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  • Posted By: eyesee2 @ 11/14/2008 12:09:53 PM

    To "biggguy" You say you love your freedom of speech. Do you hate other American's freedom of speech and right to dissent? So you think anyone in the world who has propaganda that degrades the U.S. is a threat to us? You think killing people is the solution to your and our problems? I know it's hard not to defend the path you've found yourself on because that would mean admitting you are not perfect, but really think about what you are saying. Iraq played what part in the attacks of 9/11? Don't be blinded by your own country's propaganda that stirred up your thirst for blood from whomever and at whatever cost.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:26:37 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

    • Posted By: granny74145 @ 11/10/2008 8:24:50 AM

      AMEN!!! When did America become so demonizing of different ideas and beliefs?? Freedom of speech, religion, and so many others have disappeared, and that is what America was founded on. But instead, the real radicals, have been teaching hate of anything and anyone that is not in complete agreeance of their ideas. The neo-cons know who they are.

  • Posted By: wesmenno @ 11/09/2008 6:38:51 PM

    I hope and pray these extremists have not infiltrated themselves into the Secret Service and the FBI.

    But I am not confident. After all, who has been doing the screening for the last eight years?

    Please gentlemen, reconsider. He has yound children. He is not the devil.

  • Posted By: muslimsforpresidents @ 10/31/2008 12:58:00 PM

    Senator McCain you are no hero, you are in fact a terrorist.

    Your campaign advisor & "Transition Chief" William Timmons was a Saddam Hussein lobbyist for 5 years.
    You pal around with Gordon Liddy, domestic terrorist.
    You are a member of "The Project for a New American Century" - a radical extremist terrorist organization.
    Your VP candidate's husband Todd Palin is a domestic terrorist in the Alaskan Independence Party.
    You accuse Obama of knowing Rashid Khalidi, yet you yourself have given Rashid Khalidi & the PLO $500,000.00!!! So by your logic, if Obama is a terrorist sympathizer like you claim, then you Senator McCain are a state spronsor of terrorism. You are, by your own twisted logic, a terrorist by your own admittance.
    You have met with Chilean Dictator Pinochet, a terrorist.
    You're coordinated effort to use FOX NEWS, the Bush Administration, your campaign, Sarah Palin, and The Justice Department to commit voter fraud, voter intimidation, & voter suppression is an act of terrorism.

    John McCain you are a disgrace to your uniform.

    • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 10/31/2008 6:42:28 PM

      This kind of nonsense doesn't help anything. McCain is not a terrorist and neither is Obama. They are two men who believe in their country and want to make their country better, they just differ on how to go about doing so.

      Irresponsibly flinging the word "terrorist" around just incites people to make more irresponsible accusations.

      Save it for the real terrorists - the one who blow things up.

      • Posted By: willem1234 @ 11/09/2008 3:12:52 PM

        Enter Your CommentTook the words out of my mouth.......

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 11:55:11 AM

    How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party; SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

    1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
    2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
    3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
    4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
    5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
    6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
    7. Law enforcement and government personnel and ordinary citizens are used to spy on, control and break dissent.
    8. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
    9. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
    10. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
    11. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

    Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war. (See George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation)

    Of course, the Bush Administration has skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if their party is allowed to remain in power; it will be the only way for them to retain control over the citizenry.

    The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy

    http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

    THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR

    • Posted By: willem1234 @ 11/09/2008 2:52:24 PM

      Comparing the current Bush Administration to the Nazi Party is ludicrous, although I agree with a lot of your suppositions, which I believe were done through political expediance, craftily managed by Dick Cheney and the Haliburton Group. As for the loss of our civil rights due to the patriot act, well lets be honest, the democrats were in on that also. What George Bush is really guilty of is incompetance and lack of ability....

  • Posted By: The Seacher @ 11/04/2008 2:58:55 PM

    Many of you are obviously unaware of the infiltration of the KKK & White Supremest groups by East German & Soviet GRU operatives. The moles (disruptors) have been wating a long time for this oppotunity to start a race war in america. One thing Russians like Putin can't stand are successful democracies, look at how his operatives are working in eastern europe to destablelise those contries.
    I'll bet they already have some idiot skinheads finger prints on the shell casings to be found by the FBI.
    Obama can only do so much damage in 4 to 8 years, a full blown race war could last decades.
    This would make the communist very happy.

