Comments on: Let’s hold the election right now

By: davidw

davidw — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:30:53 +0000

Yes, James, forgiveness is so un-American.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:04:01 +0000

davidw – then those Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, too. I don’t care who they were – they should not have been willing to have lunch with Ayers, much less have served on a board with him.

By: davidw

davidw — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:45:56 +0000

Sorry to rise to James’ bait, but the board that Ayers and Obama served on together, the Annenberg Challenge Project, included Republicans.

This is a phony issue.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:40:52 +0000

And yet, the loudest attempts to shut down speech comes from the left, targeting the right. Funny, that.

By: johne

johne — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:14:29 +0000

There’s aggression and aggression.

In early 20th-century Japan, the ultra-nationalist and war-mongering faction was able to gain the upper hand partly through assaults and assassination.

Here today, the shouts of “Treason,” and “Off with his head” at McCain-Palin rallies seem always to occur in handy proximity to a microphone, as Josh Marshall has noted. If Reagan’s disrespect for federal employees, Gingrich’s linking of words like “criminal” to political opposition, and Limbaugh’s and O’Reilly’s intemperate pronouncements ended in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, what can we logically expect from this sort of invitation?

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:23:37 +0000

Jonathan – there are plenty of equally crazy nutters on the Obama side. There’s ACORN vote fraud, there’s vandalism against Republican signs, there’s the fact that conservative speakers get shouted down on campuses, while liberals never, ever get shouted down.

Insane, overly aggressive political nutters come from all ideologies.

By: jonathan peterson

jonathan peterson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:13:03 +0000

What is the downside to McCain and the GOP watching the most negative presidential campaign in memory blow up in their faces?

The crazies that Palin is attracting already exist – I’d rather see them out in public and let the rest of us see just what it is that the Limbaughs, O’Riellys and Coulters of the right are doing to our country.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:51:54 +0000

William – the type who wouldn’t toss bombs to make a point. Plenty of people objected to the Vietnam war in the 1960’s and 70’s, and made their point successfully and non-violently. Even if you agreed with Ayers’ goals, it’s pretty clear that his actions made them less likely to happen.

By: William "Papa" Meloney

William "Papa" Meloney — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:54 +0000

Thank you for the endorsement and the suggestion (summarily dismissed.)

Just curious here, which sort of little man are you Mr. James Robertson?

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:27 +0000

Right. Go put on the tinfoil hat again, William.