Watching Obama’s Tucson Speech from Behind Enemy Lines
From the windows of my little one-room hermitage at a retreat center on the west slopes of Tucson, I have spectacular views of the city below and also look out on the beautiful Saguaro National Park spreading endlessly west. It’s a lovely 30-acre enclave run by hospitable, liberal, ecumenical sisters and brothers of various Catholic orders. Every January when possible, I try to join them and others in the disciplines of silent prayer, contemplation, and stretches of solitude.
I confess having some of the country’s best winter hiking nearby isn’t lost on me.
Over the course of visits here, my life and politics have steadily moved right, even as the retreat staff seems to have moved left. Most people I encounter here during “talking meals” never met a war or any armed conflict they tolerated, or an illegal immigrant they didn’t embrace with open arms. I’ve been tempted to ask whether these kind pacifists approved of the Revolutionary or Civil Wars but have bit my tongue and let it go. So I’ve learned to keep to keep a tight lip and keep my motto in Tucson: stay contemplative and quiet with controversy.
I especially anticipated my sixth visit in a dozen years after a hectic 2010 with included several huge eastern snowstorms, including the Bloomberg blizzard over Christmas and the epic Nashville floods last May 1. I couldn’t wait to get to homogeneous weather, blue skies, and the peaceful environs outside this city that feels more like a big town with an eclectic, interesting population and traffic laws that allow legal U-turns without being arrested.
Little did I know a tsunami of unspeakable man-made horror awaited as I arrived hours after Jared Loughner fired his last bullets at Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ townhall meeting at the Safeway. In the days after, I and other somber retreatants joined this grief-stricken community and nation in almost non-stop prayers for the many victims, including the fallen, popular Congresswoman Giffords. Those prayers and well wishes for miraculous recoveries continue today.
Adding to the palpable grief here, however, long before any reliable motives were established there came a loud screeching cacophony of political invective of blame, projection, and shameful accusations — in the press and online — that grew more strident with each passing hour. It soon permeated even the boundaries of our quiet desert retreat: Blood was on the hands of the Tea Party movement, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Tom Tancredo, Republicans, gun owners, and anyone else in the center or right of center who was minding their own business at the time, or working on their paying their federal income tax when the shots rang out.
Even the high sheriff of Pima County couldn’t resist entering the fray with a diatribe against Rush Limbaugh and talk radio. Words like blood, target practice, and fire suddenly became hate speech as some hysterics called for bans on free speech. By Tuesday, the war of words had attained Super Bowl status, as President Obama announced he was coming to Tucson to speak at the memorial service at the University of Arizona the following evening.
I confess, a fit of terror overcame me at this news. All this country needed now was for the current administration to get in the act of partisan political finger pointing and blame at a time like this. It would up the ante and cause irreparable harm, I feared. I shuddered to think what might happen next.
By late Wednesday the inflamed national rhetoric was out of control, even after one of Loughner’s old friends told ABC News earlier in the day that the shooting spree had nothing to do with politics. Period. But was anybody listening to anything but his own projected narrative?
Later Wednesday, as our retreat community gathered in a circle for the 5:30 blessing before dinner, the head brother announced we were all invited to the library afterwards to watch the 6 pm TV broadcast of the memorial service and Mr. Obama’s speech.
For the first time in years here, I felt I was behind enemy lines. Did I have the nerve to go to the library, knowing I would most likely be the only one who hadn’t voted for Mr. Obama, even if no one else knew that about me for sure.
I felt like an imaginary Scarlet C was plastered on my sweater.
I didn’t see the memorial service in person or on TV, aside from a brief excerpt of Obama’s speech. All I will say is that, regardless of how good and non-partisan Obama’s speech was, it would be very very foolish to just assume he had “seen the light” and is now going to respect the Constitution and abandon his collectivist agenda. Even the worst of villains in the world’s troubled history had *some* good points or even just a few good moments but that didn’t change the net effect of their actions.
It’s been said that a leopard doesn’t change its spots. I’m willing to bet that an Obama doesn’t either. I hope to be proven wrong about that but don’t expect that will happen.
Dittos. I’m waiting for him to actually come out and defend Rush, Sarah and the Tea Party by name.
Sounds as if most of the pressure was in your mind, rather than people putting it on you, but I am sure that it is a moment you will always remember. Nicely told.
