One Month Of Bad Data. Stop the Bull$hi$! We Are Not on the Verge of a Great, Great Depression!

Knuck,

Republicans have been doing that since the 1980's to us...At least the president said He mispoke,meant to infer adversaries. Where is your apology?

my apologizes?

As progressives, I think it is time for us to stand united and let some of these so called progressives know that they need to get their head out of their ass and let them know that the enemy of our big tent progressive agendas are Republicans.

I have never labeled progressives as my enemy Randy, so there is no apology to be given! I just believe they are mentally incapable of logical thought. Heres an example.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-students-try-to-explain-why-they-support-affirmative-action-but-not-in-sports/

And I would appreciate you to address me by handle, not a witty alternative with suggestive insult.

Free Mason-1490678

No real big surprise here knuckles /shrug The tolerant party is anything but!!

really ? you can say that with the hypocrisy of the right ?? remember ? showing up with monkey dolls labeled Obama ? Just one example ..

"A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla. Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote, 'I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors -- probably harmless.' Busted by South Carolina political blogger Will Folks, DePass told WIS-TV in Columbia, 'I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest.' Then he added, 'The comment was hers, not mine,' claiming Michelle Obama made a recent remark about humans descending from apes. The Daily News could find no such comment."

Until now, that is. A new survey by the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality offers fresh insight into the racial attitudes of Tea Party sympathizers. "The data suggests that people who are Tea Party supporters have a higher probability"—25 percent, to be exact—"of being racially resentful than those who are not Tea Party supporters," says Christopher Parker, who directed the study. "The Tea Party is not just about politics and size of government. The data suggests it may also be about race."
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/25/are-tea-partiers-racist.html

2010 Multi-state Survey on Race & Politics
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html

what are the reasons so many from the right committed acts of violence ?

October 2008. Two white supremacists planning to go on a massive shooting spree in Tennessee, then to assassinate candidate Obama, were caught before they could act.

Aug. 4, 2009:
Jody Billingsley, Elizabeth Gannon, and Heidi Overmier are murdered at a Pittsburgh fitness club. The killer, George Sodini, is widely described in media as profoundly lonely, but some news accounts also mention his blog's racist jokes, comments on the "liberal media," the "Obama economy", and the election of "The Black Man" in 2008. ..

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8258001&page=1

April 25, 2009:
Sheriff's deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" York, on a domestic violence call, are shot and killed by Joshua Cartwright, who is killed as police return fire. Cartwright's widow tells investigators that he "believed the government was conspiring against him", and that he was "severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected President. ...

http://www.wkrg.com/crime/article/community_mourns_officers/25642/Apr-28-2009_8-35-am/

June 10, 2009:
Security guard Stephen Johns is shot and killed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, by James von Brunn, a white supremacist, anti-Semitic birther with a long record of arrests and violent tendencies. ..

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-10-holocaust-museum-shooting_N.htm

Feb. 18, 2010:
Internal Revenue Service manager Vernon Hunter is killed by businessman Joe Stack's kamikaze attack on a federal office building in Austin, Texas. The political views in Stack's rambling suicide note seem off the wall in ways that defy categorization as right or left, but he is widely and immediately hailed as a hero across the radical right-wing, specifically because his attack was against IRS offices. ...

http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-andrew-stacks-insane-manifesto-2010-2

April 4, 2009:
Pittsburgh police officers Eric Kelly, Steve Mayhle, and Paul Sciullo are killed by gunman Richard Poplawski. The killer is described in media accounts as a white supremacist who had posted a Glenn Beck video to one of the numerous hate sites he frequented, and who was worried by the false right-wing meme that President Obama is preparing to confiscate everyone's guns. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Pittsburgh_police_shootings#Political_views

Feb. 26, 2009:
College students Nicolas Pablo Corp-Torres and Racine Balbontin-Aragondona are shot and killed and three others are wounded by Danny Baker. He is described in news accounts as a Republican Party activist, reportedly driven by racism, who targeted his victims because they were Chilean. ..

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/baker-15572-rhoads-jail.html

Dec. 9, 2008:
Millionaire neo-Nazi James G. Cummings is shot and killed by his wife, Amber Cummings, after what she describes as years of domestic abuse. Investigators find a cache of "radiological dispersal device components and literature, and radioactive materials" for constructing a dirty bomb, and describe Cummings as "a lone, disturbed individual". His wife says that he had been especially furious in recent weeks over the election of Barack Obama. ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/10/james-g-cummings-slain-us_n_173640.html
Aug. 13, 2008:
Bill Gwatney, chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, is shot and killed at Party headquarters in Little Rock by Timothy Dale Johnson.

Tucker says he and other classmates do recall Johnson being vocal about his views.

"I would always remember going to class and I would see that he had a Bill Clinton anti-campaign sticker [on his car] that says I don't miss Bill. "He would surf the internet and he would see that a Democrat had died and he would laugh about it."

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70912&catid=2

July 28, 2008:
Churchgoers Linda Kreager and Greg McKendry are shot and killed and five others are wounded at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, by gunman Jim David Adkisson. The murderer later tells police that he targeted Unitarians because of the church's "liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed". In the gunman's home, police find a collection of right-wing literature including Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly, and Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by Michael Savage. ...

