Sandra Fluke's DNC Speech Paints Stark Picture of Romney Presidency

[NoLiberalUtopia]

RACISM at the Democrats’ Convention: PHOTO ID REQUIRED TO ENTER

[JohnInLa]

swedenforever wrote:

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead"

Attention forever stupid!!! You are an idiot who admires everything but The United States Constitution...Ain't dat right, Red Coat?

[JohnInLa]

b. h. obama is as popular as poop in a punchbowl...

[JohnInLa]

Another nutty woman for Obama…

Naomi Wolf…

Sarah 'Evita' Palin to Usher in Rovian Police State

It sounds like the rabid rantings of some poor demented shlub posting at the Democratic Underground. Instead, it is Al Gore's former fashion adviser, Naomi Wolf, indulging in sanity-challenged fantasies on her Huffington Post blog. The target of Wolf's derangement is Sarah Palin and it is so over the top that one might suspect Wolf is an agent provocateur working for conservatives in order to discredit the left. Think I'm kidding? Check out this sampling of Wolf's plunge off the political deep end (emphasis mine):

PLEASE understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control.

Um, thanks for letting us "understand" how things work, Naomi. And from here, she regales us with a strong dose of melodrama:

I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.

Wolf continues to wave her magic butterfly net with yet more inadvertently comedic gems:

...She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women's shelters -- Rove's style, not McCain's...
...Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal...
...I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the
talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future...

[JohnInLa]

Naomi Wolf continued

...Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain's America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove's S and M imagery -- and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? "Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing."
...The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain's imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove's...
...In McCain-Palin's America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black -- shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 -- infiltrated protest groups...

You probably think Wolf's rantings could not get any more bizarre but it does. It does:

Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that -- as I warned -- indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .
Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account -- he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted.

They "messed with his email?" You mean like how that Democrat hacker did with Sarah Palin's e-mail? Okay, sorry for the interruption. We return you now to Naomi Wolf Fantasy Theater:

Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.

Okay, enough with the regular political fantasies. Let us now watch Wolf's hard core paranoia:

Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All

cont...

[JohnInLa]

Naomi Wolf continued…

All larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...

Oops! Wolf's diatribe caused your humble correspondent to channel Captain Queeg. We now return you now for the big drama queen finale:

I am not telling you this because it's about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life -- whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing portects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:
Scharansky divided nations into "fear societies" and "free societies." Make no mistake: Sarah "Evita" Palin is Rove and Cheney's cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible "fear society" in this once free once proud nation. For God's sake, do not let her; do not let them.

Wow! This sure reminds me of a certain Gary Larson cartoon. A patient is reclining on a psychiatrist's couch. Sitting next to him is the shrink writing on his notepad: "Just plain NUTS!!!"
And please keep in mind that this isn't just some anonymous loon posting at the Democratic Underground where such rants are common. This was Naomi Wolf at the Huffington Post.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/200...

[downhill246]

ToManyLaws wrote:

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The christians much like the nazi fascist would love to round up or try to round up all non-christians and have them shot. The love of christ is a lie.

Are your paranoia pills over the counter or by prescription?

[VN Vet]

The towel-heads have burned the US flag, killed an American, and Obama fiddles. Wait 'til you "women" get a load of how they treat you in Islamic countries. Complain then, butt holes.

[ToManyLaws]

downhill246 wrote:

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Are your paranoia pills over the counter or by prescription?

No paranoia...I just listen to you crazy GOP nazi fascist and it sure sounds like truth to me.

[Ocean56]

VN Vet wrote:

The towel-heads have burned the US flag, killed an American, and Obama fiddles. Wait 'til you "women" get a load of how they treat you in Islamic countries. Complain then, butt holes.

We HAD an American version of Sharia Law, goofy, in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 19th century in America --

-- Girls got much less education than boys did.

-- Girls' activities, especially for middle- and upper-class girls, were limited to "ladylike" pursuits.

-- Girls and women were considered naturally weaker and inferior to boys and men.

-- It was thought shocking, outrageous, and even scandalous for a woman to give a speech in public, especially to audiences of both men and women.

-- Middle- and upper-class women were expected to confine their activities to a "separate sphere" or their homes. Women were also expected to show the "virtues" of religious piety, wifely submission, and motherly domesticity. And they always had to be escorted outside their homes by a man.

-- Married women had NO legal rights, including to own property, keep their inherited money, enter into contracts, sign legal documents, or control what happened to their wages or their children.

-- Women who were single or had to earn money had very few job opportunities and were always paid less than men who did the same job.

