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Bruce: Obama "destroying everything" because he's "getting back at" parents

June 12, 2009 10:39 am ET

From the June 11 edition of The Tammy Bruce Show:

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    • Author by raine315 (June 12, 2009 10:47 am ET)
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      LOL Is she trying to say President Obama makes his decisions based on not being breastfed as a baby? Conservatives have really lost their minds
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      • Author by Voter1 (June 13, 2009 8:41 am ET)
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        Here's the deal, the right wing's greatest fear is for Obama to be successful and America to be at peace and prosperity. Obama has definitely got into their heads and they, especially FOX, wet themselves every day over him.
        Tammy Bruce, you should seek help immediately, find a good liberal therapist - do it soon, your sanity is hanging by a thread.

        signed - An American who is proud of President Barack Hussein Obama

        p.s. Right Wing, please keep this up, I love seeing your agony.
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    • Author by mmharris438182 (June 12, 2009 10:48 am ET)
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      Another excellent example of hysterical right wing projection, almost as good as Limbaugh and his wannabees!
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    • Author by Victor Colorado (June 12, 2009 10:55 am ET)
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      And how exactly do you propose to stop President Obama from doing what you think it is that he's doing?
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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 12, 2009 1:58 pm ET)
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        they are in a vaccuum when it comes to american history. I like Mr Olbermann's suggestion to just put them on ignore and walk out of the establishments that have these shows on speakerphone. Do it politely.
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      • Author by vysotsky (June 12, 2009 2:40 pm ET)
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        It's an interesting pickle these blowhard, hardline conservative talkers must find themselves in this week. Collectively they've spent better than one year painting Obama as the most powerful supervillain of all time. I mean, according to them, he's...


        • Not American
        • Muslim
        • Marxist, fascist, socialist, America-hating, America-apologist
        • Black supremacist Christian
        • Every terrorist's BFF
        • In the pocket of powerful men behind the curtain who have wiped clean every record that might blemish his public persona
        • A hypnotist, skilled in public brainwashing techniques


        And now he holds the highest office in the land, and since part of this conspiracy theory is that the fix is in at the highest levels of government, there ain't nothin' you can do about this menace legally. So basically the antichrist --and not just basically but literally according to some of the more extreme commentators-- is the president. What's a moral person to do?

        Prior to these last few weeks, vigilantism might have seemed the only solution. But following Tiller's murder and the Holocaust Museum shooting, even the most rabid conservatives must be realizing that if anything happens to Obama, it would seal contemporary American conservatism's doom, or at least decimate the movement for decades. On the other hand, they're convinced that if Obama proceeds without vigilante opposition.... then the exact same thing will happen to the conservative movement.

        It must really suck to be a conservative talk show host right now.
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        • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 12, 2009 3:12 pm ET)
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          With these crazies spouting hate and acting on it, pres Obama may just be safer over there than over here. looks like Bush 43 fighting words " we fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here " has become just a whimper.
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        • Author by juliajayne (June 12, 2009 4:11 pm ET)
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          I'm surprised they haven't acussed him of heading up the "Alan Parson's Project". :-)
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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:33 pm ET)
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            To Tammy Bruce:

            If I had a mind to, I wouldn't want to be like you..."
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            • Author by juliajayne (June 12, 2009 6:30 pm ET)
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              And furthermore, Tammy Bruce:

              "And if I had time to, I wouldn't wanna talk to you."
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        • Author by ufleirx (June 12, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
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          "A hypnotist, skilled in public brainwashing techniques..."

          Must resist the urge to say.....

          "These are not the droids you are looking for."

          Damn, I failed again.
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    • Author by magnolialover (June 12, 2009 10:56 am ET)
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      So, I think I know what's happening.

      In the ever expanding world of crazy right wingers, they are all trying to one up each other to say the stupidest/craziest/looniest thing.

      Tammy Bruce is trying to get back her "street cred" by notching it up a few levels. I'm sure Limbaugh et all, will respond in kind.
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (June 12, 2009 1:33 pm ET)
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        they are all trying to one up each other to say the stupidest/craziest/looniest thing

        Mag, The crazy is just vomiting out of her. Seriously, I've known enough crazy people that I don't think this is an act.That sort of paranoia and detachment from reality is tough to fake.

