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  • Obama Derangement Syndrome:

    From DAVE DRUM@1:123/140 to ALL on Sat Mar 27 11:25:42 2010
    * A pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism
    * has infected the Republican Party. HereÆs new data to prove it:

    * 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall)
    believe that Obama is a socialist.

    * 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama
    is a Muslim

    * 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the
    Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United
    States and so is not eligible to be president"

    * 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama
    is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

    * Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall)
    say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

    These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part by a
    new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and
    hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the
    past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president
    and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for
    ratings is bad for the country.

    The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the
    health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier
    to extremism.

    Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe
    such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less easily duped. ItÆs a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of
    the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

    ENJOY!!!

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  • From Ross Sauer@1:123/789 to DAVE DRUM on Sat Mar 27 12:35:27 2010
    "DAVE DRUM -> ALL" <1:123/140> wrote in news:29612$POL_INC@JamNNTPd:

    * A pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism
    * has infected the Republican Party. HereÆs new data to prove it:

    * 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall)
    believe that Obama is a socialist.

    * 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama
    is a Muslim

    * 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the
    Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United
    States and so is not eligible to be president"

    * 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama
    is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

    * Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall)
    say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

    These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part
    by a new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of
    fear and hate that has been pumped up in the service of
    hyper-partisanship over the past 15 months. We are playing with
    dynamite by demonizing our president and dividing the United States in
    the process. What might be good for ratings is bad for the country.

    The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a
    barrier to extremism.

    Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to
    believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better
    are less easily duped. ItÆs a reminder of what the 19th-century
    educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters
    to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the
    verities of knowledge."

    I've seen this same poll a few days ago, it tells me just how far into
    the sewer the right-wing noise machine, led by talk radio and Faux
    "news" is going.

    Back in the 1990's I came up with an acronym, "HCAAC," Hate Clinton At
    All Costs.

    These were the people who put out the drivel like that video "The
    Clinton Chronicles."

    Nowadays, there's the "Hate Obama At All Costs" groups.

    Birthers, teabaggers, crass political operatives, the works.

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  • From John Massey@1:123/789 to Ross Sauer on Sat Mar 27 13:18:42 2010
    On 3/27/2010 12:35 PM, Ross Sauer -> DAVE DRUM wrote:


    Nowadays, there's the "Hate Obama At All Costs" groups.

    Birthers, teabaggers, crass political operatives, the works.

    What do you call people who have a genuine disagreement with the president's policies?

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  • From Ross Sauer@1:123/789 to John Massey on Sat Mar 27 16:42:47 2010
    "John Massey -> Ross Sauer" <1:123/789.0> wrote in
    news:29614$POL_INC@JamNNTPd:

    Nowadays, there's the "Hate Obama At All Costs" groups.

    Birthers, teabaggers, crass political operatives, the works.

    What do you call people who have a genuine disagreement with the president's policies?

    Republicans.

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