With apologies to Martin Niemöller:

When the right wing hate-mongers of talk radio and the racist conservative talking heads on Tee Vee came after Barack Obama, I did not speak up because  Obama was not my candidate.

When the right wing hate-mongers of talk radio and the talking heads came for me, I looked around and there was no one left to speak for me.

I for one am sick to death of the maelstrom of crap that is spewing forth from the campaigns and supporters of the two leading candidates in this Democratic Primary season.

This diary started out as a comment for clammyc's diary "unhinged and unfit for office", but it started to take on a life of its own and got longer and longer and I decided to enter it into a diary of my own.

As clammyc and countless others have said, Bush and Cheney and their maladministration has become unhinged and unfit for office.

My question is this: If we do not put a stop to it, will America be the country that our Revolutionary Forebearers invisioned, or just another Cheap Banana Republic?