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/29/suspects-note-cites-liberal-movement-church-attack/

not to forget bricks thrown through Democrat windows , gas lines cut , phone threats ................

Remember When Beck Ridiculed Pelosi For Speaking Out Against Violent Tea Party Rhetoric?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmNVBaGF0Q&feature=player_embedded

Church Carnival Sets Up Shooter Game With Obama As Target

In Roseto, Pa., a carnival company closed down a shooter game called "Alien Attack," after complaints and news stories that President Obama was one of the targets.

The black "alien leader" is holding a scroll titled "Health Bill" and wearing a presidential seal belt buckle. He also has antennae and a troll doll with a KISS T-shirt on his shoulder.

The owner of the carnival company, Goodtime Amusements, dismissed a complaint, saying the figure is not meant to be Obama.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/church_carnival_sets_up_shooter_game_with_obama_as.php

you have to be a moron to believe the carnival company ..... it sure wasn't Bill Cosby drawn there .

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uzVZA7KHnGA/TFmsrLBTMQI/AAAAAAAABTI/sQkGLngoKjA/s1600/killobamagame.jpg

n opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."

Federal Bureau of Investigation According to the FBI, there was a 300% increase in threats against members of Congress in 2010, and over a 1,000 death threats a month against President Obama. In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security warned that "right-wing extremism" was increasing because of the economic downturn, the election of the first African American president, and pointed to the recruitment of returning vets into right-wing extremist organizations. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/civilrights/hate_crimes/hate_crimes

FBI Hate Crime reports/statistics

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/november/hate_112210/hate_112210

Southern Law Poverty Center Tracking Hate Speech, Extremism and Violence in the USA, one of the most respected and trusted authorities on Hate Speech and Violence; serves as a source of information for government agencies http://www.splcenter.org/

SPL Center 2010 Year of Hate and Extremism Report http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year

US Department of Justice "Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance" http://www.justice.gov/crs/pubs/crs_pub_hate_crime_bulletin_1201.htm http://www.justice.gov/crs/pubs/htecrm.htm

The Leadership Conference Hate Crimes in America http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/executive-summary.html, http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/nature-and-magnitude.html

1993 Report to Congress on the Role of Telecommunications in Hate Crimes (especially talk Radio stations) http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/1993/TelecomHateCrimes1993.pdf

June 2010 Petition to FCC to monitor Telecommunications Right Wing Media "news" outlets hate speech http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/05/should-the-government-keep-tabs-on-hate-speech.ars

BY THE NUMBERS the political/ideological make-up of talk radio in the United States.

The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/talk_radio.pdf

FALSE FACTS: MOST FALSEHOODS WHICH SIDE / PARTY?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/

SOURCE WATCH Guide to the Names behind the news http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch

Propaganda techniques in media: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques

FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=100

FactCheck. Org http://www.factcheck.org/

PolitiFact Truthometer http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch http://www.prwatch.org/

Who owns the media ? monopolies programming agenda setting http://www.corporations.org/media/

Media Tenor http://www.mediatenor.com/ou_who_we_are.php

American Civil Liberties Union Defense of Free Speech since 1920 http://www.aclu.org/ Thoughts on Speech After the Arizona Tragedy http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/thoughts-speech-after-arizona-tragedy

Historical Roots and Perspective on American Political Violence (Have we always been prone to verbal and physical violence as a solution political and social problems? Does this make it ok?)

Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 http://wps.ablongman.com/long_divine_appap_7/23/5927/1517501.cw/index.html

What God Has Wrought http://books.google.com/books?id=0XIvPDF9ijcC&pg=PA437&lpg=PA437&dq=washington+partisanship+political+culture+violence&source=bl&ots=0ebyghZX7L&sig=93qI9smwBBpnxU-4gqgVYLguFKY&hl=en&ei=2mgyTe2YMMLbgQfJwvyxCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=washington%20partisanship%20political%20culture%20violence&f=false