        I was ragging on one of the wingnuts here a while back for saying that somebody (maybe it was directed at this site) had "jumped the shark yet again". That term has always applied to a one-time-only, no turning back event, and I was having a little fun pointing out another concept that seemed too hard to grasp for the typical dittohead.

        It looks like I may owe that person an apology. The right wing media seems to be constantly making the craziest statements imaginable, then somehow managing to dwarf those comments within a day or two.

        I like when she says, just before laying down her thesis, "make a note of this..". I can picture her fans surrounded by 3 x 5 cards and crayons, furiously scrawling notes. Bats88t crazy notes all over their squalid bunkers.

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        • Author by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 7:37 am ET)
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          Col, I agree this is not an act. I constantly hear conservatives repeat with conviction of it being true, the vile remarks of Rush and the likes and then they add how mean Democrats are. Rush often reminds his listeners how mean Democrats are before or after his hate filled vile remarks. I wonder why he feels they can not see that for themselves, that he has to remind them. Scary part is that it's not an act and these people have a forum to spit their crap out.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 12, 2009 11:00 am ET)
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      What the hell is her point?
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      • Author by magnolialover (June 12, 2009 11:07 am ET)
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        The top of her head?

        I'm sure what she's really trying to get at, is that Obama has "daddy" issues, being that his biological father was not around much, or at all for him. And blah, blah, blah... I'm surprised she didn't throw in a, "This is a great example of why marriage needs to be between a man and a woman, and why kids need to be brought up in a home with a father and a mother..."
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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 11:22 am ET)
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          Seems to me that Obama's mother, grandmother and grandfather did a stellar job of bringing him up.
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          • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 12, 2009 11:36 am ET)
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            Oh, come on, it's not like he was elecetd president of the united states or anything!
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            • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:35 pm ET)
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              At least it wasn't just the Supreme Court that elected him.
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          • Author by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 7:41 am ET)
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            I wonder how many kids she raises will become President of the United States of America?

            her point=Obama bad. Marriage between WHITE men & women only!
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          • Author by Voter1 (June 13, 2009 8:50 am ET)
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            I agree, Tammy Bruce's momma and daddy may not have raised her to respect the office of President. We now have a smart competent thinker in the white house and after 8 years of Cheney Bush its about time. The Right wing wackos spent 8 years excusing Bush and less than 8 months attacking Obama who is trying to clean up the mess they left.

            These Neo-cons are possessed.
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        • Author by kfraz43 (June 12, 2009 11:23 am ET)
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          ...and by extension magnolia, it's surprising that she didn't declare this as a "black problem" in general. Maybe even call it an indictment of mixed race relationships. Or perhaps it's what happens when we provide higher education opportunities to minorities from broken homes...

          Who knows what mileage these whackos can get from one single talking point. Gotta admit - even though they're dangerous and full of hatred and intolerance, they're at least creative!
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        • Author by WorldViewer (June 12, 2009 1:02 pm ET)
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          I'm not certain what her exact position on gay marriage is... I think she is a supporter, or at least supports fully empowered civil unions. I'm not defending this human train wreck, but she is actually an out lesbian, so at least on this point you may be off the mark.
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          • Author by magnolialover (June 12, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
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            I'm not sure of her position on this either, but, and this is entirely possible, she might be against it. Again, don't know for sure. I mean, we have people like Ann Coulter who says things like women shouldn't be allowed to vote, again, going against their best interests.

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            • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 12, 2009 2:50 pm ET)
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              So... she may be a member of possibly the worst, most horribly-named political group of all time... the Log-Cabin Republicans?

              (I'm sorry. I don't care what to people want to do with each other, I really don't, but that name is just HORRIBLE. *shudder*)
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              • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
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                It refers back to Abraham Lincoln, the one the GOP claims as the founder of the Republican Party, and the fact that he was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands.
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            • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 12, 2009 2:53 pm ET)
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              From wiki:

              Bruce's Web site describes her as "an openly gay, pro-choice,
              gun owning, pro-death penalty "progressive feminist" who has voted for presidents as diverse as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.


