That the right could smear Obama as a communist would be laughable, if it wasn’t so worrisome.

“Decimates the countrty”. Decimate means to reduce by a tenth. I think it is way too late for that. “W” has destroyed our military, our economy and our standing in the world.

By Glynn W.

Heh.

As you said, many of them were captured on the field of battle…Yes, many of them, but not all. I wonder how you would feel being incarcerated for years with no right to trial, for a crime that you did not commit.

I went to college, and at no time did anyone tell me what I could or could not say. This is a red herring on your part. I was not exactly a quiet one during debates in many of my classes, and I was not just a “lefty” – I frequently had to defend my point of view that college students should not be exempt from mandatory military service.

The torture at Abu Ghraib was NOT just limited to a few bad appples, and there is plenty of evidence that the stench went all the way up the COC. BTW genius, I served five years in the military in a live mission while you were probably still getting your butt wiped by your mother, so you can stuff the “you’re a communist” B.S. I’m a registered independent (yes, I think for myself) who will reluctantly (very reluctantly) vote for “the one” because I have watched my country swirl down the commode during the last eight years of repub rule. Nothing that McCain is proposing suggests to me that he will be significantly different from his predecessor.

Apparently Kindasleazy Rice and the Bushies also doesn’t wan’t to protect the country from those who would harm us as well, since she blew off Richard Clark’s repeated warnings. Maybe you just overlooked that. Maybe you just turned 18 and have no perspective.

Doc Melissa-

I’m not “insulted” by unlicensed contractors in CA, I’m upset that I have to compete against those who don’t have to undergo the same financial burden that I do. I am completely above board, which means I pay all taxes, fees, worker’s comp and insurance while the rest of these scumbags pay nothing and undercut legitimate business persons. My overhead in these categories alone adds at least 20% to my cost, therefore I am that much less competetive. Apparently I can assume that you would be OK with unlicensed Chiropractors in your state then?

Please. Education is patriotic.

“Free speech” zones.

“Speech Codes” on college campuses, invented and enforced by liberal administrators and professors

“Indefinite incarceration for suspected terrorists.”

Captured on foreign battlefields wearing no official uniform. Many who have been released get captured on the battlefield again. Are you suggesting our military should just summarily execute them instead?

“Torture tactics at Abu Ghraib”

A small number of personnel participated in, and were punished for, tactics which would be considered humane by most of the totalitarian regimes you support Chuckles (like Cuba)

“Wiretapping”

Of calls coming in from or going to foreign countries, which does not have the protections of purely domestic calls. Apparently you don’t want to know who in America is talking to the people who want to kill us in other countries. That’s comforting to know.

“Please give me some recent examples of democratic activity that is like this.”

First of all, the Democrats in power don’t seem all that interested in protecting America from her enemies, unless they consider a plumber’s apprentice who asks a tough question about taxes to The One an enemy of the state.

Second, there have been several cases, most notably in Missouri, of prosecutors and law-enforcement officials making veiled threats of prosecution to those who engage in political speech they don’t agree with (which they claim are lies).

“This could go on for hours…”

I bet you could. You do seem to have a fevered passion.

What did all of the people named in Glynn’s post do to deserve their little exam either? I guess they dared to question emporer Bush, right? McCain is the one who decided to use Joe’s name OVER and OVER throughtout the debate, not Obama. As I said in another post, if Joe is pissed off, he knows who to call.

The only brownshirt type activities that I have seen in the last eight years have come from the right:

“Free speech” zones.

The arrest of Bush protesters wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at a republican function.

Indefinite incarceration for suspected terrorists.

Torture tactics at Abu Ghraib, including electroshock, anal insertion, dog attacks, waterboarding, etc…

Wiretapping.

FBI interrogations of those questioning Bush foreign policy (this happened MANY times right after 9-11).

This could go on for hours…

Naq- I have plenty of evidence of “brownshirt” type activities for the party in power. Please give me some recent examples of democratic activity that is like this.

Well, sure, once you join the Obama SS you’ll be the brownshirt…

Joe The Plumbers crime was to ask Obama a question. What did he do to deserve the media rectal exam?