Creeping in? New tenor?! One can't help but wonder how this moron was able to breathe with his head securely buried up his @$$ the last 8 years!
Posted on 08/19/2009 2:52:24 AM PDT by markomalley
Several weeks in rural Ireland may have softened the emotional carapace required for any extended immersion in American politics these days, but it's hard not to be taken aback by the televised images of people opposed to healthcare reform carrying guns to rallies at which President Obama is speaking.
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Something has shifted since Obama's election. Along with the now mindlessly normative red state/blue state polarization and autonomic politicization of even the most trivial incident, there's a kind of hysteria that seems to be creeping in from the fringes -- a new tenor to our disagreements and a startling attenuation of reason.
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Somehow all of this anxious animosity has become the background noise crowding out nearly all substantive and realistic discussion of the critical issues surrounding healthcare reform. This is one of the most complex and consequential initiatives of our time, over which even the most serious-minded people of goodwill are bound to have real differences. The stakes are immense, and the discussion, insofar as the reality of partisan politics permits, ought to reflect that.
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You can't make this stuff up -- but lots of people are, and they're being encouraged to do so by those in the Republican Party who think that defeat of the president's healthcare reform initiative at any cost is the GOP's only hope of substantial recovery in the midterms.
They might be careful what they wish for, because if our national political conversation becomes simply a continuation of talk radio by other means, dominated by people who bring guns to political rallies, who believe that the president of the United States is an alien who wants to euthanize the elderly and imprison the overweight, it won't matter which party is in power. The country will be as ungovernable as it is deluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I actually love these articles featuring libtard hand-wringing. The more they whine, the more they vilify, the more I know they're running scared.
Duh! So you noticed that, huh? It think it has just a teeny tiny bit to do with the attempted bloodless revolution obie One is attempting. He wants to get the gummint owning/controlling part or all of each of the major sections of our economy. He wants to spend more money than we can ever imagine. He wants to control more of our lives. That's just for starters.
You mean something like, "If you like your insurance, you get to keep it."
The author skirts around the issue but never actually gets it. In a marriage, it’s useless to talk about where to vacation, who puts out the garbage and how much take home pay each spouse gets to keep if at the core of it all, you don’t trust each other.
That is the problem we face here. The only attenuating circumstance is trust. Those fringe people the Times sites are normal citizens who believe their president has not been truthful...about who he is, what he believes, where he comes from, who has shaped his idealogy, his allegiance to this Republic, where he was born. The last time this happened, the LA Times was at the vanguard of those insisting that the American people need to know that their president is not a crook. This time, the American people need to know that their president is not a socialist from Kenya. With Rahm Emmanuel and Mr. Gibbs only fueling the flames of distrust along with the snitch website that just got taken down, what are we to think?
All national business came to a screeching halt during Watergate. We have no name as yet for this crisis but the same dynamic is taking place. Perhaps the LA Times had it right 35 years ago. This nation and its people have every right to stop business and demand a president we can trust. That is not a deterioration of civil discourse but rather a testimony to the pillars of virtue that this republic was founded upon.
There’s certainly a whole lot of people on those “fringes” Rutten bemoans.
Boo.
Fcking.
Hoo.
We rolled over and let them pass so much legislative crap over the year because we didn’t want to be rude, uncivil or confrontational.
And they took full advantage of that. Screw that. From now on (I hope) Americans are going to stand up.
Examine that statement. If opposition to national healthcare, as this writer states, is a winning position for the mid-term elections, doesn't that say something about the popularity and advisability of Obamacare?
After all the filthy protests of the last 5 years with these people calling for the death of America, calling Americans dumb, supporting terrorism and terrorists, wanting the president of the US arrested and executed....they turn around and are suddenly defenders of the US...Amazing.
Creeping in? New tenor?! One can't help but wonder how this moron was able to breathe with his head securely buried up his @$$ the last 8 years!
Yes, America can be delusional, but the symptoms usually only last for a short period of time. They did vote for Obama, did they not?
I have seen this played out on a micro-scale on You-ber-tuber. Whenever a right winger posts a video the lefties either spam the comments with the most vile crap imaginable or the “vote” the right-wing comments into oblivion.
They are practicing classic fascistic grassroots politics - squelching opposing viewpoints.
Naturally typically don’t think to engage is such lowbrow tactics so they put themselves at a disadvantage in the overall debate.
Yes, everything you complain about and more, is no longer directed at Bush and the Republicans.
Obama still has the media swooning for him, just think how tough it was for Bush who suffered through every attack and was constantly savaged by the media as well.
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