10-28-2008, 04:44 AM | #1 |
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Dobson strikes again
In perhaps his most deplorable move ever, Focus on the Family's James Dobson (this is the guy who coordinated the attacks against Romney on behalf of Huck), is circulating a letter describing the United States after four years of Obama.
A few highlights: • Supreme court requires Boy Scouts to "hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys." • Frequent disasters due to Obama's "reluctance to send troops overseas, Russia occupying the Baltic states and Eastern European countries including Poland and the Czech Republic, and al-Qaeda overwhelming Iraq. • Nationalized health care with no access to hospitals for people over 80. Others die while they wait in long lines to see substandard doctors. • No dissemination of any religious information via any media. Such rhetoric is now classified as inciteful "hate speech." • Skyrocketing numbers of abortions as the procedure is now offered free of charge and doctors have their licenses revoked if they decline to terminate pregnancies. • Pornography is required to be publicly displayed on magazine stands along with other publications. • No guns, no homeschooling, no unions, no jobs, no gasoline. And perhaps worst of all, no James Dobson -- as he's been censored and removed from the airwaves. (we can only hope.) It goes on and on and on. We have GOT to get this guy out of our politics. He's like poison. |
10-28-2008, 04:54 AM | #2 |
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The ignorance of this letter is remarkable. It's sad to see the use of such rank scare tactics. The right's primary export right now is fear. They will have a long exile . . . This letter is a big "booga wooga" to get us all to go "Aaaaaah" in fright. That reminds me, the "A says 'aaah. The A says 'aaaah'. Everybody, something something, the A says 'aaaah.'"
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10-28-2008, 12:39 PM | #4 |
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Any bets as to how long it takes for me to receive this as a mass-forwarded spam?
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10-28-2008, 01:10 PM | #5 |
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I saw an article about this letter in the paper the other day. Yet more evidence that the religious right is crazy. I am sick and tired of fear mongering. But you are right: this stuff works for a lot of people. My mother would probably eat this up.
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You don't think Russia has it's eyes on other
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In other words, most of what he has said seems pretty reasonable and you can see some of it happening now. So he's most likely right on the majority of those things he claims. Some seems outlandish, but then again I didn't think a crucifix in a jar of urine was art. But don't poke fun at Muslims and their religion.
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And it's thanks to voters like you that he will maintain his control of the party. He's probably the single most powerful figure in contemporary American politics. And no, exUte, he has no equivalent on the left.
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I personally don't have a problem with a single person having such a large influence on politics as long as the influence is in the arena of ideas and speech - (i.e. not in the illegal arenas of fraudulent voting, violence, coercion, etc.). Dobson's influence is powerful because people agree with his message. Other than countering Dobson's message with a better message, how exactly do you propose that Dobson be taken out of politics? |
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