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McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred (Frank Schaeffer barf alert)
www.baltimoresun.com ^ | October 10, 2008 | Frank Schaeffer

Posted on 10/10/2008 1:07:11 PM PDT by lowbridge

John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as "not one of us," I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.

At a Sarah Palin rally, someone called out, "Kill him!" At one of your rallies, someone called out, "Terrorist!" Neither was answered or denounced by you or your running mate, as the crowd laughed and cheered. At your campaign event Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa., the crowd was seething with hatred for the Democratic nominee - an attitude encouraged in speeches there by you, your running mate, your wife and the local Republican chairman.

Shame!

John McCain: In 2000, as a lifelong Republican, I worked to get you elected instead of George W. Bush. In return, you wrote an endorsement of one of my books about military service. You seemed to be a man who put principle ahead of mere political gain.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frankschaeffer; johnmccain; mccain; schaeffer; usefulidiot
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To: lowbridge

Liberals call anger hatred. Are we conservatives angry? yes. Hatred is something else.


21 posted on 10/10/2008 1:35:45 PM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: Candor7

Nothing p!sses off a leftist like being called a fascist (and the best part is, you can show how it’s true).


22 posted on 10/10/2008 1:35:59 PM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

Go over to the link and leave some comments. The comments are all so nasty to good Americans. I left them something to think about.


23 posted on 10/10/2008 1:36:12 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Need4Truth

Angry? I think not so angry as scared to death. Fear manifests as anger.


24 posted on 10/10/2008 1:37:29 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: lowbridge

Frank, if you don’t want your candidate associated with terrorism...perhaps you should encourage your candidate to associate with a better class of friends.


25 posted on 10/10/2008 1:37:55 PM PDT by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: We'll Not Be Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends.)
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To: frankiep

Once again, mistaking high feeling for hatred. Hatred is not the absence of love, it is the abnegation of love, love that could be extended, but for purposes of tactical advantage, is withheld. Any hatred is coming from the other side, as they are seeking the tactical advantage, and cannot concede the validity if any differing opinion.

What we have here is high feeling, emotion that perhaps no consideration is being given your point of view, that you are the one being suppressed.

What race are Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn? They are white actors going about in figurative blackface, minstrels of discord and chaos. And all the more despicable for the charade.

They have not helped the the Americans of African origin one whit. In fact, they have probably set back real race relations by a hundred years or more. No more “content of character”, the color of the skin is the overriding imperative with these radicals.

I want to get back to examining content of character.

I am seriously considering the purchase of a 12-gauge pump shotgun, loaded with double-ought shot.

Pretty good way of making an instaneous examination of content of character.


26 posted on 10/10/2008 1:40:26 PM PDT by alloysteel (Just because you are a target, does not mean you have to be a victim.)
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To: lowbridge

Hey Frank, you tool, as a conservative we have lived with the most venomous hatred for years.

Get used to it, If your boy wins, we aren’t going to be silent, unless your commie facist messiah kills us.

pay back is hell you weenie.


27 posted on 10/10/2008 1:44:49 PM PDT by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: lowbridge

barry soetero hussein osamabama... purveyor of thuganomics, marxism and race wars.

LLS


28 posted on 10/10/2008 1:45:44 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except when it comes to dims!)
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To: MrB
You bet, and I have been calling them that since I read Jonah Goldbergs new Book last year, a well annotated history book of serious academic proportions, not polemic:

Jonah Goldberg: "Liberal Fascism, The Secret History of America's Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning."

Its easy now to see what these Obama prigs are.

29 posted on 10/10/2008 1:47:36 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: Candor7

I read that, followed by Road to Serfdom (FA Hayek).

Yes, the left are collectivist fascists,
and there is no “little bit of socialism” that can ever be implemented without a slide into tyranny.


30 posted on 10/10/2008 1:50:20 PM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Mad Dawg

Blood and fire will be on the streets either way. If Obama wins, they will be like winning the NBA championship and if Obama loses, they will riot that it was racist! We lose for awhile either way. Keep your powder dry. Vote McCain/Palin to keep America in the right hands.


