As I write this, Pres. Obama has just finished giving his surprisingly long speech at the memorial ceremony in Tuscon for those shot last weekend after a day when members of Congress paid tribute to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the House. Admittedly, a white member of Congress and other white people, including a little white girl, getting shot will get top of the news for a while. And while what happened is obviously a tragedy, isn’t there at least a little bit of hypocrisy in it all?
- How many other innocent people injured or murdered by attackers in the past year who weren’t famous got such attention?
- How many others were killed by someone who, for lack of funds for mental health treatment, were on the streets untreated?
- How many service people killed heroically serving over seas got such attention?
- How many ordinary people will get the health care now and afterwards that Giffords will get?
I could go on, but you see what I’m getting at. I don’t begrudge the attention and so on to the victims and to what happened, but don’t others unknown to the President and Congress deserve at least a little attention, too?
#56 That’s hate speech, talk like that inspires violence against gays…what have they do to with anything? There should be a hate speech law so we can silence those who tell the other party to sit in the back seat…or that the will bring a gun if the other brings a knife…
You should be silence sir, you are inciting violence…its extreme speech like yours that is troubling society.
#56 Talk like that incited many of those murders, the heard your extremist rhetoric, and went out shooting people.
The media should be alerted to your postings here on DU, its certain every time you posted, people died…that is an overwhelming mass of irrefutable evidence your hate speech needs to end.
You should be in prison, not posting here at DU.
If you don’t like that, perhaps when they take Republicans away because you made their speech hate speech, you will protest, realizing after they are carted off…they will soon return to take you.
It would be ironic indeed if the left succeeded in making criticism of the Government illegal hate speech…and the Tea Party won both houses and the Presidency in 2012….
Its my theory the right went over the top applauding Obama’s speech, which in reality was entirely inappropriate for a Memorial, because they thought Obama would be the usual partisan hack he has been these last two years.
Everyone thought Obama would parrot the Establishment Press and blame Fox News and Tea Party…and when he surprised everyone by not doing that, they because stupid in their praise of his inappropriate rally.
#57
“Maybe the ACLU shouldn’t have gone around getting everyone released from mental institutions.”
That was Reagan. We are too cheap to treat the mentally ill when that money can be diverted for rich people.
“they because stupid in their praise of his inappropriate rally.” Say what?
#65 Typo…they became stupid…
They were so happy Obama wasn’t his usual caustic hyper partisan self…that he didn’t try to use this against free speech…they went over the top in their praise of a very mediocre speech…every premise followed with a “but” so nothing was affirmed…
And it was inappropriate at a memorial.
Pathetic web blog entry. You are not only a
cynic with a capital C, but lack the taste and judgement to demonstrate common courtesy and civility. Pathetic