Not as I do — “Spare us the sermons, Mr. President“:
Obama’s partisan rhetoric has always been rough. He called his political adversaries on taxes and the debt “hostage takers” who engaged in “hand-to-hand combat,” and needed to be relegated to the proverbial back seat. Obama even suggested that AIG executives were metaphorical terrorists: “They’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger.”
In an appeal to voters, Obama urged that they not act calmly, but get angry: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry!” The polarizing talk was the logical follow-up to his campaign hype of 2008, when he ridiculed the “clingers” of Pennsylvania, called on his supporters to confront his opponents and “get in their face,” and at one point even boasted, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” His jokes about Nancy Reagan and the Special Olympics were needlessly tasteless and crass.
Obama’s inflammatory language and tough metaphors are not all that unusual in the American political tradition. But what is odd is that a habitual participant in brass-knuckles political combat should call for the sort of civility that he himself did not and will not abide by.
Civility is for the little people. You know, the bitter clingers.
I was never that enamored with him, but he really becomes more unlikeable by the day. I think that fifteen months from now, people are going to decide they don’t want another four years.
Personally, I don’t think he wanted to make that speech in Arizona. He did so, because his political handlers told him it was an opportunity. He did it because it was a speech, and he likes to hear himself talk. But did he really want civility? Well, I think the results since then speak for themselves. For that matter, the only people being uncivil in Arizona were Jared Loughner and those who tried to claim he was motivated by the Tea Party.
Does anyony think he will get a challenger and force a Dem primary? Who are potential challengers?
If HRC really wants the job I would think she would be making moves now, because she would be age 70 in 2016.
A primary challenge to BO would require principles the left doesn’t possess. It is just not obvious enough that BO would lose. If the deluded ever do come to that conclusion they not only would put up a challenger, they’d make sure BO wasn’t on all the ballet.
I’m an old, crippled guy, but I’d still LOVE some hand-to-hand combat with this wannabe college prof dweeb!
His stuffing is coming out by the bushel now!!
Unfortunately, thanks to the TP/JBS, there won’t be any viable option to replace him. The decent Republicans stand little chance of winning the primaries and if they do the TP/JBS would either sit out the election or go third party to punish them.
Who, besides John McCain or Harry Reid, would you vote for Matula?
I would go for Gov. Jeb Bush. Gov. Sandoval, who I also voted for, would be good as well.
thanks to the TP/JBS …see, we can agree. So glad to see you thankful for the tea party as well.
The way BO is falling apart, a telephone pole would be a viable option.
Palin/West 2012
go third party You really haven’t been paying attention, have you?