Not that I'm easily shocked or taken aback, but I thought I would share a few comments from today's "Jeremiah Wright is Stepping Down" story at Politico.
Get ready for some mind-numbingly inane discourse from the knuckle-draggers. I guess marrying their sisters, cooking up some 'shine in the shed, and saving up for shoes is not keeping them sufficiently busy. Let's start off with a few of the more obvious ones.
John opines: "NO ONE in their right mind should vote for obama (who is officially anti-american) he never puts his right hand over his heart, he never wears a flag pin, and now, he listens to hate filled messages against americans."
OK . . . there's the anti-American angle--CHECK!
Shani weighs in with this little contribution: "Obama is a deceitful piece of trash."
So . . . just your garden-variety of venom here--CHECK!
Yuck, who I'm sure is aptly named, comes up with this gem: "obama is a racist."
At least Yuck was succinct.
Michael weighs in with: "Now it is clear why Mrs. Obama has never been proud of her country...she hates it."
I was wondering when they were going to get Michelle involved--CHECK!
JMM unloads this doozy: "Obams holds the wool and pulls it over the eyes of the young white americans."
Not even sure what that means, although, to be fair, JMM probably doesn't either.
DaveNP35 writes: "Wright is clearly an anti-white, anti-American bigot and Obama clearly supports these views as evidenced by his long affiliation with this "church" and "minister"."
Clearly, it's a miracle that "DaveNP" made it to age 35.
John comes back into the fray with the inevitable: "Next he'll need to explain the friendship with William Ayers and Tony Rezko."
Can't believe it took a few hundred comments before someone brought that up.
JTSpangler seems to be mixing his metaphors when he comes up with this gem: "The dominant white Christian culture will not elect a guy who attended services for twenty years, contributed money and listened to this loud and angry racist tripe without a peep until it threatened his ambition to impose his "takes-a-village" agenda on America."
And, finally, Danny gets the granddaddy-of-them-all prize for this beaut: "Why doesnt obama pledge?? why doesnt he put his right hand over his heart?? obama is anti-american; the change of the anti-christ!"
Can't believe it took that long to invoke the "Obama is the anti-Christ" smear. These people are rookies.
Folks, I think today was the first chance I had to see what the repugs are going to throw at Barack in the fall. Pretty much your regular wing-nut, hate filled invective; what I expected. Might as well get used to it.
For the next eight months, the end timer's will be crawling out of their bomb shelters, putting praying for Armageddon on hold, and throwing hate-filled venom at Sen. Obama.
Not sure what the answer is at the moment, other than I think I'll go give another $25. Hope you join me in supporting Sen. Obama by donating to a campaign that might help consign the worst of this to the ash-bin of campaign history.
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