Republican Presidential Candidate first GOPer to Blame Democrats for Giffords Assasination Attempt
Yeah, it really couldn't have anything at all to do with the below:
January 2010 - Sharon Angle, teabagger candidate for United States Senate
if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies....
March 2010 – Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidat
"Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Pls see my Facebook page.
The Facebook page that had Congresspeople in crosshairs.
April 2010 – Allan West, then teabagger congressional candidate referring to his opponent.
"Let me tell you what you've got to do. You've got to make the fellow scared to come out of his house.
April 2009 – Michael McCaul, republican congressman from Texas
They fought against tyranny and oppressive taxes, do that sound familiar? We're continuing that revolution right here in Austin, Texas today. Thomas Jefferson said the Tree of Liberty will be fed by the blood of tyrants and patriots. You are the modern day patriots.
March 2009 – Michelle Bachmann, teabagger congresswoman from Minnesota
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax
March 2010 - Steve King, Iowa GOP congressman in a speech to teabaggers
Let's beat that other side to a pulp. Let's take them out, let's chase them down.
October 2010 – Gregg Harper, GOP congressman from Mississippi
"We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it's a waste of good ammunition."
September 2010 – Political consultant Rick Winters tweeting about Media Matters
explain to me why the MMFA boys don't get curbstomped fortnightly?
October 2009 – South Florida congressional candidate Robert Lowry fired a weapon at a target featuring the initials of his opponent Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
October 2009 – GOP official Terry Jorgenson about congressman Tim Walz
I want to come through and choke the man...
February 2010 – Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota
We should take a page out of her playbook and take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government.[...]If you try to take our freedoms, we will fight back.
May 2010 – Brad Goehring, GOP congressional candidate
If I could issue hunting permits, I would officially declare today opening day forliberals. The season would extend through November 2 and have no limits on how many taken as we desperately need to "thin" the herd.
March 2010 – Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chair
So let's start getting Nancy ready for the firing line this November!
October 2010 - Stephen Broden, teabagger candidate for Congress
"Our nation was founded on violence; the option is on the table,"
"...we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary."

PALIN PUTS GUN SIGHTS ON "TARGET" MAP; URGES WE "RELOAD"
http://radio.foxnews.com/2010/03/24/palin-puts-gun-sights-on-%E2%80%9Ctarget%E2%80%9D-map-urges-we-%E2%80%9Creload%E2%80%9D/
Tea Party Rhetoric: "Nothing better than a dead liberal"
http://bluewavenews.com/blog/2011/01/09/tea-party-rhetoric-nothing-better-than-a-dead-liberal/
Save a seal club a liberal
We came unarmed this time
Warning if brown can't stop it a Browning can
Right wing violence
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100917659372037806288.0004828ef8239ccbe7445&source=embed&ll=42.5207,-90.263672&spn=26.708708,67.631836&z=5&iwloc=000482a5ee75915d9de89
Health Care Town Halls Turn Violent in Tampa and St. Louis

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/health-care-town-halls-turn-violent-tampa-st-louis#ixzz1AaROPuVC

Hate Crimes on the Rise as Republican Rhetoric Reaches Epic Heights
http://bluewavenews.com/blog/2010/08/27/hate-crimes-on-the-rise-as-republican-rhetoric-reaches-epic-heights/
Anti-Choice Terrorists Leave Dead Animals and Threats at Women's Health Clinics

''I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choki...ng the life out.''
—Glenn Beck, May 17, 2005

''The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel.'''
—Sarah Palin

''Barack Obama ... chose to use his name Barack for a reason -- to identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, o...f your father in Kenya, who is a radical? Is -- really? Searching for something to give him any kind of meaning, just as he was searching later in life for religion.''
—Glenn Beck

''I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?''
—Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008

"I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for."
- Rush Limbaugh,
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
- Ann Coulter
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
- Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform
"Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him."
- Rep. James Hansen (R-UT
"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. This is not a message of hate; this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
- Pat Robertson, speaking of organizers putting rainbow flags up around Orlando to support sexual diversity, Washington Post, 06-10-98. For the record, Orlando remains undestroyed by meteors.
"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
- Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska Public Radio, 08-19-96
"I don't understand how poor people think."
- George W. Bush, confiding in the Rev. Jim Wallis, New York Times, 08-26-03
"We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs."
- Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Mother Jones, 08-95
"Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."
- Pat Robertson again, The 700 Club, 01-18-95
"Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the past - I'm not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential trouble - recognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of an 'enemy of the people.' The Nazis used the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, 'clan liability.' In Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished 'to the ninth degree': that is, everyone in the offender's own generation would be killed and everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed."
- John Derbyshire, National Review, 02-15-01
"The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than Hitler's."
- Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA), The New Republic, 08-01-94
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
- Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, 02-26-02
"Quit looking at the symbols. Get out and get a job. Quit shooting each other. Quit having illegitimate babies."
- State Rep. John Graham Altman (R-SC), addressing African-American concerns about the 'symbol' of the Confederate Flag, New York Times, 01-24-97
"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."
- State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC), emailed to every member of the North Carolina House and Senate, reported by the Fayetteville Observer, 08-22-01
"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
- George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02

while the left is not innocent. the record of violence carried out by the right far outweighs the left.

JANUARY 10, 2011 6:56PM
Right & Left Violence: Timeline

http://open.salon.com/blog/greg_correll/2011/01/10/right_left_violence_timeline

Jonah Goldberg inspired this guy who shot two people in a progressive church.

Jim D. Adkisson, 58, has been charged with first-degree murder in the Sunday shooting at a Knoxville, Tenn., Unitarian church that left two people dead and five injured. Police said he acted alone.

"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said at a press conference Monday.

From his manifesto, which he'd intended to be a suicide note (but the churchgoers tackled him so he couldn't die in a blaze of glory with the police like he's intended):

"Know this if nothing else: This was a hate crime. I hate the damn left-wing liberals. There is a vast left-wing conspiracy in this country & these liberals are working together to attack every decent & honorable institution in the nation, trying to turn this country into a communist state. Shame on them....

