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He doesn't think Obama is President, does he? More ominously, he gloats over our military people going to court to ask the question "do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the constitution"? The language doesn't fool me; this is plainly an attempt to disrupt discipline in the US military, and, ultimately, provoke mutiny. It would do wonders in Afghanistan and Iraq. What patriots we have in the right.

Keyes thinks that if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it we're going to find ourselves in the middle of chaos, confusion and civil war? That sounds like a rationale for a coup d'etat attempt. Even coming from a dingbat like Keyes, it has an ominous tone to it. There may be more substantial people with the same idea...who are really serious about wanting the Obama administration to fail.

This is Alan Keyes dumping tea in the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Allan and I happened upon a Tea Party on Saturday. We didn't stick around for the whole thing, because some of the rhetoric was a little scary (and blood-pressure raising), so we didn't hear Keyes speak. After lunch, though, we watched the end of the rally. You can see my photoset of the Tea Party here.

I've been thinking about this thing ever since Saturday; I'd like to write about it on my blog. I'm not sure I'm up for getting into a discussion of it here. But I did want to show yinz my photo of Mr. Keyes.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 2:23pm

BasmntMadman wrote:

dionysius wrote:

About sums it up. The nation has made its choice, and John Galt can go piss up a rope.

Some people can't accept it the choice the nation has made, and Alan Keyes is certainly one of them.

Even a Seven Days In May scenario can only work with a President who lacks public support. Obama is our most popular President since Reagan; a free press and a loyal public (AND military!) render any coup attempt unlikely and unfeasible. Right now, it couldn't happen successfully. The extreme right wing can hate all it wants; most Americans, and most military personnel, aren't with them.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 2:13pm

dionysius wrote:

About sums it up. The nation has made its choice, and John Galt can go piss up a rope.

Some people can't accept it the choice the nation has made, and Alan Keyes is certainly one of them.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 12:58pm
The title of this thread is redundant!

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:56am
BasmntMadman wrote: Tea parties forever! About sums it up. The nation has made its choice, and John Galt can go piss up a rope.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:52am
Tea parties forever!

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:24am
sirdroseph wrote: I hope you didn't think that I was trying to paint Obama a facist! I'm actually an Obama supporter myself, I was only speaking to the intention of the person who made that statement. Oh, I saw your wink. I was clarifying the incoherence and desperation of those who want to pin these labels on the donkey.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:21am

dionysius wrote:

Socialism would pile us humans all together in the same pile of equal pebbles. Fascism would have separate piles, with (*insert name of nation here*) the Biggest and Best Pile, purged of all foreign and impure pebbles. I cannot understand the need to tar the President with that brush, inasmuch as he is NOT an (a) extreme nationalist, (b) militarist, (c) cultural or racial supremacist of any kind whatsoever, and so fits no definition of "fascist" at all.

I hope you didn't think that I was trying to paint Obama a facist! {#Naughty}

I'm actually an Obama supporter myself, I was only speaking to the intention of the person who made that statement.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:11am

sirdroseph wrote:

Socialist or Facist depending on whether the statement is backed with negative or positive connotations!

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 10:01am
dionysius wrote: That's socialist talk there, bucko. So, welcome aboard. Socialist or Facist depending on whether the statement is backed with negative or positive connotations!

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 9:58am
winter wrote: There are no monoliths in society - only piles of pebbles. That's socialist talk there, bucko. So, welcome aboard.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 9:51am
winter wrote: There are no monoliths in society - only piles of pebbles.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 8:08am
RichardPrins wrote: Rush Limbaugh's 10 Dumbest Remarks: Christopher Bateman \| Vanity Fair Old fat guy in a suit strung out on Vicodin and spewing bullshit on AM radio - what better poster child could the RighWingNutZ have? I won't go back to Cape Girardeau 'til he's dead, I'll tell ya that much.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 4:26am
Rush Limbaugh's 10 Dumbest Remarks: Christopher Bateman \| Vanity Fair

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 9:26pm
Leslie wrote: Let me do that for you. There are no monoliths in society - only piles of pebbles.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 9:24pm
winter wrote: Also he's popular. Radio stations dig that. I may not like him or agree with him, but there's many who do - and I'm not prepared to write them all off as ignorant hicks or heartless jerks. Let me do that for you.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 9:18pm
hippiechick wrote: Why do so many stations carry Rush? Cuz they get him for free: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/limbaughs-dirty-little-se_b_185965.html Also he's popular. Radio stations dig that. I may not like him or agree with him, but there's many who do - and I'm not prepared to write them all off as ignorant hicks or heartless jerks.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 6:18pm
As opposed to say, LeftWingNutZ?

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 1:46pm
hippiechick wrote: Why do so many stations carry Rush? Cuz they get him for free: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/limbaughs-dirty-little-se_b_185965.html "Barter" does not mean "free". It's trade without using money. Radio has always worked like that.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 1:45pm
hippiechick wrote: Why do so many stations carry Rush? Cuz they get him for free: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/limbaughs-dirty-little-se_b_185965.html That's not unusual. Lots of radio programming is provided free with just the requirement that the stations air the commercials. The commercials are where Rush makes his money.

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