The ugliness of the GOP really is sickening...and yes, it is because they hate Obama, and they hate

[kelliekat44]

him because he is black! This Ukraine situation proves it to me!

[RKP5637]

1. That's pretty much what it all boils down to IMO. And, they love to hate ... blacks, Mexicans,

women, LGBT, science, progress, democracies, freedom, civil rights, other countries, nationalities ... you name it and they've got some serious hatred for it. I'm often dismayed the republican party continues as a political party in the US, as it indicates just how hateful many people are. No matter what one does, it seems, about 50% of the population has some serious hatred for you.

[Uben]

2. Their hate goes beyond a black president

It's embedded in their soul. They'll claim to be Christians until that philosophy disagrees with their pocketbooks.
I truly see the republicans as narcissistic idiotic fools who feel one way and act another.

[RKP5637]

5. I'm not a religious person, but often I think of the republicans as disciples from hell. I also

remember well from my early church days being told the devil comes in many forms with many disguises AKA republicans, IMO. In my church of years ago, the republicans of today are and have values of what we were taught as youth to avoid.

[Cha]

14. the rw does get its talking points from hell..

does it not?

[RKP5637]

39. They're like the embodiment of some kind of evil force, really. It's just become now

so pervasive with them, it's freaky. Just about everything they support, promote, push on people is about hatefulness, persecution and rolling over people. I often find it a bit scary that so many people still support the GOP. To me, the main intent of the GOP is to undermine and bring down the US.

[Cha]

60. And, that's how they were even in the bush-cheney regime.. they

marauded blood and treasure. No building of infrastructure to make our country stronger.

[Uben]

18. I'm not religious either...

...but I know that almost all religions have a version of The Golden Rule in their beliefs.

Republicans only apply the Golden Rule when it is convenient....for them. Everyone else be damned.

[RKP5637]

40. Quite true, they distort and interpret religion to suit their greedy and persecutory needs. n/t

[freshwest]

20. Agreed. That's why I *really* question their Bible literacy and faith. The are Christian-ISTS.

They're even trying to edit the Bible to eliminate 'liberal' ideas as they don't want any proof of how corrupt they are. Humility is the first thing they discard.

[RKP5637]

41. Years ago one could work with the old republican party and come up with balanced

and workable solutions. Today, the republican party has morphed into some entity representing the hatefulness and evilness of the world, and the mouthpiece of destructive and seductive propaganda against humanity.

[freshwest]

45. +1,000

[atreides1]

52. They're afraid!

And they want complete control so they can mold this country in the delusional image that makes them feel warm and fuzzy...and they don't care if that results in creating second class citizens...Gays, minorities, religions not "Christian", for them it doesn't matter!

If they come to power they will do what every dictatorial regime has done throughout human history, first imprison, enslave, and then murder any who refuse to accept their place in a Republican mandated society!!!

[RKP5637]

55. Quite true! These are dangerous times, I often wonder how many Americans really

understand what is occurring.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. I'm not convince they hate him any more than DU hated Bush. N.T.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. False comparison. Dem leadership wasn't spewing the anti Bush shit

With all of the venom these anti-American Republican piles of shit are.

[jaysunb]

10. +1 Exactly n/t

[Cha]

17. Thank you, for explaining that to him, PW. We hated bush for a damn

good reason. Anyone who sends soldiers off to a war based on lies is deserving of our hate. Mine anyway.

And, yes.. the Dems in leadership weren't calling bush a murdering asshole like we were or cheering for sadam.

[adirondacker]

27. Yup. The racism is verifiably alive and well in upstate. It's like taking a verbal trip back

a half a decade or more around here.

[raven mad]

32. +100

"In the living years"........... hatred is hand and glove for the money bunch - it keeps everyone else distracted. Reagan institutionalized hatred (he didn't instigate it, but made sure with the "Christian" right, it was going to be there); the RW war machine pumped it up since then. I worked a temp job on a local US Army post. Every kid there (and they were KIDS, not adults) was subjected to RW Xtian ideology. And too uneducated - not stupid, no lack of intelligence - but basically uneducated to deal with it.

