Republicans and conservatives always claim that they own the rights to certain words.
In recent years it was security, homeland defense and patriotism. The Republicans wanted Americans to believe that they know more about these, they are the only ones who understand these.
Of course this is pure bull.
Now their latest word game is terrorism, terrorists, war on terror and counterterrorism.
They have been pounding Obama since the attempted airline attack on Christmas Day. Obama can not bring himself to say the word terrorism, does not believe in the war on terror and on and on.
They are using the same tactics they used for months in lying to Americans about health care reform.
Repeat the lies over and over again and more and more people will believe it is true.
Unfortunately this is the truth in this country. Especially for those who depend on Fox news for their information.
The reality is that President Obama has ..continue reading
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In wake of the attempted attack on Christmas day some are calling for profiling. Next will be an effort to legalize torture. thinkprogress pointed out that all the usual suspects came out for profiling.
Yesterday Newt Gingrich tweeted
“It is time to go to profiling of dangerous people instead of harassing and retsricting the innocent” and “We need a new policy of systematically going after terrorists that involves explicit profiling and explicit discrimination for behavior”
Radio host Mike Gallagher: “There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.” (Note: Those are some of the most common names in the world.)
Rep. Peter King (R-NY): “100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim, and that is our main enemy today. So why we should not be profiling people because of their religion?”
Terrorism pundit Steven Emerson: “Remember, there have been so many complaints about quote, profiling, by the quote, Islamic civil rights groups, that they stopped ..continue reading
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The conservatives are all over the Obama administration’s plans to close Gitmo and move the prisoners to the States. In particular they are all bent out of shape because Eric Holder released a statement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists will be tried in New York City just blocks away from where the World Trade Center was located.
The RNC statement said “It is beyond belief that President Obama is bringing confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists to U.S. soil. It is inexcusable that he is bringing them to trial in New York City, the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on America…”
Sarah Palin posted on facebook “Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial in New York. This is an atrocious ..continue reading
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