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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This is right out of OBlahblah’s playbook. He is trying to create as much chaos as possible. Race war? no problem. Union thugs beating up tea partiers? No problem. Whatever it takes.
Good for you. My late daddy taught me to shoot too and those are wonderful memories that I will carry the rest of my life!
I also still pack heat and can shoot pretty good...lol.
You are way too forgiving of the of the GOP leadership. If Boehner and McConnell came out to make a statement about these violent comments and demanded a disavowal by Obama they would get on the air and Fox, in particular, would followup. Other networks might disparage the GOP, but they would talk about it.
Daymn that is a creepy website!
The WH isn’t going to say anything because they agree with it.
I fear we may all think that this upcoming election cycle will get rid of all of this.
This could be a very dangerous one for candidates and voters.
The left is not going to just go away and they don’t plan to lose. Even if it means creating a crisis to stop the process.
Sounds like TV news people are treating this as just tough talk and election rhetoric to whip up support.
Problem is that it may very well incite some of the kooks on the dem side to violence and general mayhem.
2012 is going to be very ugly.
You are DREAMING!!! Fox is NOT on the Pubbies side.....especially not on the weekends.
President Obama exhibits his hypocrisy and abandons his pledge of bringing a new tone of civility to politics.
He’s the same as the so called moderate muslims that find nothing to condemn in Islamic terrorism.
He’s just firing up the base. He needs the thugs in his camp.
LOL..you tell her that Pen just gave her honorary membership in the Texas Cowgirls(if she ain’t Texan already)!!
Sheesh, grow up. Buy Union made. It is the public Unions that have poisoned this beyond belief and they don't make anything but excuses.
In general, I don't see orchestrated email compaigns as being effective. But this one is the exception and it will work: Basically forcing the Chosen One to scream uncle if he wants a national audience before Thursday Night Football.
For sure...did you read some of the dumb ass lib comments...lol?
I have had my google open on this story to see how it is running through the internet and TPM was the first ones to report Hoffa ‘fiery reply’ when i hit refresh. The man is jumping the shark and so is Obama.
It’s also a way to force his thuggery unto the national stage. The American people aren’t dumb...they know where the true violence and violent rhetoric is coming from and now they have to witness it coming directly from the President if he doesn’t condemn and disavow this kind of crap immediately.
Would you mind putting this thread in breaking news? Given the way this awful stuff is spreading over the internet, the White House response(or lack of) seems important. I should have done it to begin with.
THANKS!
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