I have to spend so much time being polite, and "intelligent" and "learned" etc... that when i read crap like this (below) all i can think of is oh, fuck off you fucking idiot...
i have been saying that so much over the past couple of years; when i hear things like "we have to fight them over there before we have to fight them over here"
last week, one of my students, an iraq vet, in reply to my question on the legal and political basis for US military bases abroad, said: "Because we won the second world war."
I would have liked to tell him to fuck off, too.... alas
Aluta Continua!
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph noonan <joseph at noonan.ws> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, 17 October, 2008 14:35:48 Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Is Fox news equating Obama with socialism, or worse yet...Marxism?
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, John Thornton wrote:
> Is O'Reilly or Limbaugh claiming Obama is a Marxist? Are the people
> sending this a lunatic fringe or has this idea gained traction among
> non-lunatics?
>
> I ask because I have been receiving quite a bit of this crap lately, more
> than I would expect if the idea was only far right-wing nuttery.
(These people really get good drugs)
>From yesterday's NYT letters to the editor:
To the Editor:
Senator Barack Obama won the debate based on performance. Senator John McCain won on substance and trust.
I think Mr. Obama is a socialist who will change the very foundation of our nation. That may appeal to some, but the reality is that socialism does not work.
Heavily taxing hard-working citizens and businesses because they make more than $250,000 a year and allowing the government to redistribute it to others is just plain Marxist-style socialism.
It limits the American Dream by penalizing achievers. It taxes millions of small businesses, and that will kill jobs for the very people it is intended to help.
Our current financial meltdown is largely the result of giving people something they could not afford. The bad home loans that couldnt be paid off began a financial meltdown and domino effect, and that has left taxpayers paying for this failed socialist scheme.
Mr. Obama believes in government control. Mr. McCain believes in us that we are better managers of our own lives. Its a clear choice.
Bonnie ONeil
Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 16, 2008
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