Creepy Car Dealer Calls Obama Jihaidst Says Obama Anti Christian

Obama IS A Christian.
Phil Wolf is a dimwit. What a numskull. What do we do about these people who threaten our country with such profound ignorance? That's what I want to know.
This guy is actually a businessman--he sells cars--who put up a billboard accusing Obama of being a jihadist. He is THE threat to our country. Phil Wolf is a very dangerous man. He's as dangerous as any extremist. It's ironic that these people who rail against extremists ARE extremists. They need to hold a mirror up to get a dose of reality.

Republicans Embracing Tea Party

David Corn writes that wingnuts have taken over the GOP. But I'd contend it's less of a takeover and more the GOP outing itself, becoming what it really wants to be. After watching yesterday's tea party protest at the Capitol, that's pretty clear now. Many of these GOPers have long been birthers, have long harbored fears about Islam and have long been irrational like the wingnuts. But they kept it tamped down. Republicans ripped Jeremiah Wright, yet they embrace Jon Voight, who is a lunatic. But GOPers have been emboldened to embrace the hater within, thanks largely to the "success" of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.

When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP.

Think I'm being harsh? The angry folks at the protest -- which attracted several thousand conservatives -- held up signs with messages of hate: "Get the Red Out of the White House," "Waterboard Congress," "Ken-ya Trust Obama?" One called the president a "Traitor to the U.S. Constitution." Another sign showed pictures of dead bodies at the Dachau concentration camp and compared health care reform to the Holocaust. A different placard depicted Obama as Sambo. Yes, Sambo. Another read, "Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds" -- a reference to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory holding that one evil Jewish...read the rest at Politics Daily

Obama Haters Strain Secret Service

Death threats against Obama are up 400% compared to when Bush was in office and the Secret Service is out-manned, according to author Ronald Kessler, who's promoting a book, In the President's Secret Service.

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Some other Secret Service tidbits:

Based on exclusive interviews with more than 100 current and former Secret Service agents, IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE reveals:

• Since Barack Obama took office, threats against the president are up 400 percent from about 3,000 threats a year against President Bush.

• Because the Secret Service has been cutting corners since its absorption by the Homeland Security Department, when Vice President Joe Biden threw the first pitch at the first Baltimore Orioles game of the 2009 season, the Secret Service did not screen any of the more than 40,000 fans, stunning agents on his detail and the agency’s Baltimore field office. Contrary to Biden’s claims, he compromised the location of a secret underground bunker built to protect the vice president.

• When he was President George Bush’s Treasury secretary, John Snow traveled to his hometown of Richmond almost every weekend and saw a woman agents believed was his mistress, incurring huge expenses for taxpayers because the Secret Service had to accompany him.

• Vice President Spiro Agnew, a champion of family values, had extramarital affairs while in office.

• George W. Bush’s daughters, Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, gave their Secret Service details a hard time and would try to lose their agents.

• Based on a psychic’s vision that a sniper would assassinate President George H.W. Bush when he arrived in Enid, Oklahoma, to give a speech, the Secret Service changed his motorcade route.

Today Show Interviews Tyren Scott Who Asked Obama About Hate

His mother was nervous when Tyren asked the question. "A child can say anything," she said. Indeed.
Tyren set an example for all of us with his simple question. If you missed Obama answering his question, check it out here.

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The Problem Isn't Beck It's His Large Audience

The fact that so many people believe what Glenn Beck says is what scares most of us because we like to think our fellow Americans aren't that foolish. That's why bunches of us were relieved when Obama was elected. We were shocked that other Americans were as reasonable as we were.

The problem with Beck, then, is not his narrative, which is entertainingly foolish to anyone who actually knows anything about anything. The problem is the size of the audience in the United States that actually knows nothing about nothing. This mass (my guess, about 12 percent of the electorate) is easily moved, the past summer and its continuing silly rhetoric on all kinds of issues indicate. They wear know-nothingness like a badge.

What is prompting all of this is a New York Times column from the world voice of reason, Tom Friedman, about the dangers of demonizing people. President Obama, he argues, is being demonized by those who hate him and what he represents. Friedman said he has seen this before, in Israel just before an assassination. Someone suggested on Facebook that someone might want to kill Obama, the columnist said. I hope the Secret Service finds that person.

