Rep. Steve King: Obama Will Make America A ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’
Rep. Steve King: Obama Will Make America A ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’
On Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave little-noticed remarks at Sioux City’s West High School during an appearance by Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). King went beyond the traditional right-wing talking points — which brand Obama a “Marxist” who adheres to “socialism” — and said that he would turn the United States into a “totalitarian dictatorship.” From a report by the Iowa Independent:
King, known for provocative, partisan remarks, suggested Obama actually could be classified as even more extreme than a socialist. King also said his party is the only one with a legitimate claim on representing freedom as Americans know it.
“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
Sioux City Journal reporter Bret Hayworth also reported that King said, “Obama is ACORN. … When I see Obama, I see ACORN branded on his forehead.” This wasn’t the first time that King fear-mongered about Obama. Speaking in Exira, IA on Aug. 21, King claimed that Obama was anti-American and raised by polygamists and “left wing hard core atheists”:
Obama was not raised with an intentional attitude toward Americanism. … The way to look at the reasons Obama doesn’t place his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is playing, or wear an American flag pin is primarily because he is not willful or spiteful, but because it just doesn’t occur to him because it’s not the way he’s been raised. American patriotism is not imprinted on his mind or in his heart, because he wasn’t raised as an American.
The next day in Spencer, IA, King lauded the “background” of the Bush family, saying that he would be confident “handing over” his baby to them. Watch his comments:
King’s comments are akin to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) recent declaration that Obama is “anti-American,” which generated strong public outcry and media attention. In similar overblown right-wing rhetoric, on Oct. 19, Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) told a crowd that “liberals hate real Americans,” and in August, Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) said that liberals wanted “the American public to suffer and to hurt.”
More here on the hate and divisive rhetoric of King.
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Yes, by all means, let’s protect America from Americans
I fear for our country when I see people who spout bile like this actually have enough support to get elected to any position…
October 28th, 2008 at 11:37 amWhatever loser.
OBAMA is steamrolling his way into the Presidency despite all the GOPer panic.
Gotta love the way the shoe feels on the other foot…
October 28th, 2008 at 11:37 amHorse hockey! King is delusional, like Michele Bachmann. How can the public get such people committed?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:37 amAnd what have we had for the last eight years? He’s just jealous that Reps are loosing control. Got to stir up that fear factor!!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 11:39 amWhy is the name of all that is good, to people vote for such lunatics? Do they not see this kind of vile and just want to turn away from this malarkey? Or are they that daft to believe and feel scared? And to h*ll with this crazy politicians scoring points through fear. Shameful.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:40 amawesome! looks like i voted for a ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’ yesterday and am DAMN PROUD of it!
October 28th, 2008 at 11:41 amMy only hope is that King’s reprehensible remarks will not be lost to time, and that they will be repeated, in all their racist glory, as a testamony to a bygone time when Americans learned to rise above their fears and prejudices. Further, I hope that his grandkids or great-grandkids will hang their head in shame upon reading them in some high school text.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:41 amIowans! You elected this racist mucking foron!
October 28th, 2008 at 11:43 amAre you proud?
“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,”
When you take a lurch to the right you end up with Fascism which is what our country has become, a fascist state.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:44 amMe thinks I gets it now.
A policy to spread the wealth to the middle class: “Totalitarian Dictatorship”!
Following lock and step (never faltering, never questioning) with the upper echelon of CONservatives: Democracy!
IS IT FCKING NOV 4th YET?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:46 amI think that King may be a little worried about his job. I couldn’t find polling numbers on his race but since Obama is ahead in Iowa by 10, there’s a good chance that King is in trouble. Especially considering how many times he has embarrassed Iowa with his hyperbolic comments. Steve King is the male version of Michele Bachman. Hopefully they will both lose and ride off into the sunset with each other.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:47 amHasn’t the King Chymp already done this with: The Patriot Act,
October 28th, 2008 at 11:48 amthe Military Commissions Act of 2006, the Protect America Act of 2007, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment of 2008, and the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act of 2006?
Censure him immediately.
