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Re: Fear, Divide and Conquer (Fort Love)

2008-08-21T14:25:22-06:00

It seems you have a pretty healthy dose of fear, hate and blind raging partisanship yourself in the post. Shrill, wild-eyed panic attack mode.

Why? Do really think a Jr senator with a tenuous record of leadership and legislation so occupies the moral high-ground? Have you looked into his associations? I can assure there are many truths about Obama that you seem to blindly deny. Or are you unable to question your own assumptions preferring to call the other side evil and racist? That is not very mature and is no different than those you criticize.

Read this:

For the same reason that Christ was crucified, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were rubbed out, Gandhi, JFK and Martin Luther King were assassinated, and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. By occupying the moral high ground, speaking truth to power, challenging our government to do what is right, and by taking a stand for what is truly in the interest of We The People as well as peace and freedom throughout the world, Obama represents a profound threat to an evil, self-serving system of lies, greed and oppression that serves a corrupt elite that is determined to maintain the status quo and protect its strangle-hold on wealth and power by any means necessary. You may rest assured that good old-fashioned racism is also involved.

Do you know the history of how Obama got into his position? By attacking peoples voter registration on the south side of Chicago and by delving into his republican candidates messy divorce! Hardly the moral high ground. Obama cut his teeth in the most brutal political climate in America, Chicago South-side... And Obama is clearly a one �world socialist who will prefer to defer to the UN on many many matters, from global warming to security. The UN can be seen, and I am going to use your words, an evil, self-serving system of lies, greed and oppression that serves a corrupt elite that is determined to maintain the status quo and protect its strangle-hold on wealth and power by any means necessary.

Obama, no thanks. For the record I think McCain is a senile simpleton. We are a leadership crisis, the young will pay dearly for the failures of the baby boomer generation. That includes Obama...

The Far Right's Fear, Smear, Divide & Conquer Game Plan Exposed (Worth Repeating)

2008-08-20T09:20:03-06:00

Wake up people, and don�t be fooled again. You are being shamelessly lied to and manipulated. You are being conned into helping drive the last few nails into the coffin of what once was the proud, prosperous, secure and free United States of America.

The most diabolical and vicious political smear operation since Hitler and the Nazis is underway as we approach the Democratic convention and the November election.

What is it all about?

It's all about demonizing, discrediting and destroying Barack Obama in the eyes of voters, defeating him and denying the Democratic Party the Presidency.

Who is behind it?

In general terms, the Republican Party. In more specific terms, a national alliance of hard-core Conservatives, powerful interests within the corporate-military-industrial-energy complex, Wall Street firms, free trade advocates, anti-tax zealots, militant pro-Israeli ideologues, Christian fundamentalists, racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-unionists and right-wing media shills like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Weekly Standard, Townhall.org and Newsmax. Simply stated, a conglomeration of the forces that have thrived and been influential in the right-wing rule of America during the Reagan-Bush era, and who are determined to not only keep America headed in the same direction Bush/Cheney & Co. have been taking us in, but to complete their agenda of securing permanent dominion over America and the world and turning our nation into a capitalist-corporatist-fascist theocracy.

On the local level, this mentality is personified in the 2-3 rabid Right Wingers who plaster this group with an unending litany of lies, smears and hate propaganda about Obama and the Democratic Party day in and day out. Rest assured, nearly every posting you see here that is critical of the Left, no matter what it says or who it purports to have been posted by, is the work of these miscreants. And yes, the postings supposedly from disgruntled Hillary supporters, Nader supporters, 'Reagan Democrats', Black voters who think Obama is wrong for America, and activists who want to disrupt the Democratic Convention are almost entirely their handiwork.

Why are they going after Obama with such ferocity?

For the same reason that Christ was crucified, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were rubbed out, Gandhi, JFK and Martin Luther King were assassinated, and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. By occupying the moral high ground, speaking truth to power, challenging our government to do what is right, and by taking a stand for what is truly in the interest of We The People as well as peace and freedom throughout the world, Obama represents a profound threat to an evil, self-serving system of lies, greed and oppression that serves a corrupt elite that is determined to maintain the status quo and protect its strangle-hold on wealth and power by any means necessary. You may rest assured that good old-fashioned racism is also involved.

Are these things that the Right Wingers post here every day about Obama really true? For example, is he a Muslim, did he attend a radical madrassah, does he hate America, does he hate white people, is he a terrorist sympathizer, is he friends with Hamas and bin Laden, does he hate Israel, has he knowingly accepted contributions from terrorists, is he a Communist or a Socialist, is he a homosexual, does he support and promote late-term and after-birth abortions, is he responsible for our high gas prices, is he an arrogant elitist who looks down at working-class Americans, does he disrespect our troops, does he refuse to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance, is his wife an America-hating Black supremacist, etc.?

