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Understanding the Witch-Hunt Against Obama The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well, using all the classic smear tactics used against minorities and citizen heroes like Martin Luther King. September 14, 2010 | America is in the midst of a 21st-century witch hunt. A loose-knit network of right-wing ideological strategists, Republican Party operatives and media demagogues generate the odious smears. Their goal is to stymie the Obama administration’s policy initiatives, capture Congress in November and unseat President Barack Obama in 2012. This propagandizing echoes the scapegoating of liberals, union and community organizers, peace activists, gay people, Jews and people of color during the anti-communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era. Anti-Obama rhetoric also mimics 1960s slurs dubbing Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a dupe of a communist conspiracy — claims circulated by groups like the ultra-conservative John Birch Society, the white supremacist “Citizens’ Councils” and the Ku Klux Klan. Billboards and flyers with this revelation appeared across the South, and postcards were distributed nationwide. The underlying message is that liberals are either tools or agents of the plot to build collectivism and global governance. Such claims, once used to label President Franklin D. Roosevelt a fascist, and have resurfaced against Obama, who is tagged as Hitler and Stalin. Such sloganeering is a classic trope that distorts a complex idea into a short metaphor full of rich cultural or political baggage. [...] Hard times yield a hard right. Indeed, the Republicans appear set to adopt the liberal treachery motif as a campaign tool in the upcoming election. Progressives must energetically defend Obama against pathological smears and racist attacks — while we kick his butt to live up to his campaign promises. more here: http://www.alternet.org/news/148180/understanding_the_witch-hunt_against_obama/?page=entire
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I am especially on target mentioning that JayB desperately wants workers to pay for the crisis his pals caused, without giving up his war budget or holding the banksters accountable for the collapse and the revenue shortfall.
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as if revenue shortfall was due to Washington state and all the other states too at the same time. What a genius you are.
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it is relevant. If you don't account for what caused the problem, you can't fix it. not until you cut your war budget and the top 1% starts paying a lot more taxes. drivel
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Not a penny from a public or private worker until the warmongers cut the war budget and the gamblers return the loot.
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Cool pics Sobo. Did your parents move out West during the depression?
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I figured it was something like that (lots of work involved), but I couldn't resist since I know that pms has a good laugh when he hears someone asking that question.
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is that all you've got? why don't you play with yourself, moron.
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So everyone deserves health care but not everyone deserves a tax break? How could those who don't pay enough taxes (and evade them as much as possible) deserve a tax break?
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you forgot to call him a regressive you forgot to say something germane to the discussion. Oh wait, my bad, you never say anything relevant anyway.
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They are cutting services because your boys drove the economy over the cliff not because public employees make too much. Until you suggest to repare the mess you supported (2 wars, wall street casino, shipping good jobs to the land of the bottom cost, etc ..) you have no credibity whatsoever when you suggest that public employees should take a pay cut. as most know, providing a good service usually demands a good standard of living for service providers, but you couldn't care less because you don't give a shit about providing good public services despite your crocodiles' tears (not convincing at all btw)
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Of course, Fairweather would much rather base his opinion on hearsay than comprehensive studies that say the exact oposite of what he believes.
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"f, as some media reports claim, federal workers were earning roughly $8,000 more than private-sector workers in occupations that exist both in the government and private sector for no reason at all, that would be troubling. But the truth is that a comparison of federal and private-sector pay, even by occupation, is misleading because the employees hired by the federal government often have higher levels of education than their counterparts in the private sector - even within the same occupations. When you factor in the education and experience of the federal workforce, there is no statistically significant difference in average pay levels. Take registered nurses working at the Veterans Administration. They care for the complex injuries and illnesses of our wounded warriors and veterans. Partly reflecting the complexity of the care they deliver, nurses working for the federal government are more than twice as likely to have a college degree as those employed by the private sector (24 percent relative to 11 percent). As another example, database administrators are twice as likely to have a post-collegiate degree in the federal government as those working in the private sector (31 percent versus 16 percent). Overall, roughly half the federal workforce has a college degree, compared to about a third in the private sector. Most of the difference (82 percent) in average pay between the federal government and the private sector is explained by these differences in education. Holding education constant, federal workers earn $1,604 more than their private-sector counterparts on average. That is where the experience of the federal workforce comes into play. More experienced workers tend to earn more, and the federal workforce, by and large, is older on average than the private workforce. If you hold education and age constant - and thus have an apples to apples comparison - federal employees earn slightly less than those in the private sector on average, although the difference is not statistically significant. So the bottom line is: when education and age are held constant, the entire difference in average pay between the federal and private sectors disappears." http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008110022
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it is unfortunate if you are unaware of the meaning of the propaganda you regurgitate, but it isn't a valid excuse.
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it's not the last 10 years, it's the last 30+ years, including the Clinton and Carter administrations policies of deregulation.
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Claiming that Obama favors Muslims over Americans is the racist strategy of regressives because it invokes fear of Muslims and blacks. Regurgitating that propaganda is racist. Unfortunate, that you don't see it. so you claim to know who people take seriously? what else do you see in your crystal ball? Note that I never went out of my way to try to discredit you here.
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I'd spin that one to death but we all know that if Obama wasn't black, regressives wouldn't have spent the last 2 years saying he is Muslim. that statement was a lie made up to make it look that Obama favors Muslims over Americans like most nimncompoops believe, pure and simple. LOL
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i'm not sure why should the average reader be able to tell the difference?
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No, you dial it up and may be next time, the right wing won't have such an easy time race baiting for month prior to an election. Race/ethnic baiting has become such a part of te political discourse of regressives that you guys seem incapable of reacting to it. No wonder, we keep losing elections to the idiocrats.
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my generalizations are based on specific examples. Loads of them.
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Regurgitating racist propaganda is racism. who the fucks care if we can't tell the difference?
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We all have examples. The ones that stick in my mind about the private sector are the systematic favoring at promotion time of the old boys who didn't do squat, and the favoring of show offs who didn't know squat. Very similar to the pecking order found in high school. We can talk about improving the public sector but public sector employees aren't responsible for the deficit created by the policies of the looting party.
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this is what you claimed: "Obama administration last year co-sponsored a UN resolution to encourage countries to enact laws that would make it illegal to criticize Islam.", which is a blatant lie and happens to continue the racist right wing propaganda according to which Obama is secretly a Muslim lover or some other garbage.
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No, there is isn't (or you'd provide the data) and I didn't make the assumption you ascribed to me. racist fuck.
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I have worked for both public and private sectors for extended periods of times, and have observed my wife's private professional setting for years. I have found much more deadwood and general incompetence in the private sector than in the public sector. Meritocracy and efficiency in much of the private sector is a complete myth.