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October 24, 2004
Climate of Fear Part 7
After people have repeatedly threatened the Multnomah County Republican office in Portland with violence and eventually smashed the offices windows the executive director of the Oregon Democrat Party had this to say: But the fact is that the reason the Republican Party is feigning righteous indignation is because they don't want to talk about the 30,000 jobs lost and the 180,000 Oregonians who have lost health care.
There have also been smashed windows in a Flagstaff Republican office.
In Florida Democrats physically stopped Republicans from voting.
And to throw in one last comment on the civility of the left, here is a quote yearning for someone to murder Bush from the Guardian: The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?
Previous Climate of Fear post
Update: For a more humorous take on this disturbing trend a Slate reporter went into Kerry country with a Bush T-shirt on and into Bush country with a Kerry T-shirt. (via dangerous dan) He was sworn at in Kerry country and people in Bush country for the most part ignored him. Slate has slowly replaced Salon as my source for a liberal perspective on things because of stories like this. A reporter suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome (of which Salon is in full outbreak) would not have had the guts or insight to do the Bush Shirt part.
Posted by Pete at October 24, 2004 03:04 PM
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