"This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chicken@!$%# liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It's the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence."

"I thought I'd do something good for this Country Kill Democrats til the cops kill me....Liberals are a pest like termites. Millions of them Each little bite contributes to the downfall of this great nation. The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is to kill them in the streets. Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals.

1. "This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture....I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." –on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009 (Source)

2. "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure." –responding to the question "What would people do for $50 million?", "The Glenn Beck Program," May 17, 2005 (Source)

3. "When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining." –"The Glenn Beck Program," Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

4. "The only [Katrina victims] we're seeing on television are the scumbags." –"The Glenn Beck Program," Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

5. "I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." –on why people who lost their homes in forest fires in California had it coming, "The Glenn Beck Program," Oct. 22, 2007 (Source)

6. "I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. ... And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way." –interviewing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, Glen Beck's show on CNN's Headline News, Nov. 14, 2006 (Source)

7. "Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization...And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing]." –"The Glenn Beck Program," May 1, 2007 (Source)

8. "So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. ... Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. ... The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening." –"The Glenn Beck Program," March 9, 2009 (Source)

9. "You have the artwork of Mussolini there, here in New York at Rockefeller Plaza." –analyzing the artwork decorating Rockefeller Plaza, which he said contained a hammer and sickle, Glenn Beck show on FOX News Channel, Sept. 2, 2009 (Source)

10. "O-L-I-G-A-R-H-Y." –misspelling "oligarchy" on his chalk board while claiming he had deciphered a secret code that he said was proof President Obama was trying to create an "Oligarhy," Aug. 27, 2009, Glenn Beck show on FOX News Channel (Source)

Religious intolerance among conservative Christians:

A few conservative Christians have made statements that categorize other religious groups as evil, degenerate, sub-human and/or hated by God. Some examples are:

- A former Southern Baptist president told two large meetings recently that God does not listen to the prayers of a Jew.
- A Baptist minister in Texas has allegedly called for the mass murder of Wiccans by napalm.
-An Evangelical minister explained that there are two groups in the world: the children of God (those who are saved), and the children of the devil (everyone else).
-Another stated that New Age beliefs are another attempt by Satan to pollute Christianity, promote immorality and foster unethical attitudes.
-Still another stated that non-Christians hate God, love sin, and don't care whether anyone is struggling with sin or not.
-A prominent televangelist called for the round up and extermination of all Wiccans by the U.S. Federal government.
-Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions have frequently been described as variations of Satanism.

We have not been able to find any comparable statements by mainline or liberal Christians.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/relintol2.htm

that's just the tip ! I think cons take the cake when it comes to intolerance and violence !

I could post the same laundry list of hateful remarks the left has made, but for what? I certainly dont want to piss myself off while collecting all the data. You see here is the fundamental problem with progressive thinking. "Well they did it!" Plain and simple. Progressives are a cancer to our society, it would be wise the liberals of the left marginalize them quickly before they keep another decent liberal out of the white house forever. Can you guess which decent liberal I am refering to?

Tjknuckles

I could post the same laundry list of hateful remarks the left has made

DO IT.

and remember this ...

FALSE FACTS: MOST FALSEHOODS WHICH SIDE / PARTY?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/

We have not been able to find any comparable statements by mainline or liberal Christians.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/relintol2.htm

so much for cons being the party of family values ... hypocrites.

I could post the same laundry list of hateful remarks the left has made, but for what?

Please do and back it up with facts and links. If not you are just blowviating.

Here is the list:

Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years [Zombietime pictureblog]

Keith Olbermann 'Called To The Floor' for Bristol Palin 'Worst Person' Segment?

Libtalker [Mike Malloy] To Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly: Time To Die

Envious (Liberal Talk Radio Host) Ed Schultz Likens Limbaugh to Hitler

Chris Matthews Fantasizes About Killing Rush Limbaugh

Salon Publishes Call for Murder of Sarah Palin

[Keith] Olbermann Targets [Michelle] Malkin: Without ‘Fascistic Hatred’ She’s a ‘Mashed-Up Bag of Meat with Lipstick’

Actor Richard Belzer: Limbaugh, Beck 'Fascist Stooges'; Fox News 'Racist,' 'Misogynistic'

Chris Matthews Calls Liz Cheney 'Daughter of Dracula'

Death Threats Force FreedomWorks to Move

[Ann] Coulter Speech Cancelled Over Security Fears!

[Keith] Olbermann compares 'Jihadists' to Brit Hume on religion

Alan Grayson on MSNBC: Fox News is a Threat To This Country

Vile Huffington Post Puts Brisol & Willow Palins Private Facebook Comments Online

Palin daughters are threatened, taunted in Facebook war

Sandra Bernhard Calls Bristol Palin a Hooker on 'Joy Behar Show'

[Joy] Behar: "This Bit**" Sharron Angle Is "Going To Hell"

Exposure by Free Republic Forces Huffington Post to Pull Article Threatening Glenn Beck

WARNING: Palin Derangement Syndrome Outbreak at the Daily Beast

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The reason liberals can "rant" without fear of being labeled terrorists is that their "rants" are justified in the eyes of the media elite. Liberals believe that their beliefs are based on the rational analysis of scientific data. Their opponents' beliefs are based on superstition and prejudice.

