Dem's Uncivil Discourse (From "Healing Words" to "SOB's")

Boston Herald ^ | September 7, 2011 | Michael Graham

[suspects]

Goodbye Christina Green. Hello Jimmy Hoffa.

Do you remember 9-year-old Christina, the politically-active little girl killed by a psycho gunman in Tucson, who also shot Rep. Gabby Giffords last January? At a memorial service for Christina and other victims of a shooting supposedly inspired by violent political discourse, President Barack Obama urged Americans to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

“I want us to live up to [Christina’s] expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it,” the president said in January.

But January was a long time ago.

“We are at war! . . . 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.”

That was the rhetoric this Labor Day weekend, as Obama ally and Teamster chief James Hoffa Jr. whipped up the crowd. The “sons of bitches” to whom he referred are the millions of Americans in the tea party movement. And the reason Hoffa called out the president by name is that Obama was waiting off-stage to speak.

While Obama’s labor ally was declaring “war” on “sons of bitches” who dare oppose the president’s economic policies, Vice President Joe Biden was at another Labor Day rally denouncing tea party supporters as “barbarians.”

And just days ago Democrat Andre Carson told his fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus that “Some of them in Congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see [black Americans] hanging on a tree.”

Folks, this is just the beginning.

From now until November 2012, you’re going to hear political smears and rhetoric so violent it would get banned from an al-Qaeda Web site. And it’s...