Obama in Roseburg: live updates on visits with Oregon school shooting victims

OregonLive ^ | October 09, 2015 at 11:11 AM | Molly Harbarger |

[Lisbon1940]

It would have been more grammatical if it said “Go Golfing.”

[nascarnation]

How about Obama: GFY, LOL

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Obnoxious slob, knowing he was not welcome, showed up anyway and changed the theme to ‘he was here to comfort the families’. Class always shows!!!

[ducttape45]

Did you really anything else from the coward-in-chief?

BTW, how are the jobs out there. Looks like a really nice place to live.

[Jack Black]

Most of rural Oregon and Washington is very depressed from the shut down of mining and logging, pressure on agriculture (ripping out irrigation to support Salmon) and such. It’s slowly buiding itself back up, but there are many counties that are shrinking.

I try to vacation in the rural outback every chance I can, at least I can buy my breakfast and stay at little motels.

A lot of people have figured out how to have nice lives, it’s slowly picking back up.

[rlmorel]

"...No Lib (emotional thinkers all) should be allowed a gun....\"

When one looks at the ideology and the type people perpetrating mass violence (overwhelmingly leftist) what you say looks like a sane and rational approach to reducing gun violence.

I have advocated it for a long time. Liberalism is a cancer and a danger to weak minded people who follow that religion.

[rlmorel]

What I always find interesting is the lack of "astroturf" in the protesters. They are organic, and have the wherewithal to express themselves personally. I have been to a fair number of demonstrations, and have noticed the stark difference in the way participants on both sides (to be expedient, I will say liberal and conservatives) express themselves through both in-demonstration behavior, and the signs carried to express their point of view.

I took the time to document it a couple of years ago as shown below. I took two pictures, one showing a large gathering of liberals, and one showing a large gathering of conservatives.

Here is an example of what the liberal protesters carry when they want to make a point. This analysis was from the Antiwar protesters at The Gathering of Eagles on March 17, 2007. What you see in this picture is absolutely, 100% TYPICAL.

Here is an example of what the conservative protesters carry when THEY want to make a point. This analysis was from the Taxpayer March on Washington on 9/12/2009. What you see in this picture is absolutely, 100% TYPICAL.

Conservatives not only show wit and originality in the content of the materials they use to express themselves, but also spend time making them both readable and legible. They take pride in their handiwork, and they can do this because they have a deeper understanding of the issue at hand.

Liberals often have mass printed signs that lack originality and wit in an attempt to ensure everyone has a sign (created by someone else) that says something that the "someone else" want them to express. When you see liberals carrying their own handmade signs, they often look like this, poorly lettered and shallow in content:

I have seen this contrast over and over again. What I have concluded from this is that while liberals may have some form of conviction about a subject, it is because they want to believe something they have been told without thinking it through. Most of them have an "understanding" of an issue that is a foot wide and a fraction of an inch deep. They will doggedly stay within that framework regardless of facts and logic, and their expression of that viewpoint in their signs and banners illustrates a lack of depth, understanding and originality.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

"It's a very rare privilege to be able to be that close to the president of the United States of America," Allenby said.

Basement dwellers unite !

[krunkygirl]

Cool illustration. Thanks for sharing the pics and your thoughts.

[rlmorel]

You are most welcome...the contrast was very striking to me when I saw it.

How I despise liberalism.

[Smokin' Joe]

But what if they have to rename Mount Denali after him?

Not only would Alaska 'tourism' pick up, but the EPA would blame all the yellow glacial meltwater on global warming.

[miserare]

Obama is the turd in the punchbowl at every party.

[Baynative]

I think the protesters must have been effective because there was not a single report of this visit on any of the usual sources that would be praising even the slightest show of support.

[TBP]

It was hypocritical and mean-spirited of him even to think about going there.