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Four years of conservative and Republican lies, smears and Obama Derangement Syndrome are all wonderfully bundled in a mailer sent out by Ralph Reed to his evangelical following. Reed, head of Faith and Freedom Coalition, is one of a number of conservative hatchet men who operate from the hate-filled backrooms of the Christian Right. Here’s the trash he sent out to his followers.
Reed asks if it’s all “pretty scary”? It would be if any of it was true. But it’s not and Reed knows it but he has no qualms in putting forth blatant lies because he knows that the brain-dead morons on his mailing list will believe every filthy lie. It’s all part of a ploy that’s been in play since day one of the Obama presidency. That is, portray Barack Obama as the anti-Christ who is out to take your bible, your guns, your money and your dog. It’s getting old.
There is only one political party that is out to destroy the economy and anything else that lies in its path on its quest to regain political party. And that would be the Republican Party with the help of low-lifes like Ralph Reed. If you ever for a moment thought that President Obama has pretty much wrapped up this election, keep the following in mind.
…the New York Times reported, the Faith and Freedom Coalition hopes to contact some 17 million conservative voters before Election Day. FFC will deploy more than 5,000 volunteers and will distribute 25 million voter guides to members of 117,000 churches nationwide.
And remember that there are a whole bunch of Ralph Reeds out there doing their best to make sure that the Kenyan anti-Christ does not win reelection.
A Bit Of Will Is Needed:
As a young boy, I didn’t know a Republican from a Democrat, only in one way: If some man or bunch of men rode up to the ranch to sit or stay all night, and my Father set me to watching ‘em all the time they was there — what they did and what they carried off — I learned they were Republicans.
The stuff these radicals come up with is stranger than fiction. It is devious, sick, and ugly. If money is the root of all evil, the quest for power has to be a very close second. I would have so liked to enjoy President Obama’s term in office without all of this hate, bitter divide, paranoia, and distraction leveled at him on a daily basis. His skin is much thicker than mine — I take these attacks on him rather personally. To me, he is one of the most decent, intelligent, straightforward, and common men to have held the office in my lifetime. I hope I’m not being naive, but I’d like to think, if we’re lucky enough to see him reelected, his second term will be different — just maybe all the crazies will start focusing on 2016 and leave him alone to do the important work of moving this country forward.
I have observed that the delusional rightwing think that if Obama is voted out of office, that it will shame, embarrass and destroy him, sending him scampering away to lick his wounds. Now I am sure that president Obama would be greatly dissapointed if he lost, but if that were to happen, he would be just fine. He has a wife that he loves and who loves him and two beautiful daughters that he adores, and he will move foward with that sharp sense of humor and genuine smile intact. It is this country, all of us except the 1% that would pay a terrible price for his defeat.
Sydney, one thing I’ve learned about political figures over the past eight years is that it doesn’t do to count them out. I would have thought that Gingrich, after he was thrown out of the Speaker’s position and Santorum, after losing his senate seat, were at best relegated to some creaky old conservative think tank, but that turned out not to be the case. Both of them, at different times during the Republican primary fracas, managed to drum up a certain degree of plausibility as GOP hopefuls*.
Republican ex-presidents haven’t fared so well. Nixon was disgraced, Ford had nothing to contribute, Reagan was past his prime (and slipping further into dementia), Bush the First, like Ford, had nothing more left to say and nobody wants much to do with the Shrub.
Clinton has managed to remain a strong figure in Democratic politics and even Carter managed to carve out a niche as a statesman emeritus (though some of the shine has worn off that image in the past few years). I think that, win or lose, one term or two, President Obama will continue to shape Democratic politics after turning the lights out in the Oval Office.
*Note how many Republican candidates in recent history received their party’s nomination after previous, unsuccessful campaigns: Nixon (1960), Reagan (1976), Bush I (1980), Dole (1976), McCain (2000) and Romney (2008). Furthermore, in the cases of the Shrub and Romney, we have two people who felt the need to redeem their fathers’ failures (not pursuing Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War and failure to secure the 1968 GOP presidential nomination, respectively). Romney apparently feels triply entitled to the Oval Office: once because of his wealth, a second time because of his father and thirdly because it’s his turn.
So Obama made more folks dependent on food stamps so they would be beholden to him this insuring a second term as POTUS? Silly me! I suspected that most of the increase was because of all the jobs that Romney and the rest of the vultures shipped overseas so they could have more money to invest in the economies of Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
As a Progressive and supporter of the Democratic Platform, this makes me happy. Why? Because it is actually a good sign if the strongest arguments your opponent has are lies, distortions and context games.
* They CAN’T explain their detailed tax plan because they know that if they did Obama would win with 60%
* Romney can’t campaign on the one good thing he did in MA (healthcare) because his base would stay home on 11/6
* His ads are almost all based on absolute lies and the media has mostly reported on it
* Romney has a natural demeanor that says, “Did you just ask that to the CEO”? Doesn’t work in politics
Reed and the right in general are left only with this kind of lying bullshit. These are Romney’s people and he has to “Dance with the ones who brung ‘im” Makes me smile…
This is how Republicans justify their own crooked politics, like Voter ID laws and voting “no” on anything that comes through Congress from Obama or Democrats.