I think she means, “The only person present who had not voted” for Oscumbag.
Not only will the Sociopath-In-Chief remain a communist and a moslem and a native of Kenya, but the rabble will elect him again in 2012, to finish his deliberate destruction of the USA. In collusion with their globalist pals, the Demonrats. the Greedy Old Predators will nominate sure losers, something like a “mama grizzly” Palin or Bachmann and a sissypoo like Graham; Franklin or Lindsey, take your pick. Two years out, friends, there is not one viable Republican or Independent candidate!
Dimwits, dopers, hypocrires, supporters of ridiculous theologies, adulterers, liars, babykillers, promoters of perversion; but not one moral, intelligent, experienced person.
I plan to write-in Alan Keyes and Michelle Malkin. How about y’all?
How about Allen Keyes and Herman Cain or Herman Cain and Colonel West or Colonel West and Allen keyes with Michelle and Sarah being given key Administraton posts such as Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security
Ms. Webutante:
I can see how this would have been a tense moment, and the Alleged Hawaiian’s speech would have seemed a balm upon the spirit for you.
No Kristalnacht against Conservatives…at least this time.
I do hope you understand that this was the game plan on how to make Obama look good, given the slobbering moonbat crazies knee-jerk blood libels.
To paraphrase the best damned blogger in Tucson, Kevin Baker of “The Smallest Minority”:
“You didn’t REALLY think that the JournoList actually went away, did you?”
And just as a sidebar, if you are at a “Catholic” retreat, and the congregants are talking about “Mother Earth” and “Father Sky”, then you’d best find yourself another facility to retreat to.
You are among heretics.
That kind of thing should not be tolerated at a Roman Catholic function…the Redemptorist staff should remove those who insist on spouting paganism and let them go bang their drums and howl at the moon elsewhere.
I think she was referring to the guy who gave the opening prayer, not the place she was staying.
I would HOPE so.
You never know about some of these dioceses and orders…how deeply they have been infiltrated with the “Liberation Theology”, “Feminism”, “Gay Rights” and “Secular Humanist” crowd into the clergy.
Actually, you can…in a diocese that has suffered a high number of clergy sex abuse cases and has a shortage of seminarians,(and the attendant shortage of priests), you’ll likely find the “Hippie-Era” crowd in high diocesan offices.
They took the reforms of Vatican II as license to “let it all hang out”, and it’s been a disaster for the Church.
Kindly get with the program, or get the Hell out.
It was probably a Jesuit retreat, they are progressives which would explain the presence of sisters. Personally I found the medicine man who started the ceremony quite bizarre. It was almost as though he made a mockery of the white liberals.
the memorial was a vulgar spectacle in my opinion.
the POTUS has no class. He should not have been there and it is what he didn’t say that makes it worse.
A lot of turbulence could have been avoided if the president had said something truly presidential last Saturday, but late is better than never.
First of all Bilgeman, “Father Sky, Sister Moon,” whatever, were presumably part of the mumblings of the ‘medicine man’ who kicked off the rally.
Now Webutante: if you thought any aspect of this political rally was appropriate, you’ve been spending too much time with the moonbats. I hoped, when O stood up to the podium amid heartbreakingly unseemly dancing and cheering, that he would grab the mic out of its stand and sternly ask the crowd if any of them had ever been to a funeral before and if they thought their behavior was even remotely appropriate. Alas, this didn’t happen.
What looked to you like a ‘shining city on a hill’ looked to the rest of America like a bunch of liberal yahoos who would have dressed the corpses in ‘together we thrive’ t-shirts and done a ‘weekend at Bernie’s’ if they’d been given a chance. Less respect for the dead I have never seen.
Whooping and hollering ghoulishly, dancing on the graves of the deceased before they’re even dug, for God’s sake. These people were so happy their hero got to look presidential.
Here’s a question for you: why didn’t the dead at Fort Hood get a memorial service with all the Democrats in attendance decrying the vicious incivility that revved up Major Hasan to shout ‘allahu akhbar’ as he murdered many more and wounded even more still than this crazy moron did?
Why didn’t the heroes at Fort Hood get a memorial from Obama, complete with denunciations of all the hate speech that motivated Hasan to his unspeakable evil?