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"half this country wants to guide our ship of state by a compass. A compass, something that works by science and rationality, and empirical wisdom. And half this country wants to kill a chicken and read the entrails like they used to do in the old Roman Empire." Bill Mahr

"The bombing shows how dangerous it really is to inflame twisted minds with statements that suggest political opponents are enemies." David Brofer in wake of OKC

Liberals can demonize entire classes of people. One of the favorite targets of the liberal elite is the Christian right. According to Michael Weisskopf of the Washington Post, the followers of people like the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." These people are not only ignorant, but they are also a definite threat. Chris Matthews has declared, "The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious right." Rosie O'Donnell asserted, "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America." This demonization makes it permissible to say some pretty outlandish things. NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu on his "All Things Considered" segment stated, "The evaporation of four million [people] who believe in this [Christian] crap would leave this world a better place." Actress Megan Fox, admittedly not a representative of the elite intelligentsia, said that if given the chance, she'd urge the fictional character Megatron to murder only the "white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super Bible-beating people in Middle America."
"The Republican Party is basically anti-civil rights, anti-immigration, anti-women, and anti-worker." Ted Kennedy
"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for." Howard dean

"[h]ate and hurt are on a roll in America. If what was happening here was happening in South Africa, it'd be called racist apartheid. If it was happening in Germany, we'd call it Nazism. And in Italy, we'd call it fascism. Here we call it conservatism." Jesse Jackson

Liberal pundit and columnist Maureen Dowd referred to "extra chromosome conservatives" in an interview with

Bill Maher's on HBO.

Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to commonly denigrate persons he disagrees with as "retarded;" he was pointedly criticized for this by Sarah Palin.

Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and senior Democratic Party elder statesman Al Gore mocked children with Down syndrome by referring to his political critics as having "an extra chromosome

On March 3 2009, President Obama ridiculed children with disabilities on Jay Leno's program when answering a question about his bowling prowess. Obama said "It was like Special Olympics."

The extreme liberal website Wonkette carried a series is grotesquely disparaging remarks directed at Trig Palin on his 3rd birthday. Wonkette only relented and removed the content after Papa Johns, Huggies, the Vanguard Group, Holland America Cruises, Nordstrom, Bob Evans Farms, Reliant Energy, DealSwarm and Coldwell Banker joined in a boycott and pulled thier advertising from the site.

Multi-billionaire Democratic Party donor George Soros, on CNN, groundlessly compared President George W. Bush, who may suffer from dyslexia,^[13] to Nazis.

Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota peddled a book entitled Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat, Stupid Idiot, viciously ridiculing a person struggling with obesity and deafness.

In 2007, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. Commentators on the left-wing Daily Kos website remarked, "the world would be better off without him".

Liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy lashed out at conservative commentator Glenn Beck, a recovering alcoholic, told his radio audiend "I have good news to report. Glenn Beck appears closer to suicide. I'm hoping that he does it on camera....given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it’s on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular little piece of video for months."

Congressional Democrats wrote into the so-called "health care reform" bill of 2009, the outdated and offensive language, "A hospital or a nursing facility or intermediate-care facility for the mentally retarded . . ." (emphasis added).^[17] Families of the learning-disabled, mental health experts, and advocates were outraged at the insensitivity of the proposed language in the new law (a rare example of liberals criticizing their own, albeit hypocritically).

CNN host Piers Morgan suggested Tea Partiers are similar to the mobs that supported national socialist dictator Adolf Hitler.^[19] A Quinnipiac poll found the Tea Party is predominently women (55%) who voted for Obama (49%).

New Hampshire Democratic State Representative Timothy Horrigan posted on Facebook his wish Sarah Palin and Levy Johnson would have been onboard the airplane crash that killed former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Horrigan wrote "a dead Palin would be even more dangerous than a live one...she is all about her myth" and if she was dead, she wouldn't the target of the liberals attempting to embarrass her

During the 2008 Presidential election campaign season, Barack Obama compared Sarah Palin to a pig.

Liberal "comedian" and "entertainer" Sandra Bernhard made extraordinary offensive, vicious, despicable and threatening remarks to Gov. Sarah Palin during a so-called "comedy performance" before a paying audience.

Dana Milbank hosted a comedy sketch matching various politicians to types of beer; Sarah Palin was matched to "Arctic Devil" and Hillary Clinton to "Mad B****."^[27] This caused the feminist group, the Center for New Words, to demand that the sketch's sponsor, the Washington Post, fire everyone involved with it.

Senator John Edwards viciously attacked social commentator Ann Coulter, calling the petite embodiment of women's aspirations for equality in the marketplace of ideas a "she-devil"

'Alternative' comedian Ben Elton's repeated references to Margaret Thatcher as 'a mad old cow', a sexist jibe that belied his supposed pro-feminist stance.

MSNBC talkshow host Lawrence O'Donnell said of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, "Michael Steele is dancing for his real master, the RNC."

