Posted on 09/05/2011 4:08:50 PM PDT by penelopesire
Despite President Obama’s repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House has no comment this afternoon on incendiary statements made by a union leader who spoke before the president at today’s Labor Day rally. Warming up the crowd before President Obama’s speech in Detroit this afternoon, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. warned the largely-union crowd that the Tea Party was waging a “war on workers” and said that, come November, they should “take these sons of bitches out.” “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,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual event organized by the Detroit Labor Council. “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he concluded.
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COMPLICIT is the only word.
Mine just got this e-mail
To this point the pResident has not condemned this statement.
I need to see a condemnation from you. And I also urge you to boycott his upcoming campaign speech of Thursday night in our House chamber.
You people negotiated a budget deal with this man - a man who is continuing his mission to absolutely destroy this nation. That extra-Constitutional deficit / debt commission is smoke and mirrors and an abandonment of YOUR oath. Off loading your duty is a shameful thing. I am sorry to have to say that.
Now, that same man you played footsie with stands on a podium as a thug delivers threats to American citizens. The mainstream media is slow to pick this up; but make no mistake, it will not be swept under the rug.
It is time to stand up and be counted. If you won’t do it, I will be looking for a Representative who will.
Respectfully but emphatically,
I have always supported the US auto companies but no more. I just bought my last Ford.
Joke. You really didn't believe that, did you?
Listened to Rush going back to the early 1990's. The last few years hardly ever ... tomorrow will be spent rehashing his weekend golf game ... if, in fact, he's makes an appearance. In recent years he's mostly AWOL.
>> Yep, whatever happened to the lessons of Tucson????
Divisive jackass then, divisive jackass now.
LOL..perfect!
How we let these get the upper hand boggles the normal mind.
BRAVO DONO_O!!
Wow..that has a great ring to it..you should run against the next rino we need a good candidate to oppose!
‘Well done Don-o’ is good too! (giggle)
True and I bet Obambi won’t say a thing about what the union did to his “buddy” Jay-Z over the weekend...
Carpenters’ union uses “N” word infused threats in protesting Jay-Z’s use of non-union workers in new club construction.....
Link: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/09/04/2011-09-04_union_and_jayz_club_each_other.html
But I forgot it is only Tea Party members and conservatives who are “wacist”. /s
I promise you..Rush is already working on the ‘story’..so is Mark Levin! Their ‘apples’ (who stupid Hoffa also called war on today)are running at defcon speed...LOL!!
This whole thing just sunk whatever chance Obama ever had of being trusted as a leader of this great country again!
The GOP leadership hates the Tea Party as much as the Rat do.
So if the GOP leadership remains mum about this comment (as well as all the others made by CBC) we can also conclude that it is tantamount to the GOP saying it themselves?
Perhaps! They are a fat and lazy bunch until they realize their friggin pants are on fire! Let them know how you feel folks. This story is burning up the internet faster than a Texas wildfire! I know...I live in Texas!! This story is the leading google search right now.
KEEP THE TEA PARTY PHILOSOPHY FIRES BURNING!!
Perhaps, but the statement was directed,for the most part, at the Tea Party, and to a lesser extent Republicans. Noone wants this threat leveled at them. That would be irrational.
I may be being optimistic, which is not my nature, especially regarding this twit, zero. But, we have been seeing democrat defections...all the way to and including Dowd....about as left as they get. But....if zero does not bring a substantial speech on Thursday,...if he does not show a reasonable plan to create many jobs, which he will not be able to do because of his devotion to Marxist ideology, I think he will continue a rapid decline. He is not a serious person with regards to serving this country...only his own, selfish interest. He began in the faux Pathenon with sycophants referencing him as god, and he is falling far, as he should. I hope the country can recover from his petulence and Chicago-gangland governance.
LOL..I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have the excellent comedy of our fellow FReepers to sustain us at this awful hour!
Yep..but if we follow the story a bit farther...the story of Gods and Pantheons and abject hubris....we have our answer.
Why the hate?
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