Secretary Powell endorses Barack Obama

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akuma587 said:

steven787 said:

I'm reading the comments over here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14714_Page3.html

They make me truly sad. To see how quickly some Republicans (who pick "Independent" as their party) turned on Powell, saying horrible things about him. It's bad enough they make baseless and racist attacks on Obama, now they do it to their own, one of the most respected and qualified members of their party.

There is just so much hate coming from the right. It literally hurts me, not offend, hurts me because of my love for this country and it's people.

I'm not saying this to try to talk anyone into voting for Obama, or vote Democrat. I really couldn't care about that right now. I'm hurt and sad.

Politics can do strange things to people...and misinformation can do even worse thing to people. Couple that with the fact that the average person is pretty dishonest and you are just asking for trouble.

I find the Right a bit more hateful than the Left, but then again I am probably biased. But the only people on the Left I see teeming with hatred are generally the environmentalists (and often for good cause, because we rape the environment in the butthole daily). You have your Michael Moore variety liberals too. But the Left has been justified in sending out a bit more hate for the last eight years, because this country has really taken a nosedive in terms of respectability and standing up for the Constitution.

I think most of the hate on the Right originates from the Religious Right, ironically. They should be the peacemakers in the party, but they are generally the loony ones. You get them into a room with the Republicans who actually have sane ideas and I think the sane Republicans even kind of give into all the hating.

 

 

Your right akuma. I used to be a part of the party, but what they have evolved into the last 8 years is disgusting. They are blaming everybody else for their own failures. The party would not be in this situation if it was not for bush and his cronies. You can only explain so much away before rational thought makes you question wtf is going on.

The religious right is venemous. They do not share the values the bible talks about. The bible talks about loving your neighbor, helping the poor, spreading the good news. The apostles never would have been like this. They go out and dig for dirt and revel when their misleading attacks annoy people, and when they make you upset they just call you a liberal, as if the work somehow is a cuss word. All they can talk about now is roe v wade and gay marriage, that is the only issue. That is literally all the republicans really are now. They talk about lowering taxes and spending, but its all talk. We saw that in the last 8 years. Its become a sad party. If they do not move more to the center and focus more on their economics then they will be irrelevent for many an election cycle.