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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 01:55 PM
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If you hate someone enough you will take actions against them that
are against your own self interest. You will take actions that are irrational. You will burn your own house down if that will hurt the one that you hate.

To me, this explains the town meeting extremists. Thay don't care what they destroy as long as they can destroy Obama. This is all Obama and race hate. Health care is a convenient cover.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:00 PM
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1. Yes, this is about something far greater and deeper than simply health care. n/t
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Raspberry Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:02 PM
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2. Not racial
The same people stopped Clinton's healthcare reform.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:05 PM
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4. the birthers insist he isn't american
they mean he's not white enough to be an american.
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:18 PM
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6. But I don't remember that the vicious hate was as bad back then.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:20 PM
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8. It was misogyinstic hate back then - you don't remember "Hillarycare?"
C'mon - it's even the SAME DAMNED PEOPLE as last time. Now they hate the darkey instead of the bitch, but the players and the game are EXACTLY THE SAME.

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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:02 PM
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3. Don't know if it's *all* race hate.
But I'd be surprised if that wasn't responsible for the majority of the crazy.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:06 PM
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5. exactly Raven!
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vduhr Donating Member (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:19 PM
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7. It's not just the Town Hall meeting extremists...
You really have to ask yourself why is it that the GOP, Conservatives, etc. - why are any of these groups/people so vehemently opposed to anything Obama does? To go so far as to organize fake ("just everyday citizens") protesters at Town Hall meetings in order to shout down (and not listen to) people who are only trying to inform people on healthcare reform. I've never seen such opposition against someone (Obama) who has personally done nothing to deserve such outrage and hatred - it's not just opposition we're seeing, it's outright hatred, anger and violence. He was, to them, supposedly an unknown until he ran for President. They claimed they knew nothing about him, yet they hate him? Ask yourself, truly, what is it about this man that they would hate him so much without even giving him a chance? My response is, yes, it is race hate. What else can it be?
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:22 PM
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9. Goddamn - you just described my ex-wife.
I kid you not.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:43 PM
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10. Its not about race, its about class. Race is simply the way to rile up the
hoi polloi who know that something is radically wrong but can't put two and two together. Their disruptive, regressive behaviour serves those who are benefitting from an unregulated marketplace.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:46 PM
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11. this is the birthers, the extreme religious right all wrapped up together
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 02:47 PM by bdamomma
we have some very sick people here. they are desperate cause they did not win.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:49 PM
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12. True.
Hate is always against one's self-interest.

Recommended.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:51 PM
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13. When monitoring RW hate-radio it's learned that *all* they really care about...
is winning, that's it. Getting back in power period, that and profits. The other day Limbaugh mentioned a health/insurance company's unexpected profits and declared that 'dirty harry' Reid should call them up and ask them how they actually turned a profit well now please...

They did it in great measure by receiving premiums for coverage they only relate back as small print boiler plate denials of claim or flat-out refusals to pay; that's how it's done...denying the rights of others is for them a form of winning and so they pursue it especially in that they do not show up to partake of lawyerly tutorials, calm/stately actuaries w/laser points, or kindlt, balanced, well worded pleasantries amongst neighbors trying to form a more perfect union no fuck that these people are straight-up weird, goofy thinkers but I'll tell you what they do do they show up to WIN! They do not show up to play...

What they seem to either not get or be comfortable with; is that they've still *been* played and by their own kind. They've been *greaseorbitized*, they've been *scrumdiddleeeumpcious't*, they've chosen the blue pill cause a chubby little cherub with feathery white angel wings riding a Goodyear tire told them to do so, or, I should say, one of the cherub's many agents in the field


It's time to start pushing back :kick:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:55 PM
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14. Yep.
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