Comments on: On Middle Names

By: Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:35 +0000

This is a good article and an accurate assessment of Obama’s "protected class" status as a candidate.
You can find fault with Obama – there’s plenty there to find fault with. Obama does not have integrity nor substance. All that he has is an "image" of being nonthreatening and populist. The real Obama is something America doesn’t need and wouldn’t want if they understood it. And Obama is not a real candidate anywhere outside the shady back-room politics of Chicago.
There really is too much at stake to play games. Don’t treat Obama with kid gloves. And don’t worry about being seen as a racist; you can’t change some people’s pathological, paranoid tendencies to claim that they are victims and that the rest of the world is racist.

By: ts

ts — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:20:26 +0000

(sorry for the formatting and grammar mistakes – I wrongly assumed there’d be a preview stage…)

By: ts

ts — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:54:52 +0000

Untitled document But I don't get you. Isn't this what the Republicans do? George Bush spreads rumors that McCain has an illegitimate black child. Everyone spreads rumors that Hillary is gay. Karl Rove spreads rumors that John Kerry was a coward. Various conservative columnists like O'Reilly and Coulter just out-and-out call for the brutal murders of anyone on the left. I could go on and on.(For all the faults of the Left, their main players are singularly polite, probably too polite.)This is what this team does. Karl Rove is admired precisely for his dirty tricks! This aren't going to stop now - the team bonds over worlds like "moonbats" and "libtards" - it's the Party of Fear, not the Party of Reason.

By: chaosdrew

chaosdrew — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:29:51 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, iantbaccus. Our current Republican party seems less and less like the party of Buckley and, even more frightening, less self-aware of how its more extreme elements mirror and often overshadow the extreme elements of the Left.

By: Mockinbird

Mockinbird — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:01:20 +0000

I agree with Gaius.

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:34:11 +0000

The Democrats always referred to Romney by the name he chose to use, Mitt, never by his given name Willard.

By: iaintbacchus

iaintbacchus — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:39:20 +0000

All these years and the majority of Americans still do not understand just how vicious is the Left; even after all that was said and done to GWB, all that was done to Republicans/Conservatives, all that was said and done about our troops, all the movies/books/music portraying an evil America worthy of hate and disrespect.
Free your mind, Syn. "the left" isn’t any more viscous on the whole than "the right". Both sides have their attack dogs and on balance the right has more of them and better forums for theirs.
There are a great many people in this country who honestly disagree with just about everything that Bush has done over the last 7 years. That doesn’t make any of them viscous. And every one of them loves their country just as much as you do. They aren’t suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrom, they don’t want the terrorists to win and none of them are interested in the violent overthrow of the United States Government. That was the Montana Freemen back during the Clinton administration. And regardless of what Clinton said, you can too love America and hate your government. The trouble with the right is that they’ve taken Clintons words to heart and pretend that everybody that doesn’t love their party must hate America. Grow up.
The weakness of the right at the moment is that you turn on even your own if they don’t subscribe to party orthodoxy. John McCain is a perfect case in point. I’ve read far more vitrol pointed at him from "wingnut" sites then I have from "moonbat" sites. And yet I predict that most of you will hold your breath and vote for him in November as the lesser of two evils. Just like we all had to in 2000 and 2004.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:04:39 +0000

they hate Americans, republicans/conservatives,troops, puritians etc et al Do you mean "Puritans" rather than "puritians?" For all I know they may be one of the primary objects of the progressive Left’s hatred, but they haven’t really been around since the 17th century…

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:43:30 +0000

Agreed 100%.

By: syn

syn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:33:53 +0000

Poor John Sidney McCain, has there ever been a president who has won by campaigning hate against his own party?
Just so you know BO doesn’t like to be labled a ‘Liberal." I do expect the RNC to issue a press release stating not to stoop so low as to call OB a Liberal.
JSM hasn’t a prayer in the world of defeating his opponent. Not a prayer.
All these years and the majority of Americans still do not understand just how vicious is the Left; even after all that was said and done to GWB, all that was done to Republicans/Conservatives, all that was said and done about our troops, all the movies/books/music portraying an evil America worthy of hate and disrespect.
THe RNC is doing exactly what the progressive Left wants them to do.
Until you undertand just how vicious is the progressive Left you will never be able to defeat them; I say this becasue I once of part of them, they hate Americans, republicans/conservatives,troops, puritians etc et al and will destroy word by word.

By: icrutchfield

icrutchfield — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:49:01 +0000

This was a stupid move; nobody should be insulted because of a name. It was not Obama’s doing, the name was given by his parents.
I can only hope, that republicans won’t stoop as low as Hillary, I expect more of maturity by republicans.