              She seems like a more interesting individula than Malkin or Ingrham, but I'll still take Maddow any day. (After all, Wiki also makes Beck, Hannity and O'Rielly sound almost moderate.)
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              • Author by ufleirx (June 12, 2009 4:18 pm ET)
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                Read a couple of her books. She definitely has issues with herself and likes to project.

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                • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:47 pm ET)
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                  She doesn't have issues, she has a lifetime subscription.
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      • Author by snoopy (June 12, 2009 11:25 am ET)
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        Her point is that she's a card carrying member of the fascist racist government in exile.
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    • Author by Prospect (June 12, 2009 11:02 am ET)
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      does anybody besides me hear how.. just.. extraordinarily crazy she SOUNDS as opposed to what she's saying? Good lord.. I consider myself kind of in the middle as far all these political things go.. but man do conservatives make it hard for me to take them seriously when they say things like this..
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 7:52 am ET)
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        My thoughts exactly. On that note does anyone think that most of these Rights referred to on this site not only are SOUNDING crazier they are looking crazier? Rush, Beck & Coulter have a real scary look in their eyes like Cheney. Hannity's hatred is starting to distort his face.
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (June 12, 2009 11:27 am ET)
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      I find it ironic that she's talking about Obama having this psycho-like pathology.
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      • Author by marco21 (June 12, 2009 11:35 am ET)
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        Tammy had a little extra crazy in her coffee, it seems. And she is calling someone else out for being pathological? Hilarious.
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      • Author by phredicles (June 12, 2009 11:49 am ET)
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        Yeah, these people are so blatantly transparent in their projecting, I'm a little surprised even they don't see it. But then, they're well-practiced in not seeing the obvious.
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    • Author by juliajayne (June 12, 2009 11:39 am ET)
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      Does anybody besides Dr, Laura take this woman seriously?
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      • Author by wzwriter (June 12, 2009 12:19 pm ET)
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        Does anybody besides Dr. Laura take this woman seriously?

        Yes - Bill O'Reilly. And we all know how emotionally balanced HE is....
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    • Author by PurpleState (June 12, 2009 11:49 am ET)
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      I wish I had two faces so I could palm them with both hands.
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      • Author by John Paradox (June 12, 2009 6:31 pm ET)
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        Wouldn't you need to be either a politician or pundit to have two faces?
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    • Author by worrierking (June 12, 2009 11:51 am ET)
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      I'm sure she made a lot of new fans among the ranks of nurses and firefighters.

      I know what my wife the nurse will say when she hears this cretin.

      "She'd better never wind up as my patient."
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    • Author by k2 (June 12, 2009 11:58 am ET)
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      The private sector is failing because of fantasy conservative economic principles. Where's the right's "personal responsibility" now that they have brought the country to its knees??
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      • Author by magnolialover (June 12, 2009 12:24 pm ET)
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        They forget about that part.

        Also, there are some signs that the economy is recovering. How long do you think it will be before we have conservatives saying that it is recovering because of George W. Bush, and not anything Obama did?

        That's what they did for all of the Clinton years. Claimed the stellar economy was because of GHW Bush.
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        • Author by twseattle (June 12, 2009 1:00 pm ET)
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          In a perverted way, they were right. Inasmuch as their (now admitted) excessive deficit spending let everybody have a great time at taxpayers expense. Then they turn around and try to say government spending doesn't work.

          And I know, not everybody had great times, least of all me. The point is the only way Bush got his second term, even against a candidate as lackluster as Kerry, was he bought the election. The consequenses of that are only starting to hit us. Remember him touring agricultural areas carving out huge subsidies for farmers?

          I keep thinking of what my grandpa said to me during the 2000 election. "You haven't seen what the republicans can do to the economy." Other than the portrait of FDR he kept (his brother painted it) in the farmhouse, I never heard him say anything about politics. And he had teenagers in the 60's!
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          • Author by nerzog (June 12, 2009 1:06 pm ET)
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            Although I haven't heard any pundits admit it, I think it's pretty clear that the "recovery" which occurred during Bush's tenure was primarily fueled by consumer credit spending, not his tax cuts.

