“Barack, you ignorant slut”
Posted by trumanesque on September 10, 2009
President Obama just can’t win with some people. By “some people” I mean the distinct minority of members of Congress who are Republicans, their conservative shadows whose views are way overrepresented in mainstream media, and the 21% or so of the country who identify as Republicans. If there was ever any pretense of willingness to work with, or even respect, a Democratic president, this past week has blown it away.
It’s bad enough to spend a month just making stuff up to scare people away from no-brainer health care provisions. Now the conservatives are bashing even the most innocuous actions the president takes. A message to school children, for crying out loud. A pep talk to work hard and stay in school. “Indoctrination”? Where do they get these people? And Harford County Public Schools, by buckling to these unhinged conspiracy theorists by refusing to show the president’s speech live, has embarrassed our county.
Now Rep. Wilson of South Carolina, by his intemperate outburst during the president’s speech, has finally shown the country what this Republican minority is all about: pure and intense opposition to everything Obama and everything Democratic. If Obama commenced it, they’re against it. If he single-handedly captures or kills bin Laden, the Republicans would say Obama was wrong because his mission cost too much money and grew the deficit. It’s just like the Saturday Night Live Point/Counterpoint segment with Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin. It’s knee-jerk, it’s personal, and it brings out the worst in that minority.
Which raises the question, why is anyone listening to these people?
ced said
much like the democrats have done under republican presidents. for example the democratic majority congress booed President Bush in 2005 at the state of the union address, far worse than one man calling b. hussein obama a liar. or how about this, no republican congressman or senator has been invited to the white house to discuss any policy let alone health care. how can conservative views be “way overrepresented in mainstream media” when the majority of the media outlets are liberal and back even lobby for the democrats, liberals and the president.
ProudDemocrat said
Ced… you must be kidding. Booing is one thing (if you think booing if rough, watch Parliament for a while). But calling the President of the United States a liar during an address to Congress is simply too far, and Mr. Wilson using this lapse of judgment as a rallying call to constituents is even worse. The leaders of Congress should have done much more than just slap him on the wrist, and his continued use of his diatribe to excite voters is akin to making a mockery of our political system.
Ced… you must be kidding even more. Liberal media? You are REALLY blind. Fox, liberal? CNN, liberal (you know, the channel with Lou Dobbs and his birther movement)? Tribune papers, liberal? About the only news outlet that you can consider liberal is MSNBC, and even then you need to separate the news delivery (which is not left-leaning at all on MSNBC) from the commentators, which generally are. FOX is a travesty of news reporting because there is no separation of commentary and news delivery. Your unwillingness to see this shows just how mislead you are when it comes to news coverage. The worst part of the news situation is that almost nobody actually analyzes what is being reported effectively. Charges and counter-charges are often made on the news, with no evaluation of the facts behind the charges. In this way, it does not matter who is covering the news, the news is ineffective at delivering reality to its viewers/listeners. About the only news institution that seems to get it anywhere close to right is NPR, which is saddled by the Republicans as being left leaning, but as I listen to the hourly news reports I see that even they are simply playing excerpts from Republican nay-sayers to the Democratic plans to reform health insurance.
And finally, Ced… you are one of those people that loves to augment the President’s middle name in an effort to ‘Muslim-ize’ our President. Now, I for one can see no big difference between somebody who claims to be a follower of Islamic teachings and a follower of Christian teachings; they are both religions that have a devastatingly destructive effect if misused (many many more people have been killed by conservative Christians than have been killed by conservative Muslims). This is why the more main-stream Muslims and Christians must work harder at educating the world about their respective religions, and not sit idly by while people like you bastardize what they stand for.