King, it was your State that started this voting frenzy last January by carrying Obama. Does that mean Iowa is a totalitarian dictatorship, & you’re elected to represent it?
Dumb shit doesn’t begin to describe Mr. King. Didn’t he start the ‘false flag pin’ BS, as well?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:50 amIowans, Mr. King is up for re-election. Do to him what you did to McCain in January & boot his dumb ass out of office.
“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
Why do Canadians love their totalitarian dictatorship?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:50 amKing: … When I see Obama, I see ACORN branded on his forehead.
– - Uh huh, and a red, backward B on his right cheek.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:50 amAnd how would Obama achieve this Dictatorship?? Dissolve Congress and the courts?
I just hope that not too much mud these maniacs have flung has stuck to the wall, so to speak.
This country has been so far to the right over the last 8 years, a lurch to the left would merely put us closer to center.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:51 amCan you say “elitist”? So by his logic you can only run for president if your family has a long history of political parents like the Bush family?
Doesn’t Sarah Palin constantly brag about how she is a “washington outsider?” Whatever happened to the American dream ?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:52 amSpeaking in code to the religious RW:
Sioux City Journal reporter Bret Hayworth also reported that King said, “Obama is ACORN. … When I see Obama, I see ACORN branded on his forehead.”
Did he also explain how, when you convert “A”, “C”, “O”, “R”, and “N” into digits and total them up and multiply by the day of Obama’s birth, you get 666?
These fundie nuts are in serious need of large doses of neuroleptics.
Cheers,
October 28th, 2008 at 11:53 amThose of you who live in DC may sometimes see a crazed looking street preacher raving absolute nonsense near a metro station. If so, simply wish Rep. King a nice day and go on with your business. Should he win he is going to be one lonely loon in congress with so many of his fellow hatemongers going down.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am“We don’t wanna be a socialist country like…Sweden!” Yeah, those Swedes are just having a regular elbow riot to get the hell out of Sweden and into the States. Danes and Norwegians too. Hey…things are just egalitarian up there. They’re just too advanced for their own good. Pity those poor deluded Scandinavians with their goddamn stinking overly-generous social safety net…
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October 28th, 2008 at 11:54 am“a totalitarian dictatorship, exactly like Bush’s Administration” King said.
Just thought I would clear up what he was really thinking.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:54 amHmm. Did anyone else notice that Obama wore a U.S. flag pin on his lapel during each of the debates, but McSame did not wear one for any of them? What’s the matter? Does McSame hate America? Does he hate the troops?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:55 amMore BS! Democrats love their country every bit as much as Republicans. I am tired of the smears! I don’t wear an American flag pin at all, and I love my country! How about the rest of you?
This is all smoke and mirrors to try to distract the electorate. Let’s stick to the issues.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:55 amHey, if and when the O man is elected (landlside, mandate), then why don’t we just let the red states secede?
Let them run their own fascist national theocracy. Plus, we’ll save a lot of money. As it is, the blue states (coastal areas where the vast majority of the population resides) fund the south and the heartland anyway. Maybe take the savings and hire more teachers to teach civics class so the republican nightmare won’t happen again.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 amhttp://www.hublercongress.com/
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October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 amThereIsNoSanctuary Says:
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Hmm. Did anyone else notice that Obama wore a U.S. flag pin on his lapel during each of the debates, but McSame did not wear one for any of them?
If you are a Republican, the lapel flag pin is implied.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
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Oh, absolutely. Just look at all those leftist totalitarian regimes, like Pinochet’s Chile or Mussolini’s Italy or Deng Xiaoping’s China.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:58 amHow many more days until we can live in this totalitarian dictatorship? WAIT…we’ve been living in one since January 20, 2001, at 12:01 pm Eastern time. Silly me to have forgotten.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:59 amRep. King on March 7th, 2008, “I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”
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“Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter,” King said. “It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was…”
After this spectacle, the McCain campaign issued a statement, “John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics…and obviously that extends to Congressman King’s statement.”
