As I sit here writing this
editorial, there is a
Republican congresswoman
on “Hardball with Chris
Matthews” attacking liberals
as being anti-American.
Minnesota Representative
Michelle Bachman is stating
that Barack Obama and liberals
in Congress are on a mission
to bring down America
and destroy of great country.
Is this completely disgusting
to anyone else? In fact,
John McCain’s campaign is
sending out calls to swing
states saying that Obama and
the Democrats are in cahoots
with terrorists. How can a
man that claims to be proud
of his country and claims to
put “country first” attack one
of the greatest American stories
in history by saying that
he, and the rest of the liberals
in our country, are terrorists?
Bachman said during the
interview that, “The people
Barack Obama associates
with are anti-American.”
When asked whether or not
she believed that all congressional
liberals were anti-
American, she dodged the
question. “You’d have to ask
them. What I would say is
that the news media should
do a penetrating expose and
take a look.”
Mathews wouldn’t allow
her to get away so easily.
Upon stating that liberals and
leftist thinkers are supporters
of terrorism, Bachman was
hard-pressed to answer
whether or not she truly
believed that the 30 percent of
Americans who identify
themselves as liberal are terrorist
sympathizers. She didn’t
answer the question.
This is just another roundabout
of Republican hatred
spewed out during election
years. In 2004, they called
John Kerry a weak liberal
who would let the terrorists
hurt your loved ones. In 2006,
they said that if the
Democrats won control of the
Senate and House, then we
would have another terrorist
attack; and now, seven years
after the 9/11 attacks brought
us all together as one nation,
the Republicans are trying to
tear us apart.
After all, that’s how they
win elections. The Republican
brand has become rhetoric of
hate and lies. It didn’t work
two years ago, and God help
us let’s hope it doesn’t work
now. Can we really leave our
nation’s future up to someone
with such a lack of judgment
that he’d accuse 30 percent of
our nation of being terrorists
just because they think differently
than him?
According to John McCain
and the Republicans in office,
it’s treason to not want to
bomb every country that
doesn’t agree with us. It’s
treason to support a woman’s
right to choose. It’s treason to
believe that we can achieve
more through diplomacy
than through war. Why do
we continue to elect these
closed-minded people?
Now, after all of these horrible
accusations by the
Republicans, retired Army
Gen. Colin Powell endorsed
Obama this week. A longtime
Republican who was
Secretary of State during
George W. Bush’s first term is
breaking with his party to
support someone that he
believes can change this
country for the better.
He’s not blindly endorsing
McCain because he’s a member
of his party. He’s not
accusing his parties’ opponent
of being “in cahoots”
with Osama Bin Laden.
Instead, he’s standing together
with millions of people
who realize that we can’t take
more of the same.
The Republicans that are
spreading their venomous
lies about Obama and about
liberals in general need to
take a note from one of their
own.
After eight years of utilizing
the tactics of fear to get
elected, the Republicans are
trying for one last-ditch effort
to stop this country from
moving in the right direction.
Let’s not let them stop us.