[Cha]

15. Apples and fucking oranges.

[JHB]

22. Go farther: Apples and orangutans

The things liberals and the left despised about Bush were largely true -- and seen far in advance of self-proclaimed "Serious" people.

The things RWers despise about Obama are largely based on fantasy and bullshit. And one of our two national political parties caters to it.

[Cha]

23. Exactly, JHB.. You'd think anyone on this board could clearly see that.

[hollysmom]

28. I agree, but they have to demonize him in lockstep

to get anyone to vote for them. If the people were not completely terrorized, why would they vote for them, They are phony baloney hypocrites, lying through their teeth to demonize all liberals and Obama in particular.

[Avalux]

34. We hated Bush because of his actions, not his skin color. n/t

They are destroying this country and its people because of their hate.

[JoePhilly]

63. YOU LIE!!!

Well, that was easy.

This isn't about how DU felt about Bush, its about how the GOP, in total, has dealt with President Obama.

And with just those two words, everyone should know the truth.

[spanone]

6. nail/head

k&r...

[shenmue]

7. Oh yes.

It's obvious.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. No, it is because they lost all the reins of power they enjoyed under Bush. Hate speech

is just the tool they use to push their ignorant base to put them in power again so they can fix that little problem with not having enough voters.

It isn't hate, it is power. Who has it. Who controls it. Who wants it.

[napkinz]

9. the GOP is RACIST! ---->

[Cha]

25. Thanks napkinz.. wasn't the Kochs' daddy a john bircher? Oh excuse me..

Co-Founder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch

[napkinz]

38. their father was a founding member of the John Birch Society AND

the sons are founding members of the Tea Party ... in 2002! (The Tea Party is not 5 years old.)

The Tea Party sprung up spontaneously in 2009, so the Tea Party tells itself. But its truth is much older, as the screenshot above shows us. Found in 2002, by the lobbying group, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), the US Tea Party was the first attempt to start a “grassroots movement” against the US Government, as you can see through Archive.org’s WayBackMachine here. But who was backing the Tea Party back in 2002? Would you believe Big Tobacco and the Koch Brothers?

read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/12/koch-brothers-founded-the-tea-party-in-2002/

[Cha]

61. That's weird.. you have thought they would have loved the bush coup. nt

[napkinz]

50. speaking of the Koch brothers ...

https://www.facebook.com/NoTeaParty

[Cha]

64. Because they're not the same, napkinz..

[napkinz]

66. thanks Cha ... I'll add those graphics to my collection :)

[Cha]

67. And, it helps them immeasureably that they have the US corporatemedia

pimping for them.

Too bad for them.. the Dems have Social Media and the INternet.

[Rex]

65. I wish you would post this as a separate thread.

The GOP is a shameful party full of bigoted, self-righteous, self centered, ignorant people that HATE HATE HATE Obama!

[Skittles]

11. they hate every Democrat

but yes, they reserve more of their irrational hatred for women and minorities

[napkinz]

42. they keep adding to the list ...

[Auntie Bush]

12. +3,000,000

[Glitterati]

13. I don't think it's JUST because he's black

It's because:
1. He's a black Democrat
2. He is everything they pretend to be starting with the basic fact that he's a gentleman and a scholar
3. He's a black Democrat
4. He blocks their every move before they even THINK of the move
5. He's a black Democrat

[winter is coming]

16. They hate him because he's their opponent and they don't know any other way to oppose him.

When you can't use rational discourse (or don't know how to), smears and emotional manipulation are all you've got.

[Glitterati]

19. You know.....

I really can't understand their thought processes.

I live in a county that votes 90% Republican. We don't even HAVE a Dem party in this county.

Yet, within months of an election, the hate they put out on all their local pages looks exactly like the garbage we see every day about Obama or any Democrat. Against the very people THEY elected.

