Posted on 01/15/2011 7:10:06 AM PST by chickadee
For all the accolades President Barack Obama has won for his call to end the blame game and restore civility, there is one audience he has failed to win over: the ones pointing the fingers.
Partisans on the left and the right continued Friday to say it is right to call the other side to account. They said Mr. Obama’s speech in Tucson Wednesday night amounted to a ducking of tough choices, not a heroic embrace of ambiguity.
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“The call for toning down the ‘heated political rhetoric’ is a convenient scheme by the permanently intemperate and propaganda dependent political left,” Mr. Breitbart said in an email to Washington Wire. “Once this heinous and uncivil strategy of blaming Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for Jared Loughner’s act imploded, there were not only no apologies from drawing these false conclusions, the perpetrators outrageously doubled down on a more generic yet equally cynical strategy to stop heated political rhetoric.”
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Its true, I feel NO love for them and will not falter in my opposition. NO sitting together at the SOTU!!!! Please, lol
Liberals don't believe in the right of guns for self-defense. Conservatives do.
And Liberals don't believe in the right of heated rhetoric for political self-defense. Conservatives are left little choice. Something this pundit misses.
We didn't start this fight. We're finishing it.
Obama’s speech in Tucson Wednesday night was “a campaign speech given while standing on six coffins.”
It’s like when we were kids and our brother/sister would keep pinching us or punching us when our parents’ heads were turned. When we finally struck back, the parent reprimands us and tells us to “shake hands”. We know the brother/sister is going to pinch/punch us again as soon as mom/dad’s attention is elsewhere. In that scenario, mom and dad don’t know what is going on. In this one, “Dad” does know and likes the way things are going and is winking at our bullying brother/sister.
Yep. Kind of like the older brother in “Home Alone.” UGH
*** “And Liberals don’t believe in the right of heated rhetoric . . .”
Oh, they believe in the right - but want to reserve it for themselves.
This whole scenario reminds one of the old joke where they bury a man up to his neck in sand in the center of an arena and then set a hungry lion loose on him. As the lion rushes toward the man, he tilts back his head and bites the lion in the lion’s private place. Meanwhile, the crowd is yelling at the man, “fight fair”.
ONLY when the Dems are not the majority do they call for the “moderation” or “civility”.
The same POS p-Resident who told Republicans to their faces “I WON” the 3rd day he was in office when the GOP asked for “bi-partisanship”.
The bot can’t get out of the campaign mode.
Why should we want to even pretend to make nice with a bunch of soulless ghouls who immediately jumped on the dead and dying to push an agenda.
That “Pep Rally” memorial service complete with souvenir tee shirts with the logo “Together We Thrive” didn’t help persuade us sane and rational people that what their party did was just a misunderstanding.
I can understand Boehner et all grudgingly agreeing to the kindergarten move of “sitting together” at the SOTU. To do otherwise would just prolong the “incivility” discussion. Once past the SOTU, “full steam ahead” (I hope that rhetoric wasn’t too heated for polite discussion.)
I got into it with a few progressive friends on Facebook; took the argument right to them and didn't back down. I warned them this would be their next Wellstone Moment and that they would OWN the ugly aftermath of this disaster.
It's not a new strategy - to encourage lawlessness, enmity and that overused word vitriol. If they can evoke a similar amount of hate and vitriol from the other side, that only increases the effect.
While the monkeys (and the invective) fly, it's Obama's job to stay above the fray and call for calm and rationality. It's so Presidential, ya know? It appeals to that segment of society that's really not sure what's going on, but knows there's trouble. There's chaos, dissention, loud voices and violence everywhere, and they're looking for that calm, authoritative voice of order and reason. These people are the majority of the electorate, and they're looking for leadership, unlike the "partisans" who've already made up their minds for 2012.
And that, IMHO, is what the speech was all about.
Yes, those are two beautifully crafted sentences, aren’t they? There is not a single word wasted.
*** And that, IMHO, is what the speech was all about. ***
And you are 100% correct.
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