Writer Gets Email Threats After Writing Sarah Palin Column »
Posted By hsaleem 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsAllow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a Dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself.
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hsaleem1 year, 1 month ago
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tschrnywolf1 year, 1 month ago
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YES, NO MATTER HOW CUTE AND FOLKSY PALIN TRIES TO SEEM, JOE BIDEN SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY AND FIRMNESS.
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SARAH WINKED,WHAT DID SHE MEAN: FLIRTING? OR DOES SHE HAVE A NERVOUS TICK?
ANYWAY, WHAT ABOUT THE STOCK FALL TODAY? I TRUST OBAMA AND BIDEN MUCH MORE. SARAH'S "MR. SMITH COMES TO WASHINGTON" SOAP OPERA WILL FIX OUR ECONOMY. GOOD ACTING, BUT FAKE. NO SUBSTANCE IN PALIN'S UTOPIA. -
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Well, we should stop sneering at the mutt people and begin to educate them. Otherwise we will continue to have emotional victims of religious and political hucksters messing up the country.
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Revenge of the Mutt People
.... My point here is that we rural and small town mutt people by an early age seem to have a special capacity for cruelty, compared say, to damned near every other imaginable group of Americans. For instance, as a child did you ever put a firecracker up a toad's ass and light it? George Bush and I have that in common. Anyway, as all non-whites the world round understand, white people can be mean. Especially if they feel threatened -- and they feel threatened about everything these days...
... About half of the Americans killed in Iraq come from communities like Winchester, Virginia or Romney, West Virginia or Fisher, Illinois or Kilgore, Texas or . . . . About 45 percent of the American dead in Iraq come from communities of less than 40,000, even though these towns make up only 25 percent of our population. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation's de facto draft -- economic conscription -- the carrot being politically preferable to the whip. The carrot does not have to be very big out here where delivering frozen food wholesale to restaurants out of your own car entirely on commission is considered a good self-employment opportunity...
... So we will either see that Americans, religious or not, get educated equally so they won't be suckered by political and religious hucksters. If not, then we must accept that uneducated people interpret politics in an uninformed and emotional manner, and accept the consequences. America can no longer withstand the political naivete of this ignored white class. Middle class American liberals cannot have it both ways. It has come down to the simplest and most profound element of democracy: Fairness.
... Lots of Americans don't seem to mind having a pack of young American pit bulls savage some flyblown desert nation, or running loose in the White House for that matter, as long as they are our pit bulls protecting Wall Street and the 401-Ks of the upper middle class.
The problem is this: pit bulls always escalate the fight and keep at it until the last dog is dead, leaving the gentler breeds to clean up the blood spilled. We mutt people, the pit bulls, have always been your own, whether you claim us or not. And until you accept that you are your brother's keeper, and help deliver us from ignorance, you will continue to have on your hands some of every drop of blood spilled . . . from the sands of Iraq to the streets of East L.A. All the socially responsible stock portfolios, little hybrid cars and post modernist deconstruction in the world will not wash it off.
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kickdrum11 year, 1 month ago
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I'm so sick and tired of the racist double-standards practiced by blacks. They say if white people don't vote for Obama, that makes them racists. Well, by their own definition, if what they say is true, doesn't that make them racists for not supporting McCain? Also, most blacks have admitted the main reason they support Obama is because he's black. And they call us white people "racists"!? What's just as bad (if not worse) is the fact that most white Obama supporters also admit they support Obama because he's black. Is that "democracy"?? Not even close. It sounds more like brainwashing.
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Engnr1 year, 1 month ago
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The ridiculous part is this. The President can only sign laws that come from congress. So
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BO and JB or JM and SP can make all the claims they want. They know they aren't going to happen. By time the lobbyist get involved the laws are going to be so full of pork and crap that only a President with a firm resolution to prevent that will prevail. This is JM statement, he will not put up with Pork and entitlements.
We have enough stupid laws on the books as it is. Anybody who will veto more stupid laws is my candidate.
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Beau78901 year, 1 month ago
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The author, Kathleen Parker, is a fairly well-known conservative syndicated columnist. The fact that she wasn't expecting such hatred from her readers--those who usually side with her during her rants against the left--tells me she's not very well-informed about the state of her party.
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
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OK, lets be fair - BOTH the left and the right tend to lose their sh!t completely every four years, and the people are left divided and fighting over stupidity. It is part of the function of electoral politics to divide people and make winners and losers.
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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Beau,
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Really. Perhaps she never heard of Steve Brill and how viciously Clinton Democrats attacked him for daring to leave Hillary out of a book about how politicians came together after 9/11.
