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Post by DamieQue™ on Sept 30, 2009 12:16:55 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/obama-coup-fantasized-abo_n_304231.htmlExtremists who oppose the president have begun fantasizing about a military coup to overthrow Obama. Newsmax columnist John Perry wrote Tuesday that President Obama " is inviting" a military coup" and that it might not be such a bad thing: "I magine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars." (Newsmax appears to have taken the column down.) On the same day conservative talk-radio host Jim Quinn directly addressed U.S. troops, telling them that Obama is " gonna get you killed." Media Matters points out that the appeals to the military follow a wave of rhetoric from the right suggesting that civilian violence against the government might be justified. Chuck Norris has asked if people are ready for " a second American Revolution." RedState's Erick Erickson has asked, " At what point do the people ... march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp?" Radio host Michael Savage declared recently that " we're going to have a revolution in this country."
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Post by Bunny Hop on Sept 30, 2009 13:08:48 GMT -5
Ummm isn't a coup supposed to be sort of a secret? LMAO
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Post by Cambist on Sept 30, 2009 14:41:49 GMT -5
Ummm isn't a coup supposed to be sort of a secret? LMAO I almost shit my pants laughing at this!! |
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Post by Gee-Are on Oct 1, 2009 11:41:42 GMT -5
Well, they unsuccessfully pulled one off when Clinton was in office. Basically succeeded in one before Gore got in office. I guess their starting early on the Obama presidency to make sure it happens again.
My only question is, why does it have to be a military effort? Nobody discussed violently overtaking the office of president with anyone else. They always discussed impeachment.
Coincidence?
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Post by Robelite on Oct 1, 2009 13:32:07 GMT -5
Ummm isn't a coup supposed to be sort of a secret? LMAO I almost shit my pants laughing at this!! You have to understand the level of "dumbness" we are dealing with in these lunatic right-wing fringe groups. I mean....really brothers and sisters, these are folks who thought the Moose-Killa from Wasilla was VP material!!  |
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Post by Julie Art on Oct 1, 2009 23:04:31 GMT -5
They are trying to incite violence against our government. Those sound like terriost threats to me. We not only need to be looking across our boarders at potenial terriosts. We also need to be looking here at home. I'm just saying. I also don't think these folks realize that since Obama won by a landslide, there are more Americans for Obama then against him, duh! They act like the election was another Bush farce! Disgruntled idiots. I think it might be time to stand up to these idiots instead of shaking our heads and laughing.
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Post by No Screen Name on Oct 1, 2009 23:40:30 GMT -5
I am really starting to fear for the president's safety.  These people are NUTS. And I think some of the people who voted for him are starting to turn against him based on these constantly repeated LIES (folks in general tend to be easily led). |
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Post by peppermint on Oct 2, 2009 0:53:57 GMT -5
They are trying to incite violence against our government. Those sound like terriost threats to me. We not only need to be looking across our boarders at potenial terriosts. We also need to be looking here at home. I'm just saying. I also don't think these folks realize that since Obama won by a landslide, there are more Americans for Obama then against him, duh! They act like the election was another Bush farce! Disgruntled idiots. I think it might be time to stand up to these idiots instead of shaking our heads and laughing. Exactly. Seriously what is the problem? The man hasn't even been in office a year and there are polls on networking sites about killing him. He hasn't made any major blunders, nothing dramatic has happened... I just don't get it. He may not be moving as quickly as people would like but folks felt the same way about Bush and helping the Gulf Coast after Katrina. I almost hope the issue is far deeper than race. |
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Post by Robelite on Oct 2, 2009 9:24:44 GMT -5
This is long, y'all, but worth the read. It gets right to the "heart" of the matter where these right wing lunatics are concerned. The far right and its right-wing brethren's most recent barrage of indignant and visceral attacks against President Barack Hussein Obama has led me to conclude that the scourge of anti-Obama fanaticism is nothing more than foolish racism masquerading as patriotism and phony Christianity.
It is no secret that the far right and its institutions have an unjust guttural dislike for President Obama. After allowing George W. Bush to destroy our economy and international standing without challenge for eight years, the far right's central strategy for helping America is to attempt to delegitimize Obama with trailer-park prowess.
Right-wing disdain for the first African-American president is primordially violent and expressed in dishonest, uninformed, racist and unpatriotic rhetoric and demonstration.
I am not concerned with right-wing dishonesty, ignorance, racism or hate marching; these are not new phenomena in American culture and politics. However, what concerns me is the combustible combination of these perspectives when combined with a lethal dose of violent and unpatriotic actions targeting the U.S. president.
Certain fanatical people and groups, not worthy of specific mention, recently toted guns at presidential town-hall meetings wearing menacing T-shirts that read: "It is time to water the tree of liberty."
This was a symbolically threatening parity of Thomas Jefferson's celebrated call for vigilance: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots." Regrettably, this dangerously insolent and unpatriotic message was aimed at the leader of the Free World.
A patriot is one who loves, supports and defends his or her nation and loves its citizens, especially the U.S. president. A patriot subscribes to symbolic values such as honoring the flag, singing the national anthem and fighting nonviolently for fundamental freedoms. A patriot honors the U.S. president, irrespective of his or her biases.
The U.S. president is the head of state and government, as well as the highest official in the country and commander in chief of the armed forces. He is not only the most-influential and -recognized political figure in the world, but also the living embodiment of our democracy.
While I believe that it is healthy to constructively engage and criticize government, the far right has shamed our nation by attacking President Obama with unpatriotic idioms and schemes.
As a close follower of presidential politics, I do not remember another time when an American president was so unpatriotically maligned by Americans, namely, right-wing politicians and media, and the millions of Joe and Judy plumbers who would disown Jesus if they knew he was African, and Obama if he were the Second Coming.
The truth remains that right-wing anti-Obama rhetoric around abortion, health care, education, gun control and foreign policy are cowardly coded smoke screens intended to mask fear and racism.
Whether it is the birthers movement, gun-toting right-wing anarchists, bigoted congressmen, hate marchers or garden-variety dogmatists, the fact remains that Obama won the election.
Any American family that participates in the far-right campaign against President Obama by, for example, depriving their children of the opportunity to receive apolitical words of wisdom and encouragement from the president and leader of the free world, is unpatriotic.
Is it patriotic to stifle debate with right-wing anti-Obama propaganda when our nation stands in the balance between a broken economy, a controversial war on terrorism, a sick health-care system and an uneducated educational system? Is it patriotic to malign the first African-American president with racially coded and violent messaging?
The far right and its right-wing brethren have shown that they are driven by envy and racial animus.
I would remind the far right what the Apostle Paul wrote, " ... there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." Hence, Obama is the U.S. president and leader of the Free World because he was appointed by God.
Need I say more?
Jeremy Levitt is associate dean for International Programs and a distinguished professor of international law at Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando. Also, check out this article by Stephen Thomma of the Miami Herald as he reveals how the hatred and vitriol for Pres. Obama from these lunatics has extended even to our nation's bid to host the 2016 Olympics. www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1261992.htmlLooks like a "light" has suddenly come on down in FL (Representative Grayson, Jeremy Levitt and Thomma.) I wish like hell it would go off over the heads of the rest of this nation that is allowing the fringe groups to dictate politics over the last half of 2009. |
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These people are NUTS. And I think some of the people who voted for him are starting to turn against him based on these constantly repeated LIES (folks in general tend to be easily led). 
