This afternoon a Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota claimed that Barack Obama was 'un-American', and conflated the terms 'liberal', 'leftist' and 'un-American'. Yesterday at a Palin rally in North Carolina a reporter was kicked to the ground for distracting his attention from the stage to a place where Obama supporters were protesting. Today two offices of the national community organizing group ACORN were burglarized, and workers in other of the organization's locations received racist and physically threatening phone calls. Palin today said there are 'pro-American' parts of the country...clearly implying there are parts that are not.
For more than a decade, the hate wing of the Republican party has attempted to convince their supporters that 'liberal' and 'enemy' are synonymous. 'Liberal' is the new 'black'...the new' Commie'. This is only going to get worse.
These people were already a plague upon our country. Now they are afraid. They are rabid.
Presidents normally are accorded a honeymoon. Obama's is over even before his election.
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