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Blog Entry 186 of 208 The Subversive Liberal
"If by a "liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "liberal." – President John F. Kennedy...................... Some people find me and that sentiment subversive. I'm here to set the record straight and offer the real typical liberal point of view. Some call it subversive, I call it patriotic.

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Lies, damn lies!
Contributed by: Bing Van Gorden   on 8/21/2008

Since Saint McCain can't keep his foot out of his mouth or stay coherent without note cards or a tele-prompter the Republic Party and their pals can't seem to bottom out with their sleazy lies regarding Barack Obama. Lies, not opinions, not another point of view but out right, bald faced lies.

The latest attack, William Ayers, alleged terrorist, old radical and current professor at the University of Illinois. Ayers was a member of the Weatherman who resorted to violence to get their point across about the Vietnam war. Ayers turned himself into the FBI, no charges were filed and he's a free man. Regardless of all that, Obama is not his buddy and never was. He served on a board with him, and Ayers wife through a fund raiser for Obama when he was running for Illinois State Senate. That's the extent of their relationship. Ayers has even mocked the notion that he and Obama are friends and that they share similar political views. But facts matter little to Republicans who have no compunction or sense of guilt in misleading people.

McCain can't lie fast enough about Obama's position on Iraq. Recently he said that Obama wanted an unconditional draw down of troops without any concern other than bringing them home. According to McCain, Obama doesn't care about the consequences and doesn't want to hear from the Generals in the field. Lies. Baseless charges. McCain takes it further in a despicable low road maneuver when he claims Obama is effectively a traitor to his country. By insisting that Obama wants to lose the war. How dare he say that? It's one thing to disagree with policy positions, it's another thing entirely to make the ridiculous assumption Obama actually desires our countries failure.

One is free to believe Obama's position is not the correct course of action. But McCain is making a claim he could not possibly know, that in his opponent's heart of hearts he want us to fail, he does not care about loss of life or consequences. It's disgusting rhetoric and it's full of more lies. It means something to call your political opponent a traitor, un-American. McCain claims he questions Obama's judgement but questions his patriotism. It's a big difference than simply stating his position will not yield the desired results so we shouldn't implement them. This tact is used often by the right. They have the audacity to insist that political opponents, fellow Americans, want to lose a war, actually hate our country. That's not discourse, that's slander. I don't know about you, but I don't shine well to being called a traitor to my country.

More lies and slander about his dealings with developer, Tony Rezko. The RNC actually has distributed an unbelievable pack of absolute lies regarding a land deal. (Sound familiar? Whitewater maybe?) Granted, Obama has admitted making a deal with someone under indictment for brokering political favors and that it was a "bone headed thing to do." But the Republicans want you to believe that Obama got a sweet heart deal on a house and a plot of land. Not really. Unless you consider $40,000 OVER the market value as some kind of a good deal. But they did buy a piece of land from the bum, and did write letters on his behalf when a sitting State Senator. Also stupid. But what's the matter with presenting the facts? Why make a mountain out of a mole hill by lying? Because McCain has done much worse, the Keating 5 ring a bell? Google it.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rnc-obamas-housing-problem-brought/story.aspx?guid=%7B61ABC0BC-678B-4858-8447-AA56EF46CC0A%7D&dist=hppr

It gets worse. Can you imagine a human being so callous they don't care if a baby is born during an abortion procedure it is left to die? That's what the repugnant right wing is peddling about Barack Obama and they lie through their rotting teeth to do it. They base this vile assertion on Obama because he voted against a measure in the Illinois State Senate that would have made it illegal. IT ALREADY WAS ILLEGAL. Based on this set of circumstances, it means to the righties that Obama thinks dead babies are just swell. What a despicable lot they are. But what do you expect from a crowd that thinks the same of you if you happen to believe that a woman has more of a right regarding her own body than the government does? If you were wondering, no one likes abortion and it's disturbing that some people cling to that belief to justify their misplaced animosity. And liberals just love being called baby killers btw.