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            • Author by twseattle (June 12, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
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              That and, using a page right out of Reagan's playbook (with a huge boost in credibility after 9/11), an enormous increase in military spending. But tax cuts without reductions is classic government deficit spending. (Not to go all Clinton here.) And it pumps up economic activity. But they still pretend it was something else. Now they howl about deficits as if all of us just got off the spaceship not knowing what went on the last eight years.
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              • Author by Conchobhar (June 12, 2009 6:54 pm ET)
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                My I suggest Thomas Frank's THE WRECKING CREW; How Conservatives Govern? He makes your points, and documents, with sources and evidence, that today's conservatives actually seek to drive the government into bankruptcy so they can, "drown it in the bathtub." Another lovely quote he cites from Grover Norquist (I'm not quoting here, just accurately approximating) is that a crooked public servant is to be preferred to an honest one, because he'll drive the government into the tank more quickly.
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        • Author by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 7:56 am ET)
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          They forget that part....NO THEY DENIE THAT PART AND PROJECT THE BLAME ON CLINTON AND OBAMA AND ALL DEMOCRATS IN ANY OFFICE ANYWHERE.
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    • Author by lede39571545 (June 12, 2009 12:11 pm ET)
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      What insane statements. And the bit about nurses, simply a stupid tirade. Tammy, who are you getting back at?
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    • Author by shaggles (June 12, 2009 12:15 pm ET)
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      I love all the mind reading and armchair psychology Bruce has been spouting lately but can she make a single sunstantial point?
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:42 pm ET)
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        She couldn't make a point using an electric pencil sharpener.

        (I still don't know where to find electric pencils to put in those things. Don't even ask me about electric vacuum cleaners...)
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    • Author by manofmystique (June 12, 2009 12:23 pm ET)
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      I am convinced these white people can not help themselves. This is crazy. Everyday they have something stupid to say about Obama, yet when Bush was detroying America, these same idiots were silent. These hateful fools have no credibility. They won't be happy until they start a civil war. Do they not see what is happening accross the country? There name calling and accusations are not helpping the situation. What they are doing is wrong and immoral. And I know they don't give a damn about that.
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 8:05 am ET)
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        I do not think it is just a civil war they are after. When Beck interviewed the President of Georgia he as much as told him he did not think he should trust President Obama, that Obama might side with Russia against Georgia and throw him under the bus. OUTRAGIOUS
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    • Author by jbraskin4786 (June 12, 2009 12:36 pm ET)
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      Are the Conservatives having a contest to determine for the most crackpot psychological analysis of President Obama? It's really close between Limbaugh and Bruce.
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    • Author by nerzog (June 12, 2009 12:55 pm ET)
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      I think I'm figuring out the Republitoad electoral strategy. They're using the Troglodyte screechmonkeys like this dimwit to frighten and anger what's left of their base, flooding the public discourse with every nimrod conspiracy theory and outrage they can fabricate.

      The drooling, idiot base... duly frightened and pi$$ed off, will donate money to the RNC in a desperate attempt to save the Republic. With the huge resulting War Chest, they will nominate one of the few remaining Republican moderates for 2012, who will pretend that none of this stuff was ever said.

      Either that, or they're all just batsh*t crazy. Take your pick.
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    • Author by cdmsr (June 12, 2009 1:06 pm ET)
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      Let me get this straight: Barack Obama has daddy issues? Tammy has apparantly succeeded at what many on the right have attempted (and hoped the rest of us will do): Forget George W. Bush.

      Remember when Bob Woodward asked W if he had consulted his dad about Iraq and W said there was a greater father he talked to about it? (He meant God or Cheney, I'm not sure which.) And how the Cheeney/Bush regime marginalized Scowcroft, Powell and any other Poppy partisans still extant during their maladministration?

      And how about picking Cheney for VP? W had to know about the Cheney/Rumsfeld attempt to kill Poppy's presidential aspirations with the CIA appointment when they were in the Nixon White House.
      Yet he takes Cheney as a surrogate dad.

