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[2+2]

Pew poll says the media sucks

What can people believe these days? hehe Not much.

But taking a step back I think it's interesting that right wing groups form militias, left wing groups form, er I dunno er golf leagues? Right wing groups show up at town hall meetings to hear the President speak and bring their firearms with them. I'm sure they're just expressing their appreciation for their 2nd amendment rights. lol Left wing groups sit on the couch and hit the clicker when they don't like what's on tv at the moment - like when Bush took away their right to habeas corpus.

Right wingers seem to want to hate. Photoshopping pics of the President - adding a Hitler moustache just shows ignorance and an eagerness to hate. Hitler was a fascist! You can't call someone a socialist in an effort to get people all worked up and in the same breath paint him as a fascist. A socialist is a leftist. A fascist is at the far right of the spectrum. You can't be both, at least not at the same time. Anyone that wants to be a hater should at least try to be good at it.

Anyone that can't size up an idiot like Glenn Beck and see him for what he is quite frankly, worries me a little.

Glenn Beck on health care

Rush, Sean, Glenn and the rest of the people that seem to be trying to incite people to hate are unbelievably irresponsible. I predict that soon we'll start seeing the rise of right wing extremist militias, and they're going to create quite a bit of mischief.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by 2+2

But taking a step back I think it's interesting that right wing groups form militias, left wing groups form, er I dunno er golf leagues? Right wing groups show up at town hall meetings to hear the President speak and bring their firearms with them. I'm sure they're just expressing their appreciation for their 2nd amendment rights. lol Left wing groups sit on the couch and hit the clicker when they don't like what's on tv at the moment - like when Bush took away their right to habeas corpus.

Right wingers seem to want to hate. Photoshopping pics of the President - adding a Hitler moustache just shows ignorance and an eagerness to hate. Hitler was a fascist! You can't call someone a socialist in an effort to get people all worked up and in the same breath paint him as a fascist. A socialist is a leftist. A fascist is at the far right of the spectrum. You can't be both, at least not at the same time. Anyone that wants to be a hater should at least try to be good at it.
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Do a google search for Bush/Hitler and you'll find way more photoshops of Bush as hitler than there is of Obama as him. Was that OK?

For much of Bush's presidency, there were heavy, violent protesting. Have we forgotten that soon?

It goes both ways.

We have a country sharply divided in two that just can't agree on politics. It's always been like that and probably won't change.

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

Do a google search for Bush/Hitler and you'll find way more photoshops of Bush as hitler than there is of Obama as him. Was that OK?

For much of Bush's presidency, there were heavy, violent protesting. Have we forgotten that soon?

Hmm, I suggest you read up on the reichstag fire and its striking similarities to 9/11 and the events following. You could do a find and replace of hitler with bush, reichstag with 9/11, and communist with al qaeda, and the plot line would still make perfecct sense.

Also, as someone pointed out, people are calling obama a socialist, not a fascist/dictator, so the whole obama/hitler thing doesn't even make sense.