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Republican Mailer In Ohio Targets Wright, Says Obama's "Friends" Are "Hostile To America"

The Republican Jewish Coalition -- which recently hit Pennsylvania mailboxes with a mailer implying a vote for Obama could produce a second Holocaust -- is now hitting Ohio with a wave of incendiary new mailers that directly target his association with Reverend Wright.

"Barack Obama's friends and advisors: Pro-Palestinian, Anti-Israel, even hostile to America," reads the mailer, adding that his associates harbor "anti-Israel views" that are "dangerous, naive and reckless."

A second mailer attacks Obama on Israel with a picture of the Wailing Wall, a holy site whose use in a political attack could prove offensive to many Jews.

Ironically, both mailers, which are presumably targeted to Jewish voters, landed in the Columbus-area mailbox of Cliff Schecter, the author of the anti-McCain book "The Real McCain." Schecter sent them in to us.

Here's the Wright mailer, with the Reverend's photo squarely in the center, above the words "hostile to America" (click on the images to enlarge):

And here's the Wailing Wall mailer, which hits Obama for supposedly backtracking on his support for an undivided Jerusalem, a claim strongly disputed by the Obama camp:

Schecter also says he received a copy of the Pennsylvania missive on the Holocaust, meaning that the Republican Jewish Coalition's campaign is active in multiple states.


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This is the type of campaigning that should be condemned. Not only are you insinuating Obama would be ok with the death of millions of people, but that he himself is the reason why it would happen.

And people wonder why they worry about Obama being assassinated.

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This is what the face of desperation looks like. They are in their death throes and I couldn't be happier.

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I guess the next Congress has their work cut out for them. Extensive campaign reform complete with legal boundaries drawn, penalties, and legal enforcement to curb excesses the public has been abused with on this one.

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That's real cute. Won't stop this wave though, we will crush these Republicans and their destructive tactics.

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Yes! Crush them! We must gas them all when Herr Obama rises to powa! dowhowahahaha!

Ahem.

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There is not slime through which this Republican Jewish Coalition will not wade, is there?

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I'm forming the support group: Friends of Barack (called "hostile to America").

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The irony of all this is, of course, (on the assumption that this is yet another pathetic rerun of the sermon clips out of context) that Wright is paraphrasing, into a contemporary setting, the words of Prophets like Amos, Hosea, Jeremiah, to name three, and the very words of Jesus himself,,,, those 'woe be to thee' clips in the Sermon on the Mount, for instance, actually read, 'curse you or God has/willed you'. Wright was just speaking inconvienent truths,,,,, and we all know what happened when folks like Amos, Hosea, Jeremiah, and Jesus spoke those selfsame inconvienent truths now don't we?
If history is any indicator,,,, the producers of those ads and their fans, are in fact, binding themselves to that same curse.
Nothing like putting twelve years of grad school to work now and again, now is there. 8>)

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The other irony is that by pointing to his relationship with Wright, they prove he's a Christian!

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No no no you see he's a _secret_ Muslim. He's just maintaining that relationship with Wright as a smokescreen.

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Ohhhhhhh..... so Wright is likely in on that, huh?

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No, no, no. Obama converted Wright to Wahabi Islam a few years ago.


Who was once but the apprentice is now the master.

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The burning issue is of course how to reconcile his Godless Marxism and communism with his theocratic agenda...

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All these radicals -- Marx, Emma Goldman . . . Jesus Christ . . . Jeremiah . . . .

What are Jews to do but either self-hatingly hand-wring or self-hatingly lie against our own!?

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All these radicals -- Marx, Emma Goldman . . . Jesus Christ . . . Jeremiah . . . .

What are Jews to do but either self-hatingly hand-wring or self-hatingly lie against our own!?

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Now that's funny too. Great use of the Darth quote. So now he's a Islamofacist anti-Semite socialistic pro-government but anti-American anti old people African American? Wow, how can one person hold so much hate?

In the spirit of being anti-old people, Here's Hillary Clinton in KY trying to get rid of McConnell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4h63v-HuJ0

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We can't have that now, can we?

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Obama and Wright are not against America; in fact, they love America so much they want to turn it into a socialist Islamic theocracy.

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You couldn't be more correct, Frog Leg.

Obama spent 20 years in Rev. Wright's church; that proves he's a Muslim.

Bush partially nationalized the banks and bailed out Wall Street; that proves Obama is a socialist.

Republicans constantly pander to the Religious Right with anti-gay-marriage ballot propositions, lobbying to post the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and church-based anti-choice legislation. The Republicans also established the Office for Faith-Based Initiatives in the White House. That proves Obama is a theocrat.

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Sure. Of course you know right now Bush is just Obama's puppet, right?

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Tell me.

What church does McCain attend?

REGULARLY !!!!

