Then there was that goofball Wisconsin sheriff who spends all his time on Fox News instead of actually sheriffing saying that Beyonce's halftime performance was anti-police and was somehow a tribute to the Black Panthers. 

Now apparently one of the songs Bey sung does have some tip of the cap lyrically to the Black Lives Matter movement. But I didn't see anything overtly controversial or demeaning to police officers.

But like the thread title suggests, politics really does ruin everything. 

Goose wrote:

So true, Lager.

The politicalization of everything has really twisted us as a people.
Remember, it has reached the point where people mocked the President for becoming emotional while talking about murdered school children as he spoke, with their parents all around him. They just couldn't grant that he had a human emotion.
It has gotten so bad.

Maybe people have reason to question the Presidents true intention but because of his track record of false insertions across a wide range of issues. A President who uses kids to politicize an issue. But when you look at what he is stating it is not true. The cartoon was spot on! 
 

tennyson wrote:

Common Sense wrote:

Goose wrote:

So true, Lager.

The politicalization of everything has really twisted us as a people.
Remember, it has reached the point where people mocked the President for becoming emotional while talking about murdered school children as he spoke, with their parents all around him. They just couldn't grant that he had a human emotion.
It has gotten so bad.

Maybe people have reason to question the Presidents true intention but because of his track record of false insertions across a wide range of issues. A President who uses kids to politicize an issue. But when you look at what he is stating it is not true. The cartoon was spot on! 
 

Actually the Adam Lanza killing spree in Newton spoke volumes about what is wrong with America and its gun culture. I feel deeply the Presidents's emotion on this whole issue. To think he was "using the kids tragedy" is a telling tragedy itself about this issue. 

It further points out the title of the article that Politics does and has ruined everything. 
 

Exactly Tennyson. Gabby Giffords nearly gets her head blown off, but to talk about it is "politicizing" it. 20 children are killed at point blank range, but to talk about it is "politicizing" it.

In short, we use "politics" to cut off conversation between one another. And that shows a major lack of maturity of the people who are supposed to be the adults in the room. 

It's a huge problem in the country. We need to do better.

tennyson wrote:

Common Sense wrote:

Goose wrote:

So true, Lager.

The politicalization of everything has really twisted us as a people.
Remember, it has reached the point where people mocked the President for becoming emotional while talking about murdered school children as he spoke, with their parents all around him. They just couldn't grant that he had a human emotion.
It has gotten so bad.

Maybe people have reason to question the Presidents true intention but because of his track record of false insertions across a wide range of issues. A President who uses kids to politicize an issue. But when you look at what he is stating it is not true. The cartoon was spot on! 
 

Actually the Adam Lanza killing spree in Newton spoke volumes about what is wrong with America and its gun culture. I feel deeply the Presidents's emotion on this whole issue. To think he was "using the kids tragedy" is a telling tragedy itself about this issue. 

It further points out the title of the article that Politics does and has ruined everything. 
 

 He was using the kids! Right after the shooting he said.. pass this legislation and we will stop this from happening again.  It did not not pass in the Senate because nothing they were trying to pass would have stopped Sandy Hook! The push to pass phony legislation was being supported by the White House who decided to use the Sandy Hook family's. There is a big divide in the country because the President has made the choice not to be honest and address the true issues.

The argument from emotion. As I noted on Wednesday, Obama's policy proposals are all about showing that his heart is in the right place, which is why he so easily shrugs off questions about whether they would actually work. The implication is that people who oppose his proposals simply do not care, or at least do not care enough. In his New York Times essay, he appeals to "the vast majority of responsible gun owners" who "support common-sense gun safety" because they "grieve with us after every mass shooting." You either grieve with us, or you're against us. If you feel bad about murdered children, you have no choice but to support Obama's gun control agenda. A CNN survey suggests that focusing on intentions rather than results can be an effective strategy: While "67% of those asked [said] they favor the changes" Obama unveiled this week, "57% of those polled also said that the measures would not be effective in reducing the number of people killed by guns."

https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/08/6-reasons-obama-is-untrustworthy-on-guns