Posted on 09/06/2011 3:25:11 AM PDT by opentalk
Jimmy Hoffa got his job as Teamster president the old-fashioned way: He inherited from his father who had the misfortune of being offed by mobsters. On Labor Day, the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters decided for irony’s sake to rally in Detroit, a town ruined by the UAW, and the SEIU loaned them President Obama to serve as their main speaker.
Hoffa huffed and puffed and actually threatened violence against members of the Tea Party. But while conservatives should be concerned, this is not the pants-wetter it might have been 30 years ago.
This is what Jimmy Hoffa said: “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war… President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
President Obama took the stage next and noted he is proud of Jimmy Hoffa. Dick Nixon said the same thing in 1973.
I am curious a as to whom they plan to take America back from. Themselves? The unions and the Democratic Party won it all in 2008 and afterward they confiscated GM and divvied up much of $500 billion (the spending part of the stimulus) among themselves in the cynical pursuit of the almighty buck.
But fear not this army that President Obama now has. First there is the business of shop rules. Everyone will work an 8-hour day with a 15-minute break in the morning, a 15-minute break in the afternoon and a half-hour lunch.
People will work to the rule. The president will have to pay prevailing wages which means $50 an hour for a minimum-wage “volunteer.” On the phone bank, no robocalling because that puts three people out of work. Each call will be placed by a dialer, who will hand the phone over to the greeter, who will give a brief greeting, and finally the phone will be given to the messenger who will deliver the message of the day.
Was he really threatening violence?
Or are some people just looking for fighting words in any Leftist’s rhetoric?
My, I am SO glad Obama has been leading by example in his calls for “a new era of civility”.
OBVIOUSLY hr'd cslling for peace, love, rainbows and puppies, with unicorns and tiny chocolates wrapped in gold foil for everyone.
Cut me a break.
Nonetheless, he is clearly urging rough men to perpetrate violence on his behalf, because he cannot be bothered to do it himself.
“Was he really threatening violence?”
You should really look into the history of union goon violence in this country and then you can make your own judgment.
I say bring it on!
I also say Maxine Waters can go to hell and she can say hello to her mother when she gets there.
But....that’s just me. I’m Irish. I LIKE to fight.
This rhetoric doesn’t bother me in the least.
The Tea Party movement will be the enemy and the reason for the country's problems. I think Biden also referred to TP as Barbarians yesterday.
Keep an eye on the UPS man next time he makes a delivery (in those cute little shorts).
He may be planning to “take you out”.
Al Capone opined “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” I’d like to discern which category this twit is in; if words alone, who cares?
Oh yes, and don’t forget that Obama already praised the hate speech, so he can’t back down now without looking like an idiot or a wimp. Oh wait...
Judge for yourself.
Keep in mind how incendiary language may be interpreted by those who are in this “army” Hoffa is promising to obama.
Remember Tuscon? That crazy kid shooting Democrats and the blamefest that followed?
Tell me you do.
There is no such thing as words alone for a public figure. Once out there, all those words have to do is fall on the ears of one psychopath. That’s what Obama and company were accusing Sarah Palin of last January after the massacre in Tuscon. Sorry, I’m not giving him a pass. He knew darned well what he was saying.
What about “...taking...out...” do you not understand?
It is surely not framed in the context as going out on a date.
Have you seen what is done to people who try crossing a picket line, when there are no public warnings given? Actually the same goes on today but the media is not reporting it.
I’m not saying we fear it, on the contrary we face it down eyeball to eyeball. It is high time that We The People dress these fools down but to do so means we will have to fight fire with fire.
Never forget, we surround them.
What the unions are terrified of is what happened in WI.
My sil works for the state and they used to have their union dues deducted from their paychecks.
Now that isn’t happening anymore. Who in this economy is going to write a check to the unions? No money - - no political power.
Sons of bitches? Really? It sounds kind of sexist as well. Why does he not give equal time to the daughters of bastards?
The SEIU weren’t called the purple people beaters for nothing.
I won’t mind seeing the union leadership driven into a rage. Sensible people stuck in the mushy middle might move from the middle.
We don’t need to fight back physically. We can win on ideas. This will enrage them even more.
Hoffa’s threat is “not the pants-wetter it might have been 30 years ago.”
Thirty years ago, in Reagan’s America, some conservatives would have peed their pants in fear upon hearing a union thug-boss bluster?
I doubt it.
“I also say Maxine Waters can go to hell and she can say hello to her mother when she gets there.”
Ooh, child! Ouch!
You might even have the old wind bag speechless with that one! I can only dream.
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