You know things have really gone bad for too long when it isn't politically correct to be patriotic...
Posted on 08/27/2010 11:49:37 AM PDT by onyx
It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and Governor Palin of Alaska.
The leader of Big Labor went to Anchorage to give a speech and attacked Mrs. Palin, accusing her of doing everything from writing notes on her hands to coming out with conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “death panels” to getting close to calling for violence. “Sometimes — about Sarah Palin — you’ve just got to laugh,” Mr. Trumka said. “ . . . But it’s not really funny.”
Mrs. Palin turned around and gave as good as she got, or better, in one of her patented Facebook postings, a demarche headlined “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” She wrote as a one-time card-carrying sister of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Steelworkers, cards she held by virtue of her husband’s membership in the two unions.
She asserted that it was “kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence,” particularly in light of what she called the “violent attempts” by the Service Employees “to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls.”
She argued the real jobs problem was being caused by the policies of President Obama. Suddenly the Internet came alive like the silver screen, so much so that a columnist of the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, issued a long complaint.
Seems that Mr. Trumka can’t get anyone to listen to, let alone write about, his usual speeches about what Mr. Dionne characterizes as “social CONTINUE
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She be ejukated.
Only on odd numbered days...
I are a aide! Special Edumacated, at that!
Nice fun at the end of an attempted hijacking........
Have fun ladies, and keep that pic, it'll help recreate what PDS leads to if a cure is not sought: PBWRS.
Good night......
'Night
Not something you see in Washington right now...
No - they're all afraid they'll offend someone if they express even the slightest bit of patriotism, or love of country. Even on our side, where you might expect it, there are few who actually stand up and wave Old Glory like Sarah does.
I need to add Unabashed Patriot to my list of qualifications for candidates from now on.
You know things have really gone bad for too long when it isn't politically correct to be patriotic...
Sensitive feminists? I'm not convinced you're male.
Do what I do, whenever I inadvertently manage to pick up one of those creepy, stalker-y types. Just start posting this in response to whatever they gibber at you:
Always seems to work for me. ;)
BTTT
Have to say that "PDS" Type II (ie-"Palin Defender Syndrome") is equally, if not more, ugly.
Game on!
MaggieCarta, opposition backbencher
Now, boys and girls, that's a cackle.
A very good day to you!
MaggieCarta, backbencher for the opposition
Being a gentleman -- well, okay, by implication, anyway -- I am, of course, bound to treat any lady's sincerely held opinions with a certain baseline of respect, no matter how demonstrably harebrained or risible.
[::politely tips hat to Honorable Backbencher::] Ma'am. ;)
Already stalking humblegunner, so I’m not sure there’s time to follow you too, onyx. ;-D
Old Sarge, IATZ is my theme song too.
That was a dumb post.
Lmao, that’s great. Zoteruni, and in orange no less. I’ll have to remember that one. IATZ.
I’m sure humble could use an extra set of ‘follow me’ eyes, that way you could follow the other set of eyes as well, saves time!
Yeah, IATZ taunts me all the time.
I’m very rarely in before the snap crackle and pop.
Unless it’s my knees making that sound.
Uh oh.
Type II pales in comparison to type III.
Palin Deification Syndrome.
Bad stuff, that.
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