Secretary Powell endorses Barack Obama

[bigjon]

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.

 

I think it is just because you are biased, I am biased and I think the left is more hateful than the right... that is if we are talking mainstream right v. mainstream left...

Now the FAR right is worse than the far left... but I think they are actually fewer in number, definitly less than they were 50 years ago. The far right are the hardcore racist who do all  the KKK stuff, bomb abortion clinics ect.