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Not America's Proudest Moment
CBS ^ | 9/13/09 | Bob Schieffer

Posted on 09/13/2009 2:22:54 PM PDT by Nachum

Forget Bipartisanship, Comity or Civility - Schieffer Says Mindless Meanness Has Invaded the Public Commons

(CBS) That was not a State of the Union speech we heard the other night, but it had all the trappings - and when that Congressman hollered "You lie!" at the President, we did get a snapshot of the nation's state.

It was not a pretty picture.

The country is in an angry mood - people are frustrated, tempers are short, congressmen are being shouted down at town hall meetings (where constituents sometimes show up with guns), and at rallies like the one yesterday in Washington where people carried signs such as "Bury Health Care with Kennedy."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; americas; cbsnews; handwringers; joewilson; moment; not; proudest
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To: Nachum

Damn right we’re angry and we ain’t taking this Communist crap lying down anymore.


21 posted on 09/13/2009 2:31:30 PM PDT by tobyhill (The Communist has arrived)
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To: Nachum
Hmmm.... Can the truth be considered an insult?

I dare say that Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry said worse.

Can a meek people ever be free?

22 posted on 09/13/2009 2:31:34 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Been collecting pitchforks for years - now I know why!)
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To: Nachum

Who are the five people who watch Schieffer?


23 posted on 09/13/2009 2:31:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: netmilsmom
>>(where constituents sometimes show up with guns),<< OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shades of Bob Dornan! Wasn't he reprimanded and suspended from the floor of the House for three days or something -- in a gun control debate, some congresswoman ranted about going into the woods to shoot Bambi, and Dornan said something like, "Americans don't have the 2nd Amendment so they can go into the woods and shoot Bambi -- we have it to go to Washington and shoot Congressmen!"

I seem to recall too seeing old prints (maybe from the Andrew Jackson era? Other eras?) of Congressmen actually going after each other with walking sticks and fists . . . Oh, for the good ol' days! ;-)

24 posted on 09/13/2009 2:31:38 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Nachum
"Not America's Proudest Moment"

Gee, Bobby-boy, for a moment there, I thought that maybe you had wiped the Man-Crush Fairy Dust from your eyes and was writing about the uselessness of you, Shuster, and all the other true teabaggers in the Tingly Media.

But that moment quickly passed. Sucks to be you.

25 posted on 09/13/2009 2:31:51 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Nachum

True in the sense that News Whoredom is not doing anything to make this nation proud.


27 posted on 09/13/2009 2:32:22 PM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Nachum

See-BS

Nuff said.


28 posted on 09/13/2009 2:33:06 PM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: netmilsmom

I dont ever recall the media saying such things when the left did far worse to Bush. Maybe they should start asking themselves what is the cause of all this outrage.


29 posted on 09/13/2009 2:33:42 PM PDT by MiltonFriedmanFan
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To: Nachum

“It was not a pretty picture.”

So tell us Schieffer, how pretty was it when Obama lied?


30 posted on 09/13/2009 2:33:55 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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To: maryz

>>Oh, for the good ol’ days! ;-) <<

*snicker*


31 posted on 09/13/2009 2:34:07 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Nachum
They haven't been paying attention.


32 posted on 09/13/2009 2:34:40 PM PDT by listenhillary (We became community organizers and Obama and the Statists get p*ssed off at us?)
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To: Billthedrill
But in fact, I can't think of a single period in American politics that looked like that - except the one between 1775 and now...

Excellent point well made.

33 posted on 09/13/2009 2:35:54 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: MiltonFriedmanFan

Exactly.


34 posted on 09/13/2009 2:36:38 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Nachum

Can you get more in bed with Bammy?


35 posted on 09/13/2009 2:36:42 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Nachum
Community organizing works both ways buckaroo.

How come you never wrote about the libtard left organizational ugliness like this ???


36 posted on 09/13/2009 2:37:55 PM PDT by Popman (Obama "may" be a US citizen, but he's not an American)
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To: Nachum
What pathetic drivel.
37 posted on 09/13/2009 2:38:08 PM PDT by Shqipo (A whiff of blowback is in the air.)
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To: Nachum

Stuff it Schieffer


38 posted on 09/13/2009 2:38:56 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Nachum
The shout heard 'round the world.

39 posted on 09/13/2009 2:40:01 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Nachum

I thought Schieffer was dead.


40 posted on 09/13/2009 2:41:01 PM PDT by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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