Media Selectively Outraged by Campaign ‘Hate’
Displeasure directed at Obama is condemned; seething rage directed at Bush and Palin is ignored.
For years, haters of President Bush have likened him to Hitler, called him the No. 1 terrorist, talked about how stupid and evil he is, etcetera. And as his presidency draws to a close, BDSers (for Bush Derangement Syndrome) need an outlet for their hatred: they have turned into PDSers. It’s almost frightening in its intensity. It’s important to be engaged in the political process, but to allow your dislike of a politician or his policies to reach the point where it negatively colors everything isn’t healthy. Pajamas Media’s own Dr. Helen Smith recently wrote about “Palin haters,” where she commented that the behavior of the Palin hater in question “is nothing but the regression to a two-year-old: throwing a tantrum because she has no idea that other people have different opinions than one’s own and that those opinions may be just as valid or more so.”
Meanwhile, talking heads are tut-tutting over the “negative turn” of the McCain campaign, worrying that racism is rearing its ugly head.
Who has been injecting race into the campaign? Obama. His comments about how “they” will try to “scare” voters about Obama’s “funny name” and the fact that he “doesn’t look like the other presidents on the dollar bills” don’t exactly speak to the post-racism we have been promised by The One. Nor do references to McCain “bamboozling” and “hoodwinking,” straight out of a scene from Malcolm X.
McCain has bent over backwards to make sure he doesn’t say or do anything that could possibly be construed as racist or unfair, even garnering boos at a town hall meeting last week by saying Obama is a “decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements.” But, as Jonathan Martin points out, McCain is in a lose-lose situation. Bring up Obama’s questionable associations, which point to character and judgment? Racist. Yet when the Obama campaign says because McCain doesn’t use email he’s out of touch, the press buys the explanation that the focus is on McCain’s time in Washington, not his age.
I’m waiting for Good Morning America and those other morning shows to talk about the disturbing t-shirts and threatening comments aimed at Sarah Palin, courtesy of Obama supporters, in Philly last weekend. But I have the feeling I’ll be waiting for a long time.
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1. David Thomson:“The mainstream media”
This term must be thrown into the garbage bin of history. It fails to sufficiently describe the present reality: The MSM (main stream media) has evolved into the MSP (main street propagandists). It now reminds one of Joseph Goebbels and Pravda. Let’s cease being subtle. We should call them straight-out propagandists on behalf of the leftist agenda from here on end.
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:40 am 2. Valerie:I watched McCain get those boos. I must admit, that man has both courage and decency. I would also add that he has a refreshing degree of humility, because he admitted that he, who foresaw the dangers of the toxic mortgage mess and tried to right it, doesn’t understand the economy. Further, his pick of Sarah Palin showed the kind of game-changing brilliance we will need when we deal with other nations. I did not do a thing to get that man as a candidate, and I am grateful to the Republican voters who kept their heads and gave us a decent candidate.
Realignment, anyone? I’m up for realignment.
Oct 15, 2008 - 3:41 am 3. Lisa:They did the same shit with Hillary too.
They’ve decided the One should be our President.
We’re hosed.
Oct 15, 2008 - 3:43 am 4. RE:Media behavior and leftist antics have thoroughly poisoned the atmosphere for next several years.
America is divided into enemy camps. Looking out to the horizon, there will be no peace.
Oct 15, 2008 - 4:37 am 5. Tony:The MSM clearly has an agenda to get Obama into power so it ignores all the truths and realities that might suggest he’s not actually the ideal man for the job.
The minorities want to “stick it to the man” and get Obama into office irrespective of his suspect background in seedy Chicago politics.
McCain and Palin, who actually seem like perfectly decent human beings, are being treated like dirt by the media and the pro-Obama crowd in order to make their own canditate look better. Debunked lies are being repeated over and over deliberately to colour peoples views of the Republican candidates by those who know they should be acting more responsibly.
Ordinary folk who work hard for a living and earn their money are going to be penalised for their efforts by having more money taken from them by Obama due to his warped view on “fairness” just so it can be handed to people who are too lazy to bother doing anything for themselves.
And here’s the joke…….these clowns, these liars, these self-appointed moral guardians all really and genuinely truly believe that THEY are the good guys!!! That is what I find truly frightening. All sense of honesty has been throw out to get this guy into office and how Democrats can convince themselves that this is good, this is ok, is beyond me.
Oct 15, 2008 - 5:15 am 6. CaptDMO:If it bleeds, It leads.
Modern Infotainment can’t survive without miserable conflict to “report and opine”, that more folks will read all about it as “filler” between scanning all those pharma/wellness/”health”/beauty commercials and advertisements alluding to immortality.
OF COURSE they rely on the manufacturing of misery for the most possible people, kind of like ACLU, and “others” in the law industry.
Hence-RAH RAH for the historically and consistantly demonstrable [i]also-ran[/i], COMMUNISM !
Oct 15, 2008 - 5:27 am 7. CaptDMO:*sigh*
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Oct 15, 2008 - 6:27 am 9. geokstr:Amazing, isn’t it?
Palin/McCain can’t even run an ad showing a picture of Obama now because the media will scream “Look! They’re trying to frighten the stupid white hillbillies! They put a picture of a black guy in their ad!”
“RAAAACCCIIIISSST!!!!”
Oct 15, 2008 - 6:44 am 10. SAF:Countries are like people, they mature they get sick they get dead.
And in the end statistically everyone gets cancer. The cancer in the US is rampant, as seen by the obvious fact that the MSM has given up its role as neutral exposer of corruption to enthusiastic embracer of a candidate and party, among many others.
We may keep the same name but the USA of 2020 will be vastly different than the USA of 1986.
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:06 am 11. Christian Toto:Good column. The double standard is so glaring … it makes me wish a few brave souls at j-schools across the country would speak out about it.
I’m still waiting.
What I’m curious about is where all the lefty hate will go should Sen. Obama emerge the winner next month? All that angst, anger and venom must be channeled somewhere.
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:10 am 12. Cassandra Troy:BDS being 101 transferred on to Palin is nothing more but the projection of the huge gap of how the left like think of themselves (peaceful caring people) and what they really are (narcissistic fascoids): it’s how they deal with the cognitive dissonance.
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:25 am 13. Andrew Ian Dodge:These fake hysterics on racism and ‘code for racism’ I believe are cover for if rioting breaks out were Obama lose the race. They can refer back and say ‘hey, we told you then to be careful with words, it’s all your fault’. Moreover, it’s the typical Postmodernist tactic of political correctness of imposing self-censorship: nobody wants to called and look like a racist. There’s only one answer to this double standard: tell ‘em to put it where the sun don’t shine.
There has always been a double-standard between the left and the right. The left can be as vicious and vile but they mean well so its ok. The right are held to a higher standard because they are nasty and evil by definition.