Here’s why: Fort Hood reminds liberals that they’re on the wrong side in this war. So the President was out immediately saying we mustn’t rush to judgment about Hasan–we must give him the benefit of the doubt.
So Obama’s out there giving Hasan, an enemy of this country, the benefit of the doubt, and urging everyone else to do the same, even though he knew the guy screamed the Mooslim battle cry as he worked his slaughter.
Why couldn’t the liberal messiah shut that sheriff up? Doesn’t Sarah Palin deserve the same benefit of the doubt our wonderful president was so willing to grant to an evil, despicable enemy of our people?
Just whose side is this messiah on, anyway?
You’re assuming that he wants to shut Sheriff Loudmouth up. I’m sure that if Obama really wanted Sheriff Loudmouth to shut up, he’s be so shut up, people would be wondering if Pima County has a sheriff.
Brilliant. I am so glad that someone finally made this point. Where was this charlatan after the Fort Hood assassinations?
This was a speech meant to politically benefit himself, as all things (to him) are. What I heard of it was mostly meaningless platitudes, cliches that could have been strung together by the editorial staff on your local high school newspaper.
Re: Your last line “Whose side is he on anyway?” brings me to say certainly not America’s as has been proven over and over again in the last two years by his every action to force this nation into submission and disgrace to please his Muslim friends and all those in the east that abhor the American way of life and the freedoms we share.
In regards to the question “Whose side is he on any way it can simply be spelled out ‘Not America’s”
Why is hypocrisy uplifting? And how does it rate a “good for you?”
I guess this is a measure of how low the bar has been set for Presidential speeches. But, I am biased. One big difference between me and the multitude of chattering elites is that I am fully aware of my bias..
Mr Bilgeman’s point seems well taken. I have no particular attraction to the Catholic Church; in fact I disagree with most of their tenents. On the other hand, I do not pretend to be Catholic. It is a great mystery why some who do profess to be Catholic make so little effort to follow doctrine; and others are so hell bent on changing the Church. The answer to the quandry was discovered in about the 15th century, I believe.
CrackerBAby that is one of the most articulate and accurate posts I have seen in a long time. Amen, Amen, and Amen!
Yes. If that was a memorial, the “Stars and Stripes Forever” is a requiem mass.
there have been other heads of state in other countries in history that have sent that tingle down the legs of millions, many of whom were soon killed in some pending righteous war. they espoused very similar ideals, redistribution of wealth, big government, centralized authority, right on down the manifesto.
when he quits hiding his background and presents proper and complete credentials to the American people (his employer as a civil SERVANT) i will start listening to his blaspheme, maybe.
wonder whatever happened to those other guys in history spouting that crap? oh yeah, did some research and i remember now. wow. remind me not to put in for those jobs. oh well, i’m sure it will all turn out fine … this time.
The nuns weren’t as big a jerks as you thought they were. That is indeed touching.
Hope they don’t read PJM or your next retreat will be with the Latino escape artists in Cancun.
I wrote two articles about the speech. If anyone’s interested in a completely different slant on things, here goes.
Obama is a charter members of the frequent liars club. But last night, Obama became the grand poobah.
Last night, in Tuscon, the hypocrite of hypocrites lived up to his name.
When Obama got up to speak at the University of Arizona, it was like a turkey shoot. All the targets, from Sarah to Glenn to Rush to every conservative voice in the media had been set up by the leftstream media with bulls eyes on their foreheads. It began just hours after the attack in Tuscon.
Key to setting up this conservative turkey shoot was the miscreant of miscreants; Clarence Dupnic, the imbecilic Arizona cop who primed the scurrilous pump of disingenuous partisan blame. He told us on TV that the Tea Party, Palin and Rush, et al were to blame.
But Dupnic wasn’t alone. Hours after the attack at the Safeway, Paul Krugman wrote a heinous piece filled with the same links and lies aimed at accusing conservatives voices of murder. His article in The New York Times lit the fuse, saying they were the ones who really pulled the Glock trigger over and over again.
The mainstream media in all their biased glory did the rest. Smelling blood in conservative water, they pounced on every conservative name they could think of, proceeding to wipe the floor with the demons that created “this sharply parisan environment”; The leftstream media shouted their names from the rooftops. Among the targets in the Democratic mainstream media blame game were Rush, Sarah, Glenn, O’reilly, Savage. Fox News. The entire Tea Party.
