Posted on 08/06/2009 8:06:15 PM PDT by Starman417
Check out how Democrat Senator Lincoln from Arkansas called those who protest against Obama's socialism "Un-American" and then apologized:
Efforts to disrupt town hall meetings on health care reform are un-American, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said today, though she later issued a statement retracting the remark.Of course this didn't stop her from the other Democrat talking points:“It’s so sad, because it’s diminishing to the process, it’s diminishing to our outcome,” Lincoln said in a conference call with reporters. “I think it’s sad that they choose to do that. I think it’s un-American and disrespectful.”
A few hours later, Lincoln issued the following statement: “Although I do believe that some of these protesters are disrespectful of other citizens in the audience who truly want to ask questions about health care, I shouldn’t have used the term ‘un-American.’ I support the right of every Arkansan to speak out and have their voices heard. I would just ask that we all continue to work in a constructive way to rebuild our economy and fine-tune out health care system so it works for all of us.”
Lincoln said the disruptions are not spontaneous.Wow....now that is some smoking gun.“There are Web sites that are out there that are telling people and soliciting people to go and disrupt these meetings and to stop this process and to eliminate the opportunity for our country to become stronger by making our health care delivery system more efficient,” she said.
One such solicitation, in a memo authored by Bob MacGuffie of the Web site Tea Party Patriots, urged opponents of health care reform to “spread out in the hall” wherever a lawmaker is holding a town hall meeting.
“Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep.’s statements early. If he blames Bush for something or offers other excuses — call him on it, yell back and have someone else follow-up with a shout-out,” MacGuffie wrote.
Of course there is more to this story. Mary Katherine Ham:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Un American my BUTT!!!!
Commies are unAmerican. Not protesters.
Does anyone know what happened to the Tampa Health Care protest thread?
Un-American and disrespectful when our side protests, but heroic and courageous when they do it.
Screw that!
These commie bastards can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Democrats were “un-American” before the term even came into widespread use.
I thought Hillary! told us it was Patriotic to protest against the President?
I consider protesting against and speaking out against obama and his policies my patriotic duty. obama has not proven he is even the legal President. He is certainly a hard socialist with fascist leanings. I consider his policies and actions decidedly un-American and ultimately bad for America and all American citizens. This Country needs a wake-up call, perhaps obama is it, and the people who misguidedly voted for obama have learned their lesson. (at all of our expense)
Dissent is unpatriotic.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic!
We should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!
Didn’t Hillary Clinton already say that?
"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration...We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration."
Yep. Word for word. :o)
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I guess dissent stopped being the highest form of patriotism on January 20, 2009.
The left has enough real experts at being un-American themselves without pointing fingers at anyone else.
Hilliary said that dissent is patriotic .....oh, ok, only if you’re a Demorat or Liberal ....
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