VERY well said. Indeed, a small minority, on both sides, are stoking what is quickly becoming a civil war. I have friends on both sides of the aisle and we are able to get together, talk football, etc. abd generally enjoy each other’s company.
He won't be mine.
"Obama's election might deliver us from this nastiness."
Ha! You should know lefties better than that.
Don't count on this for a moment, Mr. Reinhard! The rage and depravity of the left goes so far beyond the election of any one candidate or set of candidates. The vicious leftists will not rest until they have completed the project of turning the USA into a socialist nanny state with conservatives relegated to a few powerless token representatives, if that.
I think the country is split into two halves that increasingly realize they are not compatible with each other.
His friend’s Dad prolly did him a favor. If the “W” had stayed, he might be minus a windshield.
That's it in a nutshell.
The only thing stopping them from outright soviet like tactics is the second amendment.
Once that goes, the Obama reeducation camps will be loads of fun singing “We’re gonna spread happiness! We’re gonna spread freeeeeeedom! Obama…”
His color is his only qualification for the presidency. I'd sooner elect a lump of coal.
This is the New Left in action. 40 years of socialist revolution. They have gone from being the agitators in the streets buring down the armory, shooting up police cars, robbing banks, blowing up the Pentagon, meeting with the North Vietnamese military to pledge their support (a clear act of treason), to BEING the movers and shakers of the modern DNC and anchors of the national media.
They DO feel entitled to the power. They are still dishonest about their Marxist ideology. But they still honor it.
Oddly enough, it is the New Left that also caused Lyndon LaRouche to become critical of the Democrat party while at the same time continuing to run as a Democrat.
The entire character and modus operandi of today’s leftists
(starting with Clinton in ‘92) has shocked even me, and I started as one in the late 60s, though within a year or so, became thoroughly disenchanted. They’ve had nearly twenty years to perfect their techniques, and have gone through any number of phases, but their hallmark is always
bullying, intimidation, willful misrepresentation of the truth,bringing demagoguery to EVERY issue, and the cultivation of the next generation of “useful idiots”. Obama’s candidacy is just an extension of Clinton’s 8 years of dysfunction, and the Clintons are too stupid to know that they paved the way for their own demise, so they’re left with nothing to do but save face by going out bravely and pretending to “enthusiastically” campaign for him.
They too think they are extending their careers by their willingness to swallow hard, and take the only option that seems to be open: possible positions in a new Obama administration. They don’t know McCain is going to win: they’d have been FAR better off to campaign for McCain.
The animosity from the left has become so virulent that the left is ready, willing, and with Obama in the White House, able, to deny fundamental constitutional freedoms to what it views as obstructionist conservatives. The ‘tolerant’ left will not tolerate criticism or dissent. If we don’t cling to our guns, religion and freedom to speak, we will lose them all in the next four years, and no one on the left will bat an eye or raise a finger in our defense.
David Reinhard is spot on about the level of intolerance to be found in tolerant Portland and western Oregon...sorry to see him leave, but, certainly understandable given the circumstances...I expect my wife and I will be leaving Portland in the next few years for a more hospitable climate as our business plans come to fruition.
Wake up David.....it’s war!!
If the news-media was balanced in their articles pertaining to the candidates; BO would not be in the running. Instead the news-media is stabbing America in the back.
If BO is elected my flag will fly upside down and at half mast. I will continue to give Heil Obama salutes to individuals wearing BO identification.
Leftists act that way because they have no morals, are power mad, and their greed and lust for power without the bounds of morality influence them to do anything to win. Since they think killing of the unborn, and now the sick and aged, is perfectly fine, then the next step is “anything goes” and they prove that every day.
They are like rabid dogs. And it will only get worse until they are stopped. If Obama wins it will not get better, it will get worse, way worse. Fire is stopped with water, not with more fuel, and their anger is like fire.
It is possible, if one believes the polls, that a Third World coup is in the process of occurring. Over the last 40 years the Anglo American appears to have accepted the doctrines of peace, love, harmony, room at the table, the big tent, tolerance, acceptance etc. The Third World hates you as you were the masters. Well most of the Anglo Americans seem to want to abdicate responsibility for governance. This means the Third World members shall govern. There is no greater superiority on this earth than one man or group making the law for another. That is what the Third Worlders will be doing, making the law for people they hate.
I find this guy hand-wringingly naive, I must say.
Today’s lefties, from Barney Frank, through Pelosi and Reid, and on down to their proteges, the out-of-state students who were just forced to withdraw their illegal ballots in Ohio, are descended in a straight line from both Mao’s Red Guard, and the kind of brutal operatives, (apparatchiks) that Stalin installed after WW2 all over the Eastern Europe he was handed. Look into the history of Romania’s Ceascescu, then imagine someone better dressed, less likely to have to perpetrate literal murder, and just as much aided and abetted by a slick media, and you have today’s Democrats. Look into the entire history of Fanny and Freddy and you have a perfect example of how, through the patented smooth talk of intimidation they are able to get too many people to go along with their socialist designs, and how deftly they managed to cram socialism down our throats, break the system, then demogogue the entire issue as if it the Bush Administration’s fault, and propose themselves, the Socialists, as if THEY are the solution to the collapse they themselves created.
With O as our Dear Leader it will only get worse.
The sound of gunfire ringing out as squads of Obama Brownshirts come door to door rounding us resistence to Socialism to send us to re-education camps and the hard core of course will need to be eliminated. What was Ayers estimate, 25 million of us? Hell I think it will be double that number.
God save our republic.
But I fear the tree of liberty is about to be watered with the blood of patriots and tryants.
Lock and load deer season is almost here.
You have to read all the way to the end to discover that Reinhard is a fool.
I'm sorry David, but you are wrong. He is an Arab-American. Daddy was of Arabic descent.