Piling on like maggots on a dying carcass, they wrote their lying narrative; that conservative vitriol had caused the final screw to go loose in a psychopath’s brain. Then the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton chimed in, telling the world that Jarad the killer is a political extremist like so many members of the Tea Party.
It quickly became clear to Obama that all he had to do in his speech in Tuscon was prattle on about the lack of civility. When the Obama speechwriters realized the audience would mentally fill in the blanks with the names of the conservatives responsible for creating this poisonous partisan political environment, they probably jumped around like school boys who had just a won a big game against an arch rival. Everybody in the audience would know who Obama, without saying it, blamed for this polarized country whose lack of civility as Obama would put it in his speech was causing awful things to happen. The mainstream media had done their dirty partisan job; blood libel of the worst kind.
Fifteen or so minutes into the memorial service (AKA political pep rally for Obama)the anointed one began using the deaths of honest, hard working, well meaning Americans as a jumping off point to demonstrate his incredible hypocrisy that we become more civil; that we lower the harshness of today’s political rhetoric; “bringing guns to knife fights. Remarks about political hand to hand combat. The demonizing of political opponents by calling them enemies.”Call conservative Congressmen “hostage takers.” All of which, of course, have come out of none other than Obama’s mouth as he uses lessons learned in the hypocrites’handbook.
While Obama tried to hide it, he was playing the most vile of political hardball. Leaping from the backs of the dead to grab political points.
At one point in the speech came the Obama head fake. Here’s what he said.
“If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate — as it should — let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost. Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
Then Obama proceeded to do precisely what he just rejected.
The next paragraph made the turn that set up the attack on uncivility, which in reality was the way Barry locked and unloaded on his unnamed targets of opportunity; Palin & conservative company.
“The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better. To be better friends and neighbors and coworkers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their death helps usher in more civility in our public discourse, let us remember it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy — it did not — but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation in a way that would make them proud.”
The above paragraph was built on the same thing every major Obama speech in built on: Lies.
The media called it a wonderful speech. After 400 death threats on Sarah Palin in the 24 hours since the speech, it’s apparent what Obama really participated in. A verbal bloodbath of blame.
Well said Rache!
Better than the original article, IMO.
But, feel that in general we need to be careful of the trap of automatically saying left, liberal, Democrat, progressive, etc. = BAD and right, conservative, Republican, etc. = GOOD – these, IMO, are just tactics by the TPTB to keep people divided and off the real focus of what’s going on, beyond the labeling and name calling (TPTB, notwithstanding).
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the antics of obama, and his audience can be summed up in one question, “have they no shame?” dancing in the blood of murdered innocents.
After writing one article about Obama’s speech in Tucson, I wrote a second. I tried to be more specific why I thought it was such a disingenuous partisan piece of trash.
Here goes.
I’d like to present the sequence of events as I saw them played out after the Sat. Jan. 8, shooting at Tucson, Arizona where 6 were murdered and 12 wounded, including a congresswoman by a very mentally deranged man, Jarad, Loughner.
Just hours after the slaughter, Paul Krugman was preparing an article for the NY Times that blamed the event on Sarah Palin and conservative uncivility. Hours after that, Clarence Dupnic, Sheriff of Puma county who knew a mentally unstable man lived only blocks away from the shooting yet sent no one to at least make sure the political event went smoothly and safely, said, with nothing to back it up, that right wing virtriol probably caused the shooter to act.
With no evidence this was the case, the mainstream media, using the dead as a jump off point leapt to the Dupnic conclusion, naming Palin, Beck, O’reilly and other conservatives, blaming them for the actions of the murderer.
Reacting like they smelled conservative blood in the water, CBS TV, ABC TV and CBS news embraced this narrative like they had found the Holy Grail.
Hate speech of every kind directed at you and the other conservatives gushed out of msnbc like they’d struck oil.
Four days after the shooting, President Obama gave his Tucson speech.
After saying thoughtful, comforting words about the dead and injured, Obama, like a relay race runner, picked up the lack of civility theme in the news for the prior four days and, even though, by then it had been shown to have no connection with the shooting, ran with it.
