Does anyone else find this Democrat offensive?

Krazygrrl · #1 10-27-2011, 03:27 AM

That is an interesting article about an interesting Democrat, Lyndon LaRouche. A little wacked, but interesting; a bit offensive too...

http://www.zimbio.com/The+Searched/a...ponsible+Obama

There are some more strange "predictions" from him, but someplace there has to be a line concerning "good taste".

whell · #2 10-27-2011, 05:27 AM

I'm not sure offensive is the right word. Sad, tragic, unbalanced. Not as far gone as Charles Manson, but similar sort of cult of personality and warp world view

d-ray657 · #3 10-27-2011, 08:09 AM

Lyndon LaRouche is as much of a Democrat as Rick Perry.

Regards,

D-Ray

simi · #4 10-27-2011, 08:17 AM

Ain't it interesting how the blind so easily lump people into left or right, demo or repub?

Like there's no such thing as those that believe in what's best for everyone....

Even funnier to me, is it's usually the right winged radicals that do it the most..

I"m still waiting to be laughed at more for believeing planes might be spraying the skys..

merrylander · #5 10-27-2011, 08:24 AM

LaRouche tried to found a Labor Party and when that fell on its arse he tried to get the Democratic nomination for pres, but as D-ray has pointed out if he is a Democrat so is Perry, and I am the King of Romania.

Krazygrrl · #6 10-27-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

LaRouche tried to found a Labor Party and when that fell on its arse he tried to get the Democratic nomination for pres, but as D-ray has pointed out if he is a Democrat so is Perry, and I am the King of Romania.

But your Majesty,

I mean... OMG!! You're not the King of Romania?!

whell · #7 10-27-2011, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by simi

Ain't it interesting how the blind so easily lump people into left or right, demo or repub?

Kinda like using the term "your side"?

finnbow · #8 10-27-2011, 09:08 AM

From the article:

So even though he's ideologically at odds with mainstream Dems, he makes it possible to say that Democrats, not Republicans, are the ones comparing the president to arguably the most evil dictator the world has ever known.

That is to say that it's not the fact that he labels himself a Democrat that makes him wacky. He's simply wacky and claiming to be a Democrat to add to the shock value of his crazy proclamations. Also it provides cover for the crazy proclamations that are routine from the right fringe.

LeRouche has been a known quantity in these parts for decades as he lives in Leesburg, VA. He's a whackjob of epic proportions.

Krazygrrl · #9 10-27-2011, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

From the article:

So even though he's ideologically at odds with mainstream Dems, he makes it possible to say that Democrats, not Republicans, are the ones comparing the president to arguably the most evil dictator the world has ever known.

That is to say that it's not the fact that he labels himself a Democrat that makes him wacky. He's simply wacky and claiming to be a Democrat to add to the shock value of his crazy proclamations. Also it provides cover for the crazy proclamations that are routine from the right fringe.

LeRouche has been a known quantity in these parts for decades as he lives in Leesburg, VA. He's a whackjob of epic proportions.

I am not at all certain that Hitler is the "most evil dictator the World has ever known," although he is most certainly a contender. Stalin, and especially Mao, in many ways, were even worse... Engineered famines, tens of millions of deaths of their own countrymen... Colonel Kaddaffi (or however the current spelling is), is often portrayed in the same mold as Saddam Hussein. The simple truth is that he was a coco-puff in comparison to the Iraqi, as Hussein was a cupcake in comparison to the three men listed above.

Yet this demented man, who claims to be a Democrat, is delusional in many ways. If he compares Obama to Hitler, he is insulting the naturalized German as there is no comparison. Obama is not a dictator, although at times I do believe he dreams of being one. Obama, although there is much misery in America right now and he is the long-time sitting President, he is not killing his own countrymen, nor has he launched a global war. If his comparison was to equate Obama to one of the three most brutal and ruthless dictators, he has failed. All three of these men are well out of Obama's league even if he were a dictator.

merrylander · #10 10-27-2011, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

LeRouche has been a known quantity in these parts for decades as he lives in Leesburg, VA. He's a whackjob of epic proportions.

Is it summat in the water?