SO WHY EXACTLY WAS THIS NEOTURD MCCARTHY LOVER ASKED TO SPEAK AT A PALIN RALLY??? WERE THEY HOPING FOR MORE OF THE SAME HATRED AND DIVISIVENESS…YOU BETCHA!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Is that Marx…or Jesus Christ?
No wonder the usual neo-Confederate rightwing reactionaries are against it…
(Of course when it’s a question of their own paltry abilities–lack of talent but no lack of connections– and their “need” –or rather greed– they don’t have a problem with that…)
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pmAww, their dream of a NeoNazi dictatorship is over, look how unhinged they are…
October 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pmDESPERATION!
Sing it wit meh, naw!
DESSSS-PER-AY-SHUN!!
HUH! YEAH! HE-ELP MEH!! UH!!
DESPERATION!
Sing it wit’ meh, naw!
DESSSS-PER-AY-AY-YAY-SHUN-AH-YEAH!
Sing it, baby, sing it!
October 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pmThomasMc says: Aww, their dream of a NeoNazi dictatorship is over, look how unhinged they are…
Unfortunately the unhinged have gotten into positions of power before. E.g. George W. Bush, et al.
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm“On Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave little-noticed remarks at Sioux City’s West High School during an appearance by Gov. Sarah Palin…”
Important to note who Palin is pallin’ with…
October 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pmIf I –
1. Wanted to (continue to) live in a totalitarian dicktatorship (sic intentional)
2. Hated America
3. “…was not raised with an intentional attitude toward Americanism.”
I would vote for McCain.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pmRepublicans have no other options left so they resort to what they do best scare tactics. Even Carly Fiorina said the other day that Obama would be a Bush 3rd term. That is dumbest thing I ever heard. They’re just begging another 4 more years of tax cuts which this country at this point simply can’t afford. But they’ll say anything Marxism, Communism, Totalitarian Dictatorship, whatever. What sad bunch of greed-assed pigs they are.
No other president in the history of this nation has brought this country closer to a closed fascist state than the idiot lying freak George W Bush.
And as we speak more and more lose their jobs, confidence is at an all time low, and the idiot keep squandering trillions of taxpayer money into an unresolved endless criminal war!
October 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pmKing’s comments are akin to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) recent declaration that Obama is “anti-American,” which generated strong public outcry and media attention. In similar overblown right-wing rhetoric, on Oct. 19, Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) told a crowd that “liberals hate real Americans,” and in August, Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) said that liberals wanted “the American public to suffer and to hurt.”
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what’s new about any of this?
we use to have trolls who posted
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they’re all dead.
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pmcitizen_pain Says:
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Hey, if and when the O man is elected (landlside, mandate), then why don’t we just let the red states secede?
Let them run their own fascist national theocracy. Plus, we’ll save a lot of money. As it is, the blue states (coastal areas where the vast majority of the population resides) fund the south and the heartland anyway. Maybe take the savings and hire more teachers to teach civics class so the republican nightmare won’t happen again.
We would have to take a lot of the savings to build an incredibly long wall to keep them from driving across the border in their pickups, burning crosses, shooting at our stop signs, and stealing ingredients for their meth labs.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pmPerhaps King is a ‘whack job’ too?
snark off.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm“The next day in Spencer, IA, King lauded the “background” of the Bush family….”
But wasn’t Prescott Bush a Nazi sympathizer?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWow…Kings concern is so very touching BUT where was all of his concern when Bush was trampling all over the constitution,
October 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pmand appointing himself the emperor?
citizen_pain Says:
Hey, if and when the O man is elected (landlside, mandate), then why don’t we just let the red states secede?
Thanks for that wonderful spirit of inclusion, citizen. For those of us who live in blue cities in red states, you just gave us the warm fuzzies.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pmKing went beyond the traditional right-wing talking points.
Sorry, but there is no “beyond”. Precisely when you think wingnuts can’t be any more delusional, they prove you wrong.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:14 pmA Patriot Acting Says:
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Rep. King on March 7th, 2008,“Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter,” King said. “It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name.
