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Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

amdauer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:33:56 -0000

I see the talking points are up at the Repub web sites. Good job. Do you get paid for posting nonsense or maybe your name goes in a drawing for a free night at a Days Inn?

After 8 years, few (but sadly some) will fall to talking points, fear tactics, crazy biographies, or just plain lying. Enough already! Go play with your legos.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Rebecca — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:44:32 -0000

I have to ask the Republicans on here....it has been said that the Saudis (for they were the main participants in 9/11)..opps sorry people from Iraq (Bush ignored the fact it was Saudis) did this because they hated the freedoms of the US. In reply to that you kept a guy (Bush) that has trampled on American freedoms in the name of 9/11. You want McCain to keep trampling on American freedoms to keep you safe.

Do you not see that letting your government take AWAY the freedoms you held so dear is giving the terrorists a win? In essence you are agreeing with them that your freedoms were not that important because you are willing to toss them aside. You are becoming the America, THEY wanted...just look at McCain not taking any criticism and banning the press from his campaign if they don't agree with him instead of taking it head on and pressing his point of view. You really want a press ban?

9/11 should have enforced how free America is, instead it let Bush et all clamp down on all that is held dear and NOT be free and I can't believe you want to continue in that vein.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

TomDem55 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:49:19 -0000

Thanks, but we despise your "type" of republicans because the don't have the slightest idea what this country is about, here are a few hints
1) country founded by liberals
2) for definition of hate see Hannity, and O'Riley and Limbaugh (by the way THEY seem above the law how does that work in a democracy???
3) See extremism and wrapped TOO tightly the old don't do as I do do as I say (Foley of Florida, Abramoff, Larry Craig, Cunningham, oh Cunningham had a cheat sheet for the amount of his bribes on his desk...
4) Katrina
5) War in Iraq
6) Billions each week to private companies to charge the american taxpayer for a war without end
7) Bungling the war in Afghanistan
8) Housing crisis where NO OVERSIGHT (also known as opportunity for republican thieves) allows criminal destruction of housing lending opportunities
9) Oil companies controlling our energy, HOWS that 4 dollar gas working for you? Huge Oil profits?
10) God first? which God, the republican God who hates the poor and never saw a tax cut for the rich he could not take advantage of? or the Democratic God who actually believes in helping ALL Americans,
you are a TOOL
hundreds more, but you are not listening as you are an ideologue

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

GMB — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:02:26 -0000

Whether it is over the line or not, it illustrates the intellectual poverty of the GOP. "We don't have any ideas that would attract anyone to vote for us, so we'll try to scare you into it." Different people have different values and different thresholds, so some people think this is despicable, some think it is cravenly exploitative, and some think it is dandy. Those are all valid reactions. In my mind, the most valid conclusion from it is that they don't give undecided voters much credit, assuming they are incapable of making a nuanced decision. Instead, they assume that they are simple enough to be swayed merely by the reminder that something bad happened once. Of course, I'm probably giving undecided voters too much credit. Half of everybody is below average.

A lot of people don't understand that they should be more fearful of what the Republicans did to us than they are of what al Qaeda might do. My guess is that odds are significantly better that our email will be "inadvertently" read, a phone conversation "inadvertently" recorded by our government than we will perish in some gruesome terrorist attack. Odds are probably significantly better that a hammerhead shark will burst into a Shoney's and kill a retired school teacher than the American way of life faces an existential threat from al Qaeda. The threat posed by our own government, by the loss of our constitutional freedoms, and by our own complacency is far worse.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

LanceThruster — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:35:36 -0000

Looks like they've still got a ways to go before they hit rock bottom.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

james — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:42:48 -0000

These Leftists Democrats are at war with reality. They will fight anyone attempting to focus their thoughts on reality and will blame and offer maddening remarks at Bush/Cheney for making them think.

James B.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Spooky2 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:33:23 -0000

The Leftist Democrats always try to appeal directly to the emotions over and over again when they show poor people suffering from horrible health care insurance in the US or poor people who have lost their homes and are suffering.

But just try to show how 3000 Americans were horribly killed by brutal Islamofacist thugs, who on a daily basis are trying to do repeat the devastation and murder, these Leftys and their minions fain disgust.

LMAO at these hypocrites.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Paul — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:33 -0000

Also, McCain took the stage at 9:11

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

kasha — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:53:06 -0000

KO got it right and this is despicable. If this is the direction the people of this country choose to take then yes, I AM NOT PROUD of my country.

That said -- I hope and pray that everyone who is outrage by the RNC using 9-11 as a political ploy to instill fear in our hearts is working like crazy to make sure that Obama wins in November. If you are not, don't complain if things don't turn out the way you want it to.