Charles Madigan, the writer of the story, goes on to say we shouldn't try to silence Beck and other loudmouths. I agree. We shouldn't bury stupidity, we should let it flow, as painful as it is, so people get to see Beck and friends for who they are. But we should counter stupidity with facts and good information so the ugly spew doesn't just lie there and make a mess.

But it is deeply frightening to me (as a human, not a dog) that the chance exists that someone might try to silence these loud voices on the right on the grounds that what they say is untrue, unsavory, unhealthy, whatever. I think we should actually turn up the volume so everyone can hear them better. I do have faith that people can make good decisions once they have a genuine grasp of the issues. Read more at the Chicago Trib

New Wingnut Hoax: Obama Hates Christmas Trees

Look at that! Obama among the Christmas trees last year

Update Nov. 28: Watch Michelle, Malia and Sasha receive the White House Christmas Tree

Update Nov. 24: The White House CHRISTMAS TREE is scheduled to arrive Nov. 26.

The Obama girls talk about Christmas.

Obama talks to kids about the spirit of Christmas.

White House Christmas photos.

This year's Capitol Christmas tree is from Arizona. The White House tree to light up the Blue Room is from West Virginia.

I'm betting my mother got this email (insert sad face) that says Obama hates Christmas. It's similar to the lobster hoax in that it's a viral email that's just not true.

The White House Historical Association has been receiving calls and emails about an alleged Obama decree that the Christmas trees in the White House would now be known as "holiday trees." And artists submitting designs for ornaments on the Blue Room tree were not allowed to depict Christian themes.

"It's strange," said Maria Downs, the historical association's spokeswoman. "They're almost saying, 'Are you aware of this?'"

One of the chain emails circulating around in-boxes claims that "a friend at church who is a very talented artist" got a letter from the White House saying not to send any ornaments painted with a religious theme. Politico

Here's the email hoax:

White House will not do Christmas
Thought you might be interested in this information from the White House. This isn’t a rumor; this is a fact.
We have a friend at church who is a very talented artist. For several years she, among many others, has painted ornaments to be hung on the various White House Christmas trees. The WH usually sends out an invitation to send an ornament and informs the artists of the theme for the year.
She got her letter from the WH recently. It said that they would not be called Christmas trees this year. They will be called Holiday trees. And, to please not send any ornaments painted with a religious theme.
She was very upset at this development and sent back a reply telling them that she only painted the ornaments for Christmas trees and would not be sending any for display that left Christ out of Christmas.
Just thought you should know what the new residents in the WH plan for the future of America . If you missed his statement that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian Nation" this should confirm that he plans to take us away from our religious foundation as quickly as possible.

PolitiFact checked in with the White House and it's just not true:

For the current administration's part, White House spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield says the tree tradition isn't changing.

"There is no truth to this, and the letter referenced in the e-mail does not exist," she said. "No letter has gone out yet from the White House pertaining to Christmas tree ornaments."

She added, "The trees in the White House will be called Christmas trees, and the tree on the Ellipse will be called the National Christmas Tree. There will be no name changes."

So all this chain e-mail deserves is a lump of coal and a Pants on Fire!

FactCheck weighed in as well, calling it hooey.

Friedman: Rightwing Putting Obama's Life in Danger

I hate to write about this, but I have actually been to this play before and it is really disturbing.

I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him as a Nazi SS officer, and they shouted death threats at rallies. His political opponents winked at it all.

And in so doing they created a poisonous political environment that was interpreted by one right-wing Jewish settler as a license to kill Rabin — he must have heard, “God will be on your side” — and so he did.

Others have already remarked on this analogy, but I want to add my voice because the parallels to Israel then and America today turn my stomach: I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination.
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And Mr. Obama is now having his legitimacy attacked by a concerted campaign from the right fringe. They are using everything from smears that he is a closet “socialist” to calling him a “liar” in the middle of a joint session of Congress to fabricating doubts about his birth in America and whether he is even a citizen. And these attacks are not just coming from the fringe. Now they come from Lou Dobbs on CNN and from members of the House of Representatives.

