The absurdity of Thomas Shields' letter (July 2) is proof positive that radical, right-wing Republicans are wrecking this country.
Liberal is defined as “broad-minded: tolerant of different views and standards of behavior in others." Apparently Shields has no respect for the opinions of anyone who thinks differently from the far right-wing he supports so faithfully. Definitely not liberal values.
President Barack Obama is as much of a racist as I am a Republican. To suggest the president is racist is unbelievably ridiculous. Does Shields also claim that Obama is not a U.S. citizen?
The existence of voter fraud is a right-wing rallying cry to lock the poor and depressed (many of whom vote liberal) out of the voting process.
Angus King’s choice to support Obama is his right. The Republican party ran this country into the ground for eight years and proved their loyalties are to the rich. Historically, it is the middle class that makes this country grow.
The two-party system is broken. It is time for independent minds to rally and demand government be loyal to the citizens of this country and not party politics.
The Republican Party no longer commands respect as the “party of Lincoln.” It has become radical, intolerant of the views of others and beholden to the corporate world, not to the people who put them in office.
David Marquis, Lewiston
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D. Marquis: Republican blather
David,
The Republicans are bereft of ideas • Brain dead , as it were
ref : Slap to Obama: GOP House votes to kill health law
http://www.hawaiiantel.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9VUU2J80%40news.ap.o...
By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:03 PM EDT
Okay GOP . Kill the bill and offer no alternative.
Dumb , yet predictable • /s Steve
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All I see from Republicans today is an uncomfortably close conformity to those political positions proposed by Southern leaders pre and post Civil War. The need to weaken the Federal government, the need to create a wealthy elite that is above the law and a class of indentured workers and most of all the racial unanimity and the frequent threats to secede or revolt violently against the government sound like some of those folks that are fond of waving the Confederate flag want a redo of the Civil War. You also see the Republican party becoming a party run by wealthy Southerners who are slowly eliminating all Northern participation that is not in knee-jerk compliance with their Southern masters. Their dislike of public education and learning in general and their strange emphasis on born again Christianity is again a post Civil war theme where Southern politics moved from the courthouse to the pulpit to evade Yankee rules. Sadly they are becoming a radical, localized, Southern Rebel movement. At least it looks more and more like that to mel.
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The Republican Party ... has become radical, intolerant of the views of others and beholden to the corporate world, not to the people who put them in office.
Like Paul, I'm trying to stifle the guffaws.
Radical: With friends like Bill Ayers, Van Jones, ... the Democratic party doesn't need enemies, but it insists on creating new ones every day.
Intolerant: See what Paul said. Just a hint of disagreement is all it takes to start a Democrat blather-fest.
Corporate dependence: Well, Obama sure isn't beholden to Solyndra. But he is to GM, GE, and, most of all, to public employee unions, the most thuggish corporations of all.
For the people: Ever since the coronation in 2009, the country has been administered by unelected czars, not even vetted by the Senate, let alone the people.
This is Democracy with a capital D. The little D democracy is high on the endangered species list.
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Yesterday, I was criticized for writing that the Federal Government has no means to collect the tax penalty for not buying private health Insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The usual right-wingers found the very idea ridiculous. Today that fact is highlighted on FoxNews.com by linking to an article from GerriWillis.com that states "Turns out, the government has no way to enforce the individual mandate..."
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2012/07/09/obamacar...
And Huffington Post carried the story that “It appears that there has been deep penetration in the halls of our United States government by the Communist Party USA,” (Rep. Michelle) Bachmann said. Oops that was Rep. Adam West. No, I was wrong that should have read "Muslim Brotherhood" not "Communist Party USA". This is the 21st Century not the 1950's. I need to keep up with the racist Republican scapegoat of the day.
Bill Ayers has as much to do with Obama as Madonna does. Van Jones while talented and intelligent is black so he must be radical. And let us not forget ACORN the source of all voter fraud in the nation. Oh there is no voter fraud in the Nation; guess that latest racist Republican scapegoat of the day phrase comes to mind again.
