“Texas Fred’s” commentary on Mitt Romney’s accusation that
President Barack Obama leaked classified details about the U.S military raid
that killed Osama bin Laden for political gain is incredibly crass, to say the
least. This piece seems to have been written if only to generate a “hell yeah”
response from Fred’s far-right tea party audience. He makes no effort to relay
a point to the reader; comfortable simply restating the beliefs of some of our
nations more radical citizens. If one were to attempt to derive a reasonable
claim from this commentary, not an easy task, it would most likely be that Fred
believes Mr. Obama is not fit for the job of President of the United States of
America. Fred rests his credibility on being a self-proclaimed ‘redneck’ and
his ‘if you don’t like it you can get out’ attitude. He chooses to bypass the
use of structure and facts in his argument; he opts for simple, radical
accusations instead. In this piece, Fred accuses President Obama of many awful
things including “[bowing] to radical Islam” and having “NO love for this
nation.” I think any reasonable reader will easily deduce that these are all
baseless accusations regardless of whether or not Mr. Obama said more to the
press than he should have. It is as if Fred needed only to read the title of
the article he is commenting on in order to run off on this unsupported tangent
about the evils of our current president. Needless to say, anyone looking for a
reasonable political opinion should avoid texasfred.net.
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