Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Far Right Creating "Open Season" On Violence

The Taliban uses out of context passages and verses from the Koran to justify jihad and the death of infidels.

The Far Right are using choice Old Testament Bible quotes to start their own Holy War here in the US against Obama.

What is the difference? Both are radical minorities exploiting the faithfulness and good name of their religions to justify purely self-benefiting political means.

The 22 million deluded Conservative Evangelicals are creating an "open season" for one of their own, albeit an outlier, to kill in the name of their god. They are acquiescing to the extreme elements within their ranks.

Where are their leaders denouncing this potential violence?

Psalm 109:8 And The Unhinged Criticism From The Right

Psalm 109:8 is the new anti-Obama meme making the wacko Christian Right rounds.
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office"
So they mockingly say pray for Obama. I'm sure they also love the next verse, too:
"Let his his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow"
The usual Old Testament vitriol. Nothing from the New Testament these Christians can find from Jesus' ministry on love?

Chilling when you think how much the unhinged criticism from the Right is based on, not just opposing Democrats, but to kill the President. The Beck's and O'Reilly's love trolling the Conservative underworld, stirring up the rhetoric, calling for revolutions and assassins.

Former Evangelical Frank Schaeffer discusses on Rachel Maddow how threatening this Biblical language, the comparisons to unjust Kings of Ancient Israel, is in context to actually bringing harm to Obama. A great segment.



Source: MSNBC

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Finally A President Not Governed By Fear

The Neocon/Conservative/Republican/GOP mantra was to torture. Shred the Constitution. The judicial process was Cheney's bete noire. Leave that for someone else to figure out.

Now that we have to prosecute all these people they imprisoned and tortured illegally, the Right now cower and get to complain how the court proceedings will harm America. The Right mindset made actual prosecution of any of them extremely hard, and now they don't want the World to see how evil they were. The Al Qaeda propaganda machine has nothing on the GOP.

Andrew Sullivan
writes:
"When you listen to the Fox News right speak about this, they reveal amazing levels of fear. They have been truly spooked by these men with long beards and chilling eyes. They are so scared of them they are willing to drop any and all legal principles that the West has historically used with respect to mass murderers. Their fear brought them to institute torture, and to engage in mass brutality against prisoners of war in every theater of combat in a manner that will tragically taint the honor of the US military for a very long time. It led them to establish Gitmo, to create for the world a reverse symbol of the Statue of Liberty, and imprint it on the minds and in the consciences of an entire generation of human beings, whose view of America will never be the same."
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in 2003. The US has has killed about 20 #3 Al Qaeda guys in the meantime. Is there a real fear? Then you must be totally afraid of Charles Manson, too.

Whatever happened to "nothing to fear but fear itself"? I guess fear and fantastical doomsday scenarios get you GOP votes, so they exploit it.

Bush and Cheney played into the Al Qaeda neme. They helped use 9/11 to take apart our system of checks and balances, habeas corpus and Rule of Law. Now that Obama is restoring all these laws and regained the nerve of doing the right thing in a tough time, it really exposes all the moral and intellectual weaknesses in his oppostion.

Source: The Daily Dish

Obama Bow Vs Bush Puke

As the Republicans try to spin President Obama's bow to the Japanese Emperor, a sign of Japanese etiquette, as weak and unpatriotic, let's not forget George Bush Sr. puking on the Prime Minister back in 1992.

Video clip has Dana Carvey's SNL skit of the same incident with spot-on Chris Farley as Barbara Bush.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Lou Dobbs Paid $8M To Stop Sucking

Lou Dobbs was paid $8 million to stop his racist, xenophobic nonsense. This just points to the grossly mixed up priorities in our country. Some of the least skilled people doing the least useful jobs get paid these obscenely high salaries.
"Although Lou Dobbs has been saying that his departure from CNN was an “amicable parting on the best of terms,” the New York Post reports that CNN wanted him gone so badly that it gave him an $8 million severance package."
Dobbs will be appearing on Fox News tonight to talk with Bill O’Reilly. I wonder where this is heading?

Source: MSNBC

The Neoconservative War Project

The Neoconservatives see the world in terms of enemies and eternal forces that must be destroyed. It allows them to always have a purpose. Peace is the last thing they want. They would have nothing to run on.

In the post-Bush/Cheney halcyon days of war starting, the new players are striking fear in their bread-and-butter warmongering.

Andrew Sullivan writes:
"The neoconservatives have been having a difficult time of late. In particular, the possibility that the American people, via the election of Obama, and the Iranian people, via the Green Revolution, may be moving toward a grand bargain that would avoid war alarms them. That's why Daniel Pipes wanted Ahmadi to win the election beforehand (a view he alone had the admirable intellectual honesty to air in public). The emergence of a Green Movement in Iran that does not share the worldview of the neocons is a terrible threat to the solipsism of the neocon right, in which every global conflict is really about religious war "for ever," to quote Irving Kristol, and in which the Iran-Israel question is actually a "Fourth World War," to quote Norman Podhoretz. If you are an Israeli, this might be plausible. If you are not an Israeli, less so.

In all this, a figure like NIAC's Trita Parsi is dangerous. Charismatic, telegenic, close to the Obama administration and yet a man whose credentials during the Green Revolution are impeccable: he suggests that neocon Manicheanism is far too crude to understand let alone resolve this crisis. Parsi opposes sanctions, for example, as do Karroubi and Mousavi. And, more relevant with respect to the neocons, he opposes war. And so if you want to understand the motives behind the leaked documents behind Eli Lake's recent fair story, you need look no further. Smearing the non-neocon Green opposition as essentially pro-Khamenei solidifies the neoconservative war project."
The Neoconservative War Project. Or the Republican Party of the last 8 years. The article goes on to show how the Parsi smear was put into action through Neocon Right e-mails.
"It's just a rare and small glimpse of how neocons operate. It is warfare abroad and warfare at home. It is a philosophy of attack and force, not dialogue and thought."
That's why a guy like Obama really scares them. Bullets are not his first option.

Source: The Daily Dish