Look at this example of what I'm talking about, but remember these people are ALL Republicans who voted for these Republicans. There wasn't even a Democrat on any ticket in the county. Qualifying is underway this week and there won't be a Democrat on any ballot in the county; and there hasn't been one on the ballot in GENERATIONS - the Mayor of the city has been in office 47 years. With that in mind, take a gander at this local county facebook page (if you can stand the outright hate and nastiness):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocusonForsyth

[winter is coming]

21. Well, when one of their long-running messages is "the government is your enemy", maybe it's not

so surprising that they hate even the people they vote for. Or perhaps they get angry because their candidates don't set things to rights in the way they expect.

[Glitterati]

24. I don't think it's that simple

These people HAVE the government they asked for.

Yet, they still hate everything that government does or doesn't do......absolutely NOTHING makes them happy. The heck with "happiness," nothing makes them spit less venom, not even the exact thing they voted for.

[winter is coming]

30. It seems like a lot of Republicans consistently react to everything with fear and/or hate.

I guess that's true of their representatives, too.

[Cha]

26. I agree.. Obama's a Dem.. so there's that and he's

Black so that outs those with moronic bigoted, racist mentality.

[Glitterati]

29. Here's my problem with JUST making it about racism

While that's an honest issue, and very valid, making it JUST about racism lets them off the hook for their hatred.

Not just their hatred for Obama, but their hatred for the poor, their hatred for the 'least of us' and their constant, unrelenting desire to crush those people.

When we make it JUST about racism, we let them off the hook for all the rest.

[Cha]

31. Agreed.

[The Straight Story]

33. Indeed. I remember when Clinton was in office. They were really civil to him

And they hate Hillary too - because she is a woman.

[marble falls]

36. For some reason when Bill Clinton said the "US was getting two presidents",it really pissed off a..

lot of people. I think her embracing health care reform made the reaction against it even stronger. Bill Clinton had a lot of hostility towards him in his second term. They say Reagan was a bi-partisan President. Bill Clinton was a bi-partisan President. If Teapublicans, Republicans had worked with President Obama we'd have had a Bill Clinton economy.

[marble falls]

35. Its mostly racism. Its may be a more polite racism but it is bigotry and hate all the same.

[YOHABLO]

37. If God existed .. Republicans would not.

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Yes, they would. They would be "Satan's Lil Stumbling Blocks..."

as my neighbor used to call bad people/behavior/things she didn't like to think about.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

49. Snort!

"Satan's Little Stumbling Blocks" LOL!

There was an episode of "The West Wing" where a political consultant (played by the late Ron Silver) was proposing that the President come out in support of a flag-burning law that had been proposed in Congress. Toby, as you can imagine, was utterly opposed to going along, even if it was good politics.

Consultant: You think I'm the devil, don't you?
Toby: No. I think you're the guy the devil sends to the convenience store to buy cigarettes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. Ha!

Great writing on that show.

[Aristus]

56. It wasn't Ron Silver. It was John DeLancie.

That episode took place in the first season. Ron Silver, as Bruno Gianelli, showed up as Bartlet's re-election campaign manager, in the third season. Gianelli, although a hard-hitting political pragmatist, was also reliably progressive, and despised the trend of Democrats turning right in order to win elections. A sentiment not shared by the once-staunchly Democratic Ron Silver. He did a hard lurch to the right after September 11th, and never came back from that before he died. Shame. He was a terrific actor.

John Delancie was playing a DLC advisor trying to drag Bartlet to the right in support of a flag-burning amendment. That's when the confrontation you mentioned happened.

Sorry. I just had to weigh in. I'm a walking West Wing wiki.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

58. You're Correct!

He was working with Joey Lucas. That's why my Googling to get the quote right was unsuccessful.

I'm totally impressed and in awe of your memory.

And the correct quote is as follows:

Toby: I just figured out who you were.
Al: He's going to say Satan.
Toby: No. You're the guy that runs into 7-Eleven to get Satan a pack of cigarettes.

[Aristus]

59. I have the first four seasons (the Aaron Sorkin years) on DVD.

And I watch them all the way through at least twice a year.

No so with seasons 5-7. I've only seen any of those episodes one time each. I only have the vaguest recollection of what happens in the series after season 4.

