[dcolton]

It's okay to call bush a nazi, hitler or other colorful words, but when the Repubs do it, it is inapporpriate? I see the double standard doesn't apply only to MacNN
http://www.whas11.com/topstories/sto...r.697b305.html

Bumper stickers are commonplace in a political campaign. Most these days say "Bush/ Cheney 04" or "Kerry for President". But there is a specific sticker missing from the window of Jefferson County's Republican Headquarters. It has caused quite a stir.

The sticker read, "Kerry is Osama bin Laden's man, President Bush is mine."

"It raises a good question based on John Kerry's voting record as a U.S. Senator," says Jack Richardson, the head of Jefferson County's Republican Party. "It makes you wonder who bin Laden would vote for."

"We have called upon the Republican Party not to post the bumper sticker on a window," said Representative Anne Northup. The incumbent congresswoman is running for re-election. She says the sticker has deflected debate from real issues in the race. "For once, Tony Miller and I agree: The sticker is inappropriate."

Miller, the Democratic challenger in the race, was critical of the sticker on Saturday and called for Richardson's resignation.

"For more than a year, the Democrats have made slanderous remarks against the president. Now, one little bumper sticker has the Democrats screaming like a stuck pig," says Richardson. But he also admits the controversy has taken a life of its own.

"Free speech is not just available to the Democrats," says Richardson

But Richardson says he sees the point Northup is trying to make. He has not intention of resigning. Northup has not called for his resignation.

This bumper sticker has ignited a minor controversy
"She has an opponent who has no issues to run on and I have no intention of being a distribution point to help him make this an issue," Richardson told WHAS11 News.

The party chairman says someone brought the sticker in last week. Headquarters has a specific table for bumper stickers that are handed out just for a donation. He says this one went fast. The local party will see who makes such a sticker and will tell anyone who wants one where it can be found.

Meanwhile, Tony Miller was unavailable for any on camera comments, but his campaign released a statement on Monday.

"Anne Northup can't denounce the bumper sticker and support her party chair, Jack Richardson, who wanted the bumper stickers advertised. This is the same party chair who in the last election sent only white poll watchers into African American districts, and then Anne Northup was nowhere to be found. It's time for Anne Northup to cut the inappropriate behavior and ask for his resignation."

[Luca Rescigno]

There's a difference between a few hyped-up citizens doing such a thing, and a party officially supporting such comparisons.

No, I don't think it's okay for any party to make such despicable comparisons. Personally I dislike Bush, but he shouldn't be compared to Hitler. Just as Kerry shouldn't be associated with Osama Bin Laden. It's not a double standard unless the Democrats were officially supporting campaign strategies that involved comparing Bush to the Nazis, while complaining when the Republicans do the same thing to Kerry.

Neither party is making such comparisons. Maybe a few people who vehemently support their party do, but it's not a double standard unless there's actually a difference in how the situation is handled on one side vs. the other.

[OSX Abuser]

I like this Bumper Sticker....

[el chupacabra]

Originally posted by OSX Abuser:
I like this Bumper Sticker....

Great sig too I never noticed it before. Osama would definitly vote for Bush.

[OldManMac]

Originally posted by OSX Abuser:
I like this Bumper Sticker....

A lot of Arabs don't like it, which is why we're not safer than before 9/11.

[:dragonflypro:]

Originally posted by OSX Abuser:
I like this Bumper Sticker....

1) nice image from an anti-Bush site. No points for accuracy.

2 ) saying Osama likes Kerry because Kerry's policies would be debatably make OBL's mission easier is thing. Comparing Bush, or any US president, to a man responsible for the bigoted slaughter of 6 million people is a huge failure of logic and crude.

3) political rhetoric is a fact; it should be expected. but, frankly, the rivers of it flowing out of the left these days is just sad.

T

[OldManMac]

Yes, you're absolutely right. No political rhetoric flows from the right, does it?

[villalobos]

Originally posted by :dragonflypro::
...
2 ) saying Osama likes Kerry because Kerry's policies would be debatably make OBL's mission easier is thing. ...

Whatever you were trying to say here, you can argue that attacking Iraq diverted precious manpower from OBL's hunt. I don't think that OBL would like to see Bush leave. Actually I don't think he cares who is in the White House.

[UNTeMac]

I think Osama would vote for Bush. Bush epitomizes everything bin Laden and his followers use to recruit people to commit terrorist acts. He goes to war practically alone. He and his cronies don't plan well enough for the aftermath and lose the occupation vs. liberation battle. He supports Israel almost to a fault, and in general, has made the U.S. look to the rest of the world like a bull in a china shop.

Bush is easy for terrorists to hate because he plays right into their hands. I remember thinking after Sept. 11 that I hoped we wouldn't go off half-cocked after somebody after we deposed the Taliban who were a main abetting force in the attack..but look, we did, and it's lost us the respect of much of the world.

Would OBL hate the U.S. if Bush wasn't president? Of course.

Does Bush make it easier for him to recruit manpower? Yes.