Posted on 03/29/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by presidio9
We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama."
Stop Obama.
Why has somebody done it? Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or, more likely, that they should.
My son is in the seat next to me in the car. He says, "This isn't the only one. There are others in different parts of town."
At least here it is only vandalism about this President and the country's new health care bill, not phone threats left for some members of Congress. It is not an honorable old hero of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis hearing the kind of racial insults he heard nearly 50 years ago in America. Or other congressmen being spat upon, all in the name of democracy at work.
At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, being called a "baby killer," or a brick through a lawmaker's window. It is not Sarah Palin on her Twitter page - this woman who officially puts the twit in Twitter - posting the following message:
"Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD."
As always, you wonder where this patriotism and righteousness and Tea Party activism was during Bush-Cheney. You wonder if all the people who want to take to the streets - and to the television cameras now - decided they weren't needed for eight years because they thought the country was going so good. Or maybe they have just convinced themselves that the Obama who must now be stopped didn't just inherit this America, he created it.
This is no longer about political dissent. It is about storm trooper sound bites, and hate. This isn't the kind of honest debate on which our system of government has been built. It is vile, back-alley fighting, getting worse by the day, with no end in sight. People say that opposition to all Presidents, even the most unpopular white ones, sounds like this. No, it doesn't.
"It's so good to be here for the showdown in Searchlight [Nev.]," Palin says on Saturday. "So proud to be with all you who are proud to be Americans."
Palin is in Nevada because Sen. Harry Reid is a Democratic candidate she and other lovers of America are "targeting" this November. Of course, the implication, as always, is that anybody on the other side of the debate - about health care or anything else - isn't nearly as good an American as she is.
Palin is such a fighter and great American that she quit on her stool as governor of Alaska because there was more money to be made in the other 49 states, shouting about death panels and health care and "European socialism" and writing unreadable books. In so many ways, she is a perfect media darling for our times. She doesn't scrawl graffiti, she thinks in it.
If you even think that this President ought to be given a chance, that he might have some good in him, that he doesn't hate America the way the radio idiots say he does, then you must be someone just like him and she will help shout you down. You are another lousy, lefty Socialist who doesn't understand the new health care bill is unconstitutional. Why? Because the screamers say so, that's why. They learned it online.
"The country does not like this [health care] bill," Republican strategist Mike Murphy says on television Sunday.
The country. Another guy speaking for the whole country, coast to coast, Washington Heights to Starbuck, Wash. Is America divided over health care right now? Sure it is, the way it was divided over Social Security under FDR and Medicare under LBJ and just about every important social program in the country's history.
Will a bill be presented to my children and their children on this bill someday? It likely will be. And economists say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.
But Obama is the one who must be stopped, on health care and everything else. Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means. Sometimes you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate this President before you love America enough.
Mike ignores that President Obama has insulted America's legacy when he has stood before every nation since becoming president only to say how bad this nation has been up until the moment he was elected President.
Little Mikey Lupica? He can’t even write a decent sports column. I can’t read that crap.
That the media would sweep their dirty laundry under the rug was complicit approval of the actions by Left wing extremists.
At least some law enforcement agencies do the job of seeing that the conspirators are still charged. But Eric Holder doesn't seem interested in seeing justice for all.
I guess he must have been asleep during the Bush years
and missed all the STOP BUSH stopsigns.
THIS guy is a SPORTS writer.....???? These weenie men really have lost their *alls.....ooops....think that they’ll take offense to that?
nothing new, I saw STOP BUSH this weekend in Erie, PA and recall seeing STOP WAR before.
If Obamacare is NOT socialist, list 10 reasons supporting that claim.
Barack himself has said that private insurance will go away even if it takes 20 years to get there.
Your average fifth-grader knows more about sports, and the real world overall, than Stupica.
That’s different, and you KNOW it, you vile stormtrooper teabagger.
Keith Odormann was a sportscaster. Hunter S. Thompson was a sports journalist.
And yet Disney-ESPN fired Rush Limbaugh for getting “too political”.
Lupica is a newer version of Olberdork. Former sports writer who couldn't hack it there, so he becomes a political hack, since nobody there expects truth.
The Left decries protesters who MAY have called Barney Frank a “fa**ot” and then calls tea partiers “fa**ot” by calling them teabaggers and chickenhawks.
Double standard much?
And calling for Sarah Palin to be gang-raped by “my black brothers” (ugly dyke Sandra Bernhard)
It’s different and if you don’t stop, they will round you up and kill you to show you that they are incapable of violence.
Obama and the Democrats have promoted policies to which reasonable people have reasonably objected, both in speech and through the written word. By repeatedly ridiculing such objections and openly questioning the character and motivations of those who do object, the Democrats have purposely fomented anger among their opposition.
In other words, it is the political Left that has set out to incite anger and even violence through a combination of ridicule, name-calling and false accusations. Their immediate purpose is to set a trap. Any robust response on the part of Conservatives to the Left's provocations is now immediately held up as evidence of the truth of their underlying accusations, and will next be held as a rationale for restricting free speech.
None of this is new. The Bolsheviks did it, as did the Nazis. But if I said that out loud (i.e. - told the truth), I would be the one accused of radical incitement. This had better end soon, or it will assuredly not end well.
You should send these to the author of this stupid article.
Did Socialist Security or The Not So Great Society end any problems? Did they create a welfare class that finds it more profitable to not work?
What's Mike's defense that Obamacare isn't socialist again? I missed it.
Lie back and take it is Mike's mantra. That's not how this country works, Marxist Mike.
Did not realize how much of a MoonBat Mike Lupica is.....I guess he totally ignores Barach Obama’s anti-Semitic attitude towards Israel.....
economists say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.
Speaking of double standards, the media no longer gives Cindy Sheehan and the pro-insurgent protesters as much ink.
What's the latest body count total in Iraq? Why has the media given up reporting that statistic that they hammered home every week in the Bush terms?
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