(July 9, 2016 at 5:05 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(July 9, 2016 at 4:09 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: No, they only compared him to Hitler and implied he was behind 9/11. The attacks aren't identical, except perhaps in their outrageousness and stupidity.

Actually, Obama got compared to Hitler as well, by conservatives.  As for implications about the government being behind 9/11, that's far more from the Alex-Jones-right-wing-nutter slice than liberals.  You're barking up the wrong tree there.

Tell me again, when was Bush attacked for his race? That's right, he wasn't. Ignoring my question is not answering it.

The hard left was all about 9/11 truth while George Bush was in office. To the point that Noam Chomsky said that he felt alone on the left in dismissing them as nonsense. Your question is ridiculous, but no, nobody claimed George Bush was born in Kenya. Similarly outrageous and stupid attacks were made against him though.

(July 9, 2016 at 2:03 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Welcome to politics. It's not like liberals were respectful to George Bush.

World of difference in the expression.  Comedians had a hay day with him, elected officials were more restrained - especially to his face.

(July 9, 2016 at 9:56 am)mh.brewer Wrote: OP, thanks for clueing me in that I'm a racist. I had no idea. It's nice to finally be out of the closet.

There is an important difference between stating that every conservative is a racist and pointing out the unprecedented disrespect Obama has endured.  Surely you see that.  Racism is very likely an element of the over-the-top disrespect for some number of conservatives.  None of that paints you with the same brush.

Quote:The hard left was all about 9/11 truth while George Bush was in office.

Horseshit.  I never fell for the truther stuff.  Bush wasn't capable of organizing a luncheon, let alone a conspiracy.

(July 9, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:

(July 9, 2016 at 2:03 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Welcome to politics. It's not like liberals were respectful to George Bush.

World of difference in the expression.  Comedians had a hay day with him, elected officials were more restrained - especially to his face.

I don't think so. There is nothing new under the sun.

 http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congres...ent-021256

That article hardly supports your conclusion.

Quote:They've done little to discourage the party's fringes from questioning Obama's legitimacy to serve through the birther movement, fitness to govern through the death panel canard -- and even the territorial integrity of the US under a Democratic president through Texas Gov. Rick Perry's flirtation with secession.

Anger may stoke the base at town halls -- and goose Glenn Beck -- but it just looks ugly on the national stage.

(July 9, 2016 at 9:56 am)mh.brewer Wrote: OP, thanks for clueing me in that I'm a racist. I had no idea. It's nice to finally be out of the closet.

According to many liberals, if you're white and you don't support Obama, you're a racist. By the way, Trump has also been likened to Hitler.

(July 9, 2016 at 12:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That article hardly supports your conclusion.

Quote:They've done little to discourage the party's fringes from questioning Obama's legitimacy to serve through the birther movement, fitness to govern through the death panel canard -- and even the territorial integrity of the US under a Democratic president through Texas Gov. Rick Perry's flirtation with secession.

Anger may stoke the base at town halls -- and goose Glenn Beck -- but it just looks ugly on the national stage.

Well I'm showing that Democrats weren't respectful to George Bush's face, which is what Whateverist said. In fact they were the ones who started heckling at a state of the union address. That the disrespect is different, I make no challenge to that. It's like, of course people didn't claim George Bush was born in Kenya, duh. They just had their own stupid conspiracy theories about him. Every president gets disrespected, Obama is, George Bush was before that, Clinton before that, George I before that etc etc etc, all the way back to John Adams. So people thinking that Obama is somehow the first to get heckled, or have conspiracies about him, they either have short memories or are looking at things from only one side. In fact Conservatives said the exact same thing regularly that this thread is, that George Bush was the first to be so disrespected. This whole topic is unknowingly ripped off from right wing talking points from the early 2000's. I would have told those people the exact same thing.

(July 9, 2016 at 12:20 pm)Lek Wrote:

(July 9, 2016 at 9:56 am)mh.brewer Wrote: OP, thanks for clueing me in that I'm a racist. I had no idea. It's nice to finally be out of the closet.

According to many liberals, if you're white and you don't support Obama, you're a racist.  By the way, Trump has also been likened to Hitler.

Got a citation for that?

Trump is rather like Hitler. He speaks of Muslims in a scarily genocidey way.