Again, hack away at the man’s policies and even his character all you want. I know politics is a tough business. But if we destroy the legitimacy of another president to lead or to pull the country together for what most Americans want most right now — nation-building at home — we are in serious trouble. We can’t go 24 years without a legitimate president — not without being swamped by the problems that we will end up postponing because we can’t address them rationally. NYT

Obama Haters Here To Stay Unless

This movement by a small group of haters, led by Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity, could ultimately lead to violence because these people have lost their collective minds. Glenn Beck is clearly mentally ill. I don't care how many psychologists he pays to bring on his show. His level of paranoia is abnormal.

I don't know how those folks can get up everyday and spew so much hate. Their insides must be rotting.
This week's New York magazine explores and nails the Obama haters, the ones that all the republicans deny. The crazies are a small, obnoxious and dangerous group of people. Bill Cosby and Jimmy Carter have it exactly right. The only way we're going to stop these folks is to denounce them at every opportunity, shame them, apply the peer pressure. Show their children that what their parents are doing is wrong. Republicans ought to be condemning the haters. But they won't do anything until an act of violence takes place. Obama can't stop them. But democrats should stand up and so should the rest of the sane population. Some excerpts (read in full):

All around were satanic representations of President Barack Obama in whiteface, as a Nazi, an African witch doctor, a Marxist, a Muslim, and Che Guevara’s best friend—but Kathy Golya had never felt so good about the new administration as she did right now. It was a day after Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst in Congress, and the South Carolina congressman had given voice to Golya’s inner heart. He hadn’t just said it on the Internet, he had said it to the president himself.

No, it was not the appropriate place, Golya said, but still she glowed with the memory. “It was the first time in my life I felt good, since he got into office. Someone had called him a liar.”

A prim, slender homemaker in her fifties from northeastern Pennsylvania, Golya had come out to a tea party in Scranton with her friend Donna Biscontini to have solidarity with everyone else with strong criticisms of the president. Not really criticisms, actually, but feelings—anger, upset, a sense of dispossession. There had been a kind of revolution in the country with Obama’s election, the women felt. They talked about the president’s “czars.” One of the czars believed that animals should have lawyers to sue their owners. “Animals have more rights than people,” Biscontini said. Another was for forced sterilization. “Who’s that sound like? Hitler,” Golya said. The president was putting himself at a godly level, was her point; he was saying that man controls his destiny, not God. She saw that as arrogance. She mentioned that the president’s wife wore $600 shoes when she was helping the poor.

Golya, who was Kittykat on the Internet, saw her conflict with Obama as a battle of souls. She prayed for the president every day. “For his conversion.”

I asked her if she thought he was a secret Muslim. “Only he knows that; we don’t know that,” she said. “I’m praying for the conversion of his heart.”
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When Rush Limbaugh talked about “two Americas,” he wasn’t wrong. The haters’ focus on Che Guevara, Saul Alinsky, and Bill Ayers was a kind of projection. They were radicals, and the sixties provided the readiest role models. They were determined to be the counter-counterculture, and they weren’t going away.

“It’s like if Che Guevara had written Profiles in Courage,” Cashill says, seizing on the left-wing revolutionary hero whose image crops up with surprising frequency on posters in the tea-party rallies. “If people had known before the election, 1960, not only had JFK not written Profiles in Courage but his old man bought him the Pulitzer Prize, that would have cost him the election.”

Then Cashill injected the race issue. He said he had been embarrassed to buy Obama’s book in the Detroit airport, but the black clerk had been gushing and thrilled. What did race have to do with authorship?

The Obama people at first thought that the birthers would simply go away or, maybe even better, lead the Republican Party into the light of truth, where the party would continue to shrivel. That didn’t happen.

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This was the real concern raised by the haters. Violent fantasies, even cartoonish ones, as these seemed to be, have a way of turning real. Nancy Pelosi has likened the hateful rhetoric boiling up during the health-care debate to the anti-gay reaction that formed against the gay-rights movement in San Francisco in the seventies, culminating of course in the murder of mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. Before John Kennedy was assassinated, right-wingers in Texas accused him of “treason.” Today’s Obama haters throw that word around more often than the left had thrown around Fascism. At an Obama town hall in New Hampshire, a man carried a gun along with a poster of a DON’T TREAD ON ME snake with the legend IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY, referring to the Thomas Jefferson quote about renewing the republic with blood.

Ed Hale was obviously a bullshitter, but he took it way too far. A minute after he said he’d never ever threaten anyone’s life, he said, “My biggest villain right now is Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Those jackasses should be found guilty of treason, stood up against a wall, and shot.”