Obama/Biden '08 - there is no other choice.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

notoriouspop — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:54:36 -0000

You people are acting childish. You throw around all kinds of slurs and angry comments, because something like a 9/11 video troubles you. It was an historical event. It happened, and it had national consequences. Why not remember it?

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

SteveIL — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:51:52 -0000

"Did they just cross the line on 9/11?"

Why do liberals, including The One, keep trying to ignore the fact that this country is still at war?

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

ErnieK — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:08:39 -0000

Yes, they stepped over the line. It was absolutely shameful.
However,
It also reminded me of the moronic, incompetent, and destructive response that Bush-McCain gave to the attack.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

twolaneflash — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34:39 -0000

I love the smell of burning liberal in the morning. Thanks, kids. Obama is so O'over. He is so NOT "entitled" to the Presidency, regardless of the hype. Keep it up with the hate-fest, though. Soul-shrinking hatred is no fun to watch unless it's covered in undirected hope and unnamed change, and, of course, sprinkled generously with superiority bred of ignorance and group-think passed off as truth. McCain/Palin are going to drive you Obama supporters/Bush haters/Republican despisers to medicate by November, though I suspect many Obama supporters are already (self)medicated.

By the way, "community organizer" is not listed in the OOH (occupational handbook) as a recognized occupation. How do you put that on a resume? I believe the other word for it is "bagman". I have a childhood friend who did 3 years in the federal pen for doing that for a state senator. What's in those Annenberg papers and where did the Annenberg millions go that Obama controlled? Give me answers, not manufactured outraged over a film at a convention. Aren't you the "reality-based" people? Lose the emotion. Country first (I'd say God first, country second but that would confuse you Obama supporters).

Tragedy plus time equals comedy, it has been said. With you folk, I can't wait. roflmao
schadenfreude for all my friends!

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

litmus — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:15:50 -0000

shameless fearmongering and exploitation of tragedy. those are GOP playbook essentials (not sure what page they're on in the 2008 version).

should anyone doubt that the republican party (and anyone who proudly claims association with it) is bereft of any moral authority and human decency, this should remove that doubt.

republicans: disgusting people (and i use the term 'people' very, very loosely), one and all.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

fiver — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:47:55 -0000

Why were the hostages taken by Persian, Shiite, Iran linked with terrorism conducted by Arab, Sunni, Al Queda?

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Jmurder — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:38:55 -0000

And the worst part is, they produce, edit and show this with a smile on their little rat faces.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

jimbo92107 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:20:17 -0000

Terrorism is all the thugs know. Talking about the GOP, of course.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Roger — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:08:47 -0000

I like how the Boston Globe is using humor.
parody of all the Obama rumors: http://tinyurl.com/6jb7l6

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

amdauer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:08:18 -0000

I seem to remember the McCain group getting "OUT RAGED" because Obama wanted to visit injured troops. They said it was only to win an election. That the Democratic Party was exploiting the troops.
My stomach is doing serious flips. I AM outraged. But not at Obama.
And to think, even for a minute, that my husband and I had considered that man.
He is nothing but a political prostitue, who will do anything to get elected!

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Rucka123 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:49:25 -0000

well they really do OWN it. 9/11 is one of the worst terrorist attacks brought on by their incompetence and neglect by not actually reading the terror bulleltins. If they wish to remind the country of their failures, then so be it.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Tintin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:47:40 -0000

This is only a mistake if the Dems take action and call out the fear-mongering Reps. If they do nothing, it will slide down the memory hole until the Reps shamelessly use it again.

So according to the video, the Iranian hostage crisis was an act of terrorism and is an event in direct line to 9/11? It had nothing to do with our supporting the Shah to his bitter end. All Muslims are interchangeable regardless of where they live, what they believe or what motivates them. I suppose it's another reason it's OK to kill all ragheads and let Allah sort them out. I'm only surprised they didn't put Putin's image up there too. After all, he probably has some connection to Osama during his KGB days and that explains why he wants to take over Georgia - or something.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

El Cid — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:05:39 -0000

John McCain spent 5 1/2 years as a Prisoner of War without seeing any footage of 9/11/2001, so now he can do whatever he wants.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

caligirl — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:35:40 -0000

of course he went there, he is DESPERATE! scraping the bottom of the barrel is all mccain has left. pathetic, mentally deranged, vile human being.

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

muffler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:18:27 -0000

I lived it and it makes me sick! They first come to NYC 4 years ago and then do this.. yuck! They are low class and fear mongers.

Obama/Biden 08!!!

Re: Did they just cross the line on 9/11?

Fred Z in Ann Arbor — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:19:14 -0000

What line?

Are you suggesting that because your political opponents havcrossed over your (newly defined) line of good taste, they are now beyond the pale and no righteous person will recognize or respect them?