Sinners aren't allowed to cast stones...only receive them

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You couldn't be more correct, Frog Leg.

Obama spent 20 years in Rev. Wright's church; that proves he's a Muslim.

Bush partially nationalized the banks and bailed out Wall Street; that proves Obama is a socialist.

Republicans constantly pander to the Religious Right with anti-gay-marriage ballot propositions, lobbying to post the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and church-based anti-choice legislation. The Republicans also established the Office for Faith-Based Initiatives in the White House. That proves Obama is a theocrat.

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The socialist part of it shouldn't be all that bad: though it was Jew Jesus Christ via Jew Karl Marx who invented it, Islam* invented mathematics, and we Americans are sufficiently literate to handle the abacus.
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*Islam = Christianity + Muhammad.

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Fuck off Frog Face

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Get a grip. It's satire.

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hey, it ain't easy to tell anymore!

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Golly gee whiz, there's a new strategy from the Republicans - guilt not by association, but by INSINUATION!

What the f*** else does the Republican Party have to run on except what if's, assumptions and "Well, you lived in the same city that Al Capone once controlled...that means you're in the Mob!"

All false with not one single source to back up these claims, they still release this bullshit...and people still believe it. Not all, but just enough.

God forbid state election laws should require sources be placed on these mailers to show whoever created it didn't just pull the lie they're spewing straight from their ass.

Only shows they know Photoshop and Quark well enough to design these pieces, but clueless on how to provide concrete proof the shit they're shoveling has any merit, which it doesn't!

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And BTW, before I get besieged with comments about "there are sources listed on these cards!", I know that - I'm referring to other mailers I've seen (and received) that spew every lie out there with no sources whatsoever.

Aren't these mailers supposed to be approved before they're sent out??? If not, a law should be made requiring them to be!

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Approved by whom? The campaigns? The government? The Republican Jewish coalition?

Every time I think that this crap must stop, another part of my brain tells me that we can say what we want (to a point). When does this crap actually become defamation and not just free-speech protected fear-mongering? It would be nice if the press would expose this as the bullshit that it is.

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Golly gee whiz, there's a new strategy from the Republicans - guilt not by association, but by INSINUATION!
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Watch that "Golly gee whiz" stuff: it's a Palinism. And you well define what it means for those who use it.

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Republicans: Fighting for the Right to Lie!

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Beware those who say they are Jews, but are really from the synagogue of Satan (the love of money...)

Obama is no threat to Israel. But the redistribution of wealth from the top down threatens Israel's own hypocritical, money-hungry, sociopathic neocons, who use the faith of their fellow countrymen as tool of deception.

Blasphemy personified...

Scratch the surface of this "religious" group and all you see is greed and the mad scramble for fleeting, failing fortunes.

They use their most precious holy symbols as tools of their desperate defense of their privileged class.

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You're just as full of crap as the shitheads who put out this anti-Obama mailer. I'm not Jewish, so I have no self-interest when I say take your prejudiced fist and go fuck yourself.

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Now that's a screed . . .

One needn't be Jewish to know the theological sources and the authors of them, and the claims based upon those sources by the descendents of those authors, and the hypocrisies into which those suroces are transformed.

Nor need one be Jewish to know that there are those who will lie that they are Jewish for any number of negative reasons.

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Today probably isn't the day to mention that I agree with Wright, who to be fair, in the context of his sermon was Godamning an America that enslaved an entire race, counted them as 3/5 human, and oppressed them terribly for 200 years.

I will never understand this idea McCain-Palin and the Republicans put forth that they've "Always been proud" of America....It is such simple-minded, nativist bullshit.

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We can thank Fox News in their zeal for seeing Senator Clinton nominated and Senator Clinton herself for exposing Wright in time for the nuance and full context of his sermons to be documented.

It was only after Rev. Wright went off the reservation in his National Press Club interviews that I doubted his true nature. I think by that time he was lashing out at the press and others for the unfair treatment he was receiving.

If McCain had "used" Wright from the beginning I think would have backfired the way it eventually did on Hillary.

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That whole goddamn thing was very sad. They tormented Rev Wright, really, and he's not a young man and has a lifetime of service to his god and his country behind him.

It was inexcusable for the press to have played along with that.

But you are correct about Hillary and Fox.

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McSame has a short memory: the voters have already seen:

1. The Wright stuff; and rejected it; and,

2. McSame's lying; and rejected it and its source.

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Palin's always been proud because it saves her from having to think.

Anybody that is proud of how we treated Native Americans is lacking a single firing brain cell in their head.

That's Palin - she is the clay that Putin - I mean Cheney will mold into a true sock-puppet.

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To this day people ignore native americans. Just go look at what the white man did to the real americans of this country. They're still indentured to their reservations and still are discriminated against to this day. I wonder if Obama will end their suffering?

