The last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this a President was killed

[TraderZones]

Quote from walter4:

The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile object of disgust--into a crusade.

Funny, when W. was president and Reagan was president, the Dems were doing the exact same thing.

Like in Florida with the "recount" between Gore and Bush, the Dems protested nationwide for recounts of the recounts.

COUNT EVERY VOTE!!! What they really meant was "keep doing recounts until we are ahead, and then you can stop."

 

[CaptainObvious]

Quote from Eight:

Democrats post this kind of stuff.. It's like I've been saying, they are seriously lacking in the talent pool for political discourse... probably from the shallow end of the gene pool there too Cap'nObgyn, does it bother you that you are mentally deficient and can't actually tell us what your party stands for? Oh, wait, I remember.. it was Hate Bush, then it was Change... then everybody took a royal shit on you so now it's Hate Bush again or something...

Lighten up whiz kid. I hardly support the Dem policies now days. Just thought I'd add some humor to an otherwise humorous discussion.

 

[walter4]

Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama
(AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.

The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances.

"We are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps," said Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman. "We take of these things seriously."

The poll asked respondents "Should Obama be killed?" The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.

The question was not created by Facebook, but by an independent person using an add-on application that has been suspended from the site.

"The third-party application that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning," said Barry Schnitt, Facebook's spokesman for policy.

Because the application was disabled, the responses to the nonscientific polls are not available.
"We're working with the U.S. Secret Service, but they'll need to provide any details of their investigation," Schnitt said.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSHdC8oUo_rn0oPC-cZ9oVqaFIGgD9B0GIE81

 

[cleveland45]

Quote from trefoil:

Lawdie lawd.
Prove it.
JFK was hated because he was Catholic, which at that time in some places in the South was almost as bad as being black.
Then as now, the cover was the usual right-wing obsessions. The real reason, not for the opposition (Adlai Stevenson would have faced the same opposition, of course, like Clinton observed in his interview in re the current health care debate), but for its intensity and violent proclivities, was pretty obvious.
No Congressman shouted at Clinton "You lie!" No citizen stood in front of him with a gun and a sign calling for blood to run.
That's what's different. Opposition is to be expected, brazen displays of public disrespect right to the President's face by opposition Congress critters and explicitly violent threats are another thing entirely.

Hey trefoil, no disrespect but where did you you come up with the persecution of Catholics in the South? Catholics ran half of the South, especially in larger cities.

 

[trefoil]

See this article: Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Protestantism, and Race in Civil Rights Era Alabama and Georgia

Catholicism equaled Communism to some folks back in the Fifties, and they would still have been around in the early Sixties when JFK was running.
Even today, my relatives down South report the occasional sighting of signs like "Today's Sermon: Why Catholics Aren't Christian".
JFK found it necessary to make major speeches promising not to let the Pope dictate to him. Seems weird now, but that's the way it was, and still is, sometimes, it seems.
Also, think about this: JFK was the first, but still is the only, Catholic who was ever President. Very odd, if you think there's no discrimination.