President Obama, on yet another taxpayer-funded reelection campaign junket — this one billed as a preview of his upcoming big jobs speech, called for a bipartisan response to his latest plan amidst extreme partisan rhetoric.
Before Obama took to the podium, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa set the tone with profane, violent and partisan rhetoric:
We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war.
President Obama, this is your army, and we are ready to march. Everybody here’s got a vote. If we go back, and we keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these son of a b[*****]s out and give America back to America where we belong.
As if Hoffa’s uncivil discourse wasn’t enough, at a separate taxpayer-funded reelection campaign event, Vice President Biden referred to Republicans as “Barbarians at the gate.”
The use of such extreme violent partisan rhetoric causes one to wonder what happened to President Obama’s highly touted call for a civil political debate.
When President Obama took the Teleprompter, he did not renew his call for civility, instead he praised Teamsters President Hoffa saying he was proud of him. According to ABC News, the White House had no comment yesterday about Hoffa’s uncivil rhetoric.
Does President Obama truly believe this sort of violent and profane rhetoric will encourage a bipartisan response to his jobs speech? Perhaps he just doesnt care.
This Afternoon, Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney made it clear that Obama will not apologize for Hoffa’s violent and profane rhetoric:
Those weren’t comments by the president. The president … wasn’t on stage. He didn’t speak for another 20 minutes. He didn’t hear it.
The “he didn’t hear it” defense doesn’t cut it. It’s the same defense presidential candidate Obama used to distance himself from his hateful pastor and spiritual advisor of 20 years. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Just as he did with Reverend Wright, Obama will eventually decide it is politically expedient to throw Hoffa under the bus.
Jeff Emanuel
Dan Spencer
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Caleb Howe
Daniel Horowitz
Lori Ziganto
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The left is becoming everything they
earlgrey (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 5:47PM EDT (link)have accused the Tea Party of being.
Well-stated, earlgrey
runner12 (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 6:08PM EDT (link)I might also add that the ” I didn’t hear it defense” is laughable. Really? Where exactly were you Mr. President when Hoffa was spewing his vile rhetoric?
You had no problem calling on the Tea Party to be “civil” even though they were completely innocent of the charges you made against them.
Mr. President you have a glaring double-standard when it comes to “civil discourse.”
Worse than laughable
Next93 (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 7:04PM EDT (link)In order to accept the “I didn’t hear it” defense, you’d also have to believe that they don’t have any computers or video equipment in the White House.
I know what the union thugs are capable of, and there’s no way anyone can honestly claim that Hoffa was was speaking of a rhetorical conflict to be played out at the ballot box. He, of all people should know what he’s calling for; that violence paid for his upbringing and took his fathers life.
A failure by the POTUS to refute these comments constitutes an open call for violence against his political enemies. I can’t think of a time when that’s ever happened in this country.
H,owever there WAS a time that it happened in a European country just to the east of France…(for that matter, it also happened in France must after their revolution)
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
"Rules for Radicals"
cwfoster Wednesday, September 7th at 1:03PM EDT (link)Rule #4 Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
Rule#5 Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Rule#6 A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Classic Hopey Changey tactics! any other questions?
Projection
benko Tuesday, September 6th at 5:53PM EDT (link)Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings
Defender
gracepmc Tuesday, September 6th at 6:13PM EDT (link)I am no great Sarah Palin for President fan, but I do think she plays an important role on the conservative scene. That said, as far as I know, Sarah Palin is the only conservative of note that has publicly come out in defense of the tea party, conservatives and civility. And for this she should be commended. If others have stood up I am unaware and unsurprised.
gracepmc: Nor am I a Palin for President fan,
pttx333 (Diary) Wednesday, September 7th at 4:47AM EDT (link)but she and some of the other candidates (not Paul or Huntsman) will hopefully play significant roles when we win the White House in 2012. As far as I can see, they can bring to the table varying talents that can be of great value. That is my take on it.
Obama is such a hypocrite on this issue
mikweir (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 7:22PM EDT (link)At his Arizona speech on January 12th the President said “it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
So I guess he did not mean that if he ignores such a flagrant example of someone on his political side speaking in a way that wounds.
It's haow the left works
publious Tuesday, September 6th at 7:43PM EDT (link)Mr. Obama and the Democratic party of today has little concern for civility and honest discussion. If Obama had a theme song, it would come from a 60s hippie band…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2MzlKURW8
the vid
gekster (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 7:55PM EDT (link)They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
Please provide the YouTube link to video
gwalt Wednesday, September 7th at 8:04AM EDT (link)This has to go viral!
“A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered”. –Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries (January 27, 1982)
It's above my post. nt
gekster (Diary) Wednesday, September 7th at 9:14AM EDT (link)ntnt
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
Hoffa's comments are mighty bold talk...
Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 6th at 9:37PM EDT (link)…for someone whose Dad is buried under the 50 yard line at The Meadowlands, Or maybe he is planning on supplying his Dad with some neighbors, which would be more in line with his lineage.
union policy still the same
shazam33 Wednesday, September 7th at 12:38PM EDT (link)I remember standing in line as a teenager out side Boston waiting for a job at a factory when a black Caddie rolled up and a fat man crawled out with 2 backup men or bodyguards and walked down the line and asked everybody they didn’t know for union cards. The people without union cards were grabbed by the bodyguards and thrown out of line including myself. One man complained and was thumped to the ground by one of the bodyguards to the smiles of the others in line.
This IS the union way, then and now……….
Perhaps he's really that bad at listening.
kywrite Wednesday, September 7th at 8:17AM EDT (link)It would explain a whole lot, if you think about it.
Of course, someone that bad at listening would be fired from any job. Obama has arguably the most important job in the world. Ergo, time for some firin’.
It is like Sgt. Schultz
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Wednesday, September 7th at 8:23AM EDT (link)” I know nuh-thing! I see nuh-thing!”
There is none so blind . . . .
Hoffa Standard
rubb Wednesday, September 7th at 8:31AM EDT (link)I like the Jake Tapper idea, when he stated the White House had set “The Hoffa Standard” for political discourse.
"It didn't work then," Dan?
radicalrighty Wednesday, September 7th at 8:42AM EDT (link)Obama got elected by white folks, who obviously didn’t worry about his white-hating preacher of 20 years.
Seems to me it worked pretty well . . .
Maybe
gunslingr45 Wednesday, September 7th at 11:01AM EDT (link)this is that Obumber “army” he was talking about? Sad part is I read that a T party gathering on the same day there drew more people.
Hey Jimmie, you gonna be out front when you come to “get us?” I only ask because my Mother was never that and the last man who called me that name was spitting teeth right after.
You would do well to remember that old soldiers never die, they just get mean in their old age until we “fade away.”