Of course, I'm a leftist, but not an atheist.

    Was it Citigroup that was the chief doner to both the Democratic and the Republican parties?

     

  • At April 23, 2011 5:39 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    "What's ironic about Taner's moral outrage is that Taner is a moral relativist."

    Suppose he's a cultural relativist. Then, his judgment "x is right" is true iff his culture's deeply held values determine that x is right. So, his judgment that Obama acted wrongly is true iff Obama's actions were not congruent with the deeply held values of Taner's culture.

    If he's an individual relativist, the truth-conditions for his moral judgments refer to his deeply held values.

    What's ironic about that? It's ironic that he cares about his own deeply held values or the deeply held values of his culture?

     

  • At April 24, 2011 9:21 AM , Blogger Crude said...

    What's ironic about that? It's ironic that he cares about his own deeply held values or the deeply held values of his culture?

    I don't know if I'd call it ironic. Pretty damn funny? Sure.

     

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