Text 12469, 55 rader
Skriven 2010-03-27 12:35:27 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 12468 av DAVE DRUM (1:123/140)
Ärende: Obama Derangement Syndrome:
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"DAVE DRUM -> ALL" <1:123/140> wrote in news:29612$POL_INC@JamNNTPd:

 DD>     * A pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism
 DD>     * has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it:

 DD> * 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall)
 DD>     believe that Obama is a socialist.

 DD> * 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama
 DD>     is a Muslim

 DD> * 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the
 DD>    Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United
 DD>    States and so is not eligible to be president"

 DD> * 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama
 DD>    is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

 DD> * Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall)
 DD>    say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

 DD> These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part
 DD> by a new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of
 DD> fear and hate that has been pumped up in the service of
 DD> hyper-partisanship over the past 15 months. We are playing with
 DD> dynamite by demonizing our president and dividing the United States in
 DD> the process. What might be good for ratings is bad for the country.

 DD> The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the
 DD> health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a
 DD> barrier to extremism.

 DD> Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to
 DD> believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better
 DD> are less easily duped. It’s a reminder of what the 19th-century
 DD> educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters
 DD> to fill up the vacancies  of the soul that are unoccupied by the
 DD> verities of knowledge."

I've seen this same poll a few days ago, it tells me just how far into
the sewer the right-wing noise machine, led by talk radio and Faux
"news" is going.

Back in the 1990's I came up with an acronym, "HCAAC," Hate Clinton At
All Costs.

These were the people who put out the drivel like that video "The
Clinton Chronicles."

Nowadays, there's the "Hate Obama At All Costs" groups.

Birthers, teabaggers, crass political operatives, the works.

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