Originally posted by Mike Cash ......Trying to recall expressions of similar sentiment during Bush's tenure......Nope....nothing springs to mind.
*Bush* didn't respect the office. Tit for tat doesn't work if you don't know *the words* you're using for scary accusations. It's not 'tit for tat' if you've got people screaming out of ignorance of what 'Socialism' 'National Socialism' and 'Socialized Medicine' *mean?* "They all say Social, ergo, Obama, Sweden, and Canada are Nazi! OMG!"
And Cheney was The Penguin.
Bush and Cheney were disrespected cause of what they *did,* not because of who they *are* or what someone want you to be afraid they *might* do.
If you're gonna compare people to Batman villains, at least pick one that fits, rather than just picking an excuse to stick scary makeup on posters. There isn't even any kind of meaningful comparison there, it's just a reason to put Obama in white-face to *scare* people.
Say 'Socialist' cause he supports a public option a majority of Americans favor? (Yes, they do. If people are going to be forced to buy health insurance, they need an option they can afford and protection from the price-gouging. I heard this spelled out pretty nicely last night. In the past ten years, average wages have gone up 29 percent: health insurance costs more like 129 percent, and corporate health care *profits* 428 percent. )
Support for the public option goes way up when people look at the facts that the Republican plans would just force people to buy health insurance. And use public money to subsidize paying ...guess who, the big insurance companies, billions in public money to profit off of. And still control prices.
Meanwhile Fox News is orchestrating this Astroturf movement for people to scream in panic about what they don't understand, the rest of the MSM duly covers these, err, 'displays' like it's really half of some kind of serious debate, ...and after the past two election cycles of saying about Democratic candidates, 'Boring, don't pay attention to them they're boring,...' along comes another smart guy, this time with both statesmanship *and* some charisma, and all of a sudden the same people are "He must have some kind of *vooodooo power!* We must 'expose' this!"
It's like, ..dudes. He can speak. And after eight years of Bush being a national embarrassment, people are and have been psyched. Get over it. You might even try listening. Yes, most of the country is more 'liberal' than Fox News pundits. This was the case when the Dem candidates were 'boring,' too.