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2010-04-18 10:11:59 UTC
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/04/17/the-right-wing-is-trawling-for-assassins
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Radical right wingers --tea baggers et al --are accused of 'trawling for
assassins. It's but one of several outrages now associated with the
disingenuous, bigoted 'tea bagger movement'. The idea of 'assassinating' a
President because he is both black and Democratic threatens to finish off
America as a nation of noble ideals. Earlier the self-absorbed right wing
--thinking themselves rich --allowed themselves to be used by a GOP party
machine. They were fooled. To them, I say that like the rest of us, you have
awakened as a cockroach unless you were one already. A nation in which about one
half of the population openly pines for the murder of the only fairly elected
president in some 9 years may be finished. It's hard to see any redemption
following from that crooked, malevolent mentality. The writing is on the wall.
The American ideals most us grew up with are on life-support!
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Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing
their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper
stickers, t-shirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."That
psalm reads, Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his
children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."Maddow seemed mainly amused by the
teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical
leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means
something more threatening.""The situation that I find genuinely frightening
right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical
language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.'
... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should
be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."--Former evangelist: Religious
right is trawling for assassins
...
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[
Radical right wingers --tea baggers et al --are accused of 'trawling for
assassins. It's but one of several outrages now associated with the
disingenuous, bigoted 'tea bagger movement'. The idea of 'assassinating' a
President because he is both black and Democratic threatens to finish off
America as a nation of noble ideals. Earlier the self-absorbed right wing
--thinking themselves rich --allowed themselves to be used by a GOP party
machine. They were fooled. To them, I say that like the rest of us, you have
awakened as a cockroach unless you were one already. A nation in which about one
half of the population openly pines for the murder of the only fairly elected
president in some 9 years may be finished. It's hard to see any redemption
following from that crooked, malevolent mentality. The writing is on the wall.
The American ideals most us grew up with are on life-support!
....
Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing
their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper
stickers, t-shirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."That
psalm reads, Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his
children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."Maddow seemed mainly amused by the
teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical
leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means
something more threatening.""The situation that I find genuinely frightening
right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical
language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.'
... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should
be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."--Former evangelist: Religious
right is trawling for assassins
...
]