Apparently the Republicans think their lies should go unchallenged. That's because they believe that they and they alone are morally superior to the rest of us.
This alone shows how unobjective, personal, and biting their hatred of Obama and good government is: " For the people: Ever since the coronation in 2009, the country has been administered by unelected czars, not even vetted by the Senate, let alone the people." Factually, there was no coronation in 2009. The US is administered by the President of the United States not by so called unelected czars. And unelected Czars have been used back to the time of Lincoln and Jackson. Nothing frightening here.In fact, the First thing that President Washington did in 1790 was to appoint 4 Czars to help him administer the Executive Branch of our new Constitutional Government. Now they are called the Cabinet.
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Yesterday, I was criticized for writing that the Federal Government has no means to collect the tax penalty for not buying private health Insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The usual right-wingers found the very idea ridiculous. Today that fact is highlighted on FoxNews.com by linking to an article from GerriWillis.com that states "Turns out, the government has no way to enforce the individual mandate..."
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2012/07/09/obamacar...
And Huffington Post carried the story that “It appears that there has been deep penetration in the halls of our United States government by the Communist Party USA,” (Rep. Michelle) Bachmann said. Oops that was Rep. Adam West. No, I was wrong that should have read "Muslim Brotherhood" not "Communist Party USA". This is the 21st Century not the 1950's. I need to keep up with the racist Republican scapegoat of the day.
Bill Ayers has as much to do with Obama as Madonna does. Van Jones while talented and intelligent is black so he must be radical. And let us not forget ACORN the source of all voter fraud in the nation. Oh there is no voter fraud in the Nation; guess that latest racist Republican scapegoat of the day phrase comes to mind again.
Apparently the Republicans think their lies should go unchallenged. That's because they believe that they and they alone are morally superior to the rest of us.
This alone shows how unobjective, personal, and biting their hatred of Obama and good government is: " For the people: Ever since the coronation in 2009, the country has been administered by unelected czars, not even vetted by the Senate, let alone the people." Factually, there was no coronation in 2009. The US is administered by the President of the United States not by so called unelected czars. And unelected Czars have been used back to the time of Lincoln and Jackson. Nothing frightening here.In fact, the First thing that President Washington did in 1790 was to appoint 4 Czars to help him administer the Executive Branch of our new Constitutional Government. Now they are called the Cabinet.
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Evedently,their are those of us who do not now the meaning of the word czar.if that even sounds close to the word "administration",please inspire me.It is quite sickening to see liberals redefine critical terms and events.There is a place for these biggots somewhere in Siberia where they can study democracy.
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Re-defining terms is now a standard part of propaganda - which confederates perfected many years ago. See Paul's unbelievable shock when "liberal" now doesn't mean in his mind what's in the dictionary. The problem is his mind not the dictionary. Or try pre-born baby or many other oxymorons of the moronic right.
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"Liberal is defined as 'broad-minded: tolerant of different views and standards of behavior in others'."
That is borderline hilarious. The slightest hint of disagreement with a liberal precipitates a feeding frenzy of name calls ranging from bigot and racist to homophobe and right wing wack job. If liberals have but one constant, it is their complete lack of tolerance for the differing opinions of others.
Liberal would more accurately be defined as "a perpetual state of adolescence compounded by a total absence of tolerance for anything that differs from their own personal views".
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Sounds like a little intolerance on your part sir. What would you call this if it isn't name calling? Forums like this shouldn;'t be about winning. It should be about different people bringing different perpectives to the fore. If the only thing you listen to is yourself you are not very likely to learn anything or to be correct about anything for that matter. Our lives are all different and so are our perspectives. When confronted with a different opinion a person does not need to feel threatened or to respond in knee-jerk, defensive fashion, They only need to think about it. If they have a different opinion they should be free to express it in a respectful manner. You don't sell your opinion any more by being rude or with dramatic exaggeration than you do by being logical. Liberals are usually very comfortable with a wide variety of opinions though they may not always agree with all of them.
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You did a great job of making my point. You sound like a liberal who gets it; thank you.
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