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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is concerned that President Obama's trip abroad has served to bring out "the unhinged among the president's critics."

Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."

That psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

Maddow seemed mainly amused by the teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means something more threatening."

"The situation that I find genuinely frightening right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.' ... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."


Former evangelist: Religious right is ‘trawling for assassins’

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 -- 12:04 pm
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frankschaeffer101209 Former evangelist: Religious right is trawling for assassinsMSNBC's Rachel Maddow is concerned that President Obama's trip abroad has served to bring out "the unhinged among the president's critics."

Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."

That psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

Maddow seemed mainly amused by the teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means something more threatening."

"The situation that I find genuinely frightening right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.' ... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."
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"Really, this is trawling for assassins," continued Schaeffer, "and this is serious business. It's un-American, it's unpatriotic, and it goes to show that the religious right, the Republican far right, have coalesced into a group that truly want American revolution. ... They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. ... This bumper sticker simply says to them, 'It's open season.'"

Appearing increasingly agitated, Schaeffer went on to say, "This is the American version of the Taliban. The Taliban quotes the Koran, and Al Qaeda quotes certain verses in the Koran, in or out of context, calling for jihad and bloody war and the curse of Allah on infidels. This is the Old Testament biblical equivalent of calling for holy war. ... And what surprises me is that responsible -- if you can put it that way -- Republican leadership, and the editors at some of these Christian magazines .... do not stand up in holy horror and denounce this."

"I would just say to them, 'Where the hell are you?'" Schaeffer concluded. "'This is not funny any more, and be it on your head if something happens to our president.' ... There are not many steps left on this insane path."
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http://rawstory.com/2009/11/evangelist-religious-trawling-assassins/
 
:) lol we are going off topic i doubt if he will get knocked off but dont think they like him very much anyway we have our own problems at home
 
lol as if the "far left" were never "trawling for assassins" for past Republican presidents :rolleyes:
 
Alan said:
lol as if the "far left" were never "trawling for assassins" for past Republican presidents :rolleyes:
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That just isn't an answer that can just go without comment.

It simply doesn't make it acceptable because the other idiots also did the same thing.
 
Blah!Blah! said:
replied to wizard thats all i dont put obama high on my priority list so dont care either way really :)
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So let's just get this right...because Obama is not high on your priority list, you couldn't give a damn if a group of religious nut cases are planning to assassinate him?

Sad, sad sad..........:(

This whole anti Obama story is plain bloody ridiculous, and if these nut cases do end up assassinating him, the Republican party and it's following of right wing idiots will all have blood on their hands.

** Note to Alan...don't bother replying...I have you on ignore.
 
We know why there's all this shrilling

Dems alarmed as independents bolt

Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage.

Following serious setbacks with independents in off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors and said President Barack Obama sees no need to reposition his own image or the Democratic message.

Since then, however, a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents—the swing voters who swung dramatically toward the party in 2006 and 2008 but who now are registering deep unease with the amount of spending and debt called for under Obama's agenda in an era of one-party rule in Washington.

A Gallup Poll released last week offered a disturbing glimpse about the state of play: just 14 percent of independents approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest figure all year. In just the past few days alone, surveys have shown Democratic incumbents trailing Republicans among independent voters by double-digit margins in competitive statewide contests in places as varied as Connecticut, Ohio and Iowa.

Obama’s own popularity among independents has fallen significantly, too. A CBS News poll Tuesday showed the president’s approval rating among unaligned voters falling to 45 percent — down from 63 percent in April.
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Pity the independents are waking up a year too late :o
 
daveza said:
More bumper stickers from the company -

http://www.zazzle.com/anti-obama+bumperstickers

the ZAsucks branch of America.
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ROFL

Some of those are good. :D

Rather lame you pathetic hypocrites can't even take some of your own medicine. No wonder moderates are fleeing association with you.

Far right religious loones and left wing Obama worshiping nutters both sides of same coin :rolleyes:
 
daveza said:
More bumper stickers from the company -

http://www.zazzle.com/anti-obama+bumperstickers

the ZAsucks branch of America.
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That puts it in a nutshell!!

The radical right who will scream like stuck pigs that their rights are being taken from them if things don't go their way, and then happily bump off anyone who appears to be against their narrow minded way of thinking....:mad:
 
Alan said:
Rather lame you pathetic hypocrites can't even take some of your own medicine. No wonder moderates are fleeing association with you.
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Who exactly are you referring to?

Far right religious loones and left wing Obama worshiping nutters both sides of same coin :rolleyes:
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Agreed though I don't think far left loonies are as dangerous.
 
Alan said:
Typical. Trying to mislead and lie. Or maybe you're really that astonishingly stupid :rolleyes:
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Must be the latter 'cos I don't make a habit of lieing.

Please educate this idiot as to who you are referring to here -

as if the "far left" were never "trawling for assassins" for past Republican presidents
 
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