The left are even more vicious to Palin because she is right-of-centre women. To them she is a traitor to her sex.
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:39 am 14. HonestAbe:Great article on Ayers in the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122402888900234543.html
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:43 am 15. scot:Chistian:
What I’m curious about is where all the lefty hate will go should Sen. Obama emerge the winner next month? All that angst, anger and venom must be channeled somewhere.
The first year or so will be filled with zeal about punishing those that opposed them, then like all “revolutions” they will turn on each other.
Oct 15, 2008 - 7:54 am 16. HonestAbe:scot…yeah the right is so virtuous and benevolent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbpZXivv-M
your sir are oblivious
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:01 am 17. BMoon:They did the same shIt with Hillary too. They’ve decided the One should be our President. We’re hosed. (Lisa)
Consistent with the Orwellian backdrop and motif of the Obama campaign and their mendacious mouthpieces in the Mainstream Media, the “unity” theme has divided all honest, good Americans. When they Goebelled Hillary, the conservatives snickered and gave the thumbs up. When they do it to Bush or Republicans, the Hillary Dems snickered and looked the other way. Now their doublespeak has both camps worried for the future of freedom.
“When they came for the Jews…”
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:05 am 18. tanstaafl:CNN ran a negative report on Annenberg/Obama/Ayers last week and, more recently, this…(must watch video)
CNN Report on ACORN/Obama campaign
It’s a little shocking (albeit welcome) to see and hear CNN doing some of this kind of reporting.
Newsrooms/newspeople, oh yeah, filth that matches their anti McCain/Palin bias flies high, while every excuse for wrongdoing/shadiness by The One and his people is glossed over or ignored.
I’m very sad for this country.
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:09 am 19. Rudy:I’m afraid that the “Hate” from the left will be directed at the near 50% of voters that did not support BHO. Anything that the left wingnuts in congress want to pass will be ok with BHO supporters. It will be an “In your face” attitude and public discord with Blacks will be come very strained and one sided. If any of you have heard the word “Uppity”, you will hear a whole new meaning of it.
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:10 am 20. tanstaafl:Barack Obama himself makes verbal gestures at condemning the nastiness and viciousness that his partisans direct at the other side. This aloof disdain for filth is hailed as a generous gesture by him, so the candidate can look Presidential and stand aside as his supporters descend into the second ring of hell.
Very convenient.
His patina of élitism, his attempts to make under the table deals while in Iraq ASIF already President, his (and his wife’s) haughty demeanor and lecturing about how America and Americans will need to suck it up and “change” their ways (while they themselves have been wasting millions traveling around campaigning for about 2 years now), his promising people that “things” will be levelled out, economically, under his administration (redistribution of income through taxation and giving out of freebies is not a power of the President)…
…have already offended me to my core.
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:35 am 21. Paul From Hamburg:“Honest”Abe:
Regarding your link to the Wall Street Journal
First of all, it is not an “article”. It is an opinion piece. Second the author, Thomas Frank, is just a little too cute. He makes it sound like Ayers’ terrorist past was just radical rantings. He fails to mention that people actually died.
If Ayers is such a great guy now, why isn’t Obama honest about the nature of their relationship?
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:36 am 22. mk:I’m amused by the vitrol thrown towards Palin.
So far it’s:
1. She’s a Woman!!!
2. She’s got Children!!!!
3. She’s married to some dude!!!!
4. She’s a puppet of someone mean!!!!
5. She’s stupid!!!
6. She can’t talk!!!!
7. She’s a beauty contestant!!!!
8. She didn’t like when her nephew was tasered!!! Or when some family member had their life threatened!!!!
It’s absolutely disgraceful, this treatment. For all the talk of racism, it’s pretty clear that sexism is alive and well in politics. Although it’s pretty telling that American media doesn’t seem to notice that Israel’s Livni is a chick….
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:39 am 23. HonestAbe:Paul, my point in linking the article was to suggest that the vitriol and character assassinations are not so black and white. Do I agree with his methods at all? No. I think the bedrock of a civil society is one’s adherence to working for change through a society’s institutions. Subverting them is an absolute worst case, last resort. Ayers had done wrong but he’s done some good as well. Obama has a working relationship with the guy…like I have a working relationship with some service providers I work with. I’m friendly but have no idea what their beliefs are nor do I know what their family life is like and frankly I don’t care.
Next, mk.
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:55 am 24. iconoclast:I realize you’re using hyperbole for effect, but please understand that there are real concerns about her abilities as a critical thinker and informed citizen. Even members of the right have been highly critical of her behavior, experience, judgment and aptitude. You know the references. I would cite her interviews, debate at the national level, her debate from Alaska, positions on energy, anti-choice rhetoric, and her end-times and creationist beliefs. Please see Religulous. This is not sexism. It’s a red herring that let’s you reconcile your “faith” in this woman. There are plenty of thoughtful, articulate, informed women on the right. Heck, I look forward to seeing Meg Whitman run in California. The criticism are not and have never been about her gender but her treatment, in fact, is probably less harsh than it should be. SHE IS A JOKE, a political gimmick. When she ran for governor, she played the religion card and ran as a reformer like EVERY SINGLE candidate. Any moron would run as a reformer given what happened up there. She’s adept at reading political winds, identifying with electorates and I really do believe she’s probably a nice, caring woman. That doesn’t change the fact that her nomination was (a) a dangerous choice for the country and (b) reflective of how little leadership and control John McCain has of his own campaign. Those should be real concerns for you and other members on the right.
The Palin t-shirt seems to readily come under the category of “fighting words”, as defined by the SCOTUS. Just uttering that prohibited racial epithet (no, not Paddy) can cause a legitimate (i.e. no criminal charges) fight.
Just in case anyone wishes to extend a learning moment to those so ignorant as to think that such an expression is protected….
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:58 am 25. BMoon:Ayers had done wrong but he’s done some good as well. Obama has a working relationship with the guy…like I have a working relationship with some service providers I work with. I’m friendly but have no idea what their beliefs are nor do I know what their family life is like and frankly I don’t care.(Abe, not honest)
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:30 am 26. Boris:Either you are in serious denial or just engaging in kneejerk dissimulating. Ayers’ attempt to subvert the U.S. by trying to kill U.S. servicemen, which backfired and killed his co-thugs instead (proof there is a God,) is no different than his attempt to subvert the U.S by grafting his virulent ideology into school textbooks and education programs. Obama’s involvement with him was not coincidental by any stretch of the imagination. They share the same pathological ideology and goals has has been shown to exhaustion.
Come on, it’s not fair to judge Obama supporters by people in Philadelphia. It’s the worst city in the hemisphere for Heaven’s sake. Yes, worse than Detroit.
