“When some fringe wacko, filled full …gibberish; encouraged by…elected Republican(s)…calling the President a “liar” …..or the “anti-christ”; ….. inundated with radio blowhards questioning the … the president's citizenship and equating him as some marxist dictator, when this wacko finally blows and does something to … kill the president or some member of congress, it will be really great to look back at all this and say, “Wow, we never saw it coming.”

Well, we have been there and done that. In 1963 the President of the US was killed by a communist. Oswald had clear ties to the Soviet Union and communism in general. That he was a communist, whether he had a card on him at the time, or not, was undisputed. In fact, the Soviets rejected Oswald as a nut case, exactly as the Michigan Militia rejected McVeigh. World War III was adverted because sane people realized that the Oswald murder of a US President was not the opening act of a nuclear war that would have killed hundreds of millions, but rather the lone act of a madman who hoped to influence history beyond his weight, just as McVeigh hoped.

Did some “saw it coming?” Maybe, but sanity prevailed.

I hope that Obama serves out his full term and is soundly rejected by the voters in 2012.

I trust that you will join with me in hoping that, should anything happen to the President in the meantime, whoever may be responsible, (including the not unlikely possibility that another communist might do it), sanity will again prevail and the country will deal with our tragedy in a constitutional manner and that democracy will be preserved.

For one thing, I shudder to think what race riots may occur if anything happens to the President, and my first suspicions, should that happen, will be cast to the left and not to the right.

After all, as the Romans asked, “who benefits?” Just as the left tried to take advantage of Teddy Kennedy’s death to press forward with nationalized health care, I am sure that the untimely death of President Obama would result in calls for the full implementation of his agenda, ( and the carving of his visage on Mount Rushmore.) Any attempt to overthrow Obama is the worst possible thing that could happen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and the best possible thing for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Unfortunately, our state-run schools aren't up to the job.

And here's the basic rule of liberalism:
1. If I am a vegetarian – then YOU must be vegetarian.
2. If I don't want to work – then YOU must pay me.
3. If I don't want to earn – then YOU must feed me.
4. If I don't want to take responsibility for my own actions – blame someone else and sue them.
5. If I can't actually convince the public that socialism is great, then I'll do it through the schools and through the courts.

LOL

Fairness doctrine returns.

Of course they’re advocating

Ummm…no.

They are being silly, no not advocating. I have no problem with denonucing them for silliness, but you will have to forgive me for not wearing a tinfoil cap.

If something violent does come of all this rhetoric then the story changes. I firmly believe that Timothy McVeigh did as much to re-elect Bill Clinton as anybody – simply by discrediting much of the hard core anti-government Right and by setting the country up to blame the GOP for the famous October 1995 government shutdown.

Americans tolerate radical speech. American do not tolerate radical action. That's why marches and protests on both sides end up doing very little to influence people. But when those events become genuinely destructive or violent the backlash is something fierce.

So I won't get worked up over this idiot – as long as nobody decides to carry out his fantasy.

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Earlier this year, a group of Republican Congressmen introduced legislation about birth certificates.

The fringe of the Right actually gets elected officials to do that sort of thing.

Yeah this needs to be dropped off a bridge and forgotten. It's one of those no substance feel good issues and does way more harm than good.

Of course…I have no use for Newsmax and never read it. The links all over Memeorandum today got me to click over there (and now I see that even Newsmax has apparently disowned the author or at least this one post by him.) That got me wondering who this guy is, since I'd never heard of him. His bio indicates that all of his former employment in govt was with Democratic administrations, and he served as a fellow at a liberal think tank. I assume since he has now joined Newsmax, and appears to have written numerous anti-Obama columns, that he's no longer a Democrat, but I wonder what path put him with the right wing fringe element at an organization like Newsmax?