[workinclasszero]

44. Republicans hate...

1. Non rich..the 99%
2. Workers..only here to be mercilessly exploited into an early grave
3. Minority groups..you name em they hate em.
4. Females..not under the boot of Reich wing/religious right male overseers
5. Truth..Fox "news", Hate radio etc
6. Reality..see 5
7. Science...tryin like hell to drag the world back to the stone ages
8. Progress..in just about anything you can think of
9. Unions..see 1 and 2
10. Peace..the MIC is not amused
11. The middle class..may it rest in peace
12. Jesus..even though they claim to be his followers they are opposed to what he taught about 100% of the time
13. Healthcare..its only for the rich
14. Social Security..be rich or die in a ditch Grandma! Book one, chapter one, The gospel of Ayn Rand

I'm sure I could add more but...FU teabag republicans!

[napkinz]

46. the GOP & Putin ... they share the hate

[napkinz]

47. where was the outrage when Bush was president and Russia went into Georgia ...

Media, GOP forget Bush's feeble response to Russia-Georgia conflict

Jon Perr
March 3, 2014

Proving once again that politics no longer ends at the water's edge, Republican leaders and many in the media have been lambasting President Obama's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the Washington Post editorial board charged that Obama's foreign policy is "based on fantasy," Senator John McCain and his Mini-Me Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called President Obama "feckless" and "weak and indecisive," an approach which "invites aggression."

Predictably, the memories of the administration's critics are short. After all, President Bush didn't roll back the Russian occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia after Vladimir Putin's battering of Georgia in August 2008. Bush didn't lead an alliance of the willing to isolate Russia, undermine its economy, mine the Black Sea, provide defense guarantees and rush American military supplies to Tblisi. Instead, Dubya simply denounced Moscow's reaction using much the same language President Obama is deploying now.


read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/03/1281857/-Media-GOP-forget-Bush-s-feeble-response-to-Russia-Georgia-conflict#

[napkinz]

48. Sarah Palin didn't question Bush's leadership when Putin sent forces into Georgia

Palin: Obama wears ‘mom jeans’ while Putin wrestles bears and drills for oil






by Travis Gettys
March 4, 2014

Palin also expressed her admiration for the Russian leader and the masculine self-image he projects in comparison to President Barack Obama.

“Obama, the perception of him and his ‘potency’ across the world is one of such weakness,” she said. “Lookit: People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil, they look at our president as one who wears mom jeans and equivocates and bloviates. We are not exercising that peace through strength that only can be brought to you courtesy of that red, white, and blue that only the strength of the United States military can do.”

She encouraged the U.S. president to take some sort of symbolic action against Putin.

“Obama instead has chosen to adopt this M.O. of ‘lead from behind,’ whatever the heck that means, I mean, because the rest of the world, looking for that shining city on a hill, looking for that country in which – that they can emulate – they’re not seeing that anymore, or in America because Obama’s weak leadership, leading from behind, which makes absolutely no sense,” Palin said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/04/palin-obama-wears-mom-jeans-while-putin-wrestles-bears-and-drills-for-oil/

[Orsino]

53. Obama is just one of their more recent excuses.

They would be stonewalling any other Democratic president to precisely the same extent (though their excuses might need to be a touch more imaginative).

[napkinz]

54. let's talk weakness ...

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

57. Aside from the Ukraine situation and their apparent Putin worship

their level of ferocity towards repealing/undermining/sabotaging ACA in Congress and throughout red states is what really upsets and sickens me. It's one thing to me for them to disagree with it and want to change it more to their liking (though they clearly have a dearth of ideas about how to do it differently) but the way that they are taking all kinds of steps/measures to prevent people from accessing it (i.e. harassing Navigators, refusing Medicaid expansion). They can't just accept that ACA is established law and sanctioned by SCOTUS and learn how to live with it (or just be miserable with it), which is fine, but they shouldn't be allowed to deprive other people of their right to access available services/opportunities if they want to.

[Rex]

62. I agree! I am watching GOPers and Libertarians go crazy on FB!

They LOVE them some DICTATOR PUTIN! All because of the POTUSes skin color!!!