Have extremist Republican attacks against President Obama and left-wing Americans resulted in the assassination attempt against an American lawmakers and the murder of six others? Continuing with our coverage of the massacre in Tucson, columnist Axel Zacharias of Germany’s Die Thüringische Landeszeitung writes that Republican party spokespeople like Sarah Palin have a lot to answer for.
For Die Thüringische Landeszeitung, Axel Zacharias writes in part:
Slander and threats against Obama partisans are the order of the day in the U.S., the country that sees itself as the bastion of democracy. Incendiary rhetoric of this nature can no longer be justified in the name of freedom of speech. This hate-filled public discourse has run completely out of control and is unworthy of a democratic nation.
Spokespeople on the right, including Sarah Palin, must pause and tell us where they want to take society in the United States – and why the price of their reckless campaign against a democratically-elected president isn’t too high.
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