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?
Right wingdings have their panties in a wad because President Obama has the gall to behave like a white president.
I turned it on just as it was starting and all of the cheering and happiness just made me feel sick to my stomach and it felt creepy, What was everybody so happy about? my wife and I both voted for Obama and thank he’s doing okay job, we normally watch all of his speeches but we couldn’t watch this one it was just too damn creepy.
It was an assassination attempt on a sitting member of Congress, that’s why. Too hard to figure out Uncle Dave??
What a dickhead…we don’t need to work on our civility, the victims need help to heal, the nutball needs to be executed…
Most of his speech was about us…how we need to change…what a dickhead…
And applause? at a memorial? he lapped it up…and today the usual suspects applaud him for his stupid idiot speech tell us to be civil…
what a dickhead.
#44 I am sure if Jesus were alive today, he’d say word-for-word exactly what you wrote.
#45 Alfred the tool is in for a disappointment when he checks into the Purgatory holding area and informed he’s gonna be in a warm place.
If her husband had any chops…he would have stormed out of the rally.
It is wrong to profit, take advantage of these victims for political gain…
and lecture us on being civil…Mr. if they bring a knife, we bring a gun …
I should have expected it…the usual suspects telling how this crisis was too good to waste…how its Obama’s Clinton/Oklahoma moment to connect with voters…
So we get a rambling half hour pep rally speech denigrating us for lack of civility…while he basks in the applause…the families of the victims there in front of him…enduring in pain…the applause and cheering…
It was disgusting, completely inappropriate…if her husband had any chops at all…he he wasn’t a boot licking progressive, he would have stormed out in disgust…
Alfred, does Rush always make you that bitter and angry? Maybe you should listen to something else…new wave jazz, for example. More soothing for the restless and lost soul.
#49 I couldn’t listen to Rush but a few minutes this morning, but it appeared he treated this in depth…as a 24/7 member, I can hear his broadcast on line…now…thanks for reminding me.
Rush is right.
#49 That was clever misdirection, I fell for it…thanks for reminding me to never let down my guard, progressives are slick propagandists…they know how to circle the wagons around their Dear Leader.
It was sick…with the victims enduring the pain…no doubt they felt like they had to…him being President and all.
http://rushlimbaugh.com/home/videoplayer.guest.html?uri=channels/381255/1144377
#48 “It was disgusting, completely inappropriate…if her husband had any chops at all…he he wasn’t a boot licking progressive, ”
From the first words I thought you had looked deeply into yourself. Then I saw that you called the spouse of a critically injured woman a “boot licking…”
Shame on you. Shame.
Wow Alfred you listen to Rush Limbaugh. Given your leaning towards the right I would have thought you found him to liberal for you.
#53 I’d be at the hospital, not at a progressive rally which couldn’t begin until the polling showed the attacks on the right didn’t resonate with 71% of the public.
If the data showed the propaganda press was able to smear the right with this, his speech would have been completely different.
It was a circus, Obama officials reading from the Bible…too bad it didn’t ignite them in flames as they read, in memory of the millions of aborted children.
I’ve posted before “I don’t do ceremony.” And thats my beef here too. Whether black or white, famous or not, 6/none/or 50==hooman ceremonies around death are meaningless. Strangers honoring other strangers.
All doing nothing. 6 die and 14 injured in a toll of 12K per year and NOTHING WILL RESULT FROM THIS. No gun control, no clip control, no referral from the Army Induction Review Process to the Civil Authorities, a six month hiatus on gun imagery until the campaign really gets going.
Gods, Guns, and Gays. Obama nailed the Pukes on that one. And how crazy are people: Several Gay Republican Groups still “fighting” for their right to be included with the other PUKES. Imagine a person putting their own humanity secondary to whatever it is they have put first?
Silly Hoomans. Wave a flag.
Maybe the ACLU shouldn’t have gone around getting everyone released from mental institutions.
Mike, thats a “fair” point given I don’t have the details. Seems to me though that the ACLU indeed advocates against INVOLUNTARY hospitalization for mental health, but isn’t the crunch here that mental health hospitals/services were shut down for anyone who couldn’t pay private pay rates?
Even now, I just heard that ObamaCare finally brought “Mental Health Care Parity” in that if you have health coverage, there has to be mental health coverage as well?
Mike, you were “almost” honest on the last hypo, so I’ll give you another one: should anyone found to be unfit for military service for psychiatric reasons have a mandatory referral for psych evaluation/hospitalization on the governments dime?–or should these failures just be let loose back into society.
Just reminded of some show (Olbermann) recounting the impassioned and reasonable concern of a gun loving schizophrenic who was totally “OK” when on his medications. “Its not fair my gun rights be taken away from me just because I have a mental illness!” Seems the only people agreeing with him are other mentally ill people and PUKES!
Sadly, its going to take another revolution–at the voting booth to get sanity restored to America.
My thoughts the same. These people were given special treatment because of their stature in the community. Not that they don’t deserve some sympathy. But this was a Political and media event. The liberal media made it out at first as a Politically motivated shooting and although I thought the President gave a heart warming speech. I felt the same way about all the other shootings that happen everyday in this country.
and jescott==what would you DO—ACTUALLY DO in recognition of your heartfelt feelings for the 12-18K people MURDERED by guns in the GOUSA every year?
A==give everyone more guns, bigger clips, and no license hide and carry?
B==something other than insanity showing itself year in and year out?
Or are your sentiments/thoughts as meaningless as the ceremony heading this thread?