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:32 am 27. kelly k:There’s an old story that a couple of reporters were sitting around a newsroom when they received a phone call. The anonymous caller said he had a huge tip. He knew that there was a plot to assassinate the mayor on the steps of City Hall that afternoon. He couldn’t go to the police because they were in on it. Could the reporters do something? The reporters jumped into action. They grabbed a notebook and camera and ran over to City Hall so they’d have an exclusive on the murder as it happened.
I don’t think there’s a long tradition of honesty and integrity in journalism. E.g., if you read contemporary news reports and editorials about Abraham Lincoln, the vitriol and dishonesty is shocking. I think the difference is, since Vietnam or Watergate or whenever the Boomers graduated from j-school and replaced the old newsmen, reporters have seen themselves as crusaders for truth and justice. It’s very much their self-created image. It’s just a delusion based on the idea that you own the truth and that you know what’s good for the little people out there. AKA progressive politics.
I guess my point is, dishonesty is nothing new in the media. We just have to stop expecting them to be anything other than what they are.
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:49 am 28. tanstaafl:Ayers had done wrong but he’s done some good as well.
Nothing good has happened in Chicago education since the Annenberg millions were dumped into cronyism and brainwashing schoolchildren and/or since Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have decided to use “positioning” instead of bombs to accomplish their never changing, radical objectives, the destruction of “middle classness” and “capitalism” and their replacement with “something better” (that would be, uh, something akin to the philosophies of Ché, Mao, Fidel, Oogoe Chavez…you get the drill)
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:52 am 29. Boris:Seriously though, clearly these random “Obama supporters” on the street are scum. What about the local Republican party that put a “Waterboard Obama” image on their website? These are local party leaders engaging in this kind of stupidity. Tell me which is worse.
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:52 am 30. tanstaafl:Here, you can watch the charming couple in (more or less) real time. Bill still “hates” capitalism (tho’ all the drugs have turned his memory to sh!t) while the brain dead Bernadine finds Ward Churchill’s ideas, you know, uplifting and junque.
Gag me with a Maggot or two, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:07 am 31. HonestAbe:It may not be coincidental, but neither must it be sympathetic. Again, I work with a lot of vendors and do not share all their beliefs (I have no idea really what they believe).
If the right insists on making this election about Ayers not only will they lose but they do the country a disservice by not promoting the fiscally conservative programs McCain does sponsor and I think have real merit. But hey what do I know I’m sure it’s all about media biases, left wing idolatry, blah blah blah.
“They share the same pathological ideology…” For what? Education reform? probably.
for violence against American institutions? please send some of that exhaustive proof.
Again, feel free to keep arguing this inane drivel. Oh by the way in a recent survey public opinion on McCain has soured for two reasons (1) the increased negativism and (2) Sarah Palin. Here’s the link:
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_10722297
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:11 am 32. always right:Think of the mental masturbation these brave folks (like the guy in Palin t0shirt) must have felt.
This is their ‘Speak Truth to Power’ shining moment.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:19 am 33. Dr. Mark:Obama let his Marxist guard down recently with his “share the wealth” statement to the plumbing contractor in Ohio. This election, more than ever is why passing a basic I.Q. test ought to be required for voting eligibility. Oops, that would be racist, sexist and suppress the vote..DISenfranchising so many…yeah, that’s the idea!!!!!
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:27 am 34. tanstaafl:Obama let his Marxist guard down recently with his “share the wealth” statement to the plumbing contractor in Ohio.
Quite something, wasn’t it ? And there was a semi hysterical (and, apparently, somewhat broke) woman, to whom The Savior was giving reassurances as to how he was gonna be fixing her up so she’d feel less of the pain of her own lousy life management decisions and other bad decisions.
Why do you think they call it the Nanny State ? Paternalism, baby. First you rope them in with promises of free lunches, then you own them.
Any government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:36 am 35. Mwalimu Daudi:~Thomas Jefferson
Given the Far Left’s growing taste for censorship, it seems safe to say that the MSM’s “enraged conservatives” meme is a prelude to a crackdown on civil liberties during the Messiah’s Thousand-Year Reich. First demonize and dehumanize, then prosecute.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:49 am 36. Mister Snitch!:If you examine other instances of similarly selective reporting – in particular, reporting on Muslim extremists – you will see a pattern. That is: The press won’t report on many (not all, but many) stories that are likely to turn around and bite them. Therefore: They will report on “Christian extremists” but not Muslim threats. Reason? Christians don’t bomb newspapers or issue death threats.
Same applies re Obama. McCain just doesn’t inspire fear in newsrooms. By contrast, Kelsey Grammer plainly stated a week or two ago, on Fox (the only place it was safe to say this I suppose) that he caught flak in Hollywood for making a film that mocked the left (An American Carol).
Writers, editors, directors, actors and reporters stand to lose by openly backing McCain or anyone on the right. News, publishing, TV, music and movies are all businesses. We expect them to be special – to deliver ‘truth’ to the public – but at base they are businesses and not much more than that. In this way, their bottom line if to avoid controversy, because controversy destroys profits.
This is a fact of life that, like making sausage, the media would rather not talk about. So they don’t. Instead, they insist that no POLITICAL bias appears in their programming. Which may even be true in many instances. But their INSTITUTIONAL bias – the bias necessitated by the bottom-line interests of the newspaper, network, publisher, etc., shows through loud and clear.
Critics of the media, like PJ Media, would do well to understand this and challenge established media on that basis. “Political” bias is difficult to prove. How do you know Reporter X favors John Kerry? But by following the money, clear cases CAN be established for institutional biases.
Take care, though – “truth” is a volatile and dangerous commodity. After all, PJ Media wants to survive and profit, too. And it has its own sacred cows.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:49 am 37. Dark Eden:I prefer the term DNC Media, its much more accurate.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:53 am 38. Douglas Bogle:Never fear Obama is here.
The MSM does not seem to understand how a socialist world works. No freedom of speech. The MSM will be sucking up to him just to survive.
IE Hugo Chavez. Let us nationalize everything and you listen to and read what I tell you.
10 years after the Venezuelans wanted change.
Never fear Obama is here.
Oct 15, 2008 - 11:12 am 39. Insufficiently Sensitive:What I’m curious about is where all the lefty hate will go should Sen. Obama emerge the winner next month? All that angst, anger and venom must be channeled somewhere.
The looting. All those unjust businesses who make ‘profits’ on the backs of their oppressed workers must be harnessed immeditately to yield those assets to the worthy and deserving. And when that’s not judged sufficient by the righteously indignant, whatever confiscations are necessary.
Oct 15, 2008 - 11:20 am 40. Mwalimu Daudi:Douglas Bogle:
You are assuming that there is a difference between the Democrat Party and the MSM. I would argue that the Democrat Party is merely the political wing of the MSM.