Keep in mind this was the President who a week before had called conservatives hostage takers and had recently called conservatives enemies. Who talked about hand to hand combat with conservatives and referred to bringing a gun to a political knife fight. He’d been stoking the flames of hate and labeling conservatives racist cowards since being elected president, even let voter intimidating Black Panthers get off scot free. All of which suggests Obama acts like a classic do as I say not as I do hypocrite.
So Wednesday, I asked myself, why did Obama talk about incivility and sharply divided discourse when it was irrelevant to the memorial? Was he continuing the attack on conservatives without naming them?
If not, was he directing his words at the left who had adopted that theme as the cause of the deaths? I don’t think so.
To me, this was Obama’s clever way of telling the anti conservative bomb throwers that he sided with them.
To me, the subject of civility, unless Obama decided to chastise the left for jumping off the bodies of the dead to score political points, had no place in the speech. It was the case of a talented speechwriter from Northwestern University unloading on conservatives without naming names.
Continuing a theme (uncivility)that not only had no reason to be in the speech, but that had since the shooting been used to nail conservatives on a manufactured cross of hate and shame.
Like usual, it was a prime example of leftists accusing the right of doing the repugnant things they, themselves, were the ones guilty of.
Does the left have a shred of decency? Does the author of this article live in a world of total political naivete? I’m afraid so. The anwwer to the first question I’m afraid is, “no.”
Bottom line: Obama got some traction and you are still spinning your wheels trying to gain some. Hasn’t happened yet, but you can keep trying.
only with clowns like you
I revile Obama, but i have to defend him here.
It was entirely appropriate that he be there. A member of Congress was shot at a political event. This an event of national scope. He IS the President.
If others chose to treat it like a pep rally, that is not on him. did he say the correct things, the things that the PRESIDENT should say? Yes. Was it to his political advantage to do so? Yes. Do I have a problem with him benefiting from doing his job properly? No. I WANT him to act like the President, dangit!
It was hypocritical of him, given his past statements. It was the perfect setting for him, since he loves to take the position that he is above the fray. Fortunately for him, it was the right thing for him to do at the same time.
He had to do it anyway. The assassin is a Leftist. He is a Democrat who is a fan of Obama… and Marx. If the Left were to continue in their usual vein, they would get clobbered by this basic fact. They have to stop talking about it, or lose. Honestly, I think the Right ought to dig into this guy’s past, and link the similarities to all the other recent whacko gunmen. After all, Karl Marx seems to be a common thread, since it appeals to whackos.
Oh, and for all the folks who are English-challenged, this was not a tragedy. It was an atrocity. Learn the danged difference already.
it also wasnt an accident like the other dingbats proclaim
Whereas at Ft. Hood, it was only soldiers and other non-special people. I see how this works.
Horsecrap again. If he’s the leader of the country with the bully pulpit, and he’s willing to use that bully pulpit to smear his political adversaries at that event the way he did, then he can jolly well tell that rowdy crowd to stifle.
Even the worst people in the world probably can do a good thing once in a while. But this performance of Obama’s was not an act that may have unwittingly revealed a decent streak, it was a performance. He is able to read situations that offer an opportunity to convince the public that he is worthy. Remember, he has no qualms about lying and deceiving, so why would something he said cause any thinking person to believe he is therefore decent or good? He’s playing the game, the same one he played in 2008, and he’s still deceiving people into thinking he may be decent. What Obama says is not indicative of how he believes, and he has proved it time and time again.
For a very convincing book that sets things straight, read Holly Swanson’s “Set Up & Sold Out.”
Why do I think the author might have been conned by the Nuremberg rallies as well? Give me a break. This President is a con man and a god one. He pulled off one of the great scams of the century just getting elected. Are you really surprised that he could read the polls before the speach and see that the majority of the public had not fallen for their orchestrated smearing of the right as culpable for the murders?
He lied as he does oh so well. Now tell me again why we have to believe he has our best interests as a country at heart?
I thought the venue for the speech was shameful. The speech should have been given in a church, like the memorial George W. Bush participated in after 9/11 in Washington, DC. Instead, what we got was a pep rally complete with logo and T-shirts and shouting crouds of young people. It was embarrassing and a disgrace. What made it even worse was Obama could have stopped the shouting by just asking the people to remain silent. But he didn’t. And that’s about all you need to know about that guy and how much of a duplicitous liar he is.