The tell-all book Game Change reports that Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Former Democratic President Bill Clinton, when asking Sen. Ted Kennedy for his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, said of Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."^[

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been the relentless target of the most vile liberal hatred since his appointment, being viewed as a "race traitor" on account of his conservative views.

Colin Powell is a respected and popular statesman who rejected offers to be drafted for President in 1996. In an interview, liberal activist Harry Belafonte, who is also African-American, stated, "There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates."

Howard Dean joked during a speech, “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”

Leftist "entertainer" Sandra Bernhard described what in her view is stereotypical of the behavior of African American men in Manhattan.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) made racially condescending remarks to the CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce during a Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee hearing on Global warming.

Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic U.S. Attorney General, was consistently mocked on liberal websites as "Alberto 'Speedy' Gonzales" Upon his retirement, NBC News anchor Matt Lauer called Gonzales "a piñata" for the Democrats.

Michael Moore affecting a mock Indian accent live on air and ridiculing CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's name.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to a subordinate as a "Jew bastard."

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who covered every president for nearly 50 years since John F. Kennedy, said Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine," and return to where they came from, suggesting Germany, Poland and the United States

Economist Paul Krugman in a message to progressives published as a New York Times Op-Ed piece stated Connecticut Senator and former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman should be hung in effigy

Rev. Jesse Jackson said on January 25, 1984, "all Hymie wants to talk about, is Israel; every time you go to Hymietown, that's all they want to talk about."

Richard Dawkins claimed that Jews "more or less monopolize American foreign policy." His comments have been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League as "classic Anti-Semitism."

Ward Churchill was referring to the victims of the 9/11 attacks as "little Eichmann’s", comparing them to the infamous Nazi leader

Jeremiah Wright, being asked a question about Obama, said, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me."

Rev. Al Sharpton picketed a Jewish store in Harlem, NY over a landlord dispute. Sharpton personally incited the protesters chanting 'bloodsucking Jews.' When it was all over, a protester ran into the store shooting people and set the place on fire.

Behar belittled the canonization of Mother Teresa, saying,

"Mother Teresa had issues. Let’s not forget, she didn’t really believe 100 percent like these saints who were hearing voices. She didn’t hear voices. So the Church said 'okay, she does good deeds. Let’s make her a saint.' In the old days it used to be you heard voices. They can’t do that anymore."

Extremist Katherine Yurica stated the Republican Party gained power through "Hitlerian tactics", that evangelical leaders from Billy Graham to Jerry Falwell "had to have read Hitler’s Mein Kampf," and that Christians have "fascistic tendencies."

In his latest book The Resilience of Conservative Religion (2002), liberal professor of sociology Joseph B. Tamney puts Christian conservatives into the same religious category as one of the most radical and most hate-filled Islamic figures of the late 20th century: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

A written response about Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to Afghanistan and an attempt against his life "Better luck next time"

Actor Alec Baldwin urged a television audience of approximately 3 million viewers to murder Congressman Henry Hyde.

The Media Research Center in response to an attack on President George W. Bush said of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, "Mr. Olbermann’s comments are beyond partisan. They are radically extreme and hateful.... Mr. Olbermann is using his national program to hatefully savage the President with personal smears in order to help Democrats win in next week’s election."

"A spoiled child (Bush) is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little b*stard. [audio of gun being cocked]." -- A "humor bit" from the Randi Rhodes Show

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health" -- New York city councilman Charles Barron

"..And then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq 'We have our good days and our bad days.' We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say 'This is one of our bad days' and pull the trigger." -- From a fundraising ad put out by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club

"...but the kind of people who would buy a car that increases the risk to other motorists in an accident can't be reasoned with. They're selfish and stupid. It's unfortunate that drivers must worry that their SUVs are being targeted by insulting stickers and Molotov cocktails, but one thing's for sure: It couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of people." -- Ted Rall winks at ecoterrorism

"F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead." -- Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.

"I know how the 'tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads." -- The Washington Post's Courtland Milloy

Death of a President (2006): Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/17/liberals-hate-speech-double-standard/

That was tough to get through, made my skin crawl knowing that there is so much hate coming from the party of TOLERANCE. That is the platform you took, and it doesnt seem to be holding any @!$%#ing water at all.

while the dems not angels ... they are no where near the intolerance of cons !

I only put up a short list.

Behar belittled the canonization of Mother Teresa, saying,

"Mother Teresa had issues. Let's not forget, she didn't really believe 100 percent like these saints who were hearing voices. She didn't hear voices. So the Church said 'okay, she does good deeds. Let's make her a saint.' In the old days it used to be you heard voices. They can't do that anymore."

and how is this intolerance btw ? fyi ?

One of Mother Teresa's volunteers in Calcutta described her "Home for the Dying" as resembling photos of concentration camps such as Belsen. No chairs, just stretcher beds. Virtually no medical care or painkillers beyond aspirin, and a refusal to take a 15-year-old boy to a hospital. Hitchens adds, "Bear in mind that Mother Teresa's global income is more than enough to outfit several first class clinics in Bengal. The decision not to do so... is a deliberate one. The point is not the honest relief of suffering, but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection."