What will be interesting to see is when the Messiah turns on His MSM patrons after November. It would be a purely internal political purge in the same way Stalin went after his fellow Communists, not a battle between two separate and independent organizations that happen to have mutual goals. There is a reason why the MSM was never subjected to campaign finance laws, and it is not because of concern over free speech. It was because the MSM had the political pull to exempt itself while seeking to censor others they disagreed with.
Oct 15, 2008 - 11:29 am 41. comatus:tanstaafl, Jefferson did not say that. Barry Goldwater did.
Oct 15, 2008 - 11:30 am 42. T.H.:Here’s what I’ve learned from the candidacy of Barack Obama so far:
1) Racism is bad. In fact it’s so bad that when confronted with a situation in which none exists (as is the actual case with McCain’s treatment of Obama), racism must be manufactured. Obama and his followers miss no opportunity to create more of it. Because it’s that bad, or something. And don’t you forget it.
2) Sexism is good. Sexism sells Obama. It sold him over Hillary and it’s working wonders for him against Sarah Palin. No attack on women as women is too base, vulgar, unfair or discriminatory enough where the Obama camp is concerned. Those you-know-whats deserve it anyway for daring to challenge Him.
So will these two Great Themes of Obama somehow end up benefiting the American people? Will the extra-helpings of fake racism and real sexism somehow create prosperity, or domestic tranquillity, or an end to foreign turmoil?
I expect we’re about to find out. Thanks, Obama. Thanks a lot.
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Oct 15, 2008 - 12:09 pm 44. Redball:I am old, but I believe I may yet live long enough to see a second American Civil War, this one with religion at its center. Those in the media and the political class will be very surprised when it becomes apparent that they have been targeted first for retribution by the extremes of the society.
Oct 15, 2008 - 12:18 pm 45. Dale:“Displeasure directed at Obama is condemned; seething rage directed at Bush and Palin is ignored.”
You’re putting just as much of a spin on this as anyone else. “Displeasure”? Is it “displeasure” that causes Republicans at McCain/Palin rallies to shout “KILL HIM!” and “OFF WITH HIS HEAD!” in reference to Obama?
I don’t pay much attention to main stream media, maybe they are biased, but I’ll tell you for sure there is a lot of seething hatred on the right.
Now, I’m not saying the views I’m about to describe are correct, but from the centrist/leftist perspective, rightwing hatred of Obama is largely unjustified. They only hate him because he’s a Democrat and many hate him just because he’s black.
On the other hand there is plenty of reason to feel displeasure towards McCain and Palin. They represent years of increasingly authoritarian and oligarchical rule by Republicans, the erosion of US civil liberties, the decline of American education and scientific literacy. Republicans represent missed opportunities for world cooperation, the squandering of huge political capital after 9/11, the end of Pax Americana, and now possibly the end of American capitalism and the coming of another Great Depression.
Palin herself represents the mobocracy that the Republican Party has become, with its scorn of intelligence, education, and knowledge. And she is a bold faced liar! You just can’t beat around the bush about that. She claimed the Troopergate report exonerated her when in fact it found that she violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
I’m not saying that’s a completely correct point of view, I’m just telling you what the perception of the Republican Party is among the majority of Americans, the people who will be voting for Obama in November. Yeah, there’s a lot of seething hatred out there, and people in the center and left of center think feel justified in their seething.
Just as the Democrats were mostly out of power for the last 28 years, so also the Republicans will be for the next quarter century or so, and so you’ll have plenty of time to correct these problems.
Oct 15, 2008 - 12:43 pm 46. peter jackson:Obama’s platform is utterly underwhelming. His “new” kind of politics didn’t survive the primaries, leaving him with a standard Democratic boilerplate campaign. He brings no new ideas to the table. The war he campaigned on ending is won already.
Every conversation I have with white Obama supporters that goes beyond policy ends thusly: but don’t you want to see a black man President of the United States? I am not immune to this question. Being a white man from the deep south, I’ve lived my entire life putting up with racialist friends and relatives and being suspect of being racist myself simply because of who and what i am. Surely there are some people in this country who would like to see a black president more than I would for their own reasons, but there aren’t many. Few are more anxious to see the post-racial America more that me.
But will the election of Obama bring about that era? Hardly. Obama has not merely been the one who has “injected” race into the campaign, he is RIDING race like a unicorn all the way to the White House. For every white voter who votes against Obama because of his race, there will be a dozen white voters or more casting a vote FOR him solely because he’s black.
Oct 15, 2008 - 12:58 pm 47. Mike T:HonestAbe,
Based on that logic, most people who have committed serious acts of evil really just aren’t that bad. You say that the character assassination issue isn’t black and white, but here there is neither black nor white, just gray.
If you need some background on Ayers and the controversy over Palin’s connections to the AIP, this post of mine has some good references (if I posted all of the links there, it’d be a foregone conclusion that I’d set off the spam filter here). Suffice it to say, the real moral problem with Ayers is that as recently as 2001 he’s admitted that he maintains that he wishes he’d been more successful at his acts of terrorism.
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:03 pm 48. jane:How nice for Obama that all his suppogates in the MSM can do his attacking for him while Palin and McCain only have a few nut jobs who show up at a rally or two.
Obama has a running discourse of mocking attack vehicles from the Times, the WaPo, and every other left leaning paper but the Republicans get called out for individual civilians whose words have a narrow audience.
But of course that guy calling for Ayers’ head is somehow so much worse than daily smears from the MSM.
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Oct 15, 2008 - 1:22 pm 50. Tonto (USA):20 days from today it will be over. The American public will have spoken and made their choice. I say, it will be more like making one’s bed and being content to lie in it. I must say that I have been shamed, yes, shamed by the activities of my government from time time. Obama strikes me as being an opportunist. He certainly is slicker than a high class pimp. Very charismatic and glib. But if one really thinks about his “plans” and views his history of illogical and overly emotional causes, he looks to be always playing to those who want something for nothing and money for free. There seem to be lots of those out there, people that think they are owed something just because they happen to be drawing breath. That brings me back to the earlier point of being shamed. I am shamed that I have worked so long and so hard for what small monies I have, just so that some slick talking clown can take it away and give it to those who feel no need to work at all. Or give it to those who come to this country illegally and feel that they can just belly up to the trough and schlurp away and the available freebies that we have worked for. Well, if that’s what they want, fine. Have at it. I’m cashing out all my investments, I’m selling everything I own. I’m going to buy a single wide trailer in the boonies and go on welfare in Michigan or California (where the welfare payout is pretty good), just relax, smoke dope and talk shit about my neighbors. Hopefully I won’t get nicked in a drive-by. Come on Obama! Come on Pelosi and Reid! I needs mo money! I needs mo benifits! I needs mo freebies! Keep up the good work and I’ll vote for ya until the money runs out and America goes bankrupt.
