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Originally Posted by spence
I think there is a difference.
There were some on the far left who disliked Bush from the start, but for the most part people gave him the benefit of doubt. It wasn't until the Iraq war started to be revealed for what it was that the mainstream support turned ugly. Hell, I was a Bush supporter on most issues until 2004.
With Obama it's been an effort to undermine his foundation from the start, and many of the same topics continue to this day. This is why this thread is...and for no other reason.
-spence
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Not what I saw at all Spence. Keep in mind I never once voted for Bush. Remember the viscous attacks before he got elected (Florida for example?), the general attacks along the way with a brief respite after 9/11?
...If you don't support our guy, you're unpatriotic blah blah blah...
I see this on both sides but I also see the media pushing significant bias helping to fuel this. I was watching Chris Matthews for a while tonight and watched him rallying the troops against the "Teabaggers". First for sending in death threats to a WA Senator in which Matthews states the "teabagger" leaving the phone message says this and that and then he continues the piece with Pete Williams and cuts off Pete Williams when ole Pete states it was confirmed that the man issuing the threats was not a "republican", a member of the Tea Bag party. He cut off Williams when ole Pete started squashing his rant.
Then Matthews had a video segment with "racial hate speech" on a congresswoman at some town hall meeting - I heard no racial speech in the segment - and she's cutting off a guy talking about how much programs cost. Since when does discussing how much programs COST constitute hate speech?
Ooops, gotta run - have to go work now to pay taxes for stuff I cannot question about costs for being labeled racist
