Sheesh....
Posted on 09/15/2009 3:17:11 PM PDT by pissant
We have entered what columnist Kathleen Parker calls "a political era of uninhibited belligerence," that is finding expression in sermons, at town hall meetings, on radio talk shows, even on the floor of Congress -- especially when we differ. Why are people so angry and belligerent, and so willing to express their anger publicly? Why has our civil discourse become some uncivil? What does this public anger say about our private faith? What should we do about it?
Incivility is much too mild a word for what has been going on in our country for the past few months. What we are seeing is the rage of a minority--we don't know exactly how large, but we do know that it is almost entirely white and concentrated in the South and Southwest--at an African-American president who is considered not only wrong in his policies but illegitimate as the leader of our nation. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times told it like it is in her op-ed column Sunday, when she said that the real meaning of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's health care speech was not "you lie" but "you lie--boy." No one wants to admit this--the white male talking heads on cable TV are searching for almost any explanation other than racism--because what it says about the state of our union at the moment is too disturbing. Or should I say, the state of our disunion.
I am also sick of hearing the talking heads point out that liberals can be just as "uncivil" as these right-wing haters bringing loaded guns to crowded rallies and praying for the president's death. The "liberals are just as bad" mantra is nonsense. Historically, anti-rational movements have existed on both the left and the right,
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They are really, really scared.
We’re “angry” because we don’t want socialism. God these people are clueless.
This crap is comical coming from the libtards.
These lunatic liberals have been unhinged since Bush got the nomination in 2000.
Now a grassroots movement starts to try to prevent “Europe 2.0” from happening here and we are somehow “belligerent” to liberals.
This cow can take a hike.
Me, I want 0 to live a long and painful life in disgrace and a term in prison would be a nice topping for me!
And we don’t want a 1/2 black, 1/2 baked, gay crack ho, marxist quisling fraud polluting the oval office.
It’s all they’ve got left.
They live in a Bizzarro universe. Just like the old Superman comic. That explains a great deal.
>>>> what columnist Kathleen Parker calls “a political era of uninhibited belligerence,” <<<<
Gee, wasn’t that the extremely “belligerent” Kathleen Parker making repeated crude sex jokes about the Governor of Alaska for almost 6 months?
Sheesh....
Because we are FED UP and won't take it anymore. Not from you and certainly not from the corrupt people in government!
I’ve never seen a carp with a wig til just now.
That is very true. They sense their impending doom.
"Is it something you feel strongly about?"
omgomgomg......stop it. NOW.
She looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
These hand wringers must have slept through the 8 years of the Bush administration. The unrecognized bias is quite telling.
Oh, come on. We may have found a replacement for Helen Thomas.
Where were they when Code Pink was waving bloody hands in the face of Secretary Rice? I see their outrage a civility is expressly limited to those that disagree with Obama.
Thats so nice of them and also so Intellectually Dishonest now that I said that I can be censured by Congress.
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