Backfire

I think this has a very good chance of backfiring. The rethugs get away with bigotry all the time, but this is so blatant and transparent that I just don't think it will go over well with the average person. Did people hate the football coach Adolf Rupp because of his name. I don't think so. These right wing tools just make themselves look sillier and more desperate every day.

Bombing Obama

The MSM in this country never ceases to amaze. Had media types back in 2000 noted that George Bush's middle name is the same as a popular hard liquor the howling from the right would be deafening. I fear the media has truly lost all sense of seriousness relative to being a part of the political and social contract in this nation. Now that "Wiggles" Limbaugh has weighed in (sorry, couldn't resist) with his opinion from the parking lot of a Denny's somewhere near EIB's studios can Annthrax Coulter's screeching voice be far behind or is she still busy running from polling place to place in Florida voting for the Republicans or her choice?

They'll get away with it, if the Dems let them.

It has started already. This last election has done nothing to change the right wing: they will continue to lie, cheat, steal and smear. They are shameless and relentless.

Anyone who thought that merely winning an election would be enough to stop them should be convinced by the last few weeks of the futility of such naivete. These people really believe they can keep their power if they, like their leader Bush, just keep lying, hate-mongering, fear-mongering and using the basest of school yard insults and bullying to get their way.

If we are truly tired of this, we have to face them down EVERY time they do it. And the media is not going to help us, save for Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann. WE need to flood the airwaves with protests. WE need to stand up to the lying bullies. WE need to raise holy hell to our representatives so they know we're behind them in this fight. WE need to do whatever it takes to make this stop.

If we don't, they'll never stop, and why should they? There is so much money and power in it for them. But for us, for the rest of our lives, this will be what our country is like.

I don't know about anyone else, but I can't take much more of their crap.

By linking names...

"Hussein" with "Saddam Hussein," or "Obama" with "Osama" and claiming they are one in the same proves the childishness of the accusers. One might also say that a gang member named "Jesus" is a God-like savior, or, because one's uncle in named Adolf that he believes in the supremacy of the "Master Race" and others should tremble in fear.