Obamas Attend Church Service on Eve of MLK Day

He sees 2012 coming, so has to suddenly start going to church. What a hypocrite.

buzzo wrote:”It is entirely likely that, for instance, in learning accurate information about the President of the United States, you might not hate him as much as you do right now… and this might alienate you from your friends and family.”
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Unlike the oBama sycophants, we’ve been paying close attention for the last two years and despite the best efforts of the totally worthless news media we’ve seen the real oBama. There is a pattern there… you can choose to ignore like all good lefties. His sudden interest in church is just one of many diversions from the real results of his policies over the last two years. We saw what the DEMOCRATS have damaged over the last four years and took steps on Nov 2 to remedy that. DEMOCRATS are now even more desperate cause they know what’s coming in 2012.

All presidents have to live with the threat of the crazy obsessed haters – it takes a lot of courage.

Sad that it is big news when Obama shows up in church.

“His sudden interest in church is just one of many diversions from the real results of his policies over the last two years.”
Yes! Wakeup sheeple! Obama, the dictator, is only trying to seduce you with images of his attending a religious service! He’s trying to razzledazzle you by posing with his family in a church…. if it even IS his family! If he even IS Obama!
It must be part of his conspiracy to control us through grammar!!!!!!
Jeez…. the right wing hates EVERYTHING about Obama…. even when he goes to church. He cannot do anything without the Fox News crowd immediately jumping to the conclusion that it is all part of a diabolical plot to persecute them.
Even if he asks people to be nicer to each other…. it’s Blood Libel! It’s dangerous political rhetoric!! Worse than murder!!! Obama’s trying to Lynch us! Eeek!
Get a grip.
He’s a good President and good human being.

The NPR interviewer had said, this kind of violence didn’t happen when “63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night.”
(Where did he get that 63 million figure?) I suppose, in any event, that the shootings of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, and the two attempted shootings of Gerald Ford simply did not occur. Thank goodness we had Walter instead of today’s nasty vitriol.

…of course, he went to church to recognize Doctor King…….let’s see, excluding funerals, I count twice where he gave up shooting hoops for a church service……..a Christian in name only………

Where was President Obama today. This is the second year that he failed the people here in Atlanta, GA. We would have like to see him here in MLK hometown.

blip wrote:
“He’s a good President and good human being…..”
…one who defended infanticide while a Senator in Illinois.
He worked tirelessly to defeat the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, and became the chief spokesman against it.
What would this act have done?
The proposed law mandated that an infant born alive should not be left on a table to die without medical care.
Obama strenuously opposed it and made sure it didn’t pass.
He argued against any protection for an infant alive outside the womb , referring to them as ‘the fetus, or child as some might describe it’.
These were children outside the womb.
Would you oppose medical care for an infant?

“Now that we have a neoliberal concensus…”
The laugh line of the New Year. I suppose that consensus was taking a break on November 2.

“If you look at the dozens of incidents over the last year or two, a minority of them involve people who are or were atteched to right wing political groups.”
I really would love to see a list of those dozens of instances over the past two years, and the evidence that any of them were attached to right wing political groups.

I’m not surprised at Fuller. He seems to be a head case as well. But the case shows that the liberals (this is hardly the left we’re talking about) won’t sit still and be shot at forever.

“I’m not surprised at Fuller. He seems to be a head case as well.”
Isn’t that a bit uncivil, given that there has yet been no diagnosis? All that is known at this point is that he is consumed with hatred, a harbors violent fantasies about conservatives.
” But the case shows that the liberals (this is hardly the left we’re talking about) won’t sit still and be shot at forever.
What liberals have been shot at, and by whom? And what is it that shows that they won’t sit still anymore?

Fascist Hyena, a few examples since you don’t seem to be aware of them–
Jim Adkinson entered a Universalist Church in Tenessee with a 12 gauge, semi-automatic shotgun and 76 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire on a gathering for a children’s play. His reason? He hated liberals. The congregation’s all inclusive liberality offended him and he thought a shotgun was a reasonable way to get rid of the offense.
In an affadavit, Byron Williams “stated that his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU.” This was shortly after a Glenn Beck rant on the Tides foundation. (You remember Beck, right? The guy who calls himself a “progressive hunter” and said he’d like to poison Pelosi’s wine among many other things, on TV. Here’s what he said about Michael Moore: “Here’s Glenn Beck on murdering Michael Moore:”Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong?)
Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA) was targeted and his brother’s gas line was cut by mistake after a Tea Party blogger called on followers to target him.
Richard Poplawski killed 3 police officers reportedly because he feared that Barack Obama was going to take his guns away and his right to bear arms.
Gregory Giusti pleaded guilty to repeatedly threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — including threatening to destroy her California home — because he was “upset with her passing the health care law.” His mother told a local news station that he “frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas,” adding, “I’d say Fox News or all of those that are really radical, and he — that’s where he comes from.”

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” — MLK, Jr.

Here’s the first hit I got on “neoliberlism”:
“‘Neo-liberalism’ is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.”
Rarely indeed. It appears to be a term of opprobrium used by leftists, and it’s hard to argue that people who have not heard the term have formed a consensus about it. In any event, those creatures who employ the term seem to think it’s something very bad.
What would the No-Labels people make of all this?

