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Originally Posted by Flasch186
fear.....8 years of it led us to this space were in now, IMO.
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I don't buy that. It was worse back in 2000 by both sides. You had leftist groups says black churches would burn if Bush was elected, the despicable ad showing a black man drug by chains in texas saying it would happen again if Bush was elected (because he wasn't in favor of hate crimes) and people burning signs of "Bush" after he was elected. On the right, you had the terrible claim against McCain in South Carolina about fathering a child from a black woman, Gore was going to destroy the combustible engine and kill the morality of the country because of Clinton.
Whatever season we are in always seems to be the "worst ever", but there have been some pretty terrible things done by both sides in the past 20 years. Basically, whomever is losing in the final 4 weeks goes nuts and makes all kinds of crazy claims to make up ground. In 2000 and 2004, Bush was called a terrorist, there were movies made about his assassination, the Rather made-up documents, the DUI claim, dolls of him were burned in effigy and you had signs like "kill the real terrorist - George Bush" and pictures of him with blood and knives stuck in them. 2008 is like a choir party compared to the anger/insanity against Bush four years ago.
In fairness, the right went pretty nuts against Clinton, but 2004 was about as bad as I can remember. I can't imagine what the left would do if signs were made at an event saying ""kill the real terrorist - Barack Obama" with a picture of his face with a knife in it and blood rolling down. That was par for the course against Bush in 2004.