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In reply to the discussion: The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer [View all]Nye Bevan
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The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer [View all]
kpete
Dec 2013
OP
Are you saying people who vote communist criticized him? Because that is the extreme left not
merrily
Dec 2013
#123
A year ago I started going to a coffee shop in the morning and for sometime
Vietnameravet
Dec 2013
#4
I'm sure you were sympathetic, but the complaints about his relationships were one sided, no doubt.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#112
"... the blue dogs wouldn't budge--they were in fear of their red districts back home ...
Scuba
Dec 2013
#57
"Wonder how those blue dogs would have fared had they embraced some true progressive issues..."
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#118
Halter was well to the left of Lincoln, had labor support, yet he lost in the Dem primary.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#142
Sounds progressive, but only a tiny bit so. Certainly nothing to excite the disaffected.
Scuba
Dec 2013
#143
The GOP will win if we insist on your criteria--Elizabeth Warren doesn't even meet them
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#144
They aren't my criteria. They're all very popular positions across the electorate.
Scuba
Dec 2013
#146
I agree. Also the blue dogs forced him to accept a stimulus package which was
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2013
#72
Obama Failures Front And Center - Coddles Banks - Panders To Wall Street - Supports Drones - Blesses NSA - Driving TPP
cantbeserious
Dec 2013
#15
I don't view Obama as a victim, he's the President and it comes with the job, furthermore
Uncle Joe
Dec 2013
#16
I'm a Democrat and a leftist. I don't. And, as you can see on DU there are a lot of us.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2013
#39
I'm convinced it's all based on racism. They hate whites who aren't racists.
Zen Democrat
Dec 2013
#30
What they ARE is classic "Control Freaks" lashing out because their authority is under assault.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#34
Calling Obama's experience a "lynching" is disrespectful to the memory of victims of real lynchings.
Nye Bevan
Dec 2013
#35
What do you think was behind the uproar over his selfie with the blonde Danish PM?
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#50
You ignore the tone of the attacks, not to mention the exponential increase in death threats.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#119
A hated airhead compares debt to slavery, and a favored journalist compares criticism to lynching...
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2013
#86
Yep: How dare he return to his home state? It's so, you know, full of intermarried brown people.
Hekate
Dec 2013
#116
Yes it's hyperbole, but it wouldn't be the first time someone used hyperbole to make a point
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2013
#77
I recall the "left" trying to warn that the Republicans would try to block everything...
JHB
Dec 2013
#82
But come election time, you better get your leftist ass out there and vote!
BrotherIvan
Dec 2013
#88
the disgusting southern right wing rubes from the former slave states that have tried to belittle...
AlbertCat
Dec 2013
#103
You lost me at lynching. It's absolutely no different than McCain playing the Hitler card.
WowSeriously
Dec 2013
#111
That makes for such painful reading. The Sunday morning gasbags were at it again...
Hekate
Dec 2013
#114
The GOP has ZERO solutions, so they have to resort to this sh!t slinging. In reality, the righties
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2013
#129