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Yes! He will end their suffering! He will gas them! Gas them all! Herr Obama is the new Hitler, didn't you read that!

Ahem.

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Off topic but for fans of Rachel Maddow(like me), here's an in depth article:

http://nymag.com/news/media/51822/

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The Western (Wailing) Wall is called Al-Buraq in Arabic in honor of the buraq or burak, a magical flying white horse in the Koran. Barack visited Al-Buraq back in July.

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Any word on whether Mohammed came back down on his magic horse from heaven and had a chat and a cuppa with Al-Buraq Obama?


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Yes, and Obama was brought 43 virgins as an advance payment for his conversion to boot.

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And note that the magical horse was (is still?) WHITE!

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And note that the magical horse was (is still?) WHITE!

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And since you're a "doctor" you probably already know that the rock that the horse ascended into heaven carrying Mohammed from is also considered the Rock of Abraham - so it's a three-fer, like everything else in Jerusalem.

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You're alive! Fuck off, then!

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TPM - Can you help me and all of us? Where is the accountability for these groups? How can we access them, report on them and call them out? After tomorrow night, I am going to be a political junky without my daily fix. I am ready to jump on these outside groups that sent this sort of incendiary bogsu crap in any way that I can.

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I hardly overestimate the intelligence of the average voter but I really think the ninnies to whom this silly shit appeals were already won over by Simple Sarah's witch doctor.
Let's keep the engines fired until it's over anyhow.

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Great point... this tactic won't actually change any minds, but it will help push some wingnuts deeper into their wingnuttery.

When I think about how gullible anyone would have to be to fall for this tripe, I keep remembering a neighbor kid, who's dad was always telling him "would you jump off a cliff if someone told you to?"


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And when one ask's a person that question, and they fall silent in order to think about it, you know you're dealing with a wingnut who knows it would be stupid to say "Yes!" but who secretly are saying "Yes!"

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Frog Leg... you've been in that pot of gradually heating water so long you haven't noticed you're boiled. Here's a link that'll help you cool down a before your bitter end:
http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/

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PS... why do you suppose "the common people heard him gladly" when Jesus mentioned that thier royal king, David, gave homage to God?

....ecause GOD DID NOT WANT THE ISRAELITES TO HAVE A KING IN THE FIRST PLACE!.

He wanted them all to remain as equals.

Any self-appointed superior privileged class (like the original Levitical line, then the royal Davidic line, and now the modern Neocon line) will always find the same futility unfold before them, especially in an age of democratic reawakening such as we witness today.

We are watching the cycle play out once again, three millennia later. Speak the truth about our privileged class, and the common folks will hear it gladly.

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And the U.S. is Rome this time?

And Christianity is now the Imperial State Religion?

And this election is the battle of Actium?

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Most execllent, dude!

I see the point!. If all are equal, then there is no need for one to lead because everything is shared amongst all.

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I'm reading an essay by John dean on TruthDig about NcCain and Palin and came across something to share:

Altemeyer believes about 25 percent of the adult population in the United States is solidly authoritarian (with that group mostly composed of followers, and a small percentage of potential leaders). It is in these ranks of some 70 million that we find the core of the McCain/Palin supporters. They are people who are, in Altemeyer's words, are "so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds."

Altemeyer has spent 25 years researching this behavior. Amazing he's so on the money with the repugs mental male-up.

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I wish you people who quote John Dean on Altmeyer would research the literature. The analyses of authoritarianism/authoritarian personality go back to at least Freud. And before Altmeyer, also, were psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who were in, and survived, Nazi concentration camps, to subsequently write analyses of authoritarianism/authoritarian personality from direct observation.

In other words: who in hell is Altmeyer?

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I wish you people who quote John Dean on Altmeyer would research the literature. The analyses of authoritarianism/authoritarian personality go back to at least Freud. And before Altmeyer, also, were psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who were in, and survived, Nazi concentration camps, to subsequently write analyses of authoritarianism/authoritarian personality from direct observation.

In other words: who in hell is Altmeyer?

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it's been said there are no original thoughts; all are built on what's come before (this thought included).

so who the hell is ...? ad infinitum...

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it's been said there are no original thoughts; all are built on what's come before (this thought included).

so, in other words, who the hell is ...? (ad infinitum)

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All these radicals -- Marx, Emma Goldman . . . Jesus Christ . . . Jeremiah .

And Emma didn't get a bailout neither, right?

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Would she have been hand-wringing if she had?

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According to The Independent Florida Alligator, the University of Florida daily student newspaper, Josh Simmons, chairman of the โ€œGators for McCain,โ€ says that he voted for Barack Obama about two ago and that he submitted his resignation Sunday night.

http://washingtonindependent.com/16496/florida-gators-for-mccain-resigns-votes-for-obama

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Conscience prevails... I'm praying for his safety.

