A President Was Killed ...

...the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild

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That being John F. Kennedy, of course.

I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical
attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being
exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom.
And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer.

The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963,
has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile object of disgust--into a crusade.
It's a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.

But I've been thinking about Dallas in 1963 because I've been recalling the history and how
that city stood as an outpost for the radical right, which never tried to hide its contempt for JFK.

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I assume the Secret Service is extra-alert in the "I-hate-that-nigger" era.
I also assume Obama won't riding in an open-air convertibles?

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Bart posted this over at Bartcop today and it is too important not to re-post everywhere.