Clinton's foot in mouth once again

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Maybe you are the exception on this thread then.

The far right in America are insane by most of the world's standards. Even Putin is far more liberal. Asides, if people are scared off by his remarks - well they are responsible for their own actions, right. By your argument anyway...

I used to take this line - but as I have grown older I have seen the fallacy in it. It gives people far too much credit, in reality most people are, for want of a better word, stupid. Something which is especially true in politics...

The only issue I have with this statement is the subtle implication that only angry right wing rhetoric leads to violence, when historically it seems equally likely to come from either side. This is sort of vintage Clinton clever; no one can really complain about Bill's call to be reasonable, while at the same time Clinton is suggesting that supporters of his political opponents are potential extremists and that the slightest encouragement of them could lead to violence.

That being said I can't even really get too worked up about this, if anything I can admire the master's light touch, it's almost refreshing in the current political climate. That, and I can't complain too much if the people in power are starting to actually be afraid of the consequences of their actions, a little fear among the politicians isn't entirely a bad thing.

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I agree. We are free to express opinions (except in the military).

ruveyn

Really? After the Vietnam era, domestic terrorism in the US has been pretty much exclusively a right-wing phenomenon. Given that we live in the present and Clinton was talking about the present, I don't see that as an unfair thing to imply. Obstructionists in the Republican party have not received death threats. Left-wingers are not telling their followers to throw bricks through the windows of their political opponents, and they are not stockpiling weapons or threatening (implicitly or explicitly) violence against the government.

You're talking about extremely small minority of the right here. There is definitely radical end of the left and they rear their ugly head every once in a while like at the WTO and G20 meetings and the DNC and RNC conventions. Funny that you mention throwing bricks throw windows since that's exactly what they do. Eco-terrorism causes millions of dollars of damage every year. Obama's "purple shirts" SEIU and other union thugs have been trying to intimidate dissenters since he took the presidency. They didn't even prosecute those Black Panthers in Philly for obvious voter intimidation even tho Bush's justice department had nearly finished the case and they were ready to pea. Joe Stack, that guy who crashed his plane ended his life with the communist creed. I think the potential for violence is there for both sides, it only takes one person obviously but the other 99% are completely in their right to be angry at the government for whatever the reason whether it be taxes or the war. They're afraid of losing their jobs and power over the people not their lives.