Talk radio is a right wing conservative thing. No equal exists with opposing views. That being said...
Okay guys, here's my take. Rush calls Obama a Nazi. Can't remember the housing of or the attempted extermination yet of a race of people. If he were a Nazi, he would have already exterminated the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage.
I'm pretty sure this is taken out of context. Almost every line that people use to criticize these guys is taken out of context. If Rush called him a Nazi is was probably based on political views ( which would be correct ) and no so much all the other things Nazi's did. Nazis started as Germans Nazional Socialistitische Partei. The second part there is important.
Where's our Constitution? Hmmm! Me thinks it's a living document, or so I've been told.
You are correct. But you misunderstand the meaning...we'll get to that.
The founders of the Constitution lived in a day when if you needed a standing army, militias were created, loosely confederated, fighting for the same cause which at that time of course was to defeat the British. The right to form militias and bear arms should be taken in that context but the political right has determined the constitution should be taken literally, (like the Bible, I believe in talking snakes), and all of us should be packing.
The 2nd as you are referring to was actually put in there to protect the people from their own gorvernment. At the time this particular document was penned we had already defeated the british ( which is why we were making documents to run a new State ). No one "should" be packing, but as it is written you have the right.
Seems to me our Nazi president should order his jack booted thugs to come down on these born again mlitias with both boots but he hasn't, (yet).
Same as above. Additionally, as it stands now Americans can and will defend them selves. The 2nd is kinda nice eh?
If the Constitution is a living document, then it evolves via the whim of the American people.
A living document means that the rules, examples, etc can be applied current to many situations. In other words the document does not referance specifics but gives specific direction.
If we elect a conservative president, he appoints conservative justices. Such as Roberts and Allito who have determined that corporations should have the same voice as individuals and that the spending of money equates to free speech which means the more money you have, the more speak you have. The more money you have, the louder your voice. Thus persons who have often inherited their privelidged positions with the proverbial silver spoons in their mouths, are born with a louder voice than you, my poor bumpkin. Carry this to its illogical extreme, the richest man in the United States has the loudest voice and can outshout all naysayers. This stance is bad enough, providing the filthy rich individual with a louder voice but to equate a corporation with the individual and allow the same rights to it. This sort of mindset is the reason we're ruled today by the special interest.
This is called an oligarchy. We are a republic. Our republic is designed with a system of checks and balances that have been systematically circumvented. This is a problem, but we the people just keep voting for more handouts.
The problem with taking the things these hate speakers say with a grain of salt is that there are many hate filled people who take this speak as validation of their own necrotic thought processes.
This is a psychological issue and no one is responsible for their own actions but them selves.
There was a time not so far in the past when an influential senator, Joseph McCarthy, accused any individual that he chose to, to be a communist and that person was then ostracized by society because of his accusation alone. Eventually, a great man stood up and called him on his hate speak. McCarthy was eventually censured by the United States Senate and retired in ignominy. By the way, one of his staunchest supporters was Richard Nixon who also retired in ignominy; not a coincidence I dare say.
This country is in for real trouble in the not so distance future if the type of speak that these people spew continues without an influential leader on the right challenging it for what it is. And that is what it will take, no one on the left can challenge their hate with credibility. If the truth be known, these people and those who think like them are much closer to Nazi ilk than anyone on the left you can name and those who follow them are the new brown shirts.
Trust me there is at least as much if not more hate flowing from movements like moveon.org and the likes (Al Sharpton is a snake with a split tongue).
But as I said earlier, I'm 99% sure this is taken out of context. It's your responsibility to know who you are voting for. Beyond that if you don't think they have anything to say, don't listen....gotta love that ignore list eh?