Hmmmm, I guess that means the Israelis will also be dancing in the streets, because his first name, “Barack”, is a Jewish name which means “lightning”.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:14 pmjaymark Says:
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“The next day in Spencer, IA, King lauded the “background” of the Bush family….”
But wasn’t Prescott Bush a Nazi sympathizer?
I thought that was King’s point.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pmkooky shit like this makes me laugh…
October 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pmKing is a whack-job!
Funny thing though; Bush, the GOP and the neocons have been doing for eight years just the thing King thinks Obama will do.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pmThe party yet to fully realize its rightful position as a third party can’t debate the issues, so they whine about mannerisms.
Put your hand over your heart. Celebrate the GOP conversion of our once-bright country into a clump of trash and the laughing stock of the world. March forward. Tattoo swastika on your right arm.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pmjaymark Says:
“The next day in Spencer, IA, King lauded the “background” of the Bush family….”
But wasn’t Prescott Bush a Nazi sympathizer?
prescott supplied hitler and nazi germany with half of THEIR wartime iron.
lots of unanswered questions regarding the bush cartel.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pmPerhaps Rep King would like to take Todd Palin’s stance and have Iowa secede from the union?
Jerk. Your state is going to go for Obama, why are you so out of touch with your constituents?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pmSeems to me that the last 8 years have been a little bit of a lurch to totalarianism.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pmObama will be INHERITING “a totalitarian dictatorship”, which this King guy, having been in Congress, had a hand in creating. John McCain has already expressed his wishes to be a “dictator”. (Bush, at least, waited til he was in the Oval Office to reveal this intent; and then proceeded to assume all the powers associated with a dictator – with the total acquiesence of Congress and the courts.)
Our only true hope is that Obama will voluntarily relinquish the extra-Constitutional presidential authority that Bushcheney exercised over the past 8 years; and return us to the pre-9/11 mindset, when our love of freedom superceded our fears. (But, what public official ever voluntarily gave up authority?)
October 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pmRep. King is talking about the wrong person it is George W. Bush who is the Totalitarian Dictator. Now let’s not forget the pass 7 years when Bush/Cheney ran the White House like Dictators. Now King thinks Obama will be another Bush and that’s what he’s really afraid of. The following GOP Senators were responsible for the collape of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac:
The senators were Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Christopher “Kit” Bond and Jim Talent of Missouri, Conrad Burns of Montana, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, George Allen of Virginia, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Larry Craig of Idaho, John Ensign of Nevada, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, George Voinovich of Ohio and David Vitter of Louisiana.
The GOP Law Makers like Rep. King have been robbing the taxpayers blind and now it’s over.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pm“This’id be a a heckofa lot easier if it was a dictatorship…as long as I was the dictator…heheheh”
The president of which party said that?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm“But wasn’t Prescott Bush a Nazi sympathizer?”
Yup, the same one that was a part of a failed coup against FDR to move America to a Fascist state. Who knew that he’d be so successful… just 70 years later.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pmBarack Obama was raised by his grandmother–a woman who now lays dyinng in Hawaii.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pmAnd this waste of human skin accuses he of being a polygamist and a left-wing hard-core atheist.
These are not the words of a civilized human being.
“This’id be a a heckofa lot easier if it was a dictatorship…as long as I was the dictator…heheheh”
That was Bush, this was McCain:
“If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be…”
October 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pmI really hope someone is saving all these for 4 years from now. They’d make a killer campaign ad for Obama’s reelection.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pmLiberals with control of all three branches would be the closest this country has been to the “Founders’ Intentions” since the founders controlled the country.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
I would love to see the Ambassadors of such countries as France, England, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway (for example) contact Mr. King, ask him for an apology calling their countries totalitarian dictatorships, and cc: the press.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pmFor the last 8 yrs (anytime a repug is in charge) totalitarian is what repugs believe in.
He and mcchimpy wants to be dictators and have stated it publicly.
Our rights, the constitution and our needs have been smashed by the repugs.
repugs STFU losers. Idiots.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm“…and said that he would turn the United States into a “totalitarian dictatorship.”