      Let's wait to judge Obama's psyche for at least one term. If he hasn't septupled the deficit, plunged us into numerous wars of choice, isolated us from the entire world and completely destroyed the middle class, then we can see how the daddy-issues contest has played out.

      Daddy issues. From a right-wing radio nutjob. You've got to be kidding me.
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      • Author by magnolialover (June 12, 2009 2:01 pm ET)
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        Do you ever think that when GHW Bush and Clinton are off trotting around the world doing good deeds, GHW Bush looks at old Billy Boy, and says something like, "Dang son. You're the son I should have had."
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      • Author by mjh (June 13, 2009 9:13 pm ET)
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        "And how about picking Cheney for VP? W had to know about the Cheney/Rumsfeld attempt to kill Poppy's presidential aspirations with the CIA appointment when they were in the Nixon White House.
        Yet he takes Cheney as a surrogate dad."
        -- cdmsr


        Interesting point you bring up. In Jacob Weisberg's book, The Bush Tragedy, he describes how Bush's daddy issues not only led him to attempt to prove himself superior to his father in many ways {the Iraq War, the flight suit photo-op}, but also to pick his own surrogate family: where his blood family had GHW and Barbara as parents, his surrogate one had Cheney and Rice; where his blood family's homestead was Connecticut, his surrogate one, Crawford . . .
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    • Author by overmars jr. (June 12, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
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      Setting aside her obvious lunacy, who on Earth could voluntarily listen to that voice regardless of what she was saying?

      Egads.
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      • Author by vysotsky (June 12, 2009 2:19 pm ET)
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        Hey, that's a low blow. And I'll have you know I find something familiar and soothing about her voice. Reminds me of my childhood home. Boy do I miss that house. My parents were poor aspiring Olympic skaters but they couldn't afford to travel all the way to the city rink, and they certainly couldn't afford to have a private rink installed in the house, so they just tiled the floors with chalkboards and skated on that. But I digress. What I'm trying to say is that you're totally out of line mocking Ms. Bruce's dulcet voice. Totally out of line.
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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 12, 2009 5:45 pm ET)
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          What you forgot to say is that you waxed the skate blades with fingernail clippings.
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          • Author by Conchobhar (June 12, 2009 7:02 pm ET)
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            Some real zingers today, Easy. You'd have done well in that room with Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart, writing for Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. I liked your Lincoln Logs the best.
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      • Author by shaggles (June 12, 2009 2:19 pm ET)
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        Chris Matthews is that you?
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 12, 2009 1:38 pm ET)
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      the bible warned us about people like her. I just haven't figured out what the golden idol is yet There is something subterranean going on in this country where people get whipped up in a frenzy and some come out and act on this craziness. I would like to hear who she pledges allegiance to in reality. Is she really an american citizen ?
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    • Author by shaggles (June 12, 2009 2:17 pm ET)
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      Notice how nobody on the left ever calls Tammy Bruce a "great big pompous, sanctimonious homo?"
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    • Author by tjmccool2284 (June 12, 2009 3:09 pm ET)
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      I don't understand the criticism. Tammy has said before that she's a Democrat and a feminist. So she must be sincere, isn't she? I mean, she wasn't making that up just to get on the air was she?
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    • Author by Renazp (June 12, 2009 3:54 pm ET)
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      LOL at Obama's daddy issues. Does she not remember that Bush's daddy issues got us into a WAR we are now struggling to get out of.
      At least Obama's so called issues are trying to help people not KILL them
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    • Author by jbrantow (June 12, 2009 4:31 pm ET)
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      She's projecting about herself and her fellow wingnuts.....angry that their parents raised them to be bigoted, untrusting, ranting wingnuts
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    • Author by dadre (June 12, 2009 4:39 pm ET)
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      I think shes auditioning for "Insane Right Wing Idol"...and I think she was close to elimination an pulled some crazy from deep down within
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    • Author by jonesjax2374 (June 12, 2009 7:04 pm ET)
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      Wow this is all kinds of crazy. Obama is now the "crazy fireman" and also suffers from Munchausen by Proxy. Well those are new ones. That voice. It's so suited to radio, don't you think?
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