-- Middle- and upper-class women were expected to wear layers of restrictive and heavy clothing, and corsets that were so tight that many women suffered health problems as a result.

-- Almost a million African were chattel slaves.

-- Women were not allowed to vote.

-- Married women had no choices over their reproductive process. Any woman who got married was expected to produce children, whether she WANTED to be a mother or not.

Conservative men of the 19th and early 20th century opposed every measure that improved women's lives, especially a woman's right to vote.

THAT'S what the 19th century feminists fought so hard to change, and eventually succeeded in doing so, even though it took 72 years from 1848 to achieve that goal. The shame was that it took that long for women to GET that right to vote in the first place.

[LadiLulu]

Ocean56 wrote:

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We HAD an American version of Sharia Law, goofy, in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 19th century in America --
-- Girls got much less education than boys did.
-- Girls' activities, especially for middle- and upper-class girls, were limited to "ladylike" pursuits.
-- Girls and women were considered naturally weaker and inferior to boys and men.
-- It was thought shocking, outrageous, and even scandalous for a woman to give a speech in public, especially to audiences of both men and women.
-- Middle- and upper-class women were expected to confine their activities to a "separate sphere" or their homes. Women were also expected to show the "virtues" of religious piety, wifely submission, and motherly domesticity. And they always had to be escorted outside their homes by a man.
-- Married women had NO legal rights, including to own property, keep their inherited money, enter into contracts, sign legal documents, or control what happened to their wages or their children.
-- Women who were single or had to earn money had very few job opportunities and were always paid less than men who did the same job.
-- Middle- and upper-class women were expected to wear layers of restrictive and heavy clothing, and corsets that were so tight that many women suffered health problems as a result.
-- Almost a million African were chattel slaves.
-- Women were not allowed to vote.
-- Married women had no choices over their reproductive process. Any woman who got married was expected to produce children, whether she WANTED to be a mother or not.
Conservative men of the 19th and early 20th century opposed every measure that improved women's lives, especially a woman's right to vote.
THAT'S what the 19th century feminists fought so hard to change, and eventually succeeded in doing so, even though it took 72 years from 1848 to achieve that goal. The shame was that it took that long for women to GET that right to vote in the first place.

Thank you, Ocean. Well done and indisputable.

[Justin]

swedenforever wrote:

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead"

The only good radicals are dead radicals.

[LadiLulu]

Justin wrote:

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The only good radicals are dead radicals.

Really?

Jesus was a radical.

[another]

NoLiberalUtopia wrote:

RACISM at the Democrats’ Convention: PHOTO ID REQUIRED TO ENTER

idiotic, off-topic statement.

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VN Vet wrote:

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god get help for your hatred of everything.

[JBH]

(__)------"""Ro mney: Obama response - disgraceful'
Full story: The Washington Post
In a statement Tuesday night, Mitt Romney accused the Obama administration of sympathizing with the Libyan protesters who attacked a consulate in Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador and three other American diplomats."""-- ----()--

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WHO is graceful, Romney or Obama?
Pick your choice before breakfast time.
WINNER gets to go for BREAK-TIME before LUNCH.

[Justin]

LadiLulu wrote:

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Really?
Jesus was a radical.

I won't start a debate about wether Jesus is dead, but I will point out that Jesus is at least no longer walking amoung us. He said what needed to be said, and then faced died gracefully, or ascended into Heaven, depending on which narrative one subscribes to.
Actually, most of the great radicals in history (Jesus, Dr. King, Gandhi, etc.) died early in their life, in their prime. I would never put a living person on a pedestal. It's the ideas that matter, not the person. If you examine the actual living person too closely, their personal flaws sometimes overshadow their ideas.

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we go - the same dumb spam randomly reposted all over the place.

[LadiLulu]

Justin wrote:

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I won't start a debate about wether Jesus is dead, but I will point out that Jesus is at least no longer walking amoung us. He said what needed to be said, and then faced died gracefully, or ascended into Heaven, depending on which narrative one subscribes to.
Actually, most of the great radicals in history (Jesus, Dr. King, Gandhi, etc.) died early in their life, in their prime. I would never put a living person on a pedestal. It's the ideas that matter, not the person. If you examine the actual living person too closely, their personal flaws sometimes overshadow their ideas.

Perhaps I misunderstood your crytic post. It looked to me as if you were criticizing radicals, saying they were only good if they were dead.

I took issue with that, reminding you that Christ was quite the radical in his time.

My apologies if I misunderstood you.

[barry]

LadiLulu wrote:

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Really?
Jesus was a radical.

and he died. fortunately he rose again