  • Posted By: GregHere @ 10/30/2008 6:32:59 PM

    ...................................................The Skinheads and the other Wierdos are throwbacks to America's racist past, nothing is really new, it has been going on for hundreds of years. The years of Slavery followed by the Reconstruction years that the South was sucessful in thwarting, the KKK did not really weaken much until World War II............the same backwards ways have been around for so long!!!!

    • Posted By: The Seacher @ 11/04/2008 2:40:45 PM

      Obviously some of you are unaware of the East German & Russian GRU operatives who infiltrated the KKK & White Supremest groups a long time ago. One thing Russians like Putin can't stand is successful democracies. The "disruptors" have been wating a long time for this opportunity to start a race war in America. I'll bet they already have some idiot skinheads figerprints on shell casings to be found by thr FBI.

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/31/2008 5:41:24 PM

    Do you want MORE WARS

    Watch McCain in his own words..............

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/31/2008 5:40:59 PM

    McCain in 2000 Defended ???Progressive??? Taxation from Charge of ???Socialism???: ???When You Reach a Certain Level of Comfort, There's Nothing Wrong with Paying Somewhat More???
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/mccain-in-2000.html

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/31/2008 5:40:42 PM

    Obama is a "decent family man, citizen.................
    "He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States.......

    Those are John McCain own words.....................

  • Posted By: Skipster56 @ 10/31/2008 3:09:41 PM

    'Twas the night before elections

    'Twas the night before elections
    and all through the town
    Tempers were flaring*
    Emotions all up and down!

    My wife in her bathrobe
    and me in my cap
    Had turned off the TV*
    Sick of political crap.

    When all of a sudden
    There arose such a noise
    I peered out of my window
    Saw Obama and his boys

    They had come for my wallet
    They wanted my pay
    To give to the others
    Who had not worked a day!

    He snatched up my money
    And quick as a wink
    Jumped back on his wagon
    As I gagged from the stink

    He then rallied his henchmen
    Who were pulling his cart
    I could tell they were out
    To tear my country apart!

    On Fannie, on Freddie,
    On Biden and Ayers!
    On Acorn, On Pelosi'
    He screamed at the pairs!

    They took off for his cause
    And as he flew out of sight
    I heard him laugh at the nation
    Who wouldn't stand up and fight!

    So I leave you to think
    On this one final note-
    IF YOU LOVE AMERICA
    GET OUT AND VOTE

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 10/31/2008 2:30:33 PM

    "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Violent animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists now pose one of the most serious terrorism threats to the nation, top federal law enforcement officials say.

    Senior officials from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) and Explosives told a Senate panel Wednesday of their growing concern over these groups.

    Of particular concern are the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).

    John Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, said animal and environmental rights extremists have claimed credit for more than 1,200 criminal incidents since 1990. The FBI has 150 pending investigations associated with animal rights or eco-terrorist activities, and ATF officials say they have opened 58 investigations in the past six years related to violence attributed to the ELF and ALF.

    In the same period violence from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and anti-abortion extremists have declined, Lewis said."

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/19/domestic.terrorism/index.html

  • Posted By: jvazz @ 10/31/2008 2:19:06 PM

    Stop the fear mongering!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/30/2008 8:24:50 PM

    The only bad guy Obama didn't associate with was Satan ...or maybe he has and we haven't found out yet. !!

    • Posted By: muslimsforpresidents @ 10/31/2008 12:59:20 PM

      Senator McCain you are no hero, you are in fact a terrorist.

      Your campaign advisor & "Transition Chief" William Timmons was a Saddam Hussein lobbyist for 5 years.
      You pal around with Gordon Liddy, domestic terrorist.
      You are a member of "The Project for a New American Century" - a radical extremist terrorist organization.
      Your VP candidate's husband Todd Palin is a domestic terrorist in the Alaskan Independence Party.
      You accuse Obama of knowing Rashid Khalidi, yet you yourself have given Rashid Khalidi & the PLO $500,000.00!!! So by your logic, if Obama is a terrorist sympathizer like you claim, then you Senator McCain are a state spronsor of terrorism. You are, by your own twisted logic, a terrorist by your own admittance.
      You have met with Chilean Dictator Pinochet, a terrorist.
      You're coordinated effort to use FOX NEWS, the Bush Administration, your campaign, Sarah Palin, and The Justice Department to commit voter fraud, voter intimidation, & voter suppression is an act of terrorism.