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"I expect them to be incredibly pissed off," he said.

Ya think?

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They're intent on trashing the place on their way out. they know they're going to lose badly, and they want to poison the environment as badly as they can.

These people are Un-American, pure and simple.

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Word Up!

Look what Bush is up to - literally trashing the environment before he leaves.

That's such a chickenshit maneuver - it's very Middle School.

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Thank God this very long campaign is about to come to an end . . . I can't take much more of this constant hate mongering. Since election day is tomorrow, the web is dominmated with reports of nothing but hate articles and videos from these desperate Republicans. With all that they have thrown out, how in the world can they face the Democrats they will have to work with in congress now? The fact they will is proof they are brainless, incompetent "sheeple" programmed for the PARTY!

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They aren't going to face the Democrats in Congress because they are losing their seats in Congress.

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Frog Leg... you've been in that pot of gradually heating water so long you haven't noticed you're boiled. Here's a link that'll help you cool down a before your bitter end:
http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/

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For the gop they should hope these mailers didn't arrive around the same time as the quarterly 401K statements, or foreclosure notices...

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Well, yeah, they are all shit people don't want to see...

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Speaking of ads, this is pretty damn funny!

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/03/mccain-spell/

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Trying to make Palin look more smart, I guess!

(deliberate grammatical error... also for SP)

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I assume everybody knows that "The Virtue of Selfishness" is a book by Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (aka Ayn Rand).

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I hate Ayn Rand! Does that make me an anti-Semite?

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Worse, it links Obama to anti-semitism vicariously.

Radical Left Wing blog pulling for Obama has a clearly anti-semite reader=Obama is an anti-semite.

Love that GOP Logic.

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Hey, anyone else notice that Hays poll out of AK with McCain 48, Obama 45? Never heard of that outfit, but could you imagine taking both AZ and AK? That would be glorious!

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As an American Jew, I am pleased that the most recent polls show Obama will receive the votes of about 75 - 80 % of Jewish voters. I can understand that some Jews believe so much in the pseudo-conservative values of Bush and McCain that they will vote for McCain. What I cannot understand is how any Jewish organization can send out the disgraceful material that the Republican Jewish Coalition has been mailing. After the wretched treatment so many Jews have experienced throughout the ages, it is almost inconceivable to me that Jews could participate in such vile things, but I guess there is no limit to how some people can betray even their own history.

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You ain't seen nothing yet. Not a thing. Wait until the election is over, Obama has won, (dragging in loads of Dems on his coattails, I hope) and people on government service are free to talk. Just wait until there is some kind of accounting, legal and financial. Bush dis-abled so many oversight and accounting processes, nobody really knows what has gone on over the last eight years.

And wait till Obama turns responsibility (and the attendant accountability) back back to where it belongs. Watch what happens then.
It's one thing, apparently, to torture (as just one example, if the most egregious) cause "the White House told me to". It's quite another when the White House says, "You do what you think is best, and face the consequences and accountability that goes with it"
That was Bush/Cheney's big trick, all through their regime. They got everyone to abdicate responsibility to them, (and by abdicating it lose their accountability) and then claim that the virtue or necessity of following orders "in wartime" outweighed any responsibility for the Constitution or legality. All anybody needed to know was,'we do what they say, and Bush has our backs'
Do you think they will feel that way about Obama?

The problem is that the gov has not operated in a normal, legal manner for so long, and we have done so much under that corrupt system, that no-one seems to remember that it can operate any other way.
Sorry to go on.

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Recommended reading:

The Right to be Lazy (Chicago, IL: Solidarity Publications, 1969), Paul Lafargue, Translated by Charles H. Kerr,

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The other question is how long will it take for the war crimes inditments to be unsealed at the Hague?
Long overdue in any event.

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The Obama popularity = Hitler like rise was parodied/predicted back in August by Tom Tomorrow:

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/08/12/tomo/

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If Obama wins Republicans will shrug and go back to their lives.

If McCain wins there will be riots.

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Yeah, those rural white people can never contain their excitement. We'll have to tell them to settle down.

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I pray every day for Senator Obama's safety, and the safety of his family. There is no excuse for the hate that is spewing out of these committees; it's almost as if they're not even thinking past the noses on their own faces.... say what you want to say right now to win this election and the heck with the rest of it. Do they think this hate will just go away on its own? Do they not care? Should Senator Obama win, (and it looks pretty good that he will), these hate messages have insured that someone, somewhere is incredibly likely to take a shot at him. It is painful to even think that something like that could happen. This needs to be stopped once and for all - but I don't know how.

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There are days when I wonder if my vote isn't so much pro-Obama as it is anti-jackass.

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