[Petra]

What lisarea said.

Reasonable people, on both sides of the political fence, have allowed the lunatic fringe to dominate the national conversation - on pretty much everything this last decade - and this has to stop. The lunatic fringe hides behind religion and post WWII fear of socialism, and they need to be thoroughly slapped upside the head.

And Obama needs to start to show some passion and stop being defensive, too. He needs to lead and lay some smack down. Polite convesation isn't going to cut it with the loud and rude idiocy that dominates your country right now. They've been given power and this is seriously going to bite you guys in the ass - as it has done since Bush 2.

Stand the fuck up or perish.