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GOP candidate declares war against U.S.? (*BARF ALERT*)
PMS-LSD ^ | 6/15/2010 | Mark Murray

Posted on 06/15/2010 5:20:12 AM PDT by markomalley

Rick Barber -- a Tea Party Republican competing in a congressional run-off down in Alabama -- is airing the first TV ad this reporter can remember that advocates taking up arms against the United States.

Seriously.

In the ad (below), Barber has a discussion with men dressed up as America's founding fathers. "I would impeach him," Barber says at the beginning, obviously a reference to impeaching President Obama.

Barber continues, "Today we have an Internal Revenue Service that enforces what they call a 'progressive' income tax... Now this same IRS is going to force us to buy health insurance, cram it down our throats or else. Now I took an oath to defend that [the U.S. Constitution] with my life, and I can't stand by while these evils are perpetrated. You, gentleman, revolted over a tea tax! A tea tax! Now look at us. Are you with me?"

One of the men dressed like a U.S. founding father -- George Washington? -- replies, "Gather your armies." And to drive home the point, there are clear images of pistols in the ad.

(videos at link)

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; foundingfathers; liberalidiots; mediabias; msm
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The author needs to read again why Jefferson said we have a 2nd amendment.

Amen

21 posted on 06/15/2010 5:45:18 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley
This author probablly would of had a stroke if he had been around when this was written

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."-- Thomas Jefferson

22 posted on 06/15/2010 5:48:07 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: All

Sounds to me like he’s calling for arms against the ENEMIES of the United States.....


23 posted on 06/15/2010 5:51:49 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: markomalley

Yet another metrosexual wienie with his knickers in a twist. They know what’s coming and they are wetting their pink panties. Nothing to see here...move on.


24 posted on 06/15/2010 5:53:55 AM PDT by mort56
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To: markomalley


Mark Murray, MSNBC Girly Man
25 posted on 06/15/2010 5:54:17 AM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: markomalley

Good commercial!


26 posted on 06/15/2010 5:54:29 AM PDT by wastedpotential (McCain always said I was an agent of intolerance - but in 2008 those like me tolerated him most)
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To: buschbaby

Washington saying “Gather. Your. Armies”? That’s not advocating taking up arms?


27 posted on 06/15/2010 5:54:35 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: markomalley

Groups that wish to “up arms against the United States’:

1) Black Panthers
2) La Raza
3) friends of Bill Ayers
4) Environmental Liberation Front
5) ACORN

Ironically, these groups are NEVER mentioned as armed revolutionary organizations yet let a conservative person just mention ‘guns and government’ in the same sentence,and this person is immediately labeled a ‘right wing kook’ by our non partial media.


28 posted on 06/15/2010 5:54:50 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: markomalley

Wow! A candidate who’s actually saying what 40% of the country is thinking.


29 posted on 06/15/2010 6:14:50 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: firebrand
"Washington saying “Gather. Your. Armies”? That’s not advocating taking up arms?"

No. What it says to me is gather your army of voters and change things. A 'call to arms' only in the metaphorical sense. Taking things so seriously and being so sensitive to a turn of phrase is a typical liberal response. Just as they flipped out (or pretended to) over Sarah Palins' bulls eye map. I have no doubt the vast majority are feigning outrage, but it plays well in the media. I'm sick to death of coddling these idiots.

30 posted on 06/15/2010 6:16:14 AM PDT by buschbaby (Beware! I'm one of those scary stay-at-home mom Tea Partiers. I'm threatening to clean up your mess)
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To: RC one

I think it’s probably less than that. “What would happen to my favorite TV shows?”


31 posted on 06/15/2010 6:16:29 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: markomalley

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32 posted on 06/15/2010 6:28:38 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: Huck

I have been reading the Partriot’s History of the United States. I am about half way. I have enjoyed reading about every era. The founding fathers were brilliant men but they were also flawed humans and knew it.

I highly recommend it. My wife is also amazed that I would take on a 900 page book. I’m not much of a bookie.


33 posted on 06/15/2010 6:28:45 AM PDT by super7man
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To: buschbaby

Exactly. It is about gathering our army of voters. I liked the guys passion.


34 posted on 06/15/2010 6:30:57 AM PDT by super7man
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To: markomalley

Rick Barber for U.S. Congress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RylNaPQfA


35 posted on 06/15/2010 6:38:53 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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To: markomalley

Sorry, it just hands me a laugh just how “scared” these
girly-men and manny-girls over at MSNBC manage to get over
anything that speaks bluntly, that shows “visible guns”, that nvokes the Founding Fathers in a hypothetical “advisory” role , as this video does. (Though my speakers are out, and I didn’t watch it)
Sad thing is, it’s all an act: like everyone on the Left these days, they are students in how to pull off the fine art of ‘moral outrage’, but it’s all an act, a rhetorical device that used to be limited to ad hominem debate. NOW it’s everywhere, with spin doctors monopolizing face time and voice time on ALL media venues: radio, TV, awards shows,etc.


36 posted on 06/15/2010 8:35:56 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Every election is like an advance auction sale of stolen goods"--H.L.Mencken)
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To: rarestia

To “roll it back” to our “Constitutional footing,” you’d have to roll it back before Andrew Jackson’s and Abraham Lincoln’s Presidencies. Those are the men who insisted on the primacy of the Union of the States.

Why stop at 1900? Why not 1820?


37 posted on 06/15/2010 8:56:52 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: worst-case scenario

Like I said in a previous post, that was just the point I’d gotten to in my review of American history. I’m sure I’d want it rolled back even further. My primary focus is on individual freedom, property rights, and gun rights. Seems 1900 is a good starting point.


38 posted on 06/15/2010 8:58:53 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: markomalley

I have no problem at all with the ad or any messages associated with it.


39 posted on 06/15/2010 9:01:44 AM PDT by Grunthor (Getting married, T minus 11 days.)
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To: rarestia

You’re going to run into that old devil of the 19th Century - slavery. Property rights, individual rights .... I guess you can even count gun rights, if you consider the question of armed separation from the Union.

Who should have preeminence? The individual States, or the Union? What parts of the Federal government do we consider legitimate, and what rights should be determined at the state level?

Sounds like you are getting a great door into the whole vast literature of American History. Think that bug has bitten you so badly that you’ll become a “bookie” now?


40 posted on 06/15/2010 9:05:33 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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