They are absolutely and unequivocally false. Every one of them. The anti-Obama smears you see here every day are either blatant lies or are things that have been taken out of context and re-framed within a different context and a version of things that serves the propaganda interests of the smear-merchants, and spewed forth as fact. When these liars are busted on their bullshit, they either attack and contemptuously dismiss those who confront them, or drop the subject temporarily and move on to other lies, or just keep defiantly posting the same lies over and over anyway. They are hit-and-run artists and character assassins, whose interest is not in constructively debating issues and getting to the truth about the candidates, but rather creating controversy and damaging Obama. As in every presidential campaign dating back to 1968, the Republicans are trying to win by destroying the Democrat as opposed to honestly and fairly promoting their own candidate. They almost never talk-up McCain, they spend 95% of their time and effort running-down Obama. That fact alone speaks loudly as to their legitimacy and their motives.

As for those who are taking the concept of sleazeball dirty tricks to a new low here on CL, the truest and nicest thing that can be said about them is that they are disturbed, deluded and mired in irrational hate. Psychologically healthy, well-integrated people do not do the things these people are doing.

Do the people who are saying these things actually believe them?

NO. They are very well aware of the fact that 99% of what they're saying is unmitigated bullshit. But they are liars, cheaters, dissemblers and election thieves with an extreme ideological agenda, who are determined to win by whatever means is necessary, and they do not give a rat's patootie about the truth. They are telling these lies and disseminating these smears because they know they can't win honestly and fairly. The Far Right has a track record of success with its sleazy propaganda tactics dating all the way back to the Nixon and Reagan days. They believe that many of you in the electorate (the "unwashed masses" as they like to refer to you) are dumb enough, naive enough, gullible enough, uninformed enough, suggestible enough, blind enough, fearful enough, prejudiced enough, angry enough, confused enough or whacked out enough on religion to fall for their lies and smears again, and in doing so deliver the highest office in the land (again) to the very people who got us into the mess we�re in. Proof positive of the fraudulence and dis-ingenuousness of all of this in the fact that no matter how many times the anti-Obama smears are conclusively and irrefutably shown to be lies, the smear-merchants continue to try to spoon-feed them to you. Like their dirty tricks mentor Karl Rove, they are infused with an almost demonic arrogance as they cut and slash their way through the objects of their wrath, and they actually get a perverse thrill out of being diabolical, dishonest and sleazy.

In this 2008 election campaign, perhaps the most important one in America history, the Far Right is concentrating its efforts on four things: (1) re-energizing its core constituencies through fear, flag-waving bellicose nationalism and the standard "God, Guns and Gays" rhetoric, (2) blaming the Democrats for the failures of the Bush administration as well as the energy crisis and high gas prices, (3) demonizing and discrediting (aka "swift boating") Obama to enough independent and undecided voters so that they will vote for a 3rd party candidate (which helps their cause immensely) in an effprt to swing a few critical states in their favor and (4) fomenting discord between the Obama and Clinton factions so as to split the Democratic Party and siphon off Clinton votes in favor of McCain. Inasmuch as Colorado is not only hosting the Democratic Convention but is one of the key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election, they are pouring it on here for all they're worth.

YOU the voting public are the battle ground upon which this political equivalent of chemical weapons is being unleashed. YOU are the cannon fodder for this all-out war on truth, goodness and justice. YOU are the objects of deceit and manipulation through which the nefarious agenda of the Far Right is intended to be accomplished again. YOU are being looked to as unwitting accomplices, yet again, in the destruction of democracy, the defeat of freedom, the perversion of the Constitution and the absolute takeover of America by forces that are every bit as dark and sinister as those that plunged Europe and the world into the most appalling chapter of death and destruction in human history, in the 1930's-1940's.

Will YOU let it happen again ....?

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2008-08-10T19:32:25-06:00

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2008-08-09T19:28:19-06:00

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john mccain hats 12 great buy new (lindenhurst)

2008-08-09T19:23:39-06:00

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National Opposition to Electoral Politics (Oak St. Plaza)

2008-08-09T10:44:47-06:00

What: Rally and march to old town square expressing the collective opposition to the two party system and the DNC and RNC.
Where: Oak St. Plaza. Oak and College on the West side of College.
When: 8-10-08 @ 3:30 P.M.

Bring noise makers, like whistles, pots, pans.

Re: re:Stop The Hate (Fort Collins) (re:Stop The Hate (Fort Collins))

2008-08-08T13:49:39-06:00

I don't hate Bush < I Don't like the people who destoy our country .
i don't like people who lies.
I don't like people who heart others.
I don't like people who steal from us .
I don't like people who hate others for no resean.
I don't like people who thinks they are right and every one is wrong.
I don't like peole sending our troops to Iraq for his personel and finical benefits.
I don't like Bush becuse he heart our people and country and getting his gang rich by getting the rest of us poor.

