Right Wing Goes Bananas Over Obama's "Forward." Slogan

So this is how things work in the internet age. A candidate that "your side" is against says or does something. You must oppose it, even if there isn't anything particularly wrong with it. So, create a Wikipedia page that makes a bunch of crap up, and presto! There's your source! And then every article about it links to other articles about it, until it appears there's something to it!

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A Day in the Life of Joe: Middle Class Republican

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This is an oldie but a goodie, a lesson in how "socialized" America has been for quite a while, and why that isn't necessarily evil.

Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.

Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)

He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.

He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.

By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - jgray7@cinci.rr.com – Published July – 2004

Source: Thom Hartmann

Learn to Speak Teabag!

Hee hee. . .

Random Unhinged Anti-Health Care Reform Protesters

Sheesh. "God will take care of health care." "The U.S.S. Constitution." Referring to the Constitution as a book. Communism. Socialism. Marxism. Abortion. Obama's a Muslim. Hitler.

These people are really all over the place. And to claim that the Constitution does not provide for health care reform, when it clearly states "support the general welfare," is just goofy. I used to be impressed (and depressed) about how the GOP and the party faithful used to be unified, and lock-step on message. Now I'm just exasperated by this--hopefully not literal--shotgun approach.

Say No to "Socilism?" FAIL!

It's bad enough that the right wing has been throwing around bogeyman words like "socialism," "Marxism," "communism" and worse since Sarah Palin arrived from Alaska last year. It's worse when the people slinging these insults have no idea what the words mean, but hurl them anyway. But it's hilarious when they not only can't define the slur, but can't even spell it. What a moran. . .

Oh, and I didn't want to say anything, but there's an indefinable something about this fella that sets off alarm bells. Like he might be trying to hard to seem like "one of the guys" or something? Maybe it's just me.



Yes, the spelling of "moran" was intentional.

Do You Think This Guy is Angry?

Yeah, he's angry alright. Though he's able to hit his rage pause button while the reporter chats with her cameraman. But once he gets rolling, he gets rolling. The trouble is, what is he angry about? He claims his country is being taken away, and is holding a sign against "socialism." But like the attempts at conservative humor listed below, it is a vague, unfocused message. In fact, the message is not all that different from many liberal protesters from the last several years. Giving up freedom for safety? Isn't that what the Patriot Act did?



Found at: AmericaBlog

Socialism and the Right

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There has been a lot of whining, raving and--in Mark Levin's case--shrieking about socialism since the issue of the stimulus plan came around. It goes back further, actually, with most of the right-wing blowholes calling Barack Obama a socialist during the election. But the fact of the matter is, we've had elements of socialism in the United States for a very long time.

Roads, schools, police departments, fire departments and many other things are essentially socialized. Other than schools (screwls, in Limbaugh parlance), you don't much hear right-wingers complaining about these things. But, if it is health care, jobs or entitlements, well my friend, we are on the road to ruin! Now, I am no financial expert, and I have no idea how good or bad this stimulus plan is really. But I feel confident that the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Levins are wrong, because they usually are.

The Huffington Post has a great article up right now with a challenge. If the stimulus plan is evil socialism, well then don't participate. Give the money back! Don't take the job! Do you think they'll do it?

[Excerpt]

Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War Against Socialism

. . .There was Sean Hannity on television: breathlessly announcing the red dawn of "socialism you can believe in." "The New America." He called the recovery bill, "a liberal hijacking of the American way of life." Uh-huh. Hijacking. Terrorists rather than goblins on the wing. I get it. And even though we just wrapped up eight years of the largest government expansion in our country's history, Hannity derided the recovery bill as "the largest government expansion in our country's history. . ."

Read more at: <>Huffington Post