You can’t make up priceless stories like this. On Tuesday, best-selling author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that the current vicious, angry tone of U.S. politics was destructive and, at the very least, ineffective in solving the nation’s major problems. Friedman also warned that “Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over … and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the [Yitzhak] Rabin assassination.” Rabin was an Israeli prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing Israeli radical.
Now, just last week, Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent out a fundraising letter in which he compared Pres. Obama to Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Il. When asked yesterday about the column by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Friedman, which lamented the angry tone of today’s far right, Steele replied, “”Where do these nutjobs come from?”
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Wonder why Grooms did not use our very own presidents as an example? I will tell you why. The last two attempted assasinations were against Republican presidents by LEFT WING NUT JOBS.
Of course grooms ignores the democrat saying the Republicans want people to die or that republican opposition to a retarded health care bill is like the holocaust. The Democrats could pass this entire thing without a single republican vote but of course the republicans are considered the bad guys.
I know the attempt on reagan was by some idiot guy trying to impresss jodie foster — not sure what side he was on.
Obama compared to Stalin and Jong Il is spot on. While their politics are similar, the mass killings and outrageous attacks on civil liberties are not similar DOMESTICALLY. But yes, they do kill en masse and forget civil liberties ABROAD. Just as the Bushies did. So while you can compare Obama to them, please also include Bush II and the whole congress.
But, I’m still not a fan of the nationalist socialist Michael Steele.