Note to my more heavy-hitting detractors:
This piece is not intended to be a deep politcal discourse or theoretical treatise, but rather my experience of the turmultuous week past and the emotional relief I felt at the close of the U of Ar Memorial Service, however superficial, and short-lived it may be. It is a non-serious juxtapostion of anxiety with levity.
I stand by the reality that I liked the message, in spite of the messenger and obvious political theater. Mea Culpa.
When we as conservatives lose the ability for any sense of lightness, irony and humor, then we take on the worst aspects of all we decry on the left, in the MSM and beyond, in my opinion, and worse, we lose our credibility and most of our audience.
And that’s all I have to say on the matter.
I’m baffled by that. Where in this entire sorry, sordid affair is there anything humorous? It’s loaded with irony, but irony of the most atrocious, outrageous kind.
Webutante,
What is a Catholic like you doing with so-called Catholics that voted for Obama, the most pro-abortion president ever? He wages war in the womb against the most innocent and you say these nuns are against war? Give me a break! The mere thought of being in the company of these people makes me cringe, no matter how “pious” they appear to be. Murder in the womb is an abomination to the Lord and if I were you I would pack my bags,leave that place and never return.
It was a stunning memorial service. I especially liked the completely non-political “Together We Thrive Massacre 2011″ T-shirts. Classy that.
He was PERFORMING AND READING! His stoic stance was not the least expression of tenderness and grief. This man is sick. The people applauding were vulgar to say the least . Applauding at a memorial???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It was laced with political hints..then the killer for me was the precious little girls story told to use as a reference for why WE MUST UNITE FOR CHILDREN WHEN HE HAS SADDLED THEM WITH ENORMOUS DEBT???????????????How fascinating to hear how different perspectives want to see this jackass .
He is a liar and has more lines of hyperbole and ugly references to anyone who does not agree with him..Have mercy on our country with a huge population of truly ‘mentally’ challenged human “not” beings.
Repulsive it was…..only nihilists, the mentally deficient, and emotionally needy would think this was in ANY way a “memorial”
It was the kick off for his re-election campaign. I wonder how “comforted” the families of the dead and wounded, felt? Nah, not important….they have served their purpose and we will move on. Now they want to tell us the “right” way to have public discourse?? George Orwell lives!
So they liked the rally atmosphere???
“When we as conservatives lose the ability for any sense of lightness, irony and humor, then we take on the worst aspects of all we decry on the left, in the MSM and beyond, in my opinion, and worse, we lose our credibility and most of our audience.”
Thank you Webutante.
The misdirected attention freezes out anyone in the mental health community from developing a strategy to prevent the psychopaths from controlling our lives. Instead the President, the sheriff, the victims and the low viewership media are making this a reason to enforce controls on all of us. The truth the gun culture is promoted by the TV media drama shows and look at what Hollywood movie that the psycho watched over and over again. No one from talk radio or Alaska were in the movie. The question is should the actors, actresses, producers and directors be held liable?
civil discourse ! that is a joke.
just another bashing for the conservatives.
the conservatives have done nothing but try to defend themselves from discourse of the liberal/marxist/communists/progressive or what ever people like matthew call themselves these days.
only those progessives have been ugly and vulgar …including the president …so if you consider that fine company matthew then congratulations.
I never understood this language of trying to tear down the government.
My entire intentions from the beginning of my discovery our Constitution lost meaning and value to our government was to restore the values and principles of the Constitution.
I, for one, am not trying to tear down our government but trying to restore out government.
Maybe I should start caring a sign that reads; “Restore our Constitution, Eliminate career politicians”.
To those who think Obama got some ‘traction’ at this event, let me tell you: it was only because he was able to go back to his vague fill-in-the-blank style of rhetoric that got him elected before everybody knew what kind of jerk he is.
And some conservatives even bought it.
You know: “Let’s not be at each other’s throats,” says the president. “Shut up, Sheriff Dipstick!” hears the Tea Party. “Shut up, Limbaugh!” hears moonbat nation.
So everybody gets to use the vague exhortations against ‘words that wound’ against their enemies whose words wound them, we all feel justified, and the president crawls through this ditch full of excrement and comes out smelling clean.
But Dipstick hasn’t heard the end of this. When it’s found out that Loughner could have been prevented from buying that Glock if the sheriff had not been asleep at the wheel, it’s an even bet ol’ Dipstick will be on the wrong end of a few summonses himself.
