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Posted on 04/01/2005 8:45:13 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Sounds pretty anal to me.
Wasn't Caesar Chavez some sort of '60s person?
Aren't those types irrelevant now?
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Let's see. Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol and now Pat Buchanan.
I'd like to see the list of liberals subjeted to the same by conservatives. If it did not happen to Ward Churchill...
Re: Cesar Chavez day - I live in Phoenix, and was upset when they didn't collect garbage like they usually do on Thursdays. Why? It ends up because it's Cesar Chavez day and city employees have the day off. I didn't even know it was a holiday!
I wonder if they used the salad dressing made by IMUS's Ranch.
What was it the Sean Connery character said about "The Chicago Way"?
and since PatB dismissed pressing charges, the extent of leniency the conservative right has.
Oooh. Some serious brainpower there.
I figure it's only a matter of time before they're using deadlier things than food, especially since the MSM is all but cheering them on.
Drudge has a link to film of the incident. Nice dyed red mohawk. I'm sure the attacker has a great future in pizza delivery.
Pat showed a lot more class than I would have.
What in the h#** is going on in this country? Liberals don't like what conservatives have to say so they attack them physically, invade election offices, slash tires on get out the vote vehicles. This stuff is getting way out of hand.
Very big on some campuses. I believe San Francisco State has a Cesar Chavez Center on campus (right next to the Malcolm X building!) , and some California state universities have a day off for Cesar Chavez - but not for President's (Washington and Lincoln) Day! Go figure.
"Pat showed a lot more class than I would have."
He should have gone after the felony charge to so the poor misunderstood liberal would lose his voting rights. Especially since the Sandburglar just got off with a misdemeanor.
Without a doubt, it was Cesar Dressing.
Stop the bigotry!" the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid
Buchanan doused on stage Salad dressing attack cuts short visit sponsored by WMU College Republicans
Friday, April 01, 2005
An appearance by former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan at Western Michigan University's Bernhard Center ended abruptly Thursday night when a 24-year-old Paw Paw man rushed the podium and hurled salad dressing at the political commentator.
"Stop the bigotry," the demonstrator shouted. Buchanan supporters began yelling "get him, get him" before police removed the man from the event.
The mess forced Buchanan to end a question-and-answer session that followed a 45-minute speech attended by nearly 900 people. His speech was sponsored by WMU's College Republicans.
"Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed," said Buchanan, who managed to keep a sense of humor despite being covered in salad dressing. "Take it easy."
The demonstrator was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. The man is a student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, said Matt Kurz, WMU's spokesman. He was released on $100 cash bond and faces an April 14 arraignment in district court.
"He was not one of our students," said Kurz. "He could have faced a felony assault charge, but Pat Buchanan decided to not press that charge."
There was extra security for Buchanan's visit, which stirred controversy on WMU's campus because it was scheduled on Thursday, the birthday of Mexican-American civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration.
Before Buchanan's talk, tensions between those who opposed Buchanan and College Republicans were high, with angry protesters attempting to bring protest signs into the gathering.
The event was advertised with posters that some students felt dishonored Chavez's memory and were considered offensive by some because of their opposition to U.S. immigration policies.
But representatives from many student groups who opposed Buchanan's visit were quick to condemn the acts of the demonstrator who interrupted the speech and to declare they had nothing to do with his behavior.
"It was ridiculous and disrespectful," said Andrea Juarez, a graduate student who spoke at a Cesar Chavez celebration Thursday and attended Buchanan's speech. "We have no affiliation with that at all."
Buchanan said before Thursday's event that he didn't know the day was Chavez's birthday. College Republican leaders wanted Buchanan because of his views on immigration.
That topic was discussed, but it was only one among many -- the Terri Schiavo case, the Iraq war, the growing strength of the Republican party, the U.S. Supreme Court and Social Security -- that Buchanan addressed.
"I was a Republican," said Buchanan, who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996 before running as the Reform Party's candidate in 2000.