You mean like the past eight years under Bush.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pmI’m sick to death of these ugly morons and their divisive bullsh*t, and I’ve taken to calling their offices or sending an email whenever possible:
Washington, D.C.
1609 Longworth Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515
Phone: 202.225.4426
Fax: 202.225.3193
Council Bluffs
40 Pearl St.
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Phone: 712.325.1404
Fax: 712.325.1405
Creston
208 W Taylor Street
P.O. Box 601
Creston, IA 50801
Phone: 641.782.2495
Fax: 641.782.2497
Sioux City
526 Nebraska Street
Sioux City, IA 51101
Phone: 712.224.4692
Fax: 712.224.4693
Spencer
306 N Grand Avenue
P.O. Box 650
Spencer, IA 51301
Phone: 712.580.7754
Fax: 712.580.3354
Storm Lake
800 Oneida St., Suite A
Storm Lake, Iowa 50588
Phone: 712.732.4197
Fax: 712.732.4217
http://www.house.gov/steveking/contact.shtm
Note: his email contact form is for Iowa residents, so if you put in one of his Iowa office addresses, you can email him.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pmBetter a totalarian dictatorship than a totally aryan potato chip! Never mind.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pmAre you aware that Steven King has a flare for fiction – I love his horror tales?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pmI hope that after the election, and out to 2,3,4,28 years from now, all of this vicious monkeypoop is kept in the public eye so no one ever forgets what the true colors of the gop look like.
Let’s keep all these clips alive and in circulation as long as possible.
Maybe TP should open up a “true colors” a/v vault – a repository for the “macacas”, and the “kill hims” and so on.
If “the Dean scream” is still current, then crap like King’s diatribes ought to last for decades.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pmDo the Republicans ALWAYS think up is down and war is peace? Are they all whackos?
And how can Obama be a totaltarian if he is a socialist?
October 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pmIt burns… it burns!!!
Make it stop… make it stop!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pmI love the way he stands there and presents this lunacy with
October 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pmall the calm regard that this is somehow a well thought out
and reasonable discourse when you know his brain is squirming
around in his skull like a dozen eels in a frying pan.
GloryB Says:
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Do the Republicans ALWAYS think up is down and war is peace? Are they all whackos?
And how can Obama be a totaltarian if he is a socialist?
Because none of them have the slightest clue about the nature of socialism, other than “it’s bad”.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm“Mr. President, ” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.” || “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
October 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pmPresidential sogning statements represent the most severe threat to American democracy on a generation. ABA
the NSA is secretly spying on 10’s of millions of americans.
USA today
The Bush administration is opening your mail !
The Bush administration is running secret torture facilities.
the bush administration has condicted a war resultinf in the deaths of 1 1/2 million Iraqi’s based on LIES and FORGERIES and wrote through the PNAC of their intentions to do so pre 911
Prescot bush traded with the enemy during a time of war and plotted to overthrow the US government .
The Bush administration has through the use of a SIGNING STATEMENT violated posse commitatus and has authorised the US Army to use lethal and non leathal force against the American citizenry in a state of emergency as of Oct.1.2008
The list goes on and on !!!!!
The man ,who would be king , LIES !
shoeless Says:
Hmmmm, I guess that means the Israelis will also be dancing in the streets, because his first name, “Barack”, is a Jewish name which means “lightning”.
And let us not forget that “Barack” Ben Gurion is the man who declared Isreal a state on Palestinian Land.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pmHey man ,nice pec’s.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm“And let us not forget that “Barack” Ben Gurion is the man who declared Isreal a state on Palestinian Land.”
Great point! Maybe the 24% of Jewish voters not supporting Obama should consider that.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pmI can’t keep up with what they are saying Obama is.
Can someone really be the Anti-Christ Muslim Terrorist Dictator-Redistributor of Socialist-Communist Anti-America?
That’s one hell of a lot of ideology to cover, much of it diametrically opposed.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:47 pmbigeugene Says:
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I can’t keep up with what they are saying Obama is.