31 posted on 10/10/2008 1:51:05 PM PDT by Rapunzel (Never forget Fallujah..S. Helvenston RIP.....Sarah...Sarah...Sarah loves America)
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To: MrB
Kudos!

America is beginning to awaken!

32 posted on 10/10/2008 1:55:40 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: lowbridge

We conservatives have been listening to pure hatred toward Bush and Cheney, death wishes and the like, for 8 years. Where have you been?


33 posted on 10/10/2008 1:59:29 PM PDT by Yaelle (One candidate fought America's enemies and one candidate owes all he has to America's enemies)
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To: lowbridge

This guy compared his father, unfavorably, to Obama’s Rev. Wright. Nice that this comes out on the same day as Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Obama.


34 posted on 10/10/2008 2:05:47 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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To: lowbridge
You know, in only 24 hours this "drum up hatred" meme has permeated the Left blogosphere and by extension the MSM. It's almost as if everybody discovered it all at once...or planned on it looking that way.

After eight years of lies and insane hatred the Left has only itself to blame. Pour it on.

35 posted on 10/10/2008 2:10:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PleaseNoMore

The right stands up for itself, finally, and it’s called hatred. The left demonstrates, protests, etc. and it’s called what?

That’s what democrats call “patriotism”.


36 posted on 10/10/2008 2:10:41 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: lowbridge
I am ashamed of this drivel appearing in the Baltimore Sun. My working career began 52 years ago, selling this newspaper. In college and before, I read the works of H.L. Mencken, once the Editor of the Sun, and perhaps one of the greatest editors who ever sat behind a typewriter.

The Sun, then, was regularly ranked as one of the ten great newspapers in the US. It may still be rated that highly. But if so, the only reason the Sun is rated that way,k today, is that the competition has gotten so incompetent and dishonest.

Mencken would never have let this drivel get past his red pencil.

Congressman Billybob

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37 posted on 10/10/2008 2:11:16 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.theacru.org)
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To: MrB
Let them get into power, though, and they’ll COME AFTER YOU for attempting to live your life outside their control.

Agreed. THEY are the dangerous ones, not the generally rare assorted nuts that inhabit every single sector of society. I am genuinely concerned that if Obama wins, that may be the last free election in our nation. If he wins, he'll have a larger majority in Congress than now exists for the Dems, and he'll be able to push through "temporary" emergency powers (due to this financial crisis that his masters and sympathizers have created at just the perfect time - for him). "Temporary" in the same manner that Hitler's powers were temporary after the Reichstag Fire. His campaign has already tried to shut up the NRA by threatening TV and radio stations with lawsuits and action by the FCC to review their licenses; he and his ilk are desperate to restore the "Fairness" Doctrine in order to shut up Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Savage, etc., etc.; and he's paid $800,000 to ACORN to register new voters (like dead ones, and some guy who they registered 72 times). In short, he does NOT believe in letting the people really have a voice in their own future - just like any good Marxist or Leninist. Look also for an Executive Order banning all imports of firearms, ammo, parts and reloading components for civilian sale, and for an attempt to pressure gun and ammo manufacturers to have exclusive contracts with Uncle (as in no sales to civilians, or you don't get the contract).

Very, very scary. I wouldn't say any of this if it weren't for the people with whom he's associated for the past 25 years - but many of them are true radicals, intent on acquiring power at any price. I just hope and pray that Obama loses. I'll take the riots over him in charge of the armed forces and various alphabet soup agencies any day, and even every day.

38 posted on 10/10/2008 2:15:09 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (An ex-citizen of the Frederation dedicated to stopping the Obamination from becoming President)
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To: lowbridge

He cannot name a single instance of McCain or Palin inciting hate towards Obama. Pointing up Obama’s record and history is not inciting hate. If it is, then what’s the point of having campaigns? Why not have a one-party State, according to Schaeffer’s rules of decorum, and get on with it?


39 posted on 10/10/2008 2:15:21 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: lowbridge

This is the same old junk Democrats always whine about. Dirty campaign, swiftboating, inciting hatred! They don’t make the rules of the game, and I don’t play by their rules. They’re like little children in the schoolyard, wanting to change the rules when they don’t like the way the game is going.


40 posted on 10/10/2008 2:17:57 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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