"I consider myself now an independent conservative who tends to vote Republican, except when I'm on the ballot," Buchanan said. "What I'm going to give you tonight is a conservative view from Washington. It's one conservative view."
Buchanan accused President Bush of not doing enough to defend America's border with Mexico. He said the nation's border patrol captured 1.5 million illegal immigrants trying to cross the nation's border last year. He blamed immigration for lowering the wages of working people.
"Just as we defended the borders of Kuwait and South Korea and Kosovo, we have a right to defend the borders of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado," Buchanan said.
Ben Pulver, a sophomore at WMU, said Buchanan was ignoring American history, particularly that Mexicans have deep roots in this country.
"He makes it seem as through European white people have always been in America," Pulver said.
Buchanan weighed in on the case involving Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose 15 years connected to a feeding tube sparked a legal battle that went all the way to the White House, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Schiavo died Thursday at the age of 41. Buchanan disagreed with arguments that President Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and lawmakers should have stayed out of the Schiavo case.
"Terri Schiavo did not die a natural death today. Terri Schiavo was put to death," Buchanan said. "Terri Schiavo was executed in Florida. Terri Schiavo died because a judge said that she did not have a right to live because she is severely brain-damaged.
"Therefore, she should die by being denied food and water for two weeks, a few feet away from her parents and people who loved her, and all they wanted to do was give her food and water.
"We have passed a moral equator in this country," Buchanan said. "This has not happened before in my lifetime."
He said decisions made in the Schiavo case will likely be faced by many Americans in the future. Buchanan said the case divided the Republican Party, with most supporting keeping Schiavo alive, while some felt she should be permitted to die.
"I know if they do an autopsy on Terri Schiavo, she's not going to be dead for brain damage," said Buchanan. "She is going to be dead because her vital organs shut down because she didn't have any water."
Buchanan's speech was peppered with applause from supporters, but also from some opponents who found some common ground on individual stands, especially when he said he opposed the war in Iraq because Iraq didn't threaten America.
"I found I did agree with his stand on the Iraq war," said Pulver, who came wearing a button that said "The Christian Right is Neither."
"I think our motivation is different," Pulver said. "He is coming from an isolationist, nationalist point of view."
Buchanan said the war in Iraq was costly in lives, antagonized the Arab world, shattered the NATO alliance and created a new haven for terrorists. He also acknowledged gains-- primarily that a criminal and terrorist regime was removed and that democratic elections are now offering an opportunity for the people of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.
"The conventional wisdom is that the Republican party is America's party; it is the dominant party," said Buchanan. "No doubt, it is stronger than it's been in a long time."
But a switch of about 60,000 votes in the last presidential election could have led to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry becoming president, Buchanan said.
"I think there is too much cockiness and overconfidence on the part of some Republicans in Washington, D.C.," he said.
He said President Bush was re-elected because of the Republican Party's emphasis on the moral values "God, gays, guns and life," which helped the party win in many regions, such as the South and the Plains.
"Social, moral, cultural issues are what are keeping the Democratic Party from coming back and being the majority party again," Buchanan said. "That's what saved George Bush, all those issues.
"Can Democrats win in 2008 the presidency?" asked Buchanan.
"They certainly can. They certainly can. But don't nominate Hillary," Buchanan said, referring to former First Lady and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. "Don't go there."
Buchanan called the U.S. Supreme Court a "judicial dictatorship" that has assumed powers that belong to elected legislators and executives. He said President Bush has been courageous in considering changes in Social Security.
"Social Security and Medicare are Thelma and Louise and they are headed for the cliff," Buchanan said, warning that a surplus in the Social Security fund will begin to decline by 2018.
Buchanan was one of the few public figures that took a stand against these idiotic trade agreements costing us millions of jobs, illegal immigration costing us billions of taxpayer $ to support these people, getting us away from that garbage heap known as the UN, limiting fedgov control of public education, etc. This was the vast majority of Buchanan's public discourse over the last 10 yrs. so what is it that you disagree with so bad?
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