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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
Then this is your lucky day. You and your cronies described Bush as a "war criminal" and a "nazi." The movie "Death of a President" was about George W. Bush specifically. In 2008, Barack Obama said, "If they (meaning Republicans) bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
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Asserting a similarity between Bush and Hitler a la Godwin is not even in the same hemisphere as a death threat. It's not. It may be hyperbole, in fact it is, but it's not a call for violence or death. Claiming as such demonstrates in no uncertain terms the willingness to commit massive false equivalence in order to escape responsibility.
Barack Obama did indeed say that Democrats should be politically bringing a gun to a knife fight, but he's not speaking to a party obsessed with revolution and guns, he's speaking to a political party hungry for more assertive political strategy, and is speaking directly to that. Were his words unwise? Perhaps, but compare them to this:
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Originally Posted by Glenn Beck, May 17, 2010
Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure.
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Originally Posted by Sharon Angle, June, 2010
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This not for law enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical...
[Interviewer: If we needed it at any time in history, it might be right now.]
Well it's to defend ourselves. And you know, I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.
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Originally Posted by Sarah Palin, Twitter, March, 2010
Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: 'Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!'
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Combine this statement with the map of targets, which she herself called target on her own twitter, and the language is entirely clear.
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Originally Posted by Roachboy
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I couldn't agree more.