Then Hitchens notes that Mother Teresa "has checked into some of the finest and costliest clinics and hospitals in the West during her bouts with heart trouble and old age."

The author mentions her visit to Haiti and her endorsement of the Duvaliers, the source of much deprivation of the poor in Haiti. Also, her acceptance of stolen money from Charles Keating, "now serving a ten-year sentence for his part in the savings and loan scandal." Keating, a "Catholic fundamentalist", gave Mother Teresa one and a quarter million dollars and "the use of his private jet." During the course of Keating's trial, Mother Teresa wrote Judge Ito asking clemency and asked Ito "to do what Jesus would do."

One of the prosecutors in the trial wrote her telling her "of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000." He added, "You urge Judge Ito to look into his heart--as he sentences Charles Keating--and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would do if he were given the fruits of a crime; what Jesus would do if he were in possession of money that had been stolen; what Jesus would do if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his conscience." The prosecutor asked her to return the money, and offered to put her "in direct contact with the rightful owners of the property now in your possession." This supposed paragon of virtue never replied to his letter.

No one knows what happens to the millions of dollars Mother Teresa receives. There is no accounting and no evidence that she has built a hospital or orphanage that reflects modern health and sanitary conditions.

http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm

so she should be a saint ??

while the dems not angels ... they are no where near the intolerance of cons !

And this is why I dont argue with Liberals.

facts are facts ... dems are no where near the level of the intolerance ,hatred and bigotry of the cons.

hands down cons win that award.

I think the number of blacks killed under the democrates involvment with the kkk speaks otherwise.

I think the number of blacks killed under the democrates involvment with the kkk speaks otherwise.

Huh?

He is probably referring to decades ago when their were a lot of conservative southern Democrats associated with the KKK and ignoring the realignment of the political parties especially in the South where there was a shift of that demographic into the Republican Party. The support of the national Democratic party for civil rights was instrumental in driving many Southern Democrats into the Republican party and the loss of traditionally Democratic solid south into the Republican stronghold today. In more recent history you have candidtates like David Duke from the GOP.

I can see why some people prefer to live in the past and pretend things have not changed.

how ever you want to look at the situation Catch, the klan operated from 1865 to roughly 1944 under the protection of the southern democrates. During this time period many if not most of the hate crimes against the black community occured. Meanwhile many politician and supreme court justices aligned with the democrates also were registered klan members. So if you want to ignore that fact and only look at the realignment of the dixicrate that is your interpretation of history. David Duke...really, he was thrown out of the republican party. Whereas scum like Sen Byrd recieved accolaides upon his death, he also filibustered for some 18 hours to keep the civil rights act from passing in the senate.

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I think the number of blacks killed under the democrates involvment with the kkk speaks otherwise.

let me correct your error ...

a bit of history -

showing the difference between the then democrats and now. democrat then didn't mean what it does now. Same holds true for republican. Then republican were all for civil rights and equality. the roles remain the same but the names have changed. the bulk that hated and were/are KKK are still located mainly in the south and vote republican.

In Louisiana the Democratic convention resolved that "we hold this to be a Government of White People, made and to be perpetuated for the exclusive benefit of the White Race, and....that the people of African descent cannot be considered as citizens of the United States." Mississippi and Florida in particular enacted vicious black codes, other southern states (except North Carolina) passed somewhat less severe versions, and President Andrew Johnson did nothing to prevent them from being enforced.
These laws and the violence that erupted against blacks and union supporters in the South outraged Northerners who just a few months before had celebrated victory not only over the Confederacy, but its system of slavery as well. In protest of the defiant Black Codes, Congress refused to seat the new Southern senators and representatives when it reconvened in December 1865 after a long recess. Thus at the moment the fledgling Klan was born in Pulaski, the stage was set for a showdown between Northerners determined not to be cheated out of the fruits of their victory and die-hard Southerners who refused to give up their supremacy over blacks.
Ironically, the increasingly violent activities of the Klan throughout 1866 tended to help prove the argument of Radical Republicans in the North, who wanted harsher measures taken against Southern governments as part of their program to force equal treatment for blacks. Partly as a result of news reports of Klan violence in the South, the Radicals won overwhelming victories in the Congressional elections of 1866

http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html

how ever you want to look at the situation Catch, the klan operated from 1865 to roughly 1944 under the protection of the southern democrates

How ever you want to look at it, that was over 65 years ago with most of those responsible no longer Democrats. Those with the greatest sympathy for the KKK are far more likely to be in sypathetic to the GOP or be Republican today.

David Duke...really, he was thrown out of the republican party.

Really, no he wasnt. Not possible to prove a negative in this case, care to prove it?

As for your smears on Byrd, again you rely on ancient and badly distorted history. If you want a more prominent example look to Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists became a Republican and unlike Byrd never renounced his views on segregation.

this is the problem with progressives. You made the argument that republicans are responsible for hate and such, yet you dont want to look at your own party. Deflect by saying well this guy did it. Strom Thurmond. Yes he was a jack ass, like david duke. Lets take a brief look at Duke.

