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White House Declines Comment On Union Leader’s Anti-Tea Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally
ABC NEWS ^ | Sep 5, 2011 6:59pm | Mary Bruce

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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To: penelopesire

The “Tea Party” is grassroots America. If Hoffa is declaring war on the Tea Party then he is declaring war on middle America and he will be soundly routed in such a political war.

What is ironic is the Tea Party and conservatives are trying to save unions from themselves. With 9% unemployment they are certainly taking their fair share of the job losses. Conservatives want to grow the economy and this will save and grow all jobs including union jobs.


141 posted on 09/05/2011 8:27:37 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: RasterMaster

What a stain on history this man has become. I almost feel sorry for those that thought he was some kind of second coming. What a collective screw up his election has been.


142 posted on 09/05/2011 8:29:04 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire

Obamsky is going to the mattresses. He’s going to enrage the base and demagogue the opposition and hope he can turn the apolitical to vote for him.


143 posted on 09/05/2011 8:31:08 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: comebacknewt
Boehner should cancel the address to Congress.
Cite the poisonous environment and the White House's unwillingness to condemn it.
Suggest some "cooling off" time for Obambi. That ought to get his head spinning.

That would be priceless and actually an outstanding way for Boehner & the House Repubs to do this and command the high ground, and force 0dumb0 to publicly renounce Hoffa & his union thuggery. And 0dumb0 would throw Hoffa under the bus, no doubt about it, in order to get his face time again on national TV.

Too bad that Boehner or the House Repub leadership doesn't have the balls to do this.

144 posted on 09/05/2011 8:31:47 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
”Obama was not present during Hoffa Jr’s speech”...

Just like he didn't hear anything questionable during 20 years attending racist Wright's rantings.

145 posted on 09/05/2011 8:32:22 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: indianrightwinger

I totally agree. In the meantime we need to go viral exposing these union thugs for the Socialist/Porgressives they are. These are NOT your father’s union members.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7507


146 posted on 09/05/2011 8:33:35 PM PDT by caper gal 1 (Rubio/Ryan Ryan/Rubio 2012)
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To: penelopesire

It's not like they weren't warned!


147 posted on 09/05/2011 8:35:16 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Nonstatist

Me thinks he going to lose.


148 posted on 09/05/2011 8:35:41 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: RasterMaster

Hey man...GET YOUR HATE ON>>>VOTE OBAMA>>>>VOTE DEOMOCRAT!!


149 posted on 09/05/2011 8:38:56 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire
Wait a second, did the guy say "take them out" as regards to voting them out, as some sources are saying? That is a huge difference. Being called sons of bitches is not nice, but if he simply said to "take them out" at the ballot box, then the context is not nearly as bad. Sorry, I am going to withold judgement.

Damned, why can't things be more cut and dry?

150 posted on 09/05/2011 8:46:12 PM PDT by Paradox (Democrats on Obama, They can't deny him, He is them.)
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To: penelopesire
Obama Says He Is "Proud" Of Hoffa after Union Leader's Remarks
151 posted on 09/05/2011 8:46:36 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: penelopesire

“GET YOUR HATE ON”

I think that is a prerequisite in order to vote DUmocrat.


152 posted on 09/05/2011 8:47:08 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: penelopesire

Not to worry. Lib columnists by the dozens will be writing articles condemning Hoffa for his stupid, incendiary remarks. (smirk)


153 posted on 09/05/2011 8:51:40 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: penelopesire

Another question: Since this rhetoric obviously identifies this event as a political campaign rally, why is the US taxpayer footing the bill for it?


154 posted on 09/05/2011 8:51:47 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Paradox

Oh good grief...it is all clear. Go watch the whole video. The media is in a tizzy because they have no defense to mount for Zero the Marxist Hero.


155 posted on 09/05/2011 8:51:57 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Hoodat

Good question..hoodat!!


156 posted on 09/05/2011 8:53:42 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire

Clear call to violence, called for by Omullah, Biden, Hoffa, Waters, etc etc from the progressive communist side. We got the message, don’t worry.

Obama is the big student of Lenin and Trotsky. Well, here is a little recap from a nice website:

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture6.html

The marxisits are well rehearsed in this progressive manner of government takeover. The financial collapse is well under way. Now the social order and political collapse are the immediate priorities.

“If we seize power to-day, we seize it not against the Soviets but for them.

Seizure of power is the point of the uprising; its political task will be clarified after the seizure.

It would be a disaster or formalism to wait for the uncertain voting of November 7. The people have a right and a duty to decide such questions not by voting but by force; the people have a right and duty in critical moments of a revolution to give directions to their representatives, even their best representatives, and not to wait for them.

This has been proven by the history of all revolutions, and the crime of revolutionists would be limitless if they let go the proper moment, knowing that upon them depends the saving of the revolution, the offer of peace, the saving of Petrograd, the saving from starvation, the transfer of the land to the peasants.”


157 posted on 09/05/2011 8:56:18 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yup, I reject the “buy American” platitudes as long as “Smerican” includes these thugees.


158 posted on 09/05/2011 8:57:05 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Hmmm..no transfer of land to the peasants! I sit on 150 acres that they have no right to...EVER!!!!!!! All of my ancestors from the revolution to the civil war held on to this little hill in the woods, Come and take!


159 posted on 09/05/2011 9:03:10 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: RasterMaster


160 posted on 09/05/2011 9:12:25 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” BH Soetoro Obama)
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