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You said it better than I ever possibly could. In a paragraph, you say what would take me an essay. I’m humbled by your wisdom and writing skill. Your family is lucky to have someone like you guiding them and we’re lucky to have you here..

any measurement the cities that have been listed are the ones that come to the front of the mind for sowing the garbage that is distroying the foundations of this nation. I wish no ill or suffering against any person on the face of this planet whether they be American or otherwise, but the truth still remains self evident that you will reap what you sow.

banquet for the Gold Star families of Marines KIA back in Sept. of 2005. Talking to the mothers, fathers, and siblings of these warriors who fought for us was a very sobering two hours. Their sons and brothers lost their lives in a fight for freedom while the liberals back here marched in protest, called these same warriors “murderers and baby-killers.” And they called the President who led them a stupid cowboy, a thug and a liar. Their constant calls for the United States to pull out and surrender to the jihadists and insurgents caused even more of our good men and women to die on the battlefield and in suicide bombing attacks as the enemy took strength and comfort from hearing the left so constantly say the same thing they were saying themselves.

For the Left now to ask us to all “support one another and be one for all and all for one” is just a bit too rich for me to stomach as these same people continue the job of destroying this country, the same country that the same honorable military members are still fighting to protect. What will be left for them to come home to? What will be left to fight for in the future? A country as enslaved in tyranny and injustice and poverty for all as the countries they are currently fighting in?

No, I do not wish death and suffering on anyone, but it will come nevertheless and it will be hastened and emboldened by the same Left that emboldened our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Being misguided” is a term you use for those who voted for Obama because they listened to the MSM. “Evil” is the term I use for those like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Evan Thomas, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc.—those who are in positions to influence others or in positions that directly affect the direction that this country will take now and in the future. And Barack Obama is the leader of them all.

Although it’s certainly helpful to remind the RS readership that the greater Bay Area is not equal to SF + Berkeley. I wouldn’t exactly call the Bay Area an hotbed of libertarianism from my experience (though maybe it’s different in your region).

But it’s not like you need to come up with a list of reasons why the Bay Area is not deserving of being first on the list of nuke targets (as though you want another city to be first) – there really shouldn’t be any such list in reality.

(Though at times it’s hard to resist writing up fantasy “serves them right” lists – in all sorts of areas of life, not just politics.)

Hope you spotted my earlier comment below.

and I’m certain that Sodom and Gomorrah had some nice industries, too. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in S.F. in the mid to late 70′s when I lived in Reno and needed to see some greenery from time to time after months of being in the arid climate of Nevada. As I said before, it’s a gorgeous place visually.

As for the conservatives that you say live there, where have their voices been over the past few years? As to being “all for one and one for all”, that’s an attitude that has only recently become popular on your side. When R’s were in power, it was constantly “We’re for us and we hope you die.” Excuse me for not being able to so instantly hop onboard the Love Train to Nowhere.

I’m all for America, the America I grew up in, the America I hoped to pass on to my grandchildren and their children. But thanks to the actions of liberals and weak-spined, unprincipled Republicans, that America is in danger of being utterly demolished. Pardon my bitterness, Rick, but I find it increasingly difficult to maintain even civility towards those who elected the man who is POTUS now.

Democrat Administration that gave every indication that AQ could pull the tiger’s tail at will and the most the tiger would do was put a million dollar missile up a camel’s butt or bomb an aspirin factory to make it look like they’d done something. Now, Comrade Obama has managed to make WJC look agressive by comparison in protecting American’s interests. I still maintain the only thing that is saving the US from mulitiple coordinated attacks is the fact that the Islamists are smart enough to know that Comrade Obama is their greatest asset and ally and will give them what they want, but if they strike, public pressure here may cause him to be unable to deliver.

politically the left in America has a history of weakening the military and intelligence services and capitulating to the demands of terrorists and dictators. By those political actions they brought a lot of this on. And to be frank, those who voted for Obama will suffer the consequences but they won’t be alone. As was once said in a book I read, “the rain falls on the just and unjust alike”.

No American should wish harm on our own people or cities. If one does then they should take a time out to focus and reassess their rhetoric.

My rhetoric isn’t going to get Americans killed.

Foolish choices to carry out campaign rhetoric for appearances sake very well may.

Good Lord, Rick, where have you been for the last 8 years? You somehow missed Ward Churchill calling the victims from 9/11 “Little Eichmanns”? You somehow missed Michael Moore and Co. calling our troops terrorists and thugs, yet referring to the insurgents in Iraq as “freedom fighters”? You somehow missed John Murtha calling honorable Marines in Haditha “cold blooded murderers”?

And did you also miss the one page ad in the NYT referring to General Petraeus as “General Betrayus”? Again, I have to ask, where have you been ?

Particularly since I use this point when leftista blame Americans for bad behavior by foreign actors, I respond that the perpetrators are responsible for their actions, not America. Which I argue means that American cities don’t deserve to be attacked (even if arguendoyou believe that the U.S. has done actions to evoke legitimate grievances).

So to be consistent, the flip side here is that terrorists are responsible for their actions, not Americans for voicing opinions, distasteful as I may find them. (Of course, material assistance is a different matter, but that wouldn’t apply to a whole city, at least not yet.)

Nonetheless, a lot of us on the right are intensely distressed by the behavior that Janis outlined below, which does finad resonate support with a substantial audience on the left. Not that this makes left-leaning cities like SF deserving of attack, but it sure does raise into question your assertion that America is united against the real terrorists.