Why do liberals call themselves "Intellectual Liberals"?

You have a point.

 

Can you answer the question? Obama, according to you, is an "Intellectual" because he graduated MCL.......I did as well. Can you tell me if I'm an "Intellectual" because I graduated MCL?

You being the "Intellectual" liberal that you are, I would think that you could answer a simple question. But then again, your "Intellectualism" probably means that you need to think on it awhile.

I tell you what. The Question still stands. I'll give you until tomorrow at this same time, to answer the question. Is that enough time for your dummy liberal brain to answer the simple "non-intellectual" question I posed to you?

 

They are well indoctrinated by professors who count on the big government handouts to fund their salaries and research grants of course.

People tend to think that 'education' is always the truth, when much of the time it is more like conditioning. Quite simply, they have disdain for individualism. Why they long for collectivism that has failed in epic proportions through history is baffling..

Look into the Rockefeller funded General Education Board.

 

I have a question for you.

If Obama is such a great intellectual, why won't he release his college transcript and the grades he made while at Columbia and his LSAT scores for admisison to Harvard Law School?

"If Obama’s LSAT scores merited admission, we would know about them. We don’t. The Obama camp guards those scores, like his SAT scores, more tightly that Iran does its nuclear secrets. "

And there is more:

Curiously, once elected, Obama contributed not one signed word to the HLR or any other law journal. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, “A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time.”

Check this out.

 

As opposed to the stupid conservatives.

 

The chant was out: Obama is the most intellectual, thoughtful President we've ever had. You know, it's what all the "Intellectual Liberals" were chanting after they caught on to the soundbites........

In reality though, Obama the dummy President, the one that the dummy liberals voted for, will never release his TRUE transcripts as they will paint a light on Obama that he's not the "Intellectual" that all the dummy libs thought he was.

 

Obama's magna cum laude honors from HLS are a matter of indisputed record.

Whether he chooses to release his academic records has nothing to do with whether he's properly viewed as an intellectual.

 

Liberals call themselves intellectuals for reasons that are simply beyond the understanding of many.

 

You know, I've been hanging out on this board for about a year now, and I honestly cannot recall even one example where a liberal has described himself, or another liberal, as intellectual. Have you?

This thread reeks of one more EZ-F straw man liberal (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) fest.

 

I believe you are mistaken.

Obama has never released his transcript from HLS.

If you have a reliable source that says Obama graduated magna cum laude from HLS, I would love to see it.

Otherwise, you are just making this up.

 

It was discussed and proved in detail in your own thread.

http://www.politicalforum.com/political-opinions-beliefs/183990-why-obama-mum-about-harvard.html

Did you forget, just as you apparently "forgot" you had started a thread on that subject?

 

This was very good.

It is also very funny!

"Liberals call themselves intellectuals for reasons that are simply beyond the understanding of many"​

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Again, you are mistaken.

Obama has never released his transcript from HLS.

If you have a reliable source that says Obama graduated magna cum laude from HLS, I would love to see it.

Otherwise, you are just making this up.

 

An intellectual is simply someone who uses intelligence, and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or personal capacity.

It’s really not difficult to be one, in fact I do not know why anyone would not want to think in that manner. I strive for it myself. If everyone on here was one we could have interesting debates on the issues, instead of the flame war that this site is. I would love to have a political site were such an atmosphere exits, unfortunately I am just here for comedy and amusement at the multitude of illogical and willful ignorant mindset of many of the posters here. This is rather low-brow when it come to intellectual discussions.

I am no liberal, but I am intellectual because I try and use logic and reasoning to think and solve the issues. It’s really that simple.

I am socially liberal and fiscally conservative, do I want myself dead? Your generalization is not even close to target, and I can’t understand your logic.

Is this a serious thread? It’s so hard to tell after you use no logic and then accuse a huge demographic of not using it themselves. After what I have read so far I may be surprised if you knew what logic was.

I do not find black people to be that liberal. One can be a democrat and not be a liberal. Everything is not as black and white (no pun intended) as you lay it out to be.

Non sequitur.
What OP where? Can you quote it, or provide something. You are the OP here. What are you talking about?

You can’t group all liberals into one group, define what they are, and then say these different instances of what they are doing. Its sound to me like you are a fan of the strawman, and it seems as if this whole thread is one giant strawman you are trying to pro-up and then get liberals to answer it. Good luck with that, I doubt many liberals would even answer.

How about you just back up the things you have already stated first before you “write up” more examples?

Wow Ad hominem on your second post!?!
Why don’t you take it slow, figure out what logic is, and then you can probably understand what an intellectual is.

Being intellectual and being right are not the same thing, you should be able to understand this. One can use logic, reasoning, and critical thinking to reach a conclusion that is untrue and incorrect. This has nothing to do with being an intellectual or not.

Brilliant! I was beginning to think few knew what intellectualism meant around here. Whew.

So far signs point to…NO.

BTW: I can spell the State that I went to college in. You are not making ASU look good. LOL. or is Arizon some place I may just be unfamiliar with?

Intellectualism has nothing to do with arrogance. Some may be arrogant but that is not due to intellectualism.

Why should he? Better yet how is this even on topic? A test score really has nothing to do with intellectual capacity, I think you are confusing thinking and thought process with IQ. When someone claims to be intellectual, they are not claiming they are smarter, they are claiming a way of thinking and approaching issues.

 

Granny says dey's so open minded...

... dey's brains is fallin' outta the back o' their heads.

 

Hey, this means all of us who post discussions here are intellectuals!

But then, being an "intellectual" doesn't necessarily mean you are correct.

Many intellectuals can be wrong and are wrong most of the time.

Paul Krugman of the New York Times is a perfect exanple!

 

Using circular or fallacious logic does not count.

 

Sure, there are racist liberals, but are conservatives any better? They are the ones who make implications that balcks can only get jobs through AA, and that blacks are only good at committing crimes. Remember, your logic dictates that if one conservative supports these ideas, then all conservatives do.

I just got off a thread with a post by a member with a username suggesting we should save the US by eating liberals. I guess, by your logic, that means all conservatives support killing liberals, too.

If that's your idea of logic, I'd think liberals would be glad they don't do it, and they'd probably be really happy to know you don't think they're very intellectual.

I personally see this mentality prevalently from both sides of the political spectrum. I mean, I certainly don't see many conservatives disagreeing with each other over the details of their own ideology.

What makes anybody an intellectual? Does it mean you have to be "right" all the time? Or does it simply mean you're open-minded and knowledgeable on a wide range of topics?

I don't know, but I have serious doubts that most intellectuals would want to be associated with some kid taking a leak.

 

I didn't say he did. I provided sources in your own thread. The one you apparently forgot about because you claimed you hadn't started one on the subject.

Do you remember that?

 

You are very mistaken.

Using circular or fallacious logic is what most liberals in this group usually do.

And they each consider themselves to be "intellectuals."

 

I'd be interested to see even one liberal in this forum that has said "Obama is the most intellectual, thoughtful President we've ever had." much less all of them.

Just to show this isn't just another straw man bash liberals cluster (*)(*)(*)(*) by EZ-F.

 

No, actually it is the right I usually see using fallacious or circular logic. Figures since most of them are Christians.

 

Sources?

Without reliable sources, these comments are mere speculation and unsupported conclusions on your part!

James Cessna