The rhetoric is getting fairly bad on both sides, I don’t think its been this bad in recent memory. Eventually something is going to give, someone is going to go over the edge.
“The rhetoric is getting fairly bad on both sides, I don’t think its been this bad in recent memory. Eventually something is going to give, someone is going to go over the edge.”
Horse puckey. These a wholes have been shooting through Republican headquarters, burning and hanging us in effigy and inciting murder through Bush assasination films. Get a grip.
Let’s see the corresponding list;
In 2004, Republicans were subject to an aggressive and sometimes violent campaign of harassment and intimidation orchestrated by Kerry supporters. At least three Bush-Cheney offices were shot at during the election season. A swastika was burned into the front yard of a Bush-Cheney supporter in Madison, Wisconsin. Other incidents included offices burglarized, windows smashed, tires slashed and other property damage. The following is a timeline of documented election-related violence and intimidation against the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign and Republicans in 2004.
September 2, 2004: Gun Shot Fired Into Huntington, WV, Republican Headquarters.95
September 3, 2004: Windows Broken, Anti-Bush Messages Scrawled At Gallatin County, MT, Republican Headquarters.96
September 6, 2004: Huntington, WV, Republican Headquarters Egged.97
September 13, 2004: Swastika Drawn On Duluth, MN, Resident’s Lawn, Signs Also Defaced With Words “Nazi” And “Liar.”98
September 16, 2004: Community College Professor In Florida Punched Republican County Chairman In Face.99
September 22, 2004: West Elmira, NY, Resident Found Swastika Drawn On Bush Campaign Sign In His Yard.100
September 23, 2004: Office Ransacked During Break-In At Vilas County, WI, Republican Headquarters, Obscene Words And Graphic Pictures Sprayed On Campaign Signs.101
September 26, 2004: Windows Smashed And Signs Stolen At Oxford, MS, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters.102
October 1, 2004: Laptops Of Executive And Field Director Stolen From Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters In Seattle, WA.103
October 1, 2004: Swastika Burned Into Front Yard Of Bush-Cheney ‘04 Supporter In Madison, WI.104
October 2, 2004: Collinsville, OH, Resident Chains Down Bush-Cheney ‘04 Signs After Several Signs Stolen And One Was Replaced With Kerry Sign.105
October 3, 2004: Burglary At Thousand Oaks, CA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Where Bush-Cheney ‘04 Banner Was Stolen From Outside Premises.106
October 5, 2004: Gun Shots Fired Into Knoxville, TN, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Office, Shattering Office’s Glass Front Doors.107
October 8, 2004: Two Men Were Caught On A Hidden Camera Tearing Down And Urinating On Bush-Cheney ‘04 Sign In Akron, OH.108
October 9, 2004: Oxnard, CA, Supporter Placing Bush-Cheney ‘04 In Yards Verbally Abused, Knocked Down And Had Signs Stolen.109
October 9, 2004: Bush-Cheney Signs Near Vail, CO, Cut In Half And Burned In “Ransacking.”110
October 10, 2004: Office Windows Broken And Field Director’s Laptop Bag and Purse Stolen In Burglary At Canton, OH, Victory Office.111
October 11, 2004: Windows Broken, Petty Cash Stolen And Computers Tampered With In Burglary At Spokane, WA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.112
October 13, 2004: Walls And Windows Of York, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Vandalized With Pro-Kerry Spray-Paint And Signs Outside Destroyed.113
October 13, 2004: Window Smashed At Laconia, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.114
October 13, 2004: Kerry Supporter Caught Stealing Bush Sign In Cape Girardeau, MO, Pulled Knife On Sign’s Owner And Was Arrested.115
October 15, 2004: Someone Destroyed Large Plywood Bush-Cheney ‘04 Sign, Then Tried To Smash Debris Though Glass Door Of Santa Fe, NM, Republican Party Headquarters.116
October 15, 2004: Someone Lined Window Sill With Bullet Casings At Littleton, NH, Republican Headquarters.117
October 16, 2004: Unknown Suspects Vandalized Large Bush-Cheney Campaign Sign In Hollister, CA, With Obscenities.118
October 17, 2004: Stickers Placed Over Windows Of Gettysburg, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.119
October 18, 2004: Eggs Thrown At Keene, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.120
October 18, 2004: 21 Protesters Arrested At Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign Headquarters In Arlington, VA.121
October 20, 2004: Rocks Thrown Through Windows At Multnomah County, OR, Republican Party Headquarters.122
October 21, 2004: Bomb Threat Made Against Lake Havasu, AZ, Republican Party Headquarters.123
October 21, 2004: Windows Smashed At Multnomah County Republican Party Headquarters In Portland, OR.124
October 22, 2004: Break-In Discovered At Cincinnati, OH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.125
October 22, 2004: Break-In Discovered At Flagstaff, AZ, Victory 2004 Headquarters. Perpetrators gained entry by throwing a cinder block through a plate glass window.126
October 22, 2004: Chunk Of Concrete Tossed Through Glass Door Of Republican Headquarters In Santa Cruz, CA.127
October 23, 2004: Two Kerry Supporters Arrested After Stealing Pro-Bush Signs From Activist And Pushing Police Officer At Edwards Rally In St. Petersburg, FL.128
November, 2004: Editors say Yale Free Press stolen Yale Daily News
June 8, 2004: Court sets release of Ryan’s divorce file Chicago Tribune
August, 2005: Reservist suspected of spray painting pro-Bush bumper stickers in Denver - Associated Press
October 26, 2006: A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data. New York Times
October 30, 2006: RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Responds To Today’s Letter From DNC Chairman Howard Dean GOP
October 1, 2008; Vandals destroy Republican candidate signs, PolitickOr.com
October 6, 2008: Laptop stolen from regional GOP headquarters CNET News
October 8, 2008: Tennessee Man Indicted in Hacking of Palin’s E-Mail Account Fox News
October 22, 2008: Minnesota, Senator Coleman campaign: Senator’s garage vandalized Associated Press
September, 2009: The Washington DC Tea Party appears to be a big success, but it’s not for lack of trying among the movement’s more lunatic opponents. Yesterday, the DC Metro police evacuated the offices of Freedomworks after several threats, including a bomb-threat phone call that police considered credible enough to investigate.
March 22, 2010: Bullet shot through window of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor’s Richmond, Virginia campaign Office.
The Vitriolic speech is fueled by the Whitehouse. Obama refuses to be a president of ALL the people and instead remains a partisan in perpetual campaign.
Phooey
Political divisiveness has been around since the second Presidential election. The only time that the country was in pretty much agreement, politically, is when George Washington took the first oath of office. After that, it's been the same old same old, and sometimes it got really nasty, just like today.
Perhaps it is good for the American people to realize that they are ideologically very polarized. Regardless of the touchy-feely, multicultural, feel-good, diversity BS that we daily have to swallow from our politicians it is very evident that we have lived on top of a powderkeg for a long time.
We ceased to be a melting pot but, instead, have turned into a pressure cooker.
Rhetoric on both sides? The only rhetoric coming from the right is the BS lies being told by the left. The left are the ones making the death threats. All the BS about the tea party protesters is just that, BS, lies made up by the left to discredit right wing voters. The only ones who are going to go over the edge are the ones that always go over the edge: The left wing radicals who want to turn us into a welfare state.
“The rhetoric is getting fairly bad on both sides”
I beg to differ with you. Which side, other than the Democrat side, is using rhetoric AT ALL?
I guess you never heard about the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.