Krauthammer: race only came up when left began losing argument.mov

Indeed. Charles Krauthammer never fails to bring clarity to an argument, or rather, unfounded charges. Remember the Shirley Sharrod story exploded after the NAACP decided to lable the Tea Party folks, like me, as racists, without proof and based on nothing more than wild accusations. But when you have lost the big government is the answer argument (proven by a foundering economy) then what other card can you play.

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• the left began to lose.

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@Mr40acresandamule

You're confusing the rights of States, with the rights of people. The Federal government cannot take rights from the States, but it does have the obligation to ensure the States don't deprive the people of their rights (ex. Lincoln, Ike).

[Mr40acresandamule]

Krauthammer is right. He talks about the expansion of government which is a federalism issue. People tend to forget that federal government expanded its power to bring minorities into full economic, political, and social citizenship in the U.S. State and local governments weren't doing it and the private sector wasn't doing it. This leads people to define what is limited government. Limited small gov. would not have extended full citizenship to minorities and women.

[eirefrance]

@Gerkinstock And Krugman, in Fear Strikes Out, made the mistake of not double-checking the facts someone else reported as true. Still, the gist of his editorial, that fear ruled the day in "Obamacare" (hee hee hee) was true. Death panels, death panels everywhere on your channels!! Rationed health cay-airs from well-funded propagandist lay-airs!!

[eirefrance]

@Gerkinstock And what Sarah Spitz says privately is none of our concern. It was shitty when people speculated that trig was really Bristol's child (although I think Palins support of abstinence only education made it entirely valid to point to her teenage child's pregnancy). But thats a huge difference from telling a caller on air to "get the bone out of your nose" or calling anti-war protestors anti-semites or suggesting blacks are responsible for the institutional racism that oppresses them.

[eirefrance]

@Gerkinstock You keep saying "expressed the belief that Bush PERPETRATED 9/11".

You really are priceless.

[eirefrance]

@Gerkinstock First of all, there is no such thing as "Obamacare". Second of all, saying it will add trillions of dollars to the debt is an ubstansiated claim by partisans who can't actually know that, as well as a distortion of their own position on health care in the past such as with the Medicare Pharmaceutical Drug Bill; so they must have an alternative reason for not wanting it passed, i.e. wanting poor people to die. Nearly everyone involved on the Journolist is a hate-monger? Uhhhhh...?

[Gerkinstock]

@eirefrance... Unless you think Sarah Spitz, producer of “Left, Right and Center,” expressing the desire to watch Rush Limbaugh's eyes bug out as he lies dying of a heart attack non-venomous.

BTW, 35% of Democrats polled in a June 2007 Rasmussen poll expressed the belief that Bush was behind 9/11 and another 26% were open to the idea. Are Democrats mostly non-LW conspiracy theorists?

[Gerkinstock]

@eirefrance... He has not changed his tune 100%. And Alan Grayson claims Republicans opposed Obamacare, which will add trillions to the debt, because they want sick people to die. He also compared health care in the U.S. to the Holocaust.  Talk about manufacturing crises. And how about Mike Molloy from CNN and Julianne Malveaux (like many in academia), who hoped Clarence Thomas would die from a heart attack at a young age? Nearly everyone involved in Journolist is a hatemonger, too.

[eirefrance]

@Gerkinstock Limbaugh has never falsely accused innocent people of hate crimes? Hahahaha, you're a real gem.

As for "supporting" the girl in the Duke case? I do think you need to go back and see what he actually said, but again, he's a blowhard and like Rush he can't apologize. And like Rush, he remains a national figure because the idiot media treat him like one.

[Gerkinstock]

@eirefrance... Keith Olbermann is venomous. So are Ed Schultz, Paul Krugman (check the false claims he made in his "Fear Strikes Out" column), Frank Rich (who compares opponents of Obama to Nazis and the KKK), Janeane Garofalo, Erica Jong, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, .Julian Bond, et al. Howard Dean once claimed that the difference between Republicans and Democrats is Democrats actually care if children go to bed hungry at night. That's not venomous?