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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:29 AM
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Blackwell accuses Obama of 'anti-Christian pogrom'
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Blackwell_Obama_nominations_further_pogrom.html?showall

Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio official and conservative leader, suggests on Fox News's website this week that President Obama's nomination of two liberal law professors to senior posts constitutes a "pogrom" against Christians.

Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and a fellow at Liberty University, compares attempts to challenge the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church and to deny public funding to groups that won't admit gays to the mass murder of Jews.

He writes:

What we are witnessing right now is an anti-Christian programmatic pogrom. What is a “pogrom” it’s the word that describes anti-Jewish raids by Cossacks and others in czarist Russia, but a programmatic pogrom best describes what is happening right now. These are not isolated attacks. And while we no longer have Cossacks to threaten, we now have left-wing bloggers who actually call themselves Kossacks (after the Daily Kos).


Blackwell focuses much of his attention on Dawn Johnsen, an abortion rights lawyer and academic named to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In a particularly strange choice, however, Blackwell puts central blame for the "pogrom" on a Jewish law professor and disability rights scholar, Chai Feldblum, Obama nominated to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"If confirmed, she would be in position to pursue the pogrom nationwide," he writes of her gay rights advocacy.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:31 AM
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1. Well Kenny boy, don't cheapen the struggle and terror that the Jewish
folks went through just becaue Obama appointed a few people you don't like.

Hyperbole, they name is blackwell...
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 03:50 AM
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17. it's more about fear that she'll reverse the radical lawlessness of the Bush Admin
She's got a mighty powerful job. She bold and smart enough where she'll right much the wrongs from the Bush* years.

That's what they're afraid of, so they have to come up with an excuse to turn their Coalition against Dawn and Obama.

Wasn't she originally held up because of her pro-life stance? Or something along that vein?

If they can't crucify her one way, they'll try another until something, they hope, sticks.

She made no secret how outraged she felt about the lawlessness when Bush* was in office - and I was pleased as punch when Obama nominated her.

Kick some ass, Dawn!
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:33 AM
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2. Normally I would guess that he just doesn't know what that word means
But in Ken Blackwell's case, I just chalk it up to the fact that the guy is balls-to-the-wall batshit "they squeezed the forceps too hard at birth" fucknuts crazy.
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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:33 AM
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3. You know, everything I read makes me want to vomit these days
Honestly, I feel like the world has gone mad, or at least this country has gone mad ... and I feel like resigning from it all.

The rhetoric (not just Blackwell's, but everybody's) has gotten so hyperbolic and frenetic and, well, frankly insane that I really am beginning feel fearful. Make it go away.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:37 AM
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5. It does read like a very bad
novel with the gopers having to take their previous insane accusations up a notch just be noticed.
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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:30 AM
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10. THE BORED AGAIN CRUSTACEAN TONGUES KEEP WAGGING INSANELY
Edited on Thu Feb-18-10 01:31 AM by HowHasItComeToThis
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obxhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:58 AM
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7. It's really not the world
just our sad country that has gone over the top bat shit nuts. At least that's the case according to my international friends.
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 12:20 PM
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22. ditto nt
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:34 AM
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4. I swear, his brains have softened even more...
IF that's possible...

Since he was kicked out of Ohio politics.

What a moran.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 12:56 AM
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6. This sort of dialogue must stop. If it continues
(on both sides) the whole nation will literally be at each other's throats. I have never seen anything like this. It has been ages since I have seen actual conversation about anything with anyone. The media have 2 or 3 persons of each party on and they just back and forth, back and forth, about the same thing everytime. It is getting old.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 02:25 AM
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11. And it won't end until there is, for the first time, a religious war in this country.
It is a lesson that was learned all across Europe, and was the primary impetus for the liberalization of European culture - the liberalization that caused all the religious crazies to move to America.

Only after we've had a generation or two of slaughter over religious beliefs will we really understand WHY the founders intended a separation of church and state, a clear differentiation of public discourse and private belief.

In central europe it was the hundred-year war. In Britain it was Cromwell's interregnum. And it WILL happen here. I see no way of avoiding it.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 02:33 AM
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12. Oh, yes, we are headed that way.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 03:48 AM
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16. The fundies choose not to remember that the reason the "Pilgrims"
came here was that no one in Europe could stand to have them around anymore. They were a really mean spirited group and their philosophical decendants still are.

mark
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:03 AM
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8. Idiot right wing decievers. Any lie to try to keep people angry
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:20 AM
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9. I like to think of it more as a procedural Holocaust
:eyes:

The RW is just so tone-deaf it's amazing.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 02:38 AM
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13. "...and to deny public funding to groups that won't admit gays to the mass murder of Jews."
So, like, gays were lining up behind a velvet rope at Treblinka and some black-clad Waffen-SS bouncer wouldn't let them in to pump the carbon monoxide into the gas chambers?


And Blackwell is an ignorant ass.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 02:43 AM
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14. Someone, get him a WAAAAAAHmbulence!
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DRoseDARs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 03:25 AM
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15. Well he kinda dropped off the face of the Earth, didn't he? Haven't heard that name since '04-'05.
Desperate for attention much? :shrug:
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 08:34 AM
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18. Gretchen Carlson needs to show him how to Google words to find out what they really mean.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 08:34 AM
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19. Isn't it amazing how the "party of life" tends to draw those who would
want to bomb those who don't agree with them? And the so-called "party of intolerance" (according to conservatives) fights for the right of allowing opposing viewpoints to be aired? (ACLU)
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 08:39 AM
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20. If I wished to make an inquiry into the tenets of the ministry of Jesus, Ken
Blackwell would be among the very last people I would consult.

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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 10:40 PM
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21. Wingnuts are "Solutions In Search Of Problems" / "Heroes In Search Of A Villain"
Personality disorders run amok
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 12:38 PM
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23. This jerkoff's 15 minutes were up 4 yrs ago. nt
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 04:44 PM
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24. The stupid, it BURNS!!!
*DOUBLE-FACEPALM*
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 05:47 PM
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25. Superstitionalism at its finest
Yeah Blackwell.

We're coming to your house to take away your Bible and force you to go our abortion parties where we read Karl Marx and write love letters to Osama bin Laden.

Yep, we'll be right over, asshole.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 05:51 PM
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26. Oh, the poor, persecuted, uneducated, majority...
Equating tax status and murder? People are really that stupid?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 07:26 PM
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DRoseDARs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-19-10 09:03 PM
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28. Oh for fuck's sake, what the hell?
Sorry, buddy, but this post of yours is toast. Totally inappropriate and gives fundies reason to scream their heads off. Shame on you.
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