“Limbaugh is admitting that the only way his version of the Republican Party can succeed politically is to engage in hate speech and whip up dangerous emotions, and he considers any pressure to back off these ugly techniques of demagoguery to be a ‘shutting down’ of conservatism. That is, were he to have to fight fair, he would inevitably lose out to Democratic voices of reason.”
When did he admit to hate speech? To whipping up dangerous emotions? What does he do that is unfair? Is Bill Press fair? Alan Colmes? Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? Paul Krugman? Rachel Maddow? Keith Olbermann? Ed Schulz? James Clyburn? Maxine Waters?
Give me a break. For two centuries and more we’ve been arguing with one another in highly uncivil terms. As lifelong Democrat Mickey Kaus says, now that the GOP is in position to be mean, the Dems suddenly want to make nice,
Sell that stuff somewhere else. You didn’t just suffer an historical electoral rout because of violent rhetoric, you suffered it because people saw with their own eyes the behavior of the 111th congress.

Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Jan 17, 2011 11:57:05 PM
Here’s wikipedia: “Neoliberalism describes a market-driven[1] approach to economic and social policy based on neoclassical theories of economics that stresses the efficiency of private enterprise, liberalized trade and relatively open markets, and therefore seeks to maximize the role of the private sector in determining the political and economic priorities of the state.
The term “neoliberalism” has also come into wide use in cultural studies to describe an internationally prevailing ideological paradigm that leads to social, cultural, and political practices and policies that use the language of markets, efficiency, consumer choice, transactional thinking and individual autonomy to shift risk from governments and corporations onto individuals and to extend this kind of market logic into the realm of social and affective relationships.[2]”
In my experience, it IS a term used mostly by those originally form somewhere else outside of the United States, and it highlights that given the world spectrum/scale, Republicans and Democrats aren’t all that different. The small differences are highly notable to us, but not to those who don’t live here. The same old, same old, regardless of party… elsewhere, the parties are viewed as mere inches apart (though a few inches in what is considered the right direction is better than a few inches in the opposite direction.)
Given that, I’m not sure what the No-label folks would say about it. Probably nothing. It is a term that describes the United States as a whole. No red state. No blue state. et cetera. (And I suspect the no label peeps are highly in favor of the status quo regarding economic policy.)
I mentioned looking it up because your response to Flash didn’t make sense given the meaning of the term. “Right wingers” are neoliberals. The midterms didn’t change anything in that regard. Most Republicans and Democrats in elected office are.

“Any of the folks from whom you heard worse get arrested?”
I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them had. He was trying to physically intimidate people who he disagreed with politically.
I just thought of another example of the left being not shot at, but stomped on. Remember the young woman who was thrown on the ground and whose head was stomped on by a Rand Paul supporter and volunteer?
Both sides have grievances. THAT is my point. To pretend the right has greater grievances is a fool’s errand. Both sides have many, many grievances in this regard. And both sides have at one time or another called for civil discourse.

For clarity purposes, I meant to say in my last post, there were calls for more civility by the left in regards to vitriol from the right during the 2008 campaign we were winning… etc.

Alyson….
You don’t get it. When a conservative attacks liberals with words…. the words are harmless. When a liberal attacks a conservative with words…. the words are “blood libel.”
What a conservative murders a perceived liberal or federal employee…. it’s an isolated incident of no national importance inspired by insanity and nothing else. When anyone who isn’t conservative murders any other person…. it is evidence of Islamofascobommunism.
Look at the whole groundzero mosque incident….. Conservatives said that the mere presence of pacifist Sufis in Manhattan was so dangerously provocative that we must make an exception to the First Amendment for it.
BUT… if some Arizona lawmaker says that Americans should use Second Amendment remedies if the election results disappoint them. Then a Democrat says, “Hey! When you guys say stuff like that, I get death threats! Please be nice!” And then a lunatic in Arizona employs the Republican call for Second Amendment remedies against the very same Democrat that had begged the Republicans to be nice. And then after six people are killed, people make the common sense recommendation that maybe, it is time to quit with all the vitriol and vilification and express our political differences respectfully and rationally….
Well, suddenly, conservatives are worried about the dangerous implications of words.
Not their words, mind you. It’s the words, “Be nice,” that they regard as dangerous and libelous.
Perhaps this is because it would be political suicide for them to present their ideas honestly.

Alyson….
You don’t get it. When a conservative attacks liberals with words…. the words are harmless. When a liberal attacks a conservative with words…. the words are “blood libel.” — blip
Gee, that never occurred to me. How is that reasonable? ;^)

Since you really want to know, here’s a better list(this is not complete, however):
– July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are “destroying America,” walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.
– October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.
– December 2008: A pair of “Patriot” movement radicals — the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted “to attack the political infrastructure” — threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
– December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.
– January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.
– February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.
– April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.
– April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama’s purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.
– May 2009: A “sovereign citizen” named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
– June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.
– February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one “domestic terrorism” too.)
– March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.
– March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.
– May 2010: A “sovereign citizen” from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.
– May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.
– May 2010: Two “sovereign citizens” named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.
– July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.
– September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year–old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the “Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.

Alyson: “I just thought of another example of the left being not shot at, but stomped on. Remember the young woman who was thrown on the ground and whose head was stomped on by a Rand Paul supporter and volunteer?”
Yet another trumped up liberal smear. The episode you refer to was due to an unruly MoveOn.org activist who was restrained by Paul supporters after she rushed the candidate with an unidentified object in her hand while wearing a wig. By-standers thought she may have wanted to harm Paul or assassinate him, so they restrained her until authorities arrived. She got off easy considering the situation.
The out-of-context clip was played by the liberal media and then eagerly lapped up by their loyal, unquestioning minions. Now, it’s parroted here and elsewhere as further proof of right-wing violence. Again, you liberals fool no one important or of full mental capacity with your obvious, pathetic deceptions. Apparently, that’s all you’ve got when you can’t debate on your record or position on the issues. Enough of the distractions, the American people want solutions!