He ran on the democratic ticket in the 1988 presidential primaries didnt get the reception he anticipated, after a short stint in the populist party he registers as a republican. 1990 he ran for senator of louisiana but failed to get the republican endorsement.

1991 against the will and endorsement of the republican party runs for lousiana governor, he lost.

1992 runs for president under republican ticket, the republican party tries to keep him off the ballot.

1999 special election duke runs as republican. the GOp repudiate him again.

Republican Party Chairman Jim Nicholson remarked: "There is no room in the party of Lincoln for a Klansman like David Duke."

However, The democrates allow their own klansman into the party, the son of a bitch filibustered the civil rights act for 18 hours to keep it from passing, with open arms. I found the funeral of that man to be disgusting.

So because the violence happened 65 years it is not relavent? How do you collect data?

You made the argument that republicans are responsible for hate and such, yet you dont want to look at your own party

Actually I try not to engage in such broad sweeping generalizations, though I dont always succeed. Many Republicans are perfectly good people. Most of my comments are directed at the current political leadership.

There is no end of the bad things of both parties. I enjoy history and look at a lot of problems regardless of paries. History however is not the same thing as current events, although knowledge of history is certainly a key factor in understanding the present.

So because the violence happened 65 years it is not relavent? How do you collect data?

Sure its relevant to a lot of things. Not particularly relevant however to the current status of the Democratic party given the historic shift described above. Those people who supported the KKK 65 years ago dont have much in common with the party today beyond the shared name.

Does this mean that all Democrats are saints and all Republicans are bigots? Of course not. However, I am trying to focus on what the policies being put forward to today and how they shape our society now. The Republican party has some great history - for example if I had to pick a msjor party in 1860 I would pick the Republicans. Times have changed since then and where the parties stand in realtion to each other have changed dramatically.

Once again KnowledgeisPower great article and posts.

But we cannot waste anymore time with people who only talk but can't walk the walk ; for two steps forward and one step back is not really progress.............

There is so much Bull$h!t out there that needs to be put to rest. Last nights debate the same old policies were touted that got us into this mess and will continue to take us over the cliff and Enough of the same old misinform Obama Bashing.

This week Romney came out with an ad mocking Obama as saying The People were bumps in the Road. Now we know that is not what Obama was saying. Bumps in the roads would be the Obstruction and the Lies and Misinformation that has been put out there regarding the economy, jobs, healthcare reform, the fixes, and we are on the verge of great depression. Romney accuses Obama of not knowing how to create jobs and fix the economy. What the media has not done is question his claims and point out Romney's Record on these issues. They tout that he is a successful Businessman. But he is a destroyer of jobs, possibily committed voter fraud, flipflopper, and a Liar.

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney had one of the worst job-creation records in the country – ranked 47^th out of 50 states in job creation –gaining only 0.9 percent in payroll jobs during his term. He knows what to do? Mitt Romney led Bain Capital to close American factories and cause hundreds of layoffs, stripping them of their assets, shipping them over seas, but not before he pocketed huge fees more than $100 million. U.S. factories were closed and filed bankruptcy, causing hundreds of layoffs, or pocketed huge fees shortly before companies collapsed. Mitt Romney said that he would sign the Ryan Republican plan that would end the Medicare seniors rely on. Mitt Romney first supported the Recovery Act, but now claims that it made the economy worse. Mitt Romney called for letting Detroit go bankrupt, but now claims credit for the auto industry’s turnaround. Many of these things sound like the same old types of republican policies that got us into this mess. A vote for Romney would be be like going two steps backwards.

Yes, we are on the verge of another Great Depression. It was just postponed by Odumbo's stimulus plan that went into the pockets of the rich people at all others expense.

We all need to be asking Obama where the 112 bil of that missing stimulus money went to. Stay focused people. Weiner's story is nothing but a distraction to keep you from seeing what our government is doing behind the people's backs and robbing them.

So you agree that the Dems fear mongering about Republicans ending Medicare is nothing but lies and political plys right?

So then the recession that people blame Bush for was partly caused by Katrina, 9/11 and other crisises right?

Does going around the country telling people that Republicans want to end medicare constitue "fear mongering"?

So then the recession that people blame Bush for was partly caused by Katrina, 9/11 and other crisises right?

I am not aware of any objective observer seeing Katrina and 9/11 as significant contributors to the Great Recession of 2007. What other crisises are you referring to? The collapse of the housing, financial and automotive sectors?

Why the 2007 Recession is widely seen as the worst in US history.

The current economic climate is frustrating, and we may end up in a double dip recession, but its not nearly as bad as it was in 2008.

Chinas stimulus was 10% of their GDP that why they are growing at 8% , and American companies aren't complaining about it as they have benefited handsomely from it. and that cheap slave labor repubgs want to drag us wages to. Repubgs killed legislation to stop subsidizing companies to outsource. the Greedy american corporate class made China the power it is today, and Bush borrowed a trillion from them before Obma stepped into office. American exports have increased 22% in the last 2 years, after declining steadily after Germany and China were allowed to surpass us in the aughts.