Does it bother anyone else.....

[one_voice]

that a Democrat (congressional nominee) is calling for Obama's impeachment and compares him to Hitler? You have issues with Obama's policies...cool, you think he's too far right/left cool...but comparing him to Hitler and impeachment. Isn't that something we'd expect from the baggers/GOP? :shrug:




South Carolina's unexpected Democratic nominee for the US Senate, mystery man Alvin Greene, says he wants to play golf with Barack Obama. But in Texas, another surprise Democratic primary winner, congressional nominee Kesha Rogers, wants to impeach the President. So while South Carolina party officials are still unsure of what to do about Greene's success at the ballot box, Texas Democrats have no such reservations - they wasted little time in casting Rogers into exile and offering no support or recognition of her campaign to win what once was Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay's old seat.


Rogers, 33, told TIME she is a "full time political activist" in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement, a recruiting arm of the LaRouche political organization that is active on many college campuses. The LYM espouses LaRouche opposition to free trade and "globalism" (the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund) and it also calls for a return to a humanist classical education, emphasizing the works of Plato and Leibnitz. On her professional looking campaign website, kesharogers.com, she touts the LaRouche political philosophy - a mix of support for the economic policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the impeachment of President Obama - and calls Obama a "London and Wall Street backed puppet" whose policies will destroy the Democratic Party. During the campaign, she was photographed carrying an oversized portrait of the President with a Hitler-style moustache penciled on his lip. (See TIME's photos: Crawford, Texas, circa 2009)


Texas' 22nd district is a relatively conservative, primarily suburban area west and south of Houston that includes - thanks to DeLay's redistricting efforts - the NASA Johnson Space Center and surrounding aerospace industries, where residents have expressed concerns about cuts in manned space programs. Another major LaRouche-inspired plank in Rogers' platform is support for the colonization of Mars. "Help send me to Congress, and we can send our grandchildren to Mars!" was a Rogers' slogan during the campaign.


Unlike South Carolina's Greene, Rogers ran a high profile campaign, staking out a corner on a major intersection in the district to appear almost daily with a large sign: "Save NASA. Impeach Obama." She garnered 7,467 votes, 53% of the vote, in a three way race that included a local information systems analyst Doug Blatt, who gained endorsements from local Democratic clubs and labor groups, and Freddie John Weider Jr., a preacher and onetime Libertarian candidate; Blatt came in second with 28% of the vote and Weider won 20%. "The people of the 22nd district voted for me," she said. "They recognized the party is not acting in the interests of the people."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100621/us_time/08599199807600

[hedgehog]

1. How can someone so firmly associated with Lyndon Larouche

even be on the primary ballot, let alone win?

[murielm99]

5. This happened in the Illinois gubernatorial election in 1986.

The Larouchies created a huge disaster for the Democrats in that election. They won several Democratic primaries for state offices. Adlai Stevenson III should have won for governor. Instead, Thompson won and we had decades of republican domination and corruption. Thank you, Larouchies.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I've seen these La Rouche idiots here in my town...

The same picture of Obama too.

These people have no business in our government...

Yeah, it bothers me.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. It certainly bothers me that she sounds like a nut. (nt)

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[cameozalaznick]

4. well, take heart in the fact that she can't win. eom