Seriously.. Obama rallies are a real hate-fest. Why, just the other day a fight broke out over what was better with baby spinach: smoked tofu or seitan.

Hah hah, of course, everyone knows that the real macrobiotic solution is smoked tofu, DUH, idiots!..

Speaking of vegan food, looks like McCain could use some toasted flax seeds.. he seems a little.. constipated as of late..

www.fivethirtyeight.com has McCain's win percentage at 5.9%

Yes.. Republican candidates cannot be expected to control everything said by their supporters in a rally in which they are in attendance, have employed various theatrical and rhetorical devices to excite or incite the crowd. Perhaps, like late night shows with live audiences, they use a "whip" to get the crowd fired up before the taping begins.

That sounds reasonable to me.

But if someone makes an intemperate comment on a message board of a liberal-slanting blog on the internet that is not in any way associated with a Democratic campaign, it's "hate speech."

I see the Republicans want to do this dance again.

When a Democrat advocates peace, charity, education, safety and health, then they are being wussies. When a Democrat fights back, its hate speech.

But when a Republican threatens to kill a US Senator and the leading candidate for President.. its an expression of patriotism? Its boys being boys, hockey moms being hockey moms?

Its clear which party is the party of organized hate. Hint: its the one that wants a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

"Oh Bill, are you ever right about anything?" *sympathetic sigh*

Unfortunately for Barack Obama, he does not agree enough with Ayers.

The fact is Ayers was a freedom fighter and he was against our illegal, imperial war in the South Pacific against innocent Vietnamese, who had democratically elected Ho Chi Mihn to lead them, and who had never and still have never, ever attacked America.

John McCain, as a willing member of the American Imperial Jackboot Deathsquad -- a commissioned officer, no less! -- is a war criminal.

I'm sad that our next president is not going to be Dennis Kucinich, but I am practical. I am not in love with all of Obama's policies, especially the continuation of American Imperialism.

But I will take him over John McCain and his hate squad any day.

Maybe we can offer Republicans lifetime tax breaks in exchange for voluntary lobotomies and sterilization?

Damn straight, Greenwald, send all those bums to the Hague!

Its funny, because a few years ago when I started reading you, I got the impression that you would hold just short of the sort of invective that now reasonable people are spewing toward the current administration that one was the exclusive domain of the vegan coffee-shop hemp clothing anarchist set: Bush is a criminal, America is a failing empire, blood for oil, etc..

All of these things and more are clearly true, however. It must be very tiring for you to keep chipping away at these unpopular truths until they become part of the usually vapid, fact-free, folksy, aw-shucks, American can do no wrong discussion we see in the media.

Thank you for your dedication. Thank Bill Moyers, David Broncaccio and even Rachel Maddow. Thank all of your for proving that reality indeed does have a liberal bias -- at least, in that "conservative politics" is so divorced from reality that anything truthful is therefor liberal.

Does anyone else see the humor is "Historybuff1" indirectly quoting Aaron Sorkin to make his/her "point"?

Also, as to inciting to riot, and indirectly respond to Historybuff1's "point";

I see no one (well, hardly anyone) in the Obama camp calling for anywhere near the sort of violence to be visited on Bush, Cheney or McCain and Palin.

There is a certain small minority calling for an organized campaign to place Karl Rove, John Yoo, David Addington, Roberto Gonzalez, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and were they not under the protection of the Secret Service (SS anyone? no, too far?), Bush and Cheney under citizen's arrest for their war crimes.

I am among that minority.

..and if I were for the death penalty, which I certainly oppose, I would say that for some of them "hangin' is too good".

But I am a radical who believes in crazy things like if you are responsible for the unjust deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians you are a war criminal. That if you eavesdrop on millions of innocent people without a legal court order, you are a criminal. That if you peddle influence and deal in cronyism, you certainly have no place in a supposed democratic form of government but instead should oversee some banana republic.

At best, George W Bush is a two-bit, self-aggrandizing hack; a character much like Forest Whittaker's King Idi Amin, minus the actual fortitude to personally dispatch his enemies (Bush hides behind a military he himself "served" only by the loosest interpretation of the word). At worst, Bush has on his hands a body count that rivals the worst monsters of the 20th Century, all for the grave and criminal folly of his Daddy-complex driven campaign to leave his mark (stain) on history.

In that sense, Bush is more blood thirsty, more psychotic and more dangerous an animal than Amin was. As examples of human beings, I think both are fairly deplorable.

What I find alarming, getting back to McCain, is that we have (thankfully, according to www.fivethirtyeight.com, less than a 1 out of 10 chance) the ability within our sights to elect another maniac with a paternal inferiority complex whose campaign is, as Greenwald pointed out, increasingly characterized by inciting to riot as stump speech.

Does America have Daddy issues? Senator Obama's wasn't there for him, but it didn't turn him into a sociopath. Wherein lies the cause of this American National Sociopathy (forgive the pun, Godwin)? Because that is what American exceptionalism is in a nutshell: sociopathy on a national scale.