Also, they forgot to include Chairman Mao. If there is anyone connected with a cult of personality, it's Mao. They also forgot Idi Amin.
Sheesh, these people aren't even trying anymore. Stick a fork in them, they're done.
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]]>It was in a Republican office in Pampano Beach, Florida.
]]>And 100% morally corrupt.
]]>The stirrings of self-awareness?
]]>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
Just goes to show that the Republicans have gone old and senile and have forgotten their history (insofar as the Republicans aren't old-style Southern Democrats in Republican clothing). Also goes to show how the Republicans willfully misunderstand who Obama is and how he got to where he is now.
]]>Everyone should pop over to Marc's; he's been driven over the edge by a triple denial of reality which led to a wild blend of particle physics, poetry, and snark.
]]>The standard Wide Awake uniform consisted of a full robe or cape, a black glazed hat, and a torch six feet in length to which a large, flaming, pivoting whale-oil container was mounted...
]]>http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/letterman-on-pa.html
]]>But he did say it; he's used every one of those words at one time or another. Fair game.
]]>We all know how ridiculous it is for these guys to talk about Obama in the same breath as Hitler, Castro, Stalin, etc. etc. etc., just as it is ridiculous to talk about Lincoln in the same breath as Hitler. And it probably wouldn't help to bring up the Wide Awakes with somebody who thinks that Obama is the second coming of Che. But I think that some historical perspective never hurts.
]]>Although I don't agree with this stupid Republican poster young people kind of are terrifying. I mean in comparative term, in particular young unmarried men.
It was young white guys who assaulted my brother and humiliated me at times. In virtually all societies young unmarried men commit a disproportionate amount of the violent crimes.
However Obama is more attractive, thus far, to young women than young men. Young women have never been as linked to totalitarian or violent movements. Yes I'm aware that sounds sexist, but it happens to be true. There were a few violent Radical Feminists in the 1960s and in Britain some of the suffragettes were actually fairly extreme. (Mostly arson of aristocratic summer homes and snapping telephone wires, no targeting of people) Mostly though movements of young women, or just where young women are more common than young men, are much less likely to get criminal or dangerous.
This is part of why Ron Paul was more legitimately creepy. His attraction with the young was about 70-80% male from what I can tell. If someone's rallies are mostly men under 30 this may be worth being concerned about. Well unless they're all like Quaker men or something.
]]>The "more" part might be implying I think Obama is creepy too, just less so, and that's not precisely what I meant. I meant Paul's youth appeal was more unnerving, to me, than that of varied candidates with youth appeal. This wasn't only, or even mainly, because it appealed more to young men. However that was a factor.
]]>Obama is a muslim who is excessively influenced by his Christian pastor.
We won't vote for Obama because he'll force whites to pay reparations to decendents of slaves, and he's 2/3 arab.
Obama's an elitist who stirs up the masses.
Obama's a celebrity, and is just like Karl Marx.
Obama doesn't have enough experience to lead because he's a manchurian candidate who's been trained since infancy to manipulate the American political process.
Obama's not like us, he's unamerican. That must be why he has such a scary following among American youth. Youth just love unamerican people...
Did I get them all?
]]>(And I'm an artist who actually had some of my work, along with some 300 other American artists, on that tree, in 1995. I didn't get to the White House to see it, but the in the photo I got with my nice letter from Mrs Clinton(and if you were so minded) some of the ornaments that were hung might have looked a bit weird, and could be interpreted as sorta, kinda looking like a pipe or vibrator. I know they weren't but that is just the mindset of the Clinton and Obama enemies. "never let the truth get in the way of a good story...")
]]>We've still got a couple weeks before the election. I'm waiting to see how much more shrill and crazy the anti-Obama folks can get. A few months ago, he was a secret Muslim. Then he was a terrorist. Now, he's Hitler. What's next? Maybe a poster with horns, a pitchfork, and a tail? ("Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a senator of wealth and taste....")
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