Posted on 03/29/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by presidio9
We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama."
Stop Obama.
Why has somebody done it? Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or, more likely, that they should.
My son is in the seat next to me in the car. He says, "This isn't the only one. There are others in different parts of town."
At least here it is only vandalism about this President and the country's new health care bill, not phone threats left for some members of Congress. It is not an honorable old hero of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis hearing the kind of racial insults he heard nearly 50 years ago in America. Or other congressmen being spat upon, all in the name of democracy at work.
At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, being called a "baby killer," or a brick through a lawmaker's window. It is not Sarah Palin on her Twitter page - this woman who officially puts the twit in Twitter - posting the following message:
"Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD."
As always, you wonder where this patriotism and righteousness and Tea Party activism was during Bush-Cheney. You wonder if all the people who want to take to the streets - and to the television cameras now - decided they weren't needed for eight years because they thought the country was going so good. Or maybe they have just convinced themselves that the Obama who must now be stopped didn't just inherit this America, he created it.
This is no longer about political dissent. It is about storm trooper sound bites, and hate. This isn't the kind of honest debate on which our system of government has been built. It is vile, back-alley fighting, getting worse by the day, with no end in sight. People say that opposition to all Presidents, even the most unpopular white ones, sounds like this. No, it doesn't.
"It's so good to be here for the showdown in Searchlight [Nev.]," Palin says on Saturday. "So proud to be with all you who are proud to be Americans."
Palin is in Nevada because Sen. Harry Reid is a Democratic candidate she and other lovers of America are "targeting" this November. Of course, the implication, as always, is that anybody on the other side of the debate - about health care or anything else - isn't nearly as good an American as she is.
Palin is such a fighter and great American that she quit on her stool as governor of Alaska because there was more money to be made in the other 49 states, shouting about death panels and health care and "European socialism" and writing unreadable books. In so many ways, she is a perfect media darling for our times. She doesn't scrawl graffiti, she thinks in it.
If you even think that this President ought to be given a chance, that he might have some good in him, that he doesn't hate America the way the radio idiots say he does, then you must be someone just like him and she will help shout you down. You are another lousy, lefty Socialist who doesn't understand the new health care bill is unconstitutional. Why? Because the screamers say so, that's why. They learned it online.
"The country does not like this [health care] bill," Republican strategist Mike Murphy says on television Sunday.
The country. Another guy speaking for the whole country, coast to coast, Washington Heights to Starbuck, Wash. Is America divided over health care right now? Sure it is, the way it was divided over Social Security under FDR and Medicare under LBJ and just about every important social program in the country's history.
Will a bill be presented to my children and their children on this bill someday? It likely will be. And economists say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.
But Obama is the one who must be stopped, on health care and everything else. Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means. Sometimes you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate this President before you love America enough.
My but the talking points were disseminated quickly.
I’m sorry, did this writer say something? Cause I must have missed it among the immaturity, bile and DNC talking points.
“storm trooper”
So the Pravda Media can call “tea partiers” NAZIS but the media never DID identify ANSWER, Code Pink, or Sean Penn as devoted Communists.
The Pravda Media still discounts all of the Marxist ties in the Obama administration, we are told that Van Jones et al were not “properly vetted”. It’s just a coincidence that they all spout Mao and Marx slogans.
At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, being called a “baby killer,”
It was the bill that was called a baby killer...true or not?
So what ... some lib bunch put Bush sticker on every stop sign in my County. NOONE made a peep about it..
Get used to it, BARKY.. you done pissed us OFF.
The liberal socialist activist and friend of the President Bill Ayres told us that violence against an unjust government is not only the right thing to do, it’s our duty.
He’s you guys champion New York Post.
Please note that the Tea Partiers haven’t blown anything up yet....
She is not implying that, but I'll say the people on other side of the debate - about health care or anything else - aren't nearly as good an American as she is.
I seem to remember a Lupica being a sports reporter when I lived in the vacinity of NY, same guy?
This is the wording of a poll they have on that website:
Rise and rise of Palin
Do you really believe Sarah Palin will become a major force in politics?
Yes, she is enigmatic and crazier things have happened.
No, most people can’t take her seriously.
I’m not sure
No bias there. /s
The Daily News is the LEAST Marxist of the NYC newsp....err, fishwrap.
I actually agree with this part.
Sometimes you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate this President before you love America enough.
As much as you possibly can hate him would be my recommendation.
Now he's just another totally discredited senior citizen who hears things and has his "moments".
These leftist media attack pieces on the Tea Party movement only confirm that we are getting stronger. No one believes the media any more when the pull these stunts. They are a laughing stock. They can attack all the want but people will continue to surge behind the Tea Party movement.
The democrats have controlled congress for more than 3 years, and Mr. Obama has been president for well over a year, now. If he and his fellow democrats REALLY wanted our troops out of Iraq, they would alreday BE out of Iraq.
Writing lie after proven lie, this is the beginning of an orchestrated movement to lay the groundwork for Martial Law in time to prevent the election in Nov - which is why the Rats were willing to “throw themselves upon their swords.”
They have been apprised of the agenda...they have visions of ruling forever dancing in their Marxist heads.
Batten down the hatches. Plant gardens, become a self-sufficient for your daily needs as possible.
(About the only shipping of food from overseas in now from China - and is picking up steam. This is from a long hauler who sees THOUSANDS and thousands of U.S. shipping containers now dumped in fields, rusting, across the Gulf and the West Coast. But containers from China are booming.)
Become a good SCOUT if you hope to survive the coming chaos. (And keep under the radar.)
Lupica, keep to what you do best, pursing your lips onto the muscled arses of college and pro athletes.
True.
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