IOW, Dupnik played the bad cop, so Obama could come along and play the good cop. Now, Dupnik is no longer needed, and the press is no longer interested in him.
This is what they call the most transparent administration in history, but I don’t think that’s what they meant by “transparent”.
Turning a memorial service into a campaigning opportunity made me sick. Is there anything this guy does that is not all about him. He could have quieted the crowd with a word or gesture but the narciccist just can’t bring himself to do it. He had to upstage the dead. Then propping Robert Gibbs at the podium the next day saying the Whitehouse had no idea what so ever of the tone and particulars of the event. Just the fact that he mentioned it means he was lying in my mind. They are central planners after all. If they think we believe Obama showed up cold at this event they are mistaken. We have his number . Some things about Obama are completely transparent and his problem with his pathological ego is one of them
Sorry, not buying it. The Obama speech was ABSOLUTELY a staged political event. Did they pass t-shrits out at the hermitage, too?
@ #14 Rachel Peepers
“Like usual, it was a prime example of leftists accusing the right of doing the repugnant things they, themselves, were the ones guilty of.”
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Rachel
The left is the epitome of Projection. Too bad their ‘open minds’ are ‘so closed’ they can’t ‘see’ this. The Right doesn’t have to make the Left look foolish, the left does a fine job doing that all by themselves.
Both your comments 13 & 14 very well said.
All that the author has done is tell her experience, complete with her expectations and what actually occurred where she was at the time. She reported her own individual reaction to the President’s speech.
It is amusing that her dire expectations were not met. That had to be a relief!
One question: where does the author claim to be Catholic? There are many retreats that allow non-Catholics to attend.
Did not, nay, could not watch it, not even in clip form.
Too bad, you missed a great performance including a truly touching moment when Obama repeated 4x with appropriate pauses for applause in between, that Gabrielle opened her eyes. A real tearjerker indeed and worthy of a medal or something. I watched the medical news conference the next day where a reporter asked about the eye opening and the doctors specified that Gabrielle opened ONE eye. Still not to split hair or anything….
That was rich, coming from you. To think, I was banned from that bunny rabbit blog in New Zealand for criticizing some “dribble” (I assume you meant “drivel”) you wrote, where you expressed your “destain” (disdain?) of Obama in a string of empty cliches with no substantive content. I did it considerably less rudely than you have just written here, too.
You’re no great shakes, yourself. And calling that comment “classless”… well, does anybody else here remember Rachel’s description in these comments of her prom night? Yeah, some conservative. Some class.
I didn’t see anything wrong with Webutante’s article…except she(?) got Congresswoman’s Giffords name wrong. It’s Giffords, not Gifford.
Other than that, it seemed o.k. to me.
For your information, AnalogMan, you’ve been kicked off so many conservative blogs because you write in circles, you’re illogical, you tend to be insulting and your verbal head seems always to be in Obama’s lap. What’s more, you’re neurotic. For example, I misspelled a word, disdain, and you acted like it was the end of the world. You seem to be an extremely unstable personality.
Rachel suggests you get some professional help, move out of your mother’s basement, get out of your underwear, get a haircut (assuming you’re not bald), get a job and get a life.
One blog.
Nobody has previously mentioned those things you mentioned. Please give one example each of circular writing, illogical reasoning, and any favorable comment whatsoever that I have made about Obama?
Your diagnosis of neurosis I’ll take with a pinch of salt. You’re not qualified to make it. You misspell a lot of words. You call yourself a writer? Words are the tools of the trade. Learn to spell them, learn what they mean, use them appropriately. Or, preferably, stop using them.
Tell Rachel when you see her, thanks for the tips. Her assumptions are way off the mark, but we can forgive her delusions; her contact with reality must be very sparse, considering all the time she spends in your company.
Stay classy.
Thank you for your comments and especially for calling attention to my misspelling of Gabby Giffords name.
Again, I stand by this piece down to the last jot and tittle.
Also, I am not Catholic, but rather reformed Presbyterian and admire all the retreat staff here, even if I’m not on the same page with them politically. They run a good ship which is a great get-away to recharge and regroup.
Best wishes.
I hear the witless protection program has an opening. With all due respect, I suggest you consider filling it.