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View Poll Results: Are these "catch" words spread by the right wing media used only to program and mislead pe
Big time 42 49.41%
To an extent 5 5.88%
Slightly/not really 4 4.71%
Not at all, Obama is a communist/marxist/socialist 34 40.00%
Voters: 85. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
Old 04-16-2012, 11:43 AM
 
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To an extent ... but not as much as the liberals use "racist", "neo-nazi", "fascist", "White supremacist/White nationalist", and "anti-government militia".
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Old 04-16-2012, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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All wrong.
Van, Cass and Harold were ALL appointed by our fearless leader.
Bill Ayers launched Obama's career! His first fundraiser was in Ayers's living room!
Time for you to start using information sources that have accurate information.

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The article stated that other "publications, including The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship."[2] CNN has independently deemed Palin's allegations false, saying: "There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now 'palling around,' or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are."[3] The Republican National Committee[36] and the McCain campaign each launched additional attack ads, calling Obama "too dangerous for America."[37]
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Also to MTA-

These are NOT random, or loose associations, as you so characterize them. These are dangerous people who share a common ideology.
Who and why are they dangerous?
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Time for you to start using information sources that have accurate information.

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Who and why are they dangerous?
There are none so blind...there are scores of VIDEOS of Ayers saying that he was proud of the attacks he perpetrated as part of his assocoation with The Weather Underground.

Obama's autobiography names Ayers!
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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There are none so blind...there are scores of VIDEOS of Ayers saying that he was proud of the attacks he perpetrated as part of his assocoation with The Weather Underground.

Obama's autobiography names Ayers!
Ah, the source of your scholarly dissertation -- Youtube.
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:17 PM
 
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Fear leads to descent, paranoia, hatred.

It's a very much tried and tested formula used to colonise nations from afar, to conqure and divide.

This deception however is used clearly by the far right movement of the republican party, ie extremist splinter groups (baggers, aryan nation). Hard believe republicans will standly idly by and let themselves be hijacked this way.

Like from the words of santorum "sold out on his principles", your making a deal with the devil here just so you can control people. But understand, there is always a price!
Um, nope. Republicans do not want to control people. Republicans are for limited government, low taxes, and personal freedom. Facts are facts.

And it is the Democrat Party that has been hijacked, not the Republican party. The Democrats now have a gigantic progressive caucus and have marginalized the moderate Blue Dogs. Again, facts are facts.

Your rhetoric does not match reality.
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:47 PM
 
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Um, nope. Republicans do not want to control people. Republicans are for limited government, low taxes, and personal freedom. Facts are facts.

And it is the Democrat Party that has been hijacked, not the Republican party. The Democrats now have a gigantic progressive caucus and have marginalized the moderate Blue Dogs. Again, facts are facts.

Your rhetoric does not match reality.
In the fox news/right wing brainwashed fantasy land. In reality, it's the complete opposite.
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:53 PM
 
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The lie of the left

"we really arent commies"

the truth of the left
"do what I tell you, its for your own good"
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Old 04-16-2012, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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Um, nope. Republicans do not want to control people. Republicans are for limited government, low taxes, and personal freedom. Facts are facts.
Then the Republicans are for a woman's personal freedom to have an abortion; obtain birth control; unrestricting bans on gays from marrying and have easier voting rights?

Remember, it was the 2005 GOP Congress that voted to strip jurisdiction from Florida's judiciary in the Terry Schiavo case. The GOP says it is for freedom of religion -- as long as the freedom is for Christians but when Muslims wanted to build a Mosque near ground zero, the GOP were the first in opposition.

The GOP Congress also expanded the government with Medicare Part D. Where was that limited government?

The GOP was in favor of the Patriot Act, that usurped your individual freedom to privately check out a book from the public library without being suspected of conspiring to commit a criminal act.

As far as limited government, Ronald Reagan, the conservative icon, increased the size of the federal government to the point that, during the administration, it was the largest post-WWII federal government ever -- and he tripled the national debt too.

As for taxes, the GOP believes in "expanding the base," which is code for taxing poor people who aren't taxed now. So, the only thing Republicans really stand for is lowering taxes for the wealthy. The rest is just hypocrisy.
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Old 04-16-2012, 01:52 PM
 
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One thing I've noticed in the past few years are the uprising of many "catch" words like the "marxist/communist/socialist" thrown around by those on the right to describe anyone they disagree with, seemingly to replace the classic "liberal"
Beck seems (or use to be before he got fired at fox) to be the leader in spreading these simple catch phrases to the masses. By using these "scary" sounding words, it seems to rile up these followers to bring out even more hatred, hostility, and even in some cases violence against others that also do not completely agree with their strong right views.
It's be debunked beyond belief that for example their favorite target Obama is no where near being any of those catch phrases, but the right still believes them.
control them? No,
get ratings and make money off them- Yes!
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Old 04-16-2012, 01:54 PM
 
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Um, nope. Republicans do not want to control people. Republicans are for limited government, low taxes, and personal freedom. Facts are facts.

And it is the Democrat Party that has been hijacked, not the Republican party. The Democrats now have a gigantic progressive caucus and have marginalized the moderate Blue Dogs. Again, facts are facts.

Your rhetoric does not match reality.
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In the fox news/right wing brainwashed fantasy land. In reality, it's the complete opposite.
Actually both of you are wrong. Both Parties are "hijacked" by radicals right now. The RW religious loonies and the Left wing tree hugging Progressives.
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