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Civility Goes Out The Window
IBD Editorials ^ | September 6, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 09/06/2011 4:36:18 PM PDT by Kaslin

Incivility: Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa Jr. introduced President Obama to union hordes by declaring war on the Tea Party and offering him an army against Republicans. Why no condemnation from "The Great Uniter"?

When President Obama held a rally at a sports arena in Tucson in January after a madman went on a shooting spree that maimed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killed a federal judge and a civic-minded 9-year-old girl, he called for "more civility in our public discourse."

"We should be civil because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American Dream to future generations."

Was Jimmy Hoffa "widening the circle of our concern" when he riled up the crowd for the president at a Labor Day rally in Detroit by declaring, "President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of a bitches out"?

Was Hoffa living up to moderate Democrat Giffords' example, as Obama urged all to do, when he said of the Tea Party, "They've got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. ... we're going to win that war"?

The president had no condemnation for Hoffa's uncivil intro at the event, simply numbering Hoffa among his "friends" in attendance, of whom he was "proud."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: civility; hoffa; hoffaspeech; obamacivilityspeech

1 posted on 09/06/2011 4:36:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 09/06/2011 4:40:43 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

Heads up: The call for “Civility” only pertained to Repubs, Conservatives, and anyone else that opposed the progressive libtard agenda. =.=


3 posted on 09/06/2011 4:43:33 PM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

The picture is 10 times more Civil than the words I was thinking.


4 posted on 09/06/2011 4:55:23 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Kaslin

I would like to propose that any future catastrophic violent event be blamed on the violence-inciting rhetoric trumpeted by those in the Democrat party. If something happens, it’s on their hands.


5 posted on 09/06/2011 5:04:45 PM PDT by MNGal
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To: Kaslin
Was Jimmy Hoffa "widening the circle of our concern" when he riled up the crowd for the president at a Labor Day rally in Detroit by declaring, "President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of a bitches out"?

No, but he was definitely ignoring the idea that "we're Americans first". I don't want to put Americans out of work, but if buying union means filling the coffers of a union boss who has declared war against American Conservatives such as myself, why should I pay him to attack me?

6 posted on 09/06/2011 5:10:18 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: Kaslin
"Civility Goes Out The Window"

That's fine with me. It is long past the time the right takes off the gloves and goes bare knuckles. Problem is I don't think the Republican Party has it in them. Unless there has been some kind of sea change during their recess all the Republicans have shown me is they know how to turn sure victory into defeat.

7 posted on 09/06/2011 5:33:00 PM PDT by Graneros (The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. – Joseph Sobran)
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To: Kaslin

I had to censor myself. Too bad, it was really good.

But I think we’re all on the same page.

God bless our Nation.


8 posted on 09/06/2011 5:41:31 PM PDT by hotshu (Keep America's Faith, that's all 0bama and his fellow traitors can't steal from us.)
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To: SandRat

You’re telling me!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2774418/posts


9 posted on 09/06/2011 5:51:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens collect welfare checks that Americans won't collect)
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To: Kaslin
The president had no condemnation for Hoffa's uncivil intro at the event, simply numbering Hoffa among his "friends" in attendance, of whom he was "proud."

"Civil" went away when Gramscian "long marchers" and Drew Pearson led the American press liberals in demonizing Sen. Joe McCarthy into his grave. McCarthy was right, but they drove him to drink, to insanity, and finally smeared him to death to protect their ideological agenda -- and KGB spies.

10 posted on 09/06/2011 8:56:45 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Graneros
It is long past the time the right takes off the gloves and goes bare knuckles.

It's been 40 years since Bill Ayers told us that 25,000,000 Americans were going to take a one-way trip to the death camps if he and his pals ever took over. Now his homey, his front man, is in the White House. And nobody's nervous? We know what they're capable of -- they've done it before in countries around the world.

11 posted on 09/06/2011 9:00:14 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Bikkuri; ...
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. . . . From # 11.

It's been 40 years since Bill Ayers told us that 25,000,000 Americans were going to take a one-way trip to the death camps if he and his pals ever took over. Now his homey, his front man, is in the White House. And nobody's nervous? We know what they're capable of -- they've done it before in countries around the world.

12 posted on 09/06/2011 11:41:10 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: lentulusgracchus
It's been 40 years since Bill Ayers told us that 25,000,000 Americans were going to take a one-way trip to the death camps if he and his pals ever took over. Now his homey, his front man, is in the White House. And nobody's nervous? We know what they're capable of -- they've done it before in countries around the world.

Ayers really did say that - I wonder of Homeland Security ever checked him out..

13 posted on 09/06/2011 11:53:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: GOPJ

...Ayres gives Homeland Security it’s marching orders: National Socialist style...


14 posted on 09/07/2011 12:14:29 AM PDT by gargoyle (...This looks like a good fight, deal me in...)
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To: Kaslin

Macho-man Progressive scu*bags always accusing others of being fascists, yet they behave just like fascists and don’t think twice about it. (And the Progressive base loves it, along with all those brilliant, really-really smart, intelligent, bright-genius Independents who will vote left at the slightest breeze.)

IMHO


15 posted on 09/07/2011 4:14:12 AM PDT by ripley
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To: LucyT; lentulusgracchus
It's been 40 years since Bill Ayers told us that 25,000,000 Americans were going to take a one-way trip to the death camps if he and his pals ever took over. Now his homey, his front man, is in the White House. And nobody's nervous? We know what they're capable of -- they've done it before in countries around the world.

I certainly won't dismiss or disregard this threat.

Only two populations in the world that I know of will NOT be taken over. They’re the USA and Switzerland who agree with your tagline! :-)

We have to totally surrender and hand over our arms for this to happen.

That, my FRiends, ain't gonna happen.

16 posted on 09/07/2011 4:45:44 AM PDT by melancholy (0b0z0's '12 campaign slogan: Read My Lips, Nooo...Newwww...Joooobs.)
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To: LucyT
The now existing Democrat Party under Obama and Holder are showing themselves to be quite al qaedaesque, more than willing to 'sacrifice a few thousand black people to riot and mayhem in order to achieve their goals. And their goals? ... Taking down the American Republic, removing America from a position of power which has served to protect the world for several decades.

The current democrap party is hallmarked by thuggery like Hoffa, and criminals of all manner, even tax dodgers now delegating what your tax dollars will be used to serve in the socialist societal engineering democrat agenda.

And if anyone doubts that elements of the democrat party are planning criminal mayhem, just notice the community organizing work teaching stupid black people to flash mob and steal and riot and attack American citizens. Sadly, the black people being herded to these flash mob events have not a clue that they are being trained to be the cannon fodder to incite civil war which the commie administration needs in order to stay in power.

17 posted on 09/07/2011 8:34:33 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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