"The family of Dr. George Tiller announces that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the clinic and any involvement by family members in any other similar clinic. ..."
The week following Tiller's May 31st assassination by a 'pro-life' terrorist, the Obama administration appointed someone who doesn't believe in contraception or maternal health exemptions from late term abortion bans to help administer the office that advises faith-based organizations on how to secure government funding for their work. Though he did wait a whole four days, which means he must like reproductive health advocates at least four times as much as the abortion opponents in whose honor he waited an extra day to repeal the global gag rule.
Bruce Wilson, of Talk2Action, [aka "Troutfishing"] has a diary at DKos, "Clinton & Campaign Float Assassinate-Obama-Kennedy X5 ?" that's a good deal more than just expressing outrage. It presents a timeline of assasination remarks related to Barack Obama-a timeline including FIVE separate incidents involving Hillary Clinton's campaign. The point of the timeline is not so much to point the finger at Clinton as the instigator as it is to call attenion, to clearly illuminate what is going on, and her failure to act responsibly.
Some may think it is even more sinister than that. But all can agree that this should have no place in our politics. And yet it does. In fact, the assasination talk attached to Obama's candidacy are just one manifestation of a much broader sickness afflicting our political culture, a sickness known as eliminationism, which pioneering blogger David Neiwert described thus in his 10-part series "Eliminationism in America":
What, really, is eliminationism?
It's a fairly self-explanatory term: it describes a kind of politics and culture that shuns dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas for the pursuit of outright elimination of the opposing side, either through complete suppression, exile and ejection, or extermination.
More on this below. But first, to Bruce's timeline....