Can someone really be the Anti-Christ Muslim Terrorist Dictator-Redistributor of Socialist-Communist Anti-America?
That’s one hell of a lot of ideology to cover, much of it diametrically opposed.
Yeah, they would keep their message simple, but they aren’t allowed to say n!gger.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm.
Wait a second…
… I thought I saw the “DECIDER’S” butt prints on Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) lips.
What’s a “DECIDER” but a DICKtator, anyway?
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October 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pmI keep shaking, shaking my head. I pride myself with empathy but I simply cannot get into the heads of people who make statements like this. Are they REALLY that stupid? Have the completely overlooked the current Administration that literally embodies everything they fear about Obama??? Have they really been completely brainwashed by the corporate media? Hopefully Obama will win the election but I hold no hope, that no matter how good his administration is, that these folks will ever acknowledge it.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm“Rep. Steve King: Obama Will Make America A ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’”
this class-A d0o0uchebag needs to be more in sync with his party leaders…acording to Bush’s own lawyers, the president can be a totalitarian dictator as long as he claim we’re at war with terror
October 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pmAnd they all screamed bloody murder when we pointed out their fascist tactics of weilding corporations with the government for the good of the military industrial complex…back to hell, demons, back to hell.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pmNothing projects like a Republican.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pmThe people who gave us the unitary executive theory are complaining about totalitarianism? They have lost they goddamn minds.
The really thing that makes my head explode is the “he doesn’t place his hand on his heart during the National Anthem” thing. I mean, these are the right wingers. They’re all about some nationalism. You’d think that if they knew anything, they’d know about the correct protocols for displaying respect for national symbols, right? But no, they get even that wrong. You don’t put your hand on your heart while listening to or singing the National Anthem, you do when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. That’s ‘cuz it’s a pledge. Nothing in the National Anthem constitutes a pledge of any kind. The only protocol governing participation in the National Anthem is that you stand up. In fact, using the wrong form is actually a sign of DISRESPECT for the symbol, because it demonstrates that you don’t know any better. Obama does know better, and he does it correctly.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pmWhen I hear sh*t like this, it makes me physically ill that people are trying to question his nationality or his patriotism or whatever…. why are these caucasian people so afraid of a man who went to school in Hawaii? And Raised by maternal grandparents that came from Kansas with a good mid-western work ethic? (BTW, they are caucasian, too, but they never mention that)
And isn’t it the Republicans that say that children should get their primary education at home? Don’t you think that Obama learned a lot of his values that he demonstrates every single day at the knee of his grandparents? I do.
I spit on these representatives that seek to separate Americans into sub-sets.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pmWhere has Rep Steven King been for the last 8 years? We are already living in a totalitarian state with George W Bush as the dictator.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pmPennsylvania fired Rick Santorum and Iowa needs to fire King.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pmWhy does he pronounce Obama like the middle syllable is Emeril saying “Bam!”?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pmGeez, if Bush and Cheney couldn’t accomplish it,
October 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pmwhy would he think Obama could?
citizen_pain Says:
Hey, if and when the O man is elected (landlside, mandate), then why don’t we just let the red states secede?
Let them run their own fascist national theocracy. Plus, we’ll save a lot of money. As it is, the blue states (coastal areas where the vast majority of the population resides) fund the south and the heartland anyway. Maybe take the savings and hire more teachers to teach civics class so the republican nightmare won’t happen again.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Just a moment, I respectfully request that you don’t lump all people in the South in the same boat. Some of us actually think, can read, and have finally awakened from our ignorance. All I can say is thank God I never voted for Bush. Not to mention my state may actually flip from red to blue this election. *crosses fingers*
Obama/Biden ‘08
October 28th, 2008 at 4:12 pmObama/Biden ‘12
The other day when Sarah Palin spoke in Omaha Congressman Lee Terry (R) was not at that event and nowhere in sight. Terry instead ran an ad appealing for Obama/Terry voters.
Sarah Palin had to go across the river and pull in Steven King for the introduction. Such is the state of politics in this normally red congressional district. (Terry is a 5-term congressman).
