Uncle
posted at 7:00 pm on August 14, 2009 by Mitch Berg
Monday: “If they punch, punch back twice as hard!”
Friday: “Can’t we all just get along?”
Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, President Barack Obama on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings.
Obama ventured west for the latest of his own town hall-style events, fielding polite but occasionally tough questions — one man declaring the president couldn’t pay for his plan without raising taxes. Tieless and rolling up his sleeves in campaign mode, Obama pitched his overhaul plan to a crowd in an airport hangar near Bozeman.
The president didn’t deny that there have been angry outbursts by foes of his plan at town halls featuring Democratic lawmakers this month. But he said that was hardly the whole story.
“TV loves a ruckus,” Obama said. “What you haven’t seen on TV and what makes me proud are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country.”
If you fight by Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, don’t be suprise if Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals get used against you.
Crossposted at Shot In The Dark, where the discussion is always polite and well-mannered.
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Funny!
This should be QOTD!!!!
INC on August 14, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Wait a minute here………..am I to believe that The Messiah, might be tainted by the likes of the Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and assorted doughnuts of Chi-town friends (now in prison) who gave him lots behind his house and his wife $300,000 a year jobs for coming into the office for an hour a week? Am I to believe that his Town Hall meetings are not legitimate just because umpteen union buses pull up with manufactured signs saying “We can Do it!” Heavens – you mean this jerk may have lied to the American people? It couldn’t be could it? I mean why wouldn’t the MSM have caught it? Or the NY Times? We can trust those right? Hey – you guys must be racist! Or Nazi’s – I mean Harry R. and Nancy P. said that – and we can trust them right?
Cinday Blackburn on August 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM
“Uncle!” Now say you’re sorry……
thebrokenrattle on August 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM
“Uncle”?!?!? You come in here trashtalking my parents, running up the kids’ credit cards, calling good upstanding people “Nazis”, pouring money down every socialist wet-dream rathole that couldn’t get funded over the last 30 years, lording it over people like you’re God’s anointed, calling first responders “stupid”, blowing up 2/3 of the US auto industry, trashing the nation’s credit rating so that you can reward your buds at Goldman Sachs….and you want to say “Uncle” and get a do-over?
There ain’t no more do-overs. From here it’s a b*tch-slap into next week.
cthulhu on August 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM
“Can’t we all just get along?”
A big resounding NO!
I will never forgive the apologies, bowing to a King, and the trash talk about my countrymen who have a different opinion then those on the left. After 41 years I left the Dem Party because of the hate they broadcast and their disgusting elitism. They don’t deserve me and I deserve better.
elclynn on August 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Can’t we all just get along?
Well, yes. I’m perfectly happy to get along. Live and let live. Don’t tread on me. Treat others as you’d want to be treated. There’s a common thread here.
Alas, every time I *try* to get along, someone comes along and tries to extract more money from my wallet to pay for someone elses’ life.
I’m a very generous person. My accountant (yes, I have one – I have the small business to go along with him) is always surprised just how much I’ve given away.
I give to causes of my own choice, and to organizations that have at least some semblance of operational efficiency – and as we all know, government is the least efficient way to accomplish something.
Just imagine what would happen if just the federal block grant portion of the welfare system, that is, the dollars the federal government passes to the states to run their internal medicare/medicaid/foodstamps programs were instead transferred to the Catholic Church or the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, with a mandate to deliver the same kind of services.
Mew
acat on August 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Flag him.
txdoc on August 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM
I too left the Democrat Party (was a “Blue Dog”) during the Carter administration. The elitism — and statist approach to governance — was clearly destroying our economy and the American spirit of independence. I will not let this administration take us further along the path to socialism. Unfortunately, I have very liberal family members who are not even speaking to me because of the position I have taken against this very leftist administration. Of course, they did not experience the difficult times we went through back then. I made my decision that enough was enough when I had to sit in a line for over 2 hours to get gas and remember my party leaders speaking about “sacrifice”. All the while they were living quite nicely. Sacrifice my arse. Remember that? I do. It was for me, what addicts call, my moment of clarity.
lovedinthekeys on August 15, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Nothing new, when Obama is talking to insiders, he shows his true face. He isnt the joker, he’s Two Faced.
conservativegrandma on August 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM
A little “calibration”.
the_nile on August 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM