The radical right will say and do anything in their attempts to discredit, disgrace and dishonor Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president. The ruling Republican leadership does nothing to dispel falsehoods about President Obama but, tacitly endorses these falsehoods in their attempts to “make sure Barack Obama is a one term President!”
The tactics and accusations aren’t new, almost all of them are from previous Republican playbooks and most have been used in Republican primary and general election campaigns for the past 40 years. Some other accusations are vicious racist paranoid rants of a more vocal lunatic fringe that has come to dominate the right as more and more corporate and rich ultra-conservative donor dollars are pumped into any effort that might bear the fruit of the continued destruction of President Obama, the Democratic Party, unions and the American Middle Class.
It’s as though the right has taken all the racist, fascist, and corporatist twisted deep blue stygian depths of paranoid lunacies of past Republican abuses of government and recast President Obama, the Democratic Party, unions and the Middle Class as the “perpa-traitors” instead of the actual Republicans who have already done exactly what the right claims to fear the most.
My personal favorite is “Obama is the anti-christ!” Polls show that 25%, a substantial minority, of Republican voters actually believe that President Barack Obama is the anti-christ. If these folks would stop drinking the Jonestown Kool Aid they could see that their personal insanities about Armageddon and the end-times are not here because an African American was elected President of the United States in 2008. See here [1], here [2]and here [3].
Another freakish thread which the Republican leadership gives a silent head-nod to is the claim that “Obama isn’t an American!” The “birthers” claim that President Obama was born in Kenya (not in Hawaii!) and that as a result he is not eligible to serve as President. One of the chief “birthers” has filed several suits on the issue which have been thrown out of court and the lawyer was personally sanctioned to the tune of $20,000 by a federal judge for wasting valuable judicial resources with frivolous claims. See here [4], here [5] and here [1].
“Obama is a Muslim!” is the cry notwithstanding the pre-election hue and cry about candidate Obama’s 20 plus year attendance at the Christian church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright in Chicago. It’s perhaps the best canard of the whole panoply of putrid Republican ploys; if Obama is a Christian he’s a racist but, Obama is really a Muslim. Fully 34% of conservative Republicans believe that President Obama is a Muslim; 18% of Americans at large hold such a view. The respondents say they get their views from media reports and President Obama’s “behavior.” See here [6], here [7], here [8], here [1]and here [3].
Glenn Beck has said it all for the real reason the right hates President Obama; “Obama is a racist!” and has “a deep seated hatred of white people.” It’s great, the racist right calls the President a racist to disguise its own deep seated racist hatred of the President and its hatred of the American democratic republic which elected Barack Obama President. See here [9], here [10], here [11]and here [1].
I was at a family gathering recently and was told that “Obama will take our guns away!” The folks at the NRA are peddling the “guns away” tripe nationally to get rid of Democrats and President Obama, regardless of their beliefs about the Second Amendment. The recent Heller and McDonald decisions by the United States Supreme Court have said what I have said for a long time; that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution gives each citizen the fundamental right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families and their freedom. See here [12], here [13]and here [1].
President Obama has specifically denied any intention, and any political or legal authority to “take away” guns. The truth doesn’t matter to those who make their livings telling the Big Lie but, the followers of the liars [14] should remember who invented the Big Lie in the first place.
Perhaps the president has run awry of the NRA [15] because he opposes terrorists getting guns?
Another cry among the pantheon of lies about President Obama is “Obama bailed out the banks and AIG!” See here [16], here [17], here [18]and here [1].
Nope, it was W. See here [19] and here here [20].
President Obama and Democratic leaders tried to recoup money from banks and to tax banks for any future failures to protect taxpayers. See here [21]and here [22].
However, US Senate GOP members, most specifically Scott Brown (R-MA), threatened a filibuster [23]and the plan was lost; so went the last vestige of personal integrity of any Republican member of the US Senate. And see here [24].
The most vile of lies by the paranoid racist right is “Obama has FEMA Camps to put us all away!” See here [25]and here [1].
Nope. It’s Republicans who want American citizens in their FEMA run concentration camps!
After Congress blocked direct funding of the contras in Nicaragua under President Reagan, conventional wisdom would have us believe that Ollie North took it upon himself to create a shadow government and use off-the-shelf black operations to get funding for the contras which eventually led North to propose to sell Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to the Iranians. Both President Reagan and Vice President Bush claimed no knowledge of North’s arms sales for hostage actions. As part of North’s NSA duties, at the direction of the President and with the knowledge of the Vice President, a plan for the detention of American citizens opposed to a US invasion of Nicaragua and US policy in Central America in FEMA run concentration camps was devised and called “Rex 84.” So, if you opposed the extremes of the Reagan-Bush Republican US foreign policy, you got a free pass to a Republican sponsored FEMA run concentration camp [26]! And see here [27]and here [28].
The “Secret Government” of President Reagan, Vice President Bush and NSA advisor North, created US policy and “The Enterprise” to illegally mine Nicaraguan harbors, use US citizens to fight an undeclared war against Nicaragua, and illegally use funds to bomb bases in Nicaragua to kill nuns, doctors, nurses, pregnant women and their newborn infants. Take your pick at any of these videos: Here [28], here [29], here [30], here [31], here [32], here [33], here [34] here [35]or here [36].
There were also other secret illegal White House operations [37] and illegal anti-American activities against opponents of the Republican Nixon administration.
The only recent iteration of any improper use of US troops against American citizens and concentration camps for US citizens was by President Bush II and Vice President Cheney. VP Cheney also strongly urged the use of US troops here in America to arrest US citizens in his personal chicken hawk crusade against alleged terrorists. [38] and see here [39].
Other illegal acts against US citizens have been done even more recently in Wisconsin where Wisconsin Governor Walker (R) has twice illegally closed down, in violation of two court orders, the Wisconsin capitol to keep protestors to his political chicanery out and had police tackle one Democratic Assemblyman as he tried to enter the building [40].
So, as the crazed fringe of the far right spews forth its continued bile and lies to organize politically it should be afraid, very afraid that the Republican Party will forge itself into the perennial dominant power in American politics; that’s when all the wing-batty deep blue black helicopter paranoid rants and fears of the right will become a Republican sponsored reality!
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