October 28th, 2008 at 5:04 pmCouldn’t agree more.
The little dictator has already started black listing the press because of the tough questioning of Biden in Florida last week.
Next up, the second amendment will be attacked.
Hitler did the exact same thing as Obama is doing right now. Hitler ran on Hope and Change. Hitler shut down the newspapers. Hitler disarmed the German people.
It is unfolding right before your eyes … and you refuse to see it.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pmTim43 Says:
My GOD you are stupid
Couldn’t agree more.
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Of course not. You are an ignorant, brainwashed hivemind moron who never had an original thought in your entire life.
The little dictator has already started black listing the press because of the tough questioning of Biden in Florida last week.
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He thought being a punching bag for ignorant, biased rightwing bloviators was a bad idea. We all get that the REALLY stupid hiveminders like you wish he would keep doing it but no one else thinks its a good idea. Get over yourself, your stupidity is an embarassment.
Next up, the second amendment will be attacked.
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So you got that from your I Ching? Perhaps your Ouiji Board. Oh no thats right its just the next up talking point from your list of incredibly ignorant things your hivemind masters wanted you to think and repeat. Here is your cookie you braindead, brainwashed cretin.
Hitler did the exact same thing as Obama is doing right now. Hitler ran on Hope and Change. Hitler shut down the newspapers. Hitler disarmed the German people.
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Half of all politicians of all time and MOST of all politicians of all time during bad times ran on hope and change. Did you think you made a point? Of course not you are incapable of actual thought just repitition. When did Obama even call for disarming Americans or shutting down newspapers? Not giving reporters access to slander you really isnt the same thing as shutting them down and you would have to be as ignorant as, well as YOU are, to pretend it is. Your level of abject stupidity is astonishing. You dont really believe any of the incredibly stupid things you post make sense do you? I mean you are just spewing what you were TOLD to think right? You are stupider than an underwater BBQ.
It is unfolding right before your eyes … and you refuse to see it.
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What is unfolding before our eyes is the total self destruction of the rightwing fantasies, lies, and stupidity and the hold on power they had. You guys are circling the porcelain drain and we DO see it you are just thrashing around desperately wishing we didnt. Good luck with your ignorance since its all you have left.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pmHow do guys like this get elected?
October 29th, 2008 at 2:48 amI knew that I was forgetting to donate to someone and I couldnt figure out who it was…
93 comments and only one troll, at it is a precious delusional little flower.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:44 amWhy do Rep Steve King’s district believe he is sane enough to send to the House of Representatives of the United States?
October 29th, 2008 at 4:08 amI rebuke Rep. Steve King’s evil tactics (words and deeds) in the name and blood of Jesus, and send all of them back to the pit of hell where they come from. I plead the blood of Jesus for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their families, their campaign, and Sen. Obama’s presidency.
Not any of McCain’s WEAK campaign tactics, the RNC, and his supporters’ attacks of lies, hatred, fear, racism, and division WILL NEVER PREVAIL against Sen. Obama – this nation’s next Commander-in-Chief !!!
You [ Barack Obama], are from God and have overcome them [the enemy's attacks, schemes, and plots ] , because the one [God] who is in you [ Barack Obama] is greater than the one [the enemy ] who is in the world. – 1 John 4:4
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
They will fight against you [ Barack Obama] but will not overcome you, for I [God ] am with you [ Barack Obama] and will rescue you,” declares the LORD. – Jeremiah 1:19
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. – 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. – Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. – Luke 10:19
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pmKing is right, the rich enjoy much more freedom when his gang of thugs are in control. The fear of a totalitarian dictatorship is very real from both sides of the isle. The neo-cons will give it to us in the name of free (slanted toward the rich)markets, and the left will give it to us as big daddy “goin to take care of us po folk”. I voted for Obama because he could put a sentence together with two or more complex word structures, not because he’s an honest man. Honest men may begin a career in politics, but they soon meet the hundred royal families that control banking,commerce, the church and politics – they either bend or …break.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:16 pm