Rush Limbaugh. The man who brought you such classics as "Barack the Magic Negro" to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Hillary's Testicle Lock Box" can't lie fast enough either. I'd like to remind people that Rush, by his own admission, is an entertainer not a reliable source of information. Sadly many poor souls are not aware of that. This blow hard and his female counterpart Anne Coulter have perpetuated the abortion loving Obama angle. Oh and they like to remind us his middle name is Hussein and that he's black as much as we can because those two things must be dangerous.

The same guy who inspired the mocking of John Kerry's Purple Heart by sporting purple Band-Aids on their lapels on the floor of the 2004 RNC convention, has written another piece of garbage attacking Obama. Jerome Corsi, liar and best selling Author. Obama put out a fact sheet that refutes many of the books assertions. But sadly, trash still sells on the book store shelves and some people don't mind factual errors. Again, to justify their misplaced animosity. The latest hit piece is full of countless shameful lies and innuendo to make you, the reader, scared that Obama might be a secret Muslim. Oooooh! This nut job goes so far as to question the legitimacy of Barack's birth certificate. Thankfully some conservatives have shown no desire to give this rubbish the time of day.

Sadly, lies work. Slander sells and the media is all too eager to perpetuate the lies and coddle the liars. Negative ads don't have to be factual to be effective. This is the RNC's modus operandi for decades. The questions remain. Will people finally grow tired of it? Will it work again? Can McCain and co. out sleaze the Bushies and ride that wave of smears to victory? I hope not.


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Submitted By: marilyn wray
posted on 9/7/2008 @ 11:58:01 AM
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Polls? I love Polls. Polls tell the truth + or - nothing. oh yeah, I remember polls, stats from my school days. The best way to lie is with stats - they tell everything but the truth. Gotta love that!
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Submitted By: marilyn wray
posted on 9/7/2008 @ 11:52:58 AM
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I love Obamas ad that sez, McCain don't know much about economics... Hell he is too old to know or rembmer much of anything. Duh? How many homes do I own... Duh, Where are they...CINdEEEEEEE uh, where are we? Not in the white house that is for sure. We had to give it to that, yer other fella, ya know the smart, good looking gentleman from Illinois.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 8/22/2008 @ 11:29:49 AM
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Cross-posted to your other thread, Bing: Here's a very little remembered quote from Ike himself: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children ... Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." If he rose from the grave and said this today, he would be stoned to death by Republicans.
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Submitted By: Bing Van Gorden
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 8:49:56 PM
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David you bastahd! Join my fantasy football league!Ralph you can too. Let me know if you're interested.
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Submitted By: David Brown
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 8:15:01 PM
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Ralph - QUIT WATCHING THOSE POLLS!! They'll kill ya!!
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Submitted By: David Brown
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 8:14:21 PM
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Ah, the gold old days... Before Presidents and Congresses were allowed to run up the national debt and the folks lived within their means.
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Submitted By: Bing Van Gorden
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 7:31:21 PM
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No offense David but I care too much and I do believe it matters. Just like facts do. Ralph I have had a recurring day dream where Ike kicks Bush's arse across the White House lawn.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 7:17:09 PM
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Without lies, the GOP has nothing. They buried the last of their integrity with Eisenhower.
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Submitted By: David Brown
posted on 8/21/2008 @ 6:56:08 PM
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Careful Bing!! You sound like you're cracking up and I'm getting a little worried about you! My advice to you is to do what I'm doing - try and not care about this election. It's hard I know. But in the end it doesn't matter who wins. And dig this! Remember when I said the next President is going to get blamed for the economy and be totally and completely undeserving of that blame? It's true. In that way, I'm kind of hoping Obama wins. That way the Republicans can have a fresh start in 2012 and maybe even 2010, although we'll still have a lot more pain to go but who knows? I'm still begrudgingly filling in the circle next to McCain's name but that doesn't mean I'll be upset if he loses. And I sleep at night. AND DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THOSE POLLS!!
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Bing Van Gorden has posted 208 blog entries and 985 comments since joining on 3/28/2007. Bing Van Gorden 's average blog rating is 3.47.
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