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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Truth squad
This, from a candidate who has lied about virtually everything: NAFTA, FISA, Social Security, the war, the surge, taxes -- and most recently, during the debates, nuclear waste...
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At http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem, Missouri Gov. Blunt denounces this travesty:
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Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
I have seen many remarks emanating from you, such as the one above, in various locales. Also, from reading your remarks, I gather that you are a staunchly loyal, and basically a "good guy", Democrat.
However, it seems as if you are constantly invoking the "goose/gander" analogy regarding Democrats now behaving in a like manner to the Republican far-right. If I am incorrect, I apologize.
I am admittedly an idealist, and perhaps quite naive in my quest for civility and accountabilty for all politicians and parties.
As such, I believe denigrating behavior, and thinking, benefit no one except the perpetrators and those who support or relish such tactics, while subjecting citizens/voters to inane, vapid, ad hominem information, gestures, and manipulation.
I personally have never seen the value, and certainly not virtue, of tit-for-tat regarding objectionable/pejorative actions or discourse. Perhaps your experience differs.
When I was young, the Hatfield's and Mccoy's were still very much a topic of conversation, and used as an example regarding multiple wrongs never amounting to a single right. Their obsession with revenge, ie tit-for-tat, resulted only in mutual destruction. I still find said admonitions regarding such behavior to be pertinent.
I have been a voting, donating, Democrat for over forty years, have decried, and detested, far-right tactics whenever they surfaced, yet have never wished to emulate them. Again, my quest for societal civility precluded such.
I always thought we were above such, and that we were the good guys. This election cycle has totally erased such superior feelings from my thought processes, and has proven me to be rather foolish for ever having harbored such grandiose ideas in the first place.
WE have become THEM, and now there is no such place, or refuge, that amounts to a "high-ground".
However, I shall continue to push for civility. The society, and way of life, that I wish for my grandchildren, and others to come, depend on such.
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At http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem,
Missouri Gov. Blunt denounces this travesty:
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Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
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Still...there's the satisfaction of seeing Republicans getting a taste of their own medicine.
Mr. Logan,
I have seen many remarks emanating from you, such as the one above, in various locales. Also, from reading your remarks, I gather that you are a staunchly loyal, and basically a "good guy", Democrat.
However, it seems as if you are constantly invoking the "goose/gander" analogy regarding Democrats now behaving in a like manner to the Republican far-right. If I am incorrect, I apologize.
I am admittedly an idealist, and perhaps quite naive in my quest for civility and accountabilty for all politicians and parties.
As such, I believe denigrating behavior, and thinking, benefit no one except the perpetrators and those who support or relish such tactics, while subjecting citizens/voters to inane, vapid, ad hominem information, gestures, and manipulation.
I personally have never seen the value, and certainly not virtue, of tit-for-tat regarding objectionable/pejorative actions or discourse. Perhaps your experience differs.
When I was young, the Hatfield's and Mccoy's were still very much a topic of conversation, and used as an example regarding multiple wrongs never amounting to a single right. Their obsession with revenge, ie tit-for-tat, resulted only in mutual destruction. I still find said admonitions regarding such behavior to be pertinent.
I have been a voting, donating, Democrat for over forty years, have decried, and detested, far-right tactics whenever they surfaced, yet have never wished to emulate them. Again, my quest for societal civility precluded such.
I always thought we were above such, and that we were the good guys. This election cycle has totally erased such superior feelings from my thought processes, and has proven me to be rather foolish for ever having harbored such grandiose ideas in the first place.
WE have become THEM, and now there is no such place, or refuge, that amounts to a "high-ground".
However, I shall continue to push for civility. The society, and way of life, that I wish for my grandchildren, and others to come, depend on such.
No election is worth lowering those standards.
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