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:25 pm 51. Someone75:Umm . . . I think there’s a big different between calling Palin a c*** and threatening to
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:48 pm 52. mk:“kill her”. I don’t approve of the slogans on those t-shirts and they represent the worst of the liberal activists, but it’s much different from threatening violence.
abe, sweetie,
I’m not “on the right.” Honestly, I don’t care about politics. This treatment of this woman is disgraceful. And no i’m not using hyperbole. If someone ever stated that I was incapable of my job because of my uterus, I’d probably beat him to death with the boot.
Sexism is fine, as long as it’s Palin. No one bothers to look at other perfectly capable women with the same microscope. Have they done this with Livni? How about Golda Meir? How about Margaret Thatcher? How about female CEO’s of companies?
No?
there is something wrong with the media when they’re so busy obsessing over Palin and not even touching Obama’s racist pastor, his terrorist friends, his earmarks, his voting present so many times.
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:49 pm 53. OsamaLinBiden:I must have missed something. Did Obama and Biden start accusing McCain and Palin of being terrorists? Did their supporters scream “kill him (her)” at their speeches? And they didn’t say anything? I find that hard to believe.
Oct 15, 2008 - 2:01 pm 54. Ditto:Re: Quotes attributions
“Any government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”
~Various sources attribute this quote to Jefferson, Gerald Ford, Barry Gold Water, as well as Colonel David Crockett, Congressman, 1827-1835
Another of my favorite quotes:
“My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans, how do you know if you are a Republican? Well, I will tell you how:
“If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a Republican.
“If you believe that a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican.
“If you believe that your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does, then you are a Republican.
“If you believe that our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children, then you are a Republican.
“If you believe — If you believe that this country, not the United Nations, is best hope for democracy, then you are a Republican.”
~California Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger
Oct 15, 2008 - 2:41 pm 55. Chuck Pelto:TO: All
RE: Hmmmmm
Seems to me that we need a designated ‘attack dog’ to bring the hypocrites into the open.
Maybe we could get someone to do a homosexual porn flick with some one who looks like Obama. I understand, via Drudge Report, that someone has done an ‘adult movie’ with someone who looks like Governor Palin.
We could do a compare and contrast on coverage that would make the so-called major media look like merde….to anyone who has more than two synapses to rub together.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Oct 15, 2008 - 2:54 pm 56. tanstaafl:comatus
Others say it’s misattributed to Goldwater and is from a 1974 speech by Gerald Ford.
Anyway, it’s a pretty good line, tho’ I did not have a lot of use for Gerald Ford.
On the topic, here are some (definite) Buckley-isms, William F. Jr. not the more recently in the news yapping son Christopher.
“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
“One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.”
Oct 15, 2008 - 3:17 pm 57. Bill Ayers:–They represent years of increasingly authoritarian and oligarchical rule by Republicans, the erosion of US civil liberties, the decline of American education and scientific literacy.–
You really can’t get this kind of entertainment anywhere outside a lunatic asylum.. Well done, Moonbat!
Oct 15, 2008 - 4:50 pm 58. Ben-Peter:Pam Meister hits the nail on the head. Haters are projecting and deflecting. Look how they treat Bush – and yet preach tolerance.
I think that the media nuts are so scared of a Republican victory – and so desperate – that all ethics are out the window for The One. If these liberals are truly confident about winning America, then why are they deflecting? Why are they trying so hard? Perhaps we need to explore their fears more – and use them to our advantage. The Democrats must think McCain has a good chance of winning. What else motivates ACORN?
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:19 pm 59. Edward A:Why is there so little hate directed towards McCain and so much towards Palin?? Could it be the disappointment felt by many of his selection of a light-weight. And, at his age, McCain should have selected a leading GOP woman with knowledge and experience. Maybe an east-coast elitist, like those who founded our nation and wrote our Constitution….those elitists who read history books and studied would have been a better choice.
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:23 pm 60. tim stevens:“racist” take it as a badge of honor. every time a dem, lib, socialist, tree-hugger, or “protected/historically oppressed” groupie screams it, take it as complement. it means they are losing the argument and they know it.
i like to respond to “racist” with “is that the best you can do?”
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:31 pm 61. Final Debate Reactions | The Anchoress:[...] many of you were waiting for McCain to say the C-word re those tee [...]
Oct 15, 2008 - 9:43 pm 62. Marc Malone:Someone75 – Threatening violence? Like Sandra Bernhardt hoping Palin gets gang-raped by four black guys? She’s not just some anonymous guy in a crowd. She was a paid entertainer saying this to a large audience. She WAS the speaker, not an audience member.
I think it’s time you shut up.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:12 pm 63. RE:The media has done the American people a great service this election cycle. They have exposed themselves for what they are. There can no longer be any doubt about their objectivity, honor, or intent.
Those who continue to support and patronize the media in its current incarnation have only themselves to blame for America’s continuing cultural rot.
Oct 16, 2008 - 5:18 am 64. tanstaafl:And, at his age, McCain should have selected a leading GOP woman with knowledge and experience. Maybe an east-coast elitist, like those who founded our nation and wrote our Constitution….
Oh yeah, for sure. Some fake, smug élitist instead of a real woman with real executive experience.
Honestly, between liberals primarily liking Barack Obama for his “presentation” (of self) and his posturing so the world will “like” us again, it’s enough to give you a headache. They hardly notice (or seem to care) that Obama’s posturing and presentation come inside an Empty Suit.
As for foreign liberals that American liberals are hoping to “please” so they will like us…Europeans themselves have elected Sarkozy, Merkel, re-elected Berlusconi, the Canadians just gave Harper another mandate…Foreign liberals are frustrated, so they’re hoping that at least in America one of their own, philosophically, can be elected.
So at least America will go in a direction that their own voters have rejected.
Oct 16, 2008 - 7:15 am 65. jane:It’s hard to understand why anyone would think McCain should have selected “an east-coast elitist, like those who founded our nation and wrote our Constitution” vice Palin.
Isn’t that the exact type of member Congress is already full of? The Ivy League educated, lawyers who have done little but feed at the government pork barrel? You know – that Congress that has an approval rating even worse than Pres Bush? The exact type of Congressman who has done such a poor job that the taxpayer is now on the hook for BILLIONS of dollars to dail out the financial system?
If the current Congress doesn’t make people understand that we need a different type working for us in DC it’s hard to know what would. Those elists haven’t been doing such a great job have they?
Oct 16, 2008 - 7:32 am 66. tanstaafl:Our Founders may have been, technically, “élitists” according to the standards of their day.
But (most, not all) of the current crop of Congresscritters hardly falls into the intellectual or worldly category of the authors of the Constitution and the Federalist papers.
The Founders were hard working people who looked to what had gone wrong in Europe (such as “the church” calling the shots in matters of state) and made a collective and concerted decision to devise a document that avoided many of the pitfalls they had identified.