      John McCain you are a disgrace to your uniform.

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/31/2008 9:00:38 AM

    The Statement
    The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, on Wednesday, October 29, responded to Republican opponent Sen. John McCain criticism of Obama's relationship with Rashid Khalidi, an Arab studies professor at Columbia University, by suggesting that McCain also had a link to Khalidi. It said, "John McCain should answer why, under his own chairmanship, the International Republican Institute repeatedly funded an organization Khalidi founded, the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, over the course of many years."
    The Verdict: True. There was a relationship in the 1990s between the IRI, chaired by McCain, and the CPRS, co-founded by Khalidi, which received IRI funding.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/31/2008 8:11:48 AM

    Comment: Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

    And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your PRIORITIES.

    You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/31/2008 8:07:06 AM

    BUSHES LITTLE SIDEKICK
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. . Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    If you are tired of going back instead of forward hold them accountable this time
    This is our last chance to cushion the impact of of a economic meteor.
    If mccain cant use a computer even to send email do you really hes qualified to run our country during a depression
    Your common sense knows the answer

    Bush may not be on the ballot this year but his policies are
    You can have more of the same our we can turn the page NOW
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Nomorepolitics @ 10/31/2008 8:04:55 AM

    It was said that Newsweek is running out of things to report on about the election and has to resort to articles like this. Fact is, our country is going through a very bad time at the moment and like it or not Obama has run his campaign much better that McCain has. This article will hold a very strong importance if Obama is elected.

    I don't like our current form of elections/politcal parties, we just pick the lesser of 2 evils every election 1 candidate has a few good ideas with no way to pay for them and a bunch of bad ideas. The other candidate has a few more good ideas and no way to pay for them along with a bunch of bad ideas. The past couple of elections America has been split pretty much right down the middle. We are basically forced into picking a Democrat or Republican. Sure, we can write in a nomination or pick an independent but all that does is take a couple of votes away from 1 certain party. We have let ourselves fall into a very bad situation as far as politics goes.

    That being said, I would vote for Obama because I believe he would be "the lesser of two evils" in this election (not saying either candidate is 'evil'). The Newsweek article, in my opinion, is hitting a very important topic that we will all have to deal with soon. If Obama is elected and is assassinated, there will be riots in America from coast to coast. It will make the Martin Luther King assassination look like a fairy tale. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to live in America if that happens.

    As soon as Obama is elected I am plastering Obama support stickers all over my truck, just in case.

  • Posted By: Nomorepolitics @ 10/31/2008 8:03:47 AM

    It was said that Newsweek is running out of things to report on about the election and has to resort to articles like this. Fact is, our country is going through a very bad time at the moment and like it or not Obama has run his campaign much better that McCain has. This article will hold a very strong importance if Obama is elected.

    I don't like our current form of elections/politcal parties, we just pick the lesser of 2 evils every election 1 candidate has a few good ideas with no way to pay for them and a bunch of bad ideas. The other candidate has a few more good ideas and no way to pay for them along with a bunch of bad ideas. The past couple of elections America has been split pretty much right down the middle. We are basically forced into picking a Democrat or Republican. Sure, we can write in a nomination or pick an independent but all that does is take a couple of votes away from 1 certain party. We have let ourselves fall into a very bad situation as far as politics goes.

    That being said, I would vote for Obama because I believe he would be "the lesser of two evils" in this election (not saying either candidate is 'evil'). The Newsweek article, in my opinion, is hitting a very important topic that we will all have to deal with soon. If Obama is elected and is assassinated, there will be riots in America from coast to coast. It will make the Martin Luther King assassination look like a fairy tale. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to live in America if that happens.

    As soon as Obama is elected I am plastering Obama support stickers all over my truck, just in case.

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