I wish we have better choice than Mc and barak I wish Ron Paul be our next president .

re:Stop The Hate (Fort Collins)

2008-08-08T08:51:50-06:00

The only thing I get from your post is that you love Obama and hate Bush. Maybe YOU should go to another country.

Stop The Hate (Fort Collins)

2008-08-07T23:49:57-06:00

It is very sad to read about Islam in the great USA, the land of FREEDOM.
It is very sad some people have so much hate about a great religion without even knowing what they are talking about. Please read about Islam by Muslim people before you talk.

I am a Muslim and love USA more than many many people born here. I love the USA becuse I have the right to believe what I want and respect others beliefs and expected the others to respect my beliefs (That Is What The USA Is)

For the ones who don't believe in that you are in the wrong country.

Barack is the best example for what is the life in the USA and the beauty of this country is you can be what you want and your dreams can be reached.

Hussan is very respectable name in Islam, and many Muslim and non Muslim people use it, but that doesn't mean the person having this name is good or bad becuse they didn't choose it. It is like George it doesn't mean every one that has this name is stupid or dumb or hated by millions and a babies killer. Some people with the name George are really good people.

Do you get it?

boo!!! (fort collins)

2008-07-18T23:25:58-06:00

About 2 weeks ago I was reading the paper and in the very back in a small article not much more than about 100 words talked about how the last of about 550 metric tons of uranium(yellow cake) found in Iraq was shipped to canada.So bush was right after all.Now before you audibly groan and dismiss me as some crazy republican nazi let just clarify something real quick.If you were accused of manufacturing and or distributing of anything lets say weed for example and they raided your property and found somethings commonly used to grow or deal weed (i.e. uv lights,hydroponic table,scale etc.)would or would you not be guilty of just such a crime ?Even if you had no weed you would still be guilty of "intent to distribute

"no?Lets not forget that saddam was a criminal of the worst kind.Just ask any forensic psych. about his daily state of mind,his reality,Also the world has had nothing but problems with him for a long time even after the gulf war and he had a no fly zone and he would shoot at patrol planes meant to enforce that.If you you on parole,probation(which he more or less was with the world) and cops drove in front of your house and you shot at them would you or would you not be arrested and charged with attempted murder?Not to mention he attacked his own country men who where ethnically different.Isn't that a hate crime in the U.S. and akin to serbia and kosovo.Why didn't everyone get pissed when clinton joined in that?!If you think that Bush was wrong because "we did't find any WMDs" just ask a cop just because they don't always get the evidence doesn't mean they're innocent.Let's not forget He had land about the state of CA and millions of dollars and over a yr warning that we would come for him,remember those MIGs we found buried in his desert?what else will we never find?If you broke the law for an arrestible offense and the cops came for you and you fought back S.W.A.T. would give 12hrs maybe,if you were on parole/probation and you violated it you would have a couple of hours to maybe days to comply or you be arrested Saddam had 12yrs!!! You owe the world an apology and Bush a congratulations!!!

Communist party (Retardville)

2008-07-18T11:38:50-06:00

Communists are just a bunch of "low end of the totem poll" whining fags.

If you are protesting the DNC (fort Collins)

2008-07-18T10:05:17-06:00

Rumor has it that the Denver p*gs have outlawed gas masks. I guess they were taking riot lessons from the Seattle PD. They have also outlawed sticks that one might possibly use to staple a protest sign to.

I would instead take along the following.

1. Small tape recorder

2. Small video camera

3. Cell phone with a camera

4. Pen and paper for making a diary of the event.

5. Bicycle helmet, to protect your head for when the copscum beat you over the head.

6. Bottle of water for washing away any pepper spray.

7. A scarf for covering your face in case they use gas on the crowds.

8. latex gloves so you do not get finger prints on the rocks we plan to throw.

9. fire crackers to make the cops think there are gun shots.

Duncan Philp zapata105@yahoo.com

Change is the muslim creedo (Fort Collins)

2008-07-17T08:28:32-06:00

Change or die!

That's going to be great for America.

MUSLIMS FOR Barack Obama (Islam)

2008-07-16T18:07:03-06:00

BORN A MUSLIM , HE CHOSE TO GROW UP ISLAM !! HE IS ALWAYS A MUSLIM !!!

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2008-07-08T22:17:37-06:00

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Voting my Party (LVLAND)

2008-07-08T11:32:46-06:00

In respect to you Bearman, I felt I had to respond to your "Voting with Party" posting.
I vote with my Party because I am a Democrat, I agree with the fundamental beliefs of my Party. I am not a Republican, I am not a Green, I am not a Libertarian, although I may agree with dribs and drabs from each I am a Democrat. I will vote with my Party.
Vote however you want...That is what makes this country great, is it not?