I don’t think you can ascribe such lofty credentials to Congressional wheeler dealers of today, whose major preoccupations seem to be behind the scene jockeying to get themselves re-elected and larding on the pork.
There’s a reason the approval rating of Nancy’s “House” is in the single digits. The reason is that most Americans aren’t completely brain dead. Yet.
Oct 16, 2008 - 8:06 am 67. sonya:Nurse Who Exposed Infanticide-Based Abortions: Obama Lied During Debate
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 15, 2008
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Chicago, IL (LifeNews.com) — The Chicago-area nurse who exposed the practice of life-birth abortions that led to he bill Barack Obama repeatedly opposed in the Illinois legislature says Obama lied about his record during the final presidential debate. Jill Stanek says Obama again misrepresented his position and record before the American people.
As LifeNews.com reported, John McCain took Obama to task during the debate when the topic turned to abortion.
“Sen. Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion. He voted against that,” McCain said.
Obama responded to the charge by repeating his claim that he voted against the bill because it would have undermined Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that allowed virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy.
However, as Stanek explains, Obama voted for an amendment to the bill to mitigate those concerns and subsequently voted against the legislation anyway.
Stanek said the bill, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, “simply stated all born alive babies became legally protected persons immediately upon birth, no matter what gestational age and no matter if unwanted abortion survivors.”
“Obama voted against this straightforward human rights legislation four times stating as the sole state senator speaking against it on the Senate floor in 2001 it would be ‘unconstitutional’ to declare very premature abortion survivors persons,” Stanek explained.
Obama also defended his votes against the anti-infanticide bill by claiming “there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing lifesaving treatment.”
Stanek also called that a “lie” saying “Illinois abortion law to this day only protects abortion survivors their abortionist deems fit to live.
“The potential for subjective assessments in these cases is clear to all but Obama. In fact, Obama opposed closing this loophole by voting against legislation to mandate a second doctor be present at deliveries of all live abortion survivors to independently assess their viability,” she said.
Obama not only voted against the bill to protect newborns who survive failed abortions but the Chicago-area nurse says he took a leadership role to defeat it.
Stanek points to Obama’s own campaign web site which indicates he approached the Illinois Planned Parenthood affiliate to develop a strategy to defeat that measure and the ban on partial-birth abortions.
Despite Obama’s claims, Stanek says Obama ultimately voted in 2003 against a version of the bill identical to a Congressional anti-infanticide bill the Senate approved on a 98-0 margin and on which the pro-abortion group NARAL took no position.
“He then purported several times, as recently as August 16, 2008, that the bills were not identical and he would have supported the Illinois version had it been the same as the federal version,” she said.
Obama’s campaign finally had to recant from that position after documents from the Illinois legislature proved him wrong.
“I’m beyond disgusted that Obama continues to repeat the same lies without the mainstream media investigating and denouncing him. We’ll see what tomorrow brings,” Stanek concluded.
Oct 16, 2008 - 9:47 am 68. jerry:Uh, the Kill Him meme has been debunked by the Secret Sevice but as usual the blue shirts of Obamanation continue to repeat the lie.
Oct 16, 2008 - 10:24 am 69. Someone75:Marc:
I didn’t hear Sandra Bernhardt say that, so I choose to believe you’re lying. It’s the same logic you people are using. But by all means, keep drinking the McCain Kool-Aid.
If Palin gets raped though, I hope she’s got an extra $1400 for her rape kit.
And thanks for telling me to shut up. “Shut up” is the linguistic crutch of a man without logic or reason on his side. Like I always say, if you can’t win on the issues . . .
Oct 16, 2008 - 11:11 am 70. jerry:Someone is a Moron. Nobody paid for Rape kits in Wasilla while she mayor. That is another lie that you keep repeating.
Oct 16, 2008 - 12:04 pm 71. momof3:And yes, sandra bernhart DID say she wanted sarah palin gang-raped by black men in new york. Its on TV. Research a little bwfore you call people liars for stating the truth. And stop lying yourself on the rape-kit thing. That’s just past pathetic.
Oct 16, 2008 - 1:42 pm 72. JeannieAZ:What would happen if McCain supporters showed up at an Obama event sporting T-shirts with OBAMA IS A N*GG*R? (They’d probably be killed!) It’s obvious that Republicans are more polite and respectful.
Oct 16, 2008 - 2:20 pm 73. Someone75:jerry:
Um, you might want to dig your head out of the sand and start watching the news again. Raped women DID pay for rape kits. If you don’t believe it, you’re willfully deceiving yourself. It’s a matter of fact. It’s documented.
momof3:
If you don’t believe facts that are recorded and undisputed, then why should I believe your facts? Of course I know Sandra Bernhart said those reprehensible things, just as YOU know that women of Wasilla paid $1400 after being raped. Time to stop getting all your news from PJMedia. I’ve even seen this on Fox. Seriously – you call me clueless?
Oct 16, 2008 - 2:27 pm 74. fred:jeannieAZ is absolutely spot on with her observation. In my personal dealings with people I scrupulously avoid talking about politics, but the Left crowd is “in yer face” with their stuff, angry, caterwauling, and looking for a fight. I know that I an say nothing because I would never be allowed to make valid points or even have them accepted.
I was a Democrat all my life until 2002. I was a very civil one, and there are many of them. But little by little they’ve been leaving the party. Their places are taken by rude, truculent younger Leftists who lack all grace and intellect.
Republicans ARE more polite and reserved.
Oct 16, 2008 - 3:53 pm 75. jerryofva:Someone is stupid. Nobody paid for Rape kits in Wasilla. There was a state law to that effect but it was never enforced.
Someone is being laughed at. Obama knows that most of this stuff is made up. And he is just laughing at his supporters that believe all the talking points. Obama knows his supporters are fools. In fact he is counting on it.
So Someone is an idiot and he will keep repeating the lies and Obama will keep laughing at someone.
Oct 16, 2008 - 4:44 pm 76. jerryofva:Follow up on last post. The ultimate debunking of a Obama-inspired lie.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODA1YWM5ZjM2ZTU5ODliZTY2NTczMGUwZWYwNTVlMTQ=
And Obama laughs on at his idiot supporters
Oct 16, 2008 - 4:59 pm 77. tanstaafl:And he (Barack Obama) is just laughing at his supporters that believe all the talking points.
Useful Idiots in service to an agenda are such total Idiots they don’t even know they’re being used.
Ask Stalin, Lenin, whomever gets the “credit” for defining Useful Idiots.
Oct 16, 2008 - 5:51 pm 78. Javelin:Pam, only a stupid right wing robot is going to take your utterly banal and predictable rant, so save your time. Please, what does BDS mean, isn’t that something that morons scream to defend Bush after yet another eff up?
Oct 16, 2008 - 9:16 pm 79. Robohobo:This BS is never going to work, No one is going to change their vote cause someone insulted Palin! Palin is a dimwit but perfect bait for all the semi literate knuckledraggers who have her as their fantasy hunting partner and tentmate.