Carter Urges Party Leaders to Condemn Racism

Jimmy Carter has it exactly right. Racism, when it flares up, must be condemned. Fat chance the republicans will do any condemning. John McCain is the only one that I've seen do any kind of condemning. The GOP has practically embraced the fringe, insisting that charges of racism are only a liberal ploy for healthcare reform. As if. How stupid is that?

Republicans are dead wrong on this one. Frankly, I'm tired of this whole debate. There is no debate. Not all the opposition is racist, but a fringe element is, and they should always be called out for being rotten cowards.

WT Reporter Amanda Carpenter Thinks We're in Post Racial Era

What a laugh this woman is. She keeps referring to a "post racial era." What planet is she living on?
No one accuses wingnuts of racism because they dissent from the president. People accuse wingnuts of racism because there is plenty of evidence to prove it. How does Carpenter explain Birthers, tenthers, deathers? If people were merely opposing the president they wouldn't be carrying these signs. They wouldn't be attacking Michelle Obama, calling her abhorrent names. They wouldn't be saying Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. They wouldn't be saying Obama is a socialist, a nazi.

What was it that Joe Wilson said today? Oh yeah, that he's not a racist because Michelle Obama's family is from Georgetown and his family is from next door (a nearby city). What? That doesn't even make sense.

Carpenter is ignorant and not very observant, which means she shouldn't be a reporter. I'm tired of a sickly media. We need better reporters out there, not people who simply espouse ideology. It's people like Carpenter who are killing journalism.

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Musical Slideshow Tribute to Tea Baggers

See the ugly people with their ugly signs:

Tea Partiers Are Scared Out of Their Socks

The day after tens of thousands of conservatives gathered in Washington to protest the policies of the Obama administration, a top White House aide said that President Obama doesn’t think the protests and the growing conservative movement against Obama are motivated by racism.

“I don’t think the president believes that people are upset because of the color of his skin,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. CNN

Duh CNN. Robert Gibbs represents the president, who represents the American people. Obama can't accuse anyone of racism no matter if it's true or not. Can you imagine if he did? The fringe would go wild. I'm sure the wingnuts are trying to provoke such a reaction. But if Obama did call them what they are--racists--wingnuts would pick up arms and use them. Besides, Obama would never say something like that. It's just not Obama style.

But WE can say it and maybe by acknowledging it, we can progress, because I think wingnuts are just scared because they see all different kinds of people coming into their white worlds and they're not used to it. They view it as people of color changing THEIR world and they're kicking and screaming because it means that white people aren't the most powerful anymore. They hate the fact that their ATMs ask them what language they want to use. They feel they are righteous and that they made America what it is. They feel they are being marginalized and pushed aside. We saw it throughout the campaign. Wingnuts felt that Obama would push whites into a corner. They're still saying that. Just watch any Beck or Hannity show.

Tea Party Hate Signs

Tea partiers tried to claim their numbers were 2 million today. Jake Tapper debunked that on Twitter. Looks like they're closer to 20,000 to 40,000 tops. Even so, if they were 2 million of 300 million, that's just a pimple. Literally.

The tea partiers will say their fight is about taxes and big government. But it looks to me that's it's all about hate.

See a slide show here. It really disturbs me when wingnuts make their children hold signs of hate.

These people are just despicable. One wingnut talks about civil war:

This guy says everyone in America can get health care. News to me.

Betsy McCaughey Gets to Blabber All She Wants at Tea Party March

Betsy McCaughey, debunked by Jon Stewart, invented the "death panel" lie, picked up and spread by Sarah Palin. When are these people going to realize that they're NOT America. They are a sliver, a slimy sliver. Just because you're loud and pushy doesn't make your beliefs the right ones or the only ones.
The rest of America is tired of wingnuts. Betsy, who scared one of my relatives out of her socks, says seniors aren't going to be able to get the surgeries they need and is ugly with hate. She says Obama didn't have anything nice to say about doctors and nurses during his speech to Congress.
Which makes me wonder -- who is she protecting? Probably the people she works for. Also, the day after Obama's speech, Obama praised nurses up and down in a speech drown out by dingbat, Joe Wilson:

Tea Partiers sing "Take it Back." The singer says there is an enemy within. He says can't you see we're under attack. Hmmm. Wonder who he's referring to?

See tea party hate signs here.

What Birthers Believe