Maybe he'll reconsider if he gets mistaken for a Muslim and booed off the stage.

Somehow I am much more disturbed to see Albert Pujols inserting himself into public life to support extremist right-wing demagogues than I was when Jeff Suppan was doing it.

Isn't the Mosque thread still active?

“I made it clear when we were approached: I said, ‘If it’s political, I wouldn’t even approach Albert with it.’ I don’t want to be there if it’s political,” La Russa said.

Isn't he a big right-to-lifer?

Oh boy Albert, now you've done it. Just by merely showing up there everyone is going to automatically assume that that must mean you're a conservative, and therefore you've just gotten yourself put onto the permanent enemies' list of Baseball Think Factory's pathetic little bunch of lefties. You'd better recant fast, or this place will never root for you to break the home run record.

I'm speechless. My gast is flabbered.

Just by merely showing up there everyone is going to automatically assume that that must mean you're a conservative, and therefore you've just gotten yourself put onto the permanent enemies' list of Baseball Think Factory's pathetic little bunch of lefties.

and a Women's pride or some such rally going on.

To my mind this goes much beyond campaigning for mainline candidates.

It would be pretty hard to be a baseball fan and never root for conservative players.

Red Rolfe was a regular contributor to Daily Worker.

Wow, there's already a lot of hate and ignorance here from right-wingers with persecution complexes. What are the odds?

What's your opinion of the players who want to boycott the All-Star game because of the Arizona law? Heroes?

Yesterday was the anniversary of the passage of universal sufferage. It's sort of a big deal for the women-folk.

Edited for clarity.

The hard core lefty cadre on this site is one of the biggest bunch of angry haters going. And that is the one and only reason why Viola has a mandate to post the non-baseball related political crap like this on here: because the site managers know that it's going to whip up the redshirts into yet another multi-thousand post frenzy.

This is funny. I hope La Russa is just being dishonest; I can't believe he's that stupid.

Why would someone lend a celebrity endorsement to the movement to put Glenn Beck in the White House if he wasn't a conservative?

And that is the one and only reason why Viola has a mandate to post the non-baseball related political crap like this on here: because the site managers know that it's going to whip up the redshirts into yet another multi-thousand post frenzy.

I tried.

And you're one of the biggest psychological projectors I've ever encountered on the intertubes.

Isn't the Mosque thread still active? Do we really need another politics thread?

eriously, I'm excited as hell about this and I hope to see him at the rally, which I'm flying in to attend as well.

My problem is that, a, Beck is fringe-dwelling loon (I'd say the same if they attended a drum circle hosted by Ward Churchill

You didn't edit enough; the word is suffrage. (Am trying to think of a good synonym for "sufferage" without using one of the usual suspects -- John Sterling, etc.) And the "women-folk"? Where do you hail from, Dodge City at the time of "Gunsmoke"?

I don't even want Republicans to win, so much as I will STOP AT NOTHING WHATSOEVER to make sure that Democrats lose, lose, lose this year.

I don't even want Republicans to win, so much as I will STOP AT NOTHING WHATSOEVER to make sure that Democrats lose, lose, lose this year.

The hard core lefty cadre on this site is one of the biggest bunch of angry haters going.

That is to say, you're a Republican.

Almost everything Glenn Beck says is a lie, Esoteric. And he says it to tens of millions of people who believe it all, apparently including you. Some of us are worried about that

I'm very happy to see the greatest manager ... currently in the game

This sentiment I can never understand. How the hell has political discussion become so verboten? Doesn't it say a lot about our national politics if it's considered 'impolite' to invite discussion on them? And most of all, wouldn't it be much easier for someone who doesn't want any part of it to, you know, just not participate - instead of planting hijacks or deliberately trying to shut it down? I can definitely respect being exasperated by the vitriol and impassioned hyperbole that these kind of discussions can devolve into, but to suggest that therefore matters of national politics do not make appropriate conversation is more regressive than anything else.

Is this a new policy (the foruming of political threads)? These political threads are a lot of what makes BBTF what it is. I don’t get the motive for moving them.

We’ve reached the point at which the nastiness and visibility of political threads is hurting our reputation in the larger media community. Yes, our political threads are generally more polite than Freeper/Kos threads, but we’re not a political site and it’s not what we wish to be known for.

Other off-topic threads haven’t been moved for the simple reason that they don’t require constant babysitting - there’s little chance a thread that turns into Star Wars or classic movies is going to have a couple of people throw bombs and then get 100 posts of people yelling at each other in an hour.

I for one know far more about American 20th century political history than any other poster on this site, bar none -- seriously, there isn't a single one of you, Andy included, who could even get in the ring

I'm an independent who tries to stay as politically disengaged as possible--mostly because it's a vile business that's designed to appeal to our basest inclinations. I assure you, nothing that happens in November is going to "hurt" me.

I for one know far more about American 20th century political history than any other poster on this site, bar none --

You'll change your tune when the Obamunist Afro-Jihadi Army rounds up your family for transport to the FEMA camps. But of course, by then it will be too late.

And since when is almost everything Beck says a lie? Isn't that rather in the eye of the beholder?

Glenn Beck has ties to D.C. -- in the '80s, he was a disc jockey at WPGC, then a top 40 station.

Seriously, I don't even LIKE Beck that much. But I'll be damned if I'm going to sit back and let all of YOU compare everyone making arguments or running for office on the other side to "extremists" and "racists" and Ward Churchill, and the like.

This morning on Fox and Friends, Fox host Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being "a racist."

The group was discussing the recent Gates controversy, and Beck exclaimed that Obama has "over and over again" exposed himself as "a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don't know what it is..."

When Fox's Brian Kilmeadeon pointed out that many people in Obama's administration are white, so "you can't say he doesn't like white people," Beck pressed on. "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem," Beck said. "This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Beck stands by his comments. On his radio show, Beck stated that he "stands by" his comments that Obama is a "racist," adding, "I deem him a racist by his own standard, the standard of the left."

Beck: Obama "has real issues with race." Beck discussed Obama's policies with Fox News contributor Keith Ablow and said of Obama, "I just see this ACORN thing and also the thing at the White House as a sign -- this guy has real issues with race, real issues." Ablow responded, in part, "I think we get a transparent president in this case whose feelings about white America are coming forward again." Beck then commented, "I think he's one of the more arrogant people I have ever witnessed in the office."

Glenn Beck- March 11, 2010: "Extremists in America." Bet they didn't teach you THIS in school. The amazing truth- and rare footage of extremists in America. People with very similar ideas are already very close to power now- so let us learn from the past and make sure that history does not repeat itself.

“I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church website. If you find it, run as fast as you can! ” said Beck on his radio show.

On his TV show that day, wielding what appeared to be hammer/sickle and swastika coasters, he expanded on his opposition to the fight for social justice:

“Both the communists, who are on the left — they say — you know, these are communists. And the Nazis are on the right,” Beck said. “That’s what people say. But they both subscribed to one philosophy, and they flew one banner. One had the hammer and sickle; the other was a swastika. But on each banner read the words, here in America, of this — ’social justice.’ They talked about economic justice, rights of the workers, redistribution of wealth, and surprisingly — I love this — democracy.”

CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck became the latest critic to compare the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness of global warming, to the Nazis. Beck dismissed many of the conclusions drawn from the documentary, stating, "When you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that's where you get people to believe. ... It's like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in 'and it's the Jews' fault.' "

I know far more about American 20th century political history than any other poster on this site

And since when is almost everything Beck says a lie? Isn't that rather in the eye of the beholder?