A professional mentor of mine and I had this conversation the other day. And I paraphrase.
“I had an epiphany recently. Conservatives think Conservatism is a political philosophy. Conservatives think Liberalism is a political philosophy. Liberals think Conservatism is a political philosophy. Liberals think Liberalism is Enlightenment. That is why they cannot be reasoned with nor can their minds be changed because they know Truth.”
This is so true it hurts. That is why we Conservatives are shouting down a well with these folks like Javelin et. al. This is why Obama worship is just that. He is one of their Enlightened Ones with Them. They know Truth. And that Truth is unassailable. This is also why it is going to be a long struggle before we can rid the country of the disease, if we ever can. They are very akin to the radical Muslims of the ME.
Best to ignore them or just ridicule them and hope they go away.
‘Those that believe in nothing will believe anything.’
Oct 17, 2008 - 2:16 pm 80. Robohobo:Someone75:
Back up your assertions with links. Put up or…
Oct 17, 2008 - 2:18 pm 81. Someone75:Robohobo:
Support my argument with links? Why? You guys don’t feel the need to do that when you blast me in the comments. I’m called a liar with absolutely no proof. Hey – I’m just playing by your rules.
Also, just so my post fits the style you people seem to prefer, “you’re a liar and a troll, so shut up”
Oct 17, 2008 - 2:26 pm 82. Someone75:http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep11/0,4670,PalinRapeKits,00.html
Question: why did it take her two years to finally get around to this? Maybe because she just doesn’t care?
Oct 17, 2008 - 2:29 pm 83. Marc Malone:Someone75 – I suggested you shut up, rather than told you to. I said it because your previous statement was obviously wrong. There was specific, notorious evidence to contradict your statement. You had to know about Sandra Berhardt! There was a big article on this site. You blog on every one of them, so I know you knew, but you said what you said anyway. Shameless.
Regarding the rape kits, there were 5 rapes in that timeframe in Wasilla. Three of the victims had insurance, so they billed the insurance company. Why not? They are obligated by contract to pay for the treatment. They collect premiums, so they should pay when the time comes. The other two were not charged. It’s just responsible government to try to keep costs contained.
Is that satisfactory explanation for you? I don’t mind you posting, when you’re not just spreading the Dem talking points and rumors. You’re welcome to a different interpretation of ideas and events, but expect to get called out when you get your facts wrong or spread the lies.
Oct 17, 2008 - 4:12 pm 84. John:The REAL issue in reports of this type is not the partisanship of the media or the righteousness or evil of the liberal or conservative cause. These acts are perpetrated by Americans against Americans, regardless of party affiliation. The analysis of such actions, whether emanating from left or right on the political spectrum, suggests retaliation is okay, because the other side did something similar. Sounds like a puerile playground justification for beating up another kid; he/she called me a name first. The real issue here is that America is tearing itself apart from within, and not a radical Muslim named Hussein in sight. As an independent who refuses to abandon common sense may I suggest that all of you political ideologues get a grip on your emotions and start attempting to act like rational adults. Patriotism has many colors, but it does not thrive in an atmosphere of irrational behavior, ideological hatred, whining, and stupidity.
Oct 17, 2008 - 5:38 pm 85. Someone75:Marc:
I apologize. I was being purposefully hostile. I enjoy our exchanges – it’s always interesting. Although, when I’m surrounded by hostility and not engaged in any sort of discussion, it’s just too tempting to respond in-kind to some of these people. At the end of the day, it’s all in fun anyway. I hope it is for you too.
Oct 17, 2008 - 6:46 pm 86. TWizneski:I don’t understand the black community: They’re picking, as the first black President, a man who will go down in history as a greater failure than President Carter. Would they not prefer someone bound for success in that office?
Oct 18, 2008 - 2:06 pm 87. Marc Malone:Someone75 – Apology accepted. It’s not ALL in fun for me.
John – We ARE in a war of ideology here.
The conservatives believe in the tried-and-true policies. The progressives believe they’ve come up with a better system. The conservative view is based on faith and religion, as well as historical empiricism. The progressives believe in a secular society and the almost religious worship of science and secular philosophy.
Nothing wrong with science. It’s just that, the less religious people become, the more “progressive” they become. They start thinking of some idealized system, as if people have really changed over all the millenia. This makes them the insurgents, working against the established order of our society.
I’m a fiscal conservative. I believe in responsible money management, ESPECIALLY when it’s not my money! Why, to my mind, would anyone think differently? Liberals want to experiment, and always with other people’s money. Why would anyone ever think like that, unless they’re just children? Take risks with your own money, not mine!
I’m a social moderate. I just don’t get wrought up about gays and abortion, for example. I believe both are wrong, but I understand the need of a government to represent ALL its citizens’ beliefs. I don’t care if the government wants to declare a gay couple married, as long as my church doesn’t do it. I’d like to see one standard for life and death: a heartbeat. No abortions after the heart starts beating. Such an agreement would bring us closer together on the issue, and make for far fewer abortions.
Social conservatives would pillory me for my position, but I believe the reason we’re struggling in the fiscal battle, is because we haven’t separated it from the social battle. Agreement on the fiscal issue would pretty much destroy Liberalism. That’s why Reagan was so successful, to my mind. The Reagan Dems got on board with his fiscal and foreign affairs policies. His ‘84 reelection was a HUGE landslide for that reason. The side effect was to make liberal social values less credible.
Now with the fiscal mess, Liberalism is making a huge comeback. The insurgents are winning. Conservatives have to win every time. The Libs only have to win once to destroy this country in these times.
Oct 19, 2008 - 3:49 am 88. Someone75:Marc:
Yeah, it’s hard to tell with plain text. Irony, sarcasm, and facetiousness don’t really translate. I’m trying not to take things too seriously because, it’s just not worth it. I could care more than anyone else has ever cared about anything, but nobody really cares how passionate I am about any particular issue and it won’t change a thing.
Oct 19, 2008 - 6:39 pm 89. Marc Malone:Someone75 – I think you sell people’s caring short. People don’t care how much you know, until you show how much you care.
I like to think I do a fairly decent job of showing exactly where I stand on things, and why. I get a lot of dialogue, responses, and even an occasional accolade. It tells me people really read what I say. It’s not enough for most people to hear precise reasoning. They have to know where you’re coming from as a person, first.
Your humanity has to come through. After that, they can give you the benefit of the doubt and see the subtleties of irony, et al.
I’m on a roll today. You’re the second guy I disagree with all the time, with whom I’ve made some human connection today. The other was vivo in the Governator article. I gotta be careful, or I’ll be getting along with the opposition. Horrors!
