He will Unleash a Bloody Terror!

[paperview]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Who said that?

Who are they?

Can you give a list?



What we did say was that he was a barely competent narcissist who will give us retread politicians in power, retread ideas in practice and a long list of broken promises he knew were impossible when he made them

 

[paperview]

Who said that?

Who are they?

Can you give a list?

It was in a major newspaper during the election.

Do you think political mudslinging has become more brutal through the years?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Politics gets softer all the time. Really brutal was in the early days.

There is generally a Darwinian winnowing over time of the politicians who go really dirty. Voters don't like it. What passes for really nasty now was polite discourse 30 years ago.

What major newspaper? What date?

 

[rightwinger]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.


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Even worse......

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

 

[Sheldon]

Reads like something from the Jefferson/Adams election. That was supposed to have been one of the worst.

Don't really see too many duels anymore.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.

Sounds like how the Left treats the Palins

 

[paperview]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.

Sounds like how the Left treats the Palins

You were this > < close Frank.

 

[rightwinger]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.

Sounds like how the Left treats the Palins

You were this > < close Frank.

I agree with eggsalad...sounds like something in the early 1800s. Imagine if they had todays media

 

[MaggieMae]

Politics gets softer all the time. Really brutal was in the early days.

There is generally a Darwinian winnowing over time of the politicians who go really dirty. Voters don't like it. What passes for really nasty now was polite discourse 30 years ago.

What major newspaper? What date?

Thirty years ago? No way. Back then, compromise solutions were made in smoke-filled rooms and the elected officials weren't 90% occupied with how tough they were going to appear while grandstanding for C-Span cameras.

Maybe 70 or 100 years ago, the politicians were nastier, but again, the public was kept out of view.

 

[Bill O'Olberman]

No mention of the Barackalypse or Obamageddon in 2012...

 

[Harry Dresden]

What they said about him during the election:
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."

And yet...

Politics sure has become brutal these days.

is this a quote from Rdean talking about his favorite group of people?.....

 

[CMike]

As long as it doesn't interrupt his vacations.

 

[rdean]

American President: Thomas Jefferson: Campaigns and Elections

Given the intense rivalry and conflict involved, it is not surprising that the 1800 election reached a level of personal animosity seldom equaled in American politics. The Federalists attacked the fifty-seven-year-old Jefferson as a godless Jacobin who would unleash the forces of bloody terror upon the land. With Jefferson as President, so warned one newspaper, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes." Others attacked Jefferson's deist beliefs as the views of an infidel who "writes aghast the truths of God's words; who makes not even a profession of Christianity; who is without Sabbaths; without the sanctuary, and without so much as a decent external respect for the faith and worship of Christians."

 

[Rocky Top Lady]

Political propaganda machines were a bit melodramatic back then, weren't they?

 

[rdean]

It's no surprise the quote comes from Christian Conservatives. They were trying to frighten US citizens all they way back then, just like they do today.

Guess once something works, you keep going back to that same well.

Kind of like South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Andre Bauer, "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals." Why, because they keep coming back.

If something works, you keep going back to it, again and again.

 

[California Girl]

If I was a mod, this would get shoved into the History subforum. I blame the public education system for the lack of intelligence in our country these days. Apparently, even filing is beyond the capabilities of some.

 

[rdean]

If I was a mod, this would get shoved into the History subforum. I blame the public education system for the lack of intelligence in our country these days. Apparently, even filing is beyond the capabilities of some.

Then you must hate what they are doing in Texas.

 

[chanel]

In 08, Chanel said "too inexperienced; too liberal; soft on terror; cute kids" Update - no change.

 

[rdean]

In 08, Chanel said "too inexperienced; too liberal; soft on terror; cute kids" Update - no change.

The following is a list of those that entered the Presidency with experience as President:

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