Posted on 01/14/2011 7:15:05 AM PST by Bumpus2
Yep, President Obama gave a fine speech at the Tucson Massacre Memorial Hootenanny & Jamboree. Nope, it wasn’t his fault organizers and attendees thought an event marking horrendous tragedy should come off as a cross between an Amway sales rally and the Jerry Springer Show.
No, not his responsibility that someone decided it proper to begin the event with an unsubtle lesson in Arizona identity politics, in which one Carlos Gonzales drew the requisite whoops of appreciation for mentioning the accident of where and to whom he was born. And could Obama have known Gonzales would follow it with a “Native American” invocation of airport-souvenir shop spirituality?
It’s not his fault everybody got a tee-shirt and a program, and maybe an official scorecard. Plus it was “Sheriff Dupnik Bobble Head Night” for the first 10,000 through the gate.
(Excerpt) Read more at threefingersofpolitics.com ...
If that’s a liberal’s idea of spritual or church, think I’ll pass!
Yesterday it was de riguor among the ‘right wing hate radio’ hosts to lavish praise upon Obama for his Mournapalooza speech... but its always good to allow a day or two in order to view things in their proper perspective. This article helps.
Amway sales rally and the Jerry Springer Show.The only thing missing was okra.
spot on ... thanks for posting this.
I wouldn’t know. I saw about 10 seconds and it appeared to be the kenyan was doing his usual lecturing and looking down his nose at everyone so I changed the channel.
And the letter networks must not have thought it was going to be a big hit since they ran most of their regular programming and didn’t show the entire speech.
Hootenanny and jamboree...LOL!
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