Oct 19, 2008 - 7:29 pm 90. Brian in Idaho via Detroit:My knee jerk response is to say so what! But as I thought on this more a troubling scenario emerged in my thought processes. The country seems to be split 40% hard core right and 40% hard core left. That leaves the middle 20% up for grabs. These undecideds could not have an easier choice to make. Free market capitalism vs socialism. Yet they are undecided. My take is they are not sure about anything and are waiting for someone to decide for them, Gemini’s if you will.
That is why the press needs to be free and OBJECTIVE. If they are in the tank for one side then how can the election be fair? The polls have short lag time behind whatever narrative the press is pushing. My wife and are constantly saying who do they think they are fooling with this coverage. The truth is they are not trying to influence me. They are after the Gemini’s. Obama can say I don’t know Ayers until the election and he knows the press will not call him on it. Here is the important thing, they will cover it to an extent but will not show outrage like they do about say a Sarah Palin supporter saying what the press believes her supporters secretly feel. Gemini’s respond to that emotion.
We are under siege. It has been the analogy of the frog in the slowly warming water. Do you notice it getting uncomfortable to be a conservative? Colin Powel has. As has C. Buckley, Sullivan, Parker and the likes. We must push back or the fairness doctrine will be enacted in the two areas where free speech reign, radio and the net.
Oct 19, 2008 - 7:42 pm 91. Someone75:Marc:
haha – yeah, lets not get *too* friendly! Actually, I think you and I probably agree on more than we’d like to admit. We just never exchange on anything that isn’t really controversial, or political.
How about the bailout? I think nationalizing the banks is a terrible idea.
Oct 20, 2008 - 12:26 pm 92. John Spiller:Greed is driving the human race to extinction. Just look at Wall Street. More is not enough. Yet, we bail them out.
Politicians will go to any length to get elected. They will twist and distort anything to get the “brainless” electorate to believe what they see/hear.
We are sending human beings to their deaths fighting in parts of the world we have no business in. Vietnam should have give us a lesson in a no win situation.
We are fighting an ideology that can rise up anywhere on this planet. How does getting troops killed defeat that?
As for the negative campaigning, what about the media. CNN, FOXNEWS, MSNBC, etc. They take these negative ideas and run them to death. Sean Hannity for example. Stuff that is two years old still dominates his airwaves. Then the public gets sucked up in believing them. Forget the REAL reason for electing a President – economy, jobs, education, health care, etc.
Take Joe the Plummer. McCain brought him up. McCain chose to use him for his own slant.
Imagine – a majority of Americans are having a tough time putting gas in their cars, paying their bills, putting food on the table, fear of foreclosure. McCain calls them welfare.
Yet instead of discusing the issues, Joe the Plummer is dominating the news.
Has anyone heard specific ideas from McCain/Palin to give relief to the middle class? Has anyone heard specific reform plans that McCain/Palin are proposing once they get elected? Has anyone asked Palin how her husband belongs to a group that advocates secession from the USA by Alaska? Has anyone asked how Palin got all the so called reform in Alaska? Perhaps – abuse of power to force the issues be done her way or the highway. Do it my way or your fired.
Simple:
Go to McCain’s website and read his specific plans on what he plans to do
Go to Obama’s website and read his specific plans on what he plans to do
Compare the two and decide which one is best for you. THEN VOTE. Then live with your choice.
And, all we have to do is change the channel when either a negative speech is being made or the overpaid experts on CNN, FOXNEWS, MSNBC romance the negativity going on…. Lots of live sports on and old movies.
So, research the real data and VOTE. Nov 4th is coming – and remember, if you don’t vote, then you have lost your right to voice your complaints.
Oct 20, 2008 - 1:43 pm 93. Expressions:The mainstream media will always support their liberal illuminati alliances. What I don’t understand is that they’re trying to take away people’s rights as to who they represent, and their freedom of speech.
Oct 25, 2008 - 11:25 am 94. Trimelda:Let us pray:
PRAYER TO THE DIVINE CHILD JESUS AND THE HOLY INNOCENTS OF ABORTION
Oh Divine Child Jesus, Who as Total Innocence Itself was incarnated through the heart and womb of your most Holy Mother, Mary, protected from all harm by the hands of your Warrior Angel Michael and covered by the protective fatherhood of Saint Joseph who fostered you on earth, hear our cry to You.
This day millions of innocent children call out to You to avenge their blood shed by the evil and malicious hands of medical men and women who should be dedicated to life, but revel in death and cruelty. Once again You are being crucified; this time in the name of “freedom,” while so called Christian men and women of God stand by and watch the Holocaust, laugh at Your sufferings and jeer at those who would try to stem this tide of evil.
Forgive these people for they know not what they do. Have mercy on those who turn their heads and allow their unborn brothers and sisters to die and their parents to lose their souls for the sin of murder. Your Word pronounces judgment on the shedders of innocent blood and those who would stand by and let it happen. So all of us confess ourselves as guilty before You without excuse that we let this happen and even worse, that we let this go on for almost 40 years.
We have called good evil and evil good and have been proud to call ourselves Christians while trampling Your Laws and breaking Your Heart. We have no excuse. We deserve Your punishment. But in Your infinite love, dear Jesus, offer up our prayers for mercy to the Father. Beg Him to turn His just wrath away from our land, our churches and our people. We know what we should do, but we haven’t done it. But now we do what we should have done years ago as a people called by Your Name-WE REPENT!
On our knees with tears and supplication, we repent of our sins that led us to this state. We surrender our souls to You that we might be forgiven. We beg for the strength we need to be used by You to turn this nation around and make it once again The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
This one last time, dear Lord, in union with the children who have been murdered by abortion crying before Your Throne, we cry out, “Save us, Oh Lord, lest we perish.” Save us lest the monsters of sin take over the running of this nation. Give us mercy and not judgment or we will perish from the face of the earth and drag many nations down to destruction with us. Do not let us be a mockery and a shame to our ancestors who suffered so much for Your Name’s sake.
Give us the power to rebuke and uncover the spirits of murder, scandal, perversion, confusion, shame and lies that are running rampant in this world. Empower us as we especially rebuke, bind and cast down Satan, the Father of Lies and a Murderer from the Beginning. In the Name of Jesus in the power of His Blood, we loose the power of the holy angels to restrain the Devil until the Day of Judgment. Holy Michael the Archangel, take hold of the Dragon who seeks to devour the Child of the Woman, as it says in Revelation 12 and cast him down so he can no longer seduce the nations.
We reject Satan and his lies. We reject the glamour of evil that would seek to corrupt our souls. We reject the power of sin that would have us choose expediency over righteousness or acceptance in any culture over truth.
This day we bind ourselves to Your Will alone for the glory of the Father in this matter and in all things. We submit ourselves to You and call revival on this land. We don’t deserve it, but this day give us revival, dear Jesus and restore this Nation to Your Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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“God be with you and your loved ones”
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