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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The republicans have certainly proved that a national political campaign based entirely on fear, works. All one has to due is look at 2004. Now that the republican candidates for national office have entered into their fear-mongering state in 2008, who does this appeal to?
My nine year old fourth grader is a McCain fan.. Last week I finally asked him to give me one good reason he doesn't like Obama. "Dad, the TV said Obama was a baby killer!"
McCain-Palin and the republican party (who for years have advertised themselves as the "family values" party) have convinced my fourth grader that Obama is a baby killer, through their use of false, misleading and fear-mongering advertising and statements made in this national campaign.
This is not the America I remember growing up in. It time for change, real change.
Are those kids being tutored while being dragged around 24/7 on the campaign trail?
Home schooled? Or perhaps they just don't need no fancy book learnin'?
I've never seen the subject addressed.
Bulbous, bouncing, 40' tall purple aliens from the planet Spoon could land on Earth right now and I wouldn't understand them any more than I understand these angry, ignorant, trembling, paranoids. It seems that so many folks on the right, like the infamous Limbaugh Ditto-heads, revel in being spoon-fed propaganda and regurgitating it on demand. Like the nimrod bimbo who assured me the other day that "Obama is a Muslim and he's going to fill the country with Muslims". Uh, no. "But his name is Hussein!" I have a friend named Sarah, I replied, that doesn't mean she hunts Moose. "But he associates with terrorists!" Yeh, I associate with Republicans, but that doesn't make me a one."
John McCain and the Republicans will ridicule and embarrass you or your family members who came here looking for the
American Dream.
Most immigrants were illegal aliens until they received their
citizenship. Senator Obama has family in the same boat that you
or your family were in, he will understand and respect you.
Call all immigrant family and friends who can legally vote
and tell them to vote Obama / Biden
Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, everywhere
The U.S. is to the developed world as Alabama is to the U.S.
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god's little turnips
I can't wrap my mind around how everyone got the same turnip every day.
-- ohmeohmy
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Permalink Saturday, November 1, 2008 09:53 AM
And other spam-o-grams
Republican mailed
Voter enducements
Enjoining the fruits
Of two-faced
Political prostitution...
I have Republican friends--educated ones, that spew these same "fears"....I cannot explain it. My one friend wants to stay home with his kids on Wed in case Obama wins because they are "scared" of what would happen. What kind of lies and fear are these people preaching to their kids?
Under GW, THE GOP have nationalized Fannie Mae, major banks, insurers and maybe car companies---that is socialism! How could things be worse than they are now? If anything, these lower income folks in Central PA would benefit it richer folks had to pay more or share more... I just don't get it.
This is all they have left to campaign with.... Plain simple fear.
Pulling back on analysis and interpretation seemed to sharpen and bring to the forefront the picture these American voters present of a people simultaneously ravaged by free-market/classist/capitalist pathology while domesticated to fear the sharing of resources for the collective good.
It's my experience, that those who put it "all in God's hands", never take responsibility.
... The way that the Shrub squandered the global outpouring of goodwill towards the US
... the billions of dollars spent on the war in Iraq, when they are in a far better financial position than we are to run their country
... the thought of another underachieving mediocrity ascending this country's highest office
... the idea that Palin, who has already proven she knows nothing about the Constitution or the role of the Vice Presidency, being a 72-year-old-heart away from the Oval Office
... the possibility that someone who has run such an inept campaign as McCain could end up attempting to be head of our government
I've got to stop; I am scaring myself now.
I don't think Republicans are afraid, as much as they are spoiled. They are used to whatever moron their party nominates win the Presidential election. Since 1968, the GOP has won seven out of 10 elections, including the ultimate fiasco, the pResidency of George W. Bush.
Happily, it looks like we are being spared a McCain Presidency and God forbid, a Palin Presidency by succession - the thought of that would keep me up at night throughout a McCain Presidency, if the angry, grouchy old coot were to somehow get (s)elected.
It's Palin simple
Zitto-heads
Pus-filled
McCain-inflamed
Ugly pimples
I guess that's what happens when you live in a fantasy world of your own making, believing in ghosts, goblins, imaginary people, places and things. These people just make it up as they go, and the crazier the better to prove the strength of their faith and their ability to accept the absurd as truth, while the realities of the world are slapping them directly in the face, trying to wake them from their walking sleep. It's an unfortunate turn of the screw when these are the people deciding the fate of our country, and the world.
If Sarah Palin loses on Tuesday (my guess), she will quickly publish three books with a $5 million advance. One book will be a bio, a second one on child rearing and a third about faith (Snowshoeing with Jesus?) She will also become a semi-regular on Good Morning America and will hit the lecture circuit at $50k per night (Lots of corporate events). She will parlay the publicity this woman has garnered in the past month will into $50 million within five years.
If you know someone who is sitting on the fence, please use your powers of persuasion. I tipped my fence sitter by persistently informing her of the facts - without being overbearing or obnoxious. She voted yesterday in Ohio and she told me as she stood there "you betcha" and my rant about crazy Pentecostal Bitches and Mean Old War Hawks flashed in her mind and she touched the screen for Obama. YAY!
Please, please, please try - believe me, it's not too late. I know that I did my best and even though I'm wracked with anxiety about this election, I think I'll be able to wake up November 5th, after what I know will be a hellacious day as a poll worker, without guilt. I hope.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