Poor fellow...couldn't find one single damn example of Hillary doing anything on behalf of her constituents or 9/11 victims/survirors. Hillary's staff provided him with lots of details of calls, letters, etc., that never happened.
Buy hey...that's the state of his party, right? Same as with this journalist.
Oh wait....my bad. 18 million Democrats voted for the wench who trashed Brill because he dared to tell the truth. Not quite like those anonymous emailers, eh, Beau?
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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The lady has been given a unique look at the scum that follows the GOP around. She apparently hasn't been paying attention, which is surprising given her job. Oh well. She's paying attention now. The new face of the GOP is not pretty.
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ameliog1 year, 1 month ago
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Do columnists, pundits, public figures, and such receive a similar level of response from the left, or is the right's anger more violently or venomously expressed?
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More and more people are noting that we've taken political disagreement to an absurd realm. Who's running this asylum? -
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Bkumm1 year, 1 month ago
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hlgrice1 year, 1 month ago
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
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EGAD! You earn respect, you don't get it just because. Especially when you're in her position. She can't even tell Katie Couric what magazines she has read, all she can say is "all of them", like that's a real answer! At least she could have said Newsweek, Time or Better Homes and Gardens.. she couldn't think of the name of ONE single magazine!
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
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hlgrice: "IF YOU WROTE SOMETHING BAD ABOUT SARAH PALIN....THEN AN EMAIL THREAT WAS PROBABLY JUSTIFIED."
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Let me understand this: Are you saying that the proper response to a negative statement about someone is a threat?
BTW, if you had read the article, you would know that she didn't write anything "bad" about her. She respectfully suggested that she may be out of her league and should resign in the interest of her party and her nation.
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demillicent1 year, 1 month ago
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The republican reporters seem to be a mean spirited bunch. The quickly accuse one of being a traitor for disagreeing with them on any republican candidate that they support. We live in a democracy!! We are allowed to disagree with our own party, the other guys party, and each other without resorting to violence. The neocons are the first to point out how liberal the dems are.
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Liberals live, and let live. I think that liberals expect the arch conservatives to disagree with them on most issues and they have learned to take it in stride. It would be a good idea for neocons to do the same. Stop trying to be thought police!!
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Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago
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Liberals can be pretty my way or the highway as well. The fact is, neither party is all that keen on adding other parties to the system... which is something we desperately need to get more perspectives on things in as diverse a country as ours.
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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
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The extreme right and the extreme left are equally ugly and we've seen it in leftist rebels or dictators and right-leaning theocracies in perhaps its purist form. Both are blood-thirsty power mongers who believe they are right. Both stop at nothing to seize power. Both intimidate and bully.
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miklkit1 year, 1 month ago
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I just watched the debate. Palin lied many times when delivering standard republicon talking points. She also talked a lot about what a big energy producing entity Alaska is. Not once did she mention that none of Alaska's oil has ever come to the lower 48.
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Joe Biden was knowledgeable and passionate. He was always factually correct and even choked up once. It was like watching a real man with real passion trying to talk to a member of the local high school debating team.-
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
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miklkit,
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Yes, Biden was great. Sarah Palin was better than I had expected, but I felt throughout that someone should teach her the difference between a political speech and a debate. In a political speech, she can say anything she wants, but in a debate, there is an expectation of given and take and that she would answer questions. At one point, she came close to saying: I don't like your question and I'm not going to answer it, and went on to talk about her pet topic: energy. -
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rmiami2251 year, 1 month ago
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
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OK, two liars on stage grinfscking you, me and each other, and the party faithful cheering for one or the other, backing their home teams in this qaint and particularly American sport of political prevarication. Who won? We didn't. Guarantee it. Whichever team of liars takes the White House, working Americans will be the losers.
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RedstateLib1 year, 1 month ago
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Supporters on the left and the right are both guilty of this behavior. I remember prominant Obama supporters threatening riots in the streets if the SD's gave Hillary the nomination instead of giving it to Obama. Threats of violence worked in that case from the left and have set the SOP for the future. We no longer have a Democratic Party we have the Party where whoever uses the best threats and intimidation tactics wins. That is the future of the party and I wash my hands of it. Never again will they get my money, my time or my vote. I do not support thugs whether they have an R or a D beside their name.
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mompro1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't think she's getting any worse media than any other politician. They all have to live with it. Scrutiny is the name of the game. Mean at times, but it's life. She throws it at the media and complains about it, but the microscope has been around a long time. You can't throw it out because someone doesn't like it.
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