Right wing hatred becoming really scary!
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Right wing hatred becoming really scary!
| Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:55pm |
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/obama_threat_white_powder.php
What is up with this garbage? McCain and Palin have to put their foot down to stop this. McCain bears some responsibility because his campaign has fostered nasty rude attacks that dehumanize Obama. But at least McCain was man enough to realize the monster he has created and McCain tried to calm down his angry mobs of supporters.
Palin, on the other hand, doesn't seem to know or care how to act like a decent human being. She is really scary.

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Hey the right has had to listen to hate from the left for 8 years.
Invented? No, I'm sure hatred and division are as old as humanity.
But there's a very special, media-borne and particularly virulent strain of it which most definitely can be laid squarely at the doorstep and the feet of the right wing. It began during the Reagan years, with angry old white guys getting together to complain that they'd had enough of those dang democrats, etc....and starting to make their voices heard beyond the usual fringe areas where such disgruntled cranks - right and left - typically hang out (or are relegated to, more accurately). But it took full, virulent flower as soon as Bill Clinton was elected - actually, even BEFORE Clinton was elected. Bill Clinton is the first President in history who's widely acknowledged to have entered office with literally NO honeymoon period whatsoever: Republicans were gunning for him and attempting to hamstring his Presidency from the very start. That was not the case with George H.W. Bush, nor with Reagan or Carter. It was birthed on right-wing hate radio by the likes of mastodons who still stalk the earth today, like Rush Limbaugh and others. Many are still with us, and they have spawned legions of imitators who believe it is perfectly OK to speak of the opposing party and ideology in the most vile, violent and eliminationist of terms - just look at a catalogue of Ann Coulter's book titles, if you disagree with me.
Has there been some of the same thing towards Bush Lite over the past eight years? Certainly....now that the road map had been laid down by the Republicans and their ideological brethren on hate-radio over the PREVIOUS eight. With any luck, the cool-headed Obama, who's run an astonishingly non-negative (judged by these standards) campaign so far, and continues to do so despite repeated provocations from those on the right who would like nothing better than to be able to tee off on the specter of the "angry black man, will be President in a few months, and will be able to credibly say - because his campaign record supports it - that it is time to put that kind of bitter partisan division behind us and get some work done as a country.
But let's not kid ourselves about where this latest - and horribly damaging round - of spite-politics has come from. It has come from the right wing.
"Hey the right has had to listen to hate from the left for 8 years."
I don't follow at all. The loudest voices of hate are from the right. They are on Fox and on the radio, in the form of Coulter, Rush and the other right wing extremist voices. These voices have drowned out the left for the past 8 years, and they started to become louder and louder since the early 1990s.
"You surely don't believe the Republicans invented this."
Invented hatred? No.
"Why does the wimpy media and whining Dems think this is so bad?"
Because the hatred the right is fomenting is dehumanizing and seems to be inciting threats and violence.
"Let the political process go on, and let the people speak-out. It is far more scary; when speech is censored, muscled, or prevented."
People can say what they want - they can spew all the hatred they want as long as it does not degenerate into threats of violence, as unfortunately seems to be happening. And they will be accountable for it. What I am doing is the accountability part in response to the rampant hatred on the right.
In fact, hatred seems to be the right's campaign strategy. The Republicans are doing their best to ignore the economy as it falls down around us as a result of Bush and McCain's failed policies over the past 8 years.
Instead of talking about their record, the economic crisis, their endless war in Iraq that we can no longer afford and the fact that bin Ladin is still making a mockery of America more than 7 years after 9/11, Republicans just keep spewing hatred. The hatred plays well to the Republican base, who unfortunately seem to have lost perspective after all these years of listening to the right-wing media on Fox and Coulter and Rush et al., and the hatred is hurting the opinion of the Republicans badly, as it should, with everyone else.
>>Hey the right has had to listen to hate from the left for 8 years.<<
There are so many things wrong with your post that it's hard to know where to start.
1) Most obviously, the left hasn't spewed hatred. Maybe some disagreement or ridicule or contempt, but not hatred.
2) The na-na-boo-boo argument: "You did it first", is pathetic.
3) As I've stated in other threads, I do believe the hatred stems from a very tiny part of the conservative masses. What I don't understand is why the typical conservative doesn't distance themselves from this behavior instead of trying to rationalize it or overlook it.
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"I do believe the hatred stems from a very tiny part of the conservative masses."
Stems from, yes. Infected, no. Unfortunately look at how the whole mob of people booed McCain when he said Obama is a decent human being who you don't have to be afraid of. It just goes to show how the right-wing media has had a pernicious influence on Republicans.
"Whoa! Hate is as old as time, read the Bible lately?"
Yes, and your comment is perfectly consistent with mine. The Fox-Republicans are hate mongering. They have been for a while. That is what they are tapping into to try to get elected. I think chip on his shoulder Nixon probably started the whole thing for the modern-day Republicans.
Have the Democrats done it? Heck yes! To nearly the same degree as the Republicans? Heck no!
And has a Republican threatened me? Not recently. Many are my friends. But they have called Obama a terrorist, they have said we should be scared if Obama gets elected, and they have called him an Arab. They did all these things on the record at a McCain rally within the past week. And McCain had to correct them all.
That's how bad it's gotten. You see, Obama is not a terrorist. He would make a responsible good President. And he is not an Arab. These are the facts that are lost in the mobs they call McCain and Palin rallies these days.
By the way, terrorists should be captured or killed. That is the violence element here. And there are other incidents of violence like the one posted at the beginning of this thread. Republicans are whipping up a hate mob.
I can relate a few hateful statements that emanated from the liberals of past; that seem so appropriate to the current comments
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