The Christian Right believes that since they believe they represent Christ, anything they do is excusable where it isn’t so for Democrats, because they are evil and nothing they do, is unexcusable.
If Democrats have compassion for the poor and hungry, it’s just an agenda we have to deceive the electorate. Only the Christians can have compassion and Democrats aren’t Christian. That’s not true of course, there are millions and millions of Christian Democrats but then, you don’t have to be a Christian to have compassion for those who suffer.
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This is no shock, he could win the decade.
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A Bit Of Will Is Needed:
As a young boy, I didn’t know a Republican from a Democrat, only in one way: If some man or bunch of men rode up to the ranch to sit or stay all night, and my Father set me to watching ‘em all the time they was there — what they did and what they carried off — I learned they were Republicans.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like
This is almost enough to make me want to believe in hell so I could imagine Reed arriving there.
The stuff these radicals come up with is stranger than fiction. It is devious, sick, and ugly. If money is the root of all evil, the quest for power has to be a very close second. I would have so liked to enjoy President Obama’s term in office without all of this hate, bitter divide, paranoia, and distraction leveled at him on a daily basis. His skin is much thicker than mine — I take these attacks on him rather personally. To me, he is one of the most decent, intelligent, straightforward, and common men to have held the office in my lifetime. I hope I’m not being naive, but I’d like to think, if we’re lucky enough to see him reelected, his second term will be different — just maybe all the crazies will start focusing on 2016 and leave him alone to do the important work of moving this country forward.
I have observed that the delusional rightwing think that if Obama is voted out of office, that it will shame, embarrass and destroy him, sending him scampering away to lick his wounds. Now I am sure that president Obama would be greatly dissapointed if he lost, but if that were to happen, he would be just fine. He has a wife that he loves and who loves him and two beautiful daughters that he adores, and he will move foward with that sharp sense of humor and genuine smile intact. It is this country, all of us except the 1% that would pay a terrible price for his defeat.
Sydney, one thing I’ve learned about political figures over the past eight years is that it doesn’t do to count them out. I would have thought that Gingrich, after he was thrown out of the Speaker’s position and Santorum, after losing his senate seat, were at best relegated to some creaky old conservative think tank, but that turned out not to be the case. Both of them, at different times during the Republican primary fracas, managed to drum up a certain degree of plausibility as GOP hopefuls*.
Republican ex-presidents haven’t fared so well. Nixon was disgraced, Ford had nothing to contribute, Reagan was past his prime (and slipping further into dementia), Bush the First, like Ford, had nothing more left to say and nobody wants much to do with the Shrub.
Clinton has managed to remain a strong figure in Democratic politics and even Carter managed to carve out a niche as a statesman emeritus (though some of the shine has worn off that image in the past few years). I think that, win or lose, one term or two, President Obama will continue to shape Democratic politics after turning the lights out in the Oval Office.
*Note how many Republican candidates in recent history received their party’s nomination after previous, unsuccessful campaigns: Nixon (1960), Reagan (1976), Bush I (1980), Dole (1976), McCain (2000) and Romney (2008). Furthermore, in the cases of the Shrub and Romney, we have two people who felt the need to redeem their fathers’ failures (not pursuing Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War and failure to secure the 1968 GOP presidential nomination, respectively). Romney apparently feels triply entitled to the Oval Office: once because of his wealth, a second time because of his father and thirdly because it’s his turn.
Hey dumbass Reed. Wasn’t “Obamacare” originally a Republican model for Healthcare? You’re such a fraud.
So Obama made more folks dependent on food stamps so they would be beholden to him this insuring a second term as POTUS? Silly me! I suspected that most of the increase was because of all the jobs that Romney and the rest of the vultures shipped overseas so they could have more money to invest in the economies of Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
As a Progressive and supporter of the Democratic Platform, this makes me happy. Why? Because it is actually a good sign if the strongest arguments your opponent has are lies, distortions and context games.
* They CAN’T explain their detailed tax plan because they know that if they did Obama would win with 60%
* Romney can’t campaign on the one good thing he did in MA (healthcare) because his base would stay home on 11/6
* His ads are almost all based on absolute lies and the media has mostly reported on it
* Romney has a natural demeanor that says, “Did you just ask that to the CEO”? Doesn’t work in politics
Reed and the right in general are left only with this kind of lying bullshit. These are Romney’s people and he has to “Dance with the ones who brung ‘im” Makes me smile…
This is how Republicans justify their own crooked politics, like Voter ID laws and voting “no” on anything that comes through Congress from Obama or Democrats.
The Christian Right believes that since they believe they represent Christ, anything they do is excusable where it isn’t so for Democrats, because they are evil and nothing they do, is unexcusable.
If Democrats have compassion for the poor and hungry, it’s just an agenda we have to deceive the electorate. Only the Christians can have compassion and Democrats aren’t Christian. That’s not true of course, there are millions and millions of Christian Democrats but then, you don’t have to be a Christian to have compassion for those who suffer.