@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:
I remember them, yeah. And I remember the Dem base being plenty pissed at them. But I don't remember Dem leadership engaging in repeated and intentionally provocative violent rhetoric regarding the man. Which is exactly the case with modern Republicans.
You don't remember "repeated and intentionally provocative violent rhetoric" regarding Cheney ????? ( I suspect you threw the "violent" in because, even as you wrote it, you had doubts.)
Cheney was indeed the object of nearly continuous and often vitriolic criticism by Democrat commentators throughout the Bush Presidency.
Cycloptichorn wrote:
You're wrong about that. Incredibly wrong. From day -100 of Obama's term, the Right has done everything it can to destroy the man - not just politically but personally. From calling the dude a 'secret muslim,' to a friend of terrorists, to a Marxist, to a Kenyan - the MAINSTREAM right-wing has attacked him incessantly. Leaders of the party. You can't say that for the Democrats.
Even accepting your characterizations at face value this is hardly of a different character from the criticisms levelled at Bush & Cheney. Moreover most of the things you cited have a basis in Obama's actual actions;
=> Bill Ayers, a prominent friend and supporter of Obama really was a leader of the Weather underground which really was a self styled Marxist, revolutionary, terror organization. You can find details of their crimes on Google.
=> Obama's father really was from Kenya, and he wrote a book dedicated to him.
=>I don't know Obama's religion, and don't much care (it can't go very deep because he slept through the "Rev" Wright's vitriolic and ocassionally violence- inciting sermons for 10 years.). However, following the murders by a Moslem officer at Ft Hood his first expressions were the expressed hope that anti Moslem reactions wouldn't result - rather than expressions of concern for the innocents who were murdered.
Cycloptichorn wrote:
The entire point of my piece is that modern Republicans know the violent rhetoric has gone too far - and are fearful of what will happen. Thus the current freak-out we are witnessing.
What "violent" rhetoric? Nothing you have cited above was either violent or even a call to violence.
