In order to win votes, the Republican party has chosen to publically associate Barack Obama with terrorism.

In this manner, the Republicans use the weapon they 'supposedly' fight, which is of course, terrorism. Because they know they're behind in opinion-polls, even though they've tried everything that sells - distantiating themselves from George Bush, introducing relatively hot though conservative Sarah Palin, etc... - they intend to use the power of fear, to persuade the simple souls in America to vote for them.

In my opinion, this party has lost all of its credibility, and should be trialed for massive public verbal terrorism.

The Republicans know that a lot of Americans are anxious about terrorism and they simply misuse it. Linking Obama with terrorism proves that the Republicans are desperately trying to make up some ground, no matter how.

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Annually, between 5 tot 12 billion Euros flow from Dutch-speaking Flanders to French-speaking Wallonia - proportionally more than former West Germany invests in the former "German Democratic Republic". Wallonia receives a quarter of its income from this ‘national solidarity’. This is Belgium ..

Everybody seems to be voting yes, so I figured I'd vote no. Don't want the republicans to get too beat up, ya know?

Are the Republicans hypocrites?

So...if they are saying that they are running a clean campaign and they're using dirty campaign tactics (ie: saying that Obama hates America because he's secretly a Muslim, or because Reverend Wright was his pastor, or saying that he supports terrorism because he started his political career in the home of a man who used to be a domestic terrorist, but is now a law abiding citizen...), then yes, they're hypocrites.

That seems to be typical for American politicians in general, regardless of the party, though. Anything to get a vote.

Even can the economy on purpose... anything that hurts America helps the Democrats.

You have a lot of work to do before I'll believe that anyone deliberately fracked up the economy for political gain.

1. Forcing banks to give billions of dollars to people who cannot pay them back.

2. Purposefully blocking the development of energy (e.g., drilling and refining) in the United States stifling the economy becuase there is a lower supply of oil and natural gas

3. blocking all attempts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the lending policies in the US.

4. Blocking all attempts to reform Medicare and Social Security ... the next governmet boondoggles to go belly up.

if you cannot see those, well you might as well stay on the ship.. I am on the life boat...

Ohhhhhh.....I love this one. How would you 'reform' these?

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

And why in the world not? (Unless you're an unclean Republican, of course...)

They're primarily responsible for the fact that the richest 20% of Americans have seen a vast increase in their incomes OVER THE LAST THIRTY YEARS while the wages of all the rest of us have stagnated. Or actually declined. They're the ones responsible for the quagmire in Iraq which has cost us nearly a trillion dollars, almost 4200 American lives and tens of thousands of American casualties...and made us NO SAFER against Islamic extremists. (They're also largely responsible for our crippling federal deficit because--for the first time in the history of civilization, mind you!--they cut taxes in time of war.) They're the ones who are primarily responsible for hollowing out this country's manufacturing base by giving tax breaks to corporations for outsourcing. They're primarily responsible for our current economic crisis by reducing banking regulations and opening the door for toxic developments like an entire shadow economy based on high-risk instruments like Credit Default Swaps and unsecured derivatives...not to mention running our unemployment up to it's present 6.1%...

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Personally, I believe that beating up is too good for those GOP vermin; they need to be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. Or maybe made to walk the plank...

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The fact that you can even make such a statement is a triumph of GOP marketing and obfuscation.

May I point out that crashing the economy, deliberately and with malice aforethought, is what the Republicans have done for the last three quarters of a century? (Not for political gain, but for self-enrichment...) Herbert Hoover presided over the Great Depression. The next Republican to be elected president was Eisenhower...who left office with a crippling recession and 7.5% unemployment. And this was smack dab in the middle of the greatest period of growth in American history, so that's no mean feat. Richard Nixon laid the foundations for national stagflation with his wage and price controls in 1971, but it was the oil crisis of the time which really sealed the deal. Do you happen to recall the Stock Market Crash of 1987 under Ronald Ray-Gun? How about "Its the economy, stupid!" that kept Daddybush from being reelected?

You need to educate yourself...

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Yeah, we sure are lucky they tried to stop that $10 trillion unfunded mandate that is Medicare Part D. Oh wait, we didn't need the Democrats for that. The Republicans passed it all by themselves.

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