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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Again, my point is that Obama isn't doing it, but McCain and Palin are (well, McCain says that he's not anymore, but I'll have to see if he is telling the truth).
False. "The left" doesn't refer to Obama by his middle name, nor to McCain by his. The reality - which you know as well as I do - is that it's not common in the US to refer to people by their middle names. It happens, sometimes, when people choose to abbreviate their first name for whatever reason, like with H. Ross Perot, for example, but other than that, we use the first and last names, rarely the middle, except for legal or financial situations where the entire name is required.
The right wing - and ONLY the right wing - has been making a point of using Obama's middle name in public as frequently as they can (some of them, not every right-winger). Now, why do you suppose that is? Can you honestly give me ANY good reason to do such a thing, when you and I and pretty much everyone else in this country knows that the only people who are likely to use middle names - are mothers, referring to their misbehaving children? If this country had a history of calling Presidents regularly on the campaign trail or in news reports by their full, official names, it might be a different story....but we don't. "Dubya" is an exception, because his father and he share the exact same first and last names, but beyond that, although we usually KNOW a President's middle name, it doesn't get used.
Quick, can you tell me without googling what Jimmy Carter's middle name is? How about Gerald Ford? Didn't think so. And even if you can.....do you ever recall people using that name in a non-formal situation (like a state dinner or the inauguration ceremony)? If not, then I'd be genuinely curious to hear your explanation of why, at McCain rallies and from Republicans in general, you continually hear mention of Obama's middle name. And I'd also like to hear how this all adds up (in your mind) to LIBERALS or DEMOCRATS being the ones who are "focusing the attention" on Obama's middle name.
The difference is that the "stones" are always going to be thrown by the "underbelly" of any party.
But with the modern GOP, those stones aren't relegated to the "underbelly," they're front-and-center, being spread out daily to an audience of tens of millions by people like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck...on and on and on....some of the most hateful stuff doesn't even HAVE to slink around in the shadows, if it's right-wing stuff - they'll SEEK IT OUT, and invite you on their shows! Or at least co-opt and disseminate your ideas for you, for maximum effect. There's quite a difference between someone with a sign at a protest making a pun that "Bush is the only dope worth shooting" and Bill O'Reilly suggesting on national TV that entire swaths of Americans - including TV networks - are actively working to see America lose in Iraq (which would be treason, and punishable by death). One can be credibly called "the underbelly," the other could be called many things - many of which I've in fact called him, LOL - but "non-visible" or "underbelly?" No.
There's nothing wrong with ACORN supporting Obama. Here's Wikipedia's description:
"ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a community-based organization that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, health care and other social issues."
It's no surprise that they'd back a Democrat rather than a Republican.
As for your not knowing what I was talking about when I posted of McCain's accusations that Obama had lied about ACORN, I'm stumped. Last night I saw a McCain Acorn ad which implied, if it did not explicitly state, that Obama lied. (Did anyone else see that?) Today I can't find it. It seems the McCain campaign replaced the ad with another one. On several sites I saw that the video is no longer available. I guess they realized their poll numbers would get worse if they call Obama a liar without any substantiation.
As a volunteer for the Obama campaign, I know that no attempts are made to file bogus voter registrations. If the Obama's campaign donated money to Acorn, I agree the campaign should pressure the organization to more closely monitor their employees, and they need to speak out against the fake registrations. Even though there is no voter fraud until actual votes are cast, fraudulent registrations create a lot of unnecessary work for the county election boards.
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
And I don't think it's just the right wing who are angry. I think most everyone in this country is angry because we have been deceived by our politicians and left paying the bills for their corruption.
Now there is a post I can agree with 100%!!!!
Don't forget the people who also refuse to say Obama's first name and instead just call him "Hussein Obama."
or "That One"
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Not only that but it's a felony. It's fraudulent registrations that open up the possibility of massive voter fraud. It would seem better to avoid any possibility of voter fraud, a fair untainted election should be everyone's goal. Ohio has concerns that some of it's absentee ballots may have come from fraudulent voters and they require less ID than would be required to vote in person. There is concern in Ohio that they may not catch the bad absentee ballots.
I didn't see the McCain ad you referred to and I don't generally pay attention to campaign ads on either side.
What I find distressing is not that Obama supports or a community organizer organization supports Obama, but that an organization with repeated and extensive voter registration fraud for years up to the present is supported by Obama.
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