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Jennifer Rubin is right: The Obama campaign is using thuggish tactics to literally try to stifle opposition (who cares about free speech, anyhow?) while they try to steal the election. Yes, I repeat: The Obama people are trying to steal the election through the most massive voter fraud this country has ever seen. So now what are the thuggish Obama lawyers going to do: Ask that I, too, be prosecuted? Have at me. Come get me, you radical Alinskyite subverters of the republic. Come get me.

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Michael Roush| 10.18.08 @ 6:12PM

Mr. Hillyer, You're hyperventilating. Please, take a seat, place your head between your knees and breathe deeply. When you gain your equilibrium, pour yourself a nice scotch, or whatever libation you prefer, and try to relax. I'm worried about you, old boy.

ruth| 10.19.08 @ 1:26AM

oh, no. i think i smell that snotty liberal .

Ned| 10.19.08 @ 11:12AM

"Mr. Hillyer, You’re hyperventilating. Please, take a seat, place your head between your knees and breathe deeply. When you gain your equilibrium, pour yourself a nice scotch, or whatever libation you prefer, and try to relax. I’m worried about you, old boy."

So worried that we will soon be sending people like you to re-education camps. Government funded, of course, and as Senator Kerry says, "They ain't so bad."

Michael Roush| 10.19.08 @ 12:20PM

Ned, Ignoring the absurdity of your premise about re-education camps, why would I be sent to one? According to you, people like me would presumably be setting them up for people like you. You have consumed so much wing-nut propaganda that it has overwhelmed your ability to think logically.

Ned| 10.19.08 @ 2:12PM

I was pretending to be you and giving some more fatherly advice to Mr. Hillyer. Just having a little fun on Sunday morning, understand, old boy.

Oliver| 10.19.08 @ 4:23PM

Urgh. So many... Republican... talking points. I think I just threw up in my mouth... a little.

Putting aside the hilarity of casting the Democrats as an anti-free speech party, you can read all about the voter fraud issue/non-issue in that crazy radical fringe magazine, Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2202428/

There has only been one documented case of voter fraud since 2002... that's for either side. Why is voter fraud a non-issue? Because no one is going to show up at a polling center with a fake I.D. and risk going to jail in order to cast a SINGLE vote for Obama (or McCain, as the case may be). Even supposing that this hypothetical non-person risked being arrested, say, five times in a single day by casting, say, five fake votes for Obama (which would be almost impossible to do, as the risk of getting catch would rise exponentially), that would still be only FIVE votes for Obama... requiring five fake registrations, five fake I.D.s, and the very certain prospect of jail time. It's just not going to happen.

Fret not, voter fraud is a non-issue. You guys can start obsessing about other stuff now.

And speaking of freedom of speech, it might be nice if The Spectator stopped referring to liberal posters as "trolls," as you guys have done in your previous blogs. I'm no troll, and certainly am not a paid troll. I'm a normal human being who reads both liberal and conservative websites in order to find out what both sides are saying. ...That's okay with you guys, right?

Ned| 10.19.08 @ 5:29PM

"Putting aside the hilarity of casting the Democrats as an anti-free speech party, "

Oliver, did you see the video of the McCain Palin folks walking through Manhattan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI

Doesn't look like halarity to me.

Oliver| 10.19.08 @ 6:44PM

Okay, I watched it. Gracious! The fearsome Upper West Side of Manhattan! Those marchers are lucky they didn't get latteed or arugulaed to death.

This is, I guess, part of the new trend of extrapolating what each party stands for based on the behavior of individual voters. If we want to play that game... no, I don't even what to play that game. But using that logic, we can extrapolate from McCain/Palin events that the Republican party, as a whole, wants to kill Obama based on what a couple of dudes shouted.

But no, we can't do that. People being jerks on the Upper West Side doesn't make the Democratic party the anti-free speech party. And I wouldn't call the Republicans the anti-free speech party either.

Y'all need to chill out. It's an election. McCain's probably going to lose. Deal. Stop accusing the Democrats of being evil vote-faking Stalinists. That just ain't Kosher, y'all.

I live in Louisiana, and I have a feeling that an Obama march through certain, um, more rural sections of the state wouldn't be greeted, um, totally joyously. That's life. People are jerks. That sucks. But drawing false conclusions based on that is even suckier.

Joe| 10.19.08 @ 7:36PM

Oliver, I have to say, as much as I disagree with you (I'm a Republican from Texas), you are right-on point. I'm voting McCain and hope everyone does. But, geez, guys, it is an election, and one we're going to lose. Who cares? Someone's got to lose! Someone's got to win! We've done it before. And we'll do it again. So let's build our party back the way we want it, the way the Dems did since 2001. They deserve to win now. And we'll deserve to win then. Watch out for that swinging pendulum...

Osamas Pajamas| 10.19.08 @ 9:12PM

Every time one of you weak-in-the-head clowns says "We're gonna lose," some weak-in-the-knees lad or lass listens to you and just gives up and decides to stay home and not bother to vote. That's what OhBummer wants his opposition to do. Is that what you want his opposition to do? Damn you. Get off your duffs and get your teeth into the ACORN fraud or any other hefty hunk of steaming junk that OhBummer's gang is pooping on us!

Michael Roush| 10.19.08 @ 10:34PM

Osama Pajamas? Please!!! Quin and I sign our full names. Everyone else at least owns up to their first name. Come on. Stand up for what you believe and sign your submissions. Ned, well done. I will be paying very close attention to your postings in the future. You nailed me in a most exquisite way. Good work, old boy

Shaylo| 10.20.08 @ 2:06AM

Americans needs to wake up. The Obama movement is larger than anyone can fathom. It doesn't make sense on ANY level.

"VOTE YOUR GUT"

I pray we are not THAT far out of touch with good and evil, right and wrong.

Ned| 10.20.08 @ 10:40AM

Michael Roush, Thank you and have a good day.

Oliver, Either side has the potential to take away rights, and there are many ways to do it. It starts in little steps, as in the upper west side or politically correct speech enforcements on college campuses. As far as the McCain Palin rally and the folks yelling kill Obama, I agree this would be deplorable behavior. The trouble is no one other than the reporter who wrote of it heard it. I under stand the secret service guys didn't hear it either. But, who knows.

Oliver| 10.20.08 @ 12:11PM

Yawn. Dude, watch the videos of the rallies. Don't waste my time with this silliness. You can hear people shouting "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" Not that that was my main point. You don't have to try to spin everything your way, you know. It destroys credibility. "Politically correct speech enforcements on college campuses"? Please. Wasn't that a big issue for like 5 minutes, in like, 1990? I'm in college right now; I haven't noticed any "speech enforcements." Stop cherry-picking data, and start being honest with yourself. This election is going to end (even though it seems like it's being going on for fifteen years), and even when it's over, we'll still have to all deal with each other and get along. So let's all suck it up and get a grip.