Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.
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AdvertisementThere’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.
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The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.
We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
– Then-candidate for the Senate, Barack Obama the 2004 Democratic National Convention, in August of 2004.
“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,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.
– Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa today.
Related: To paraphrase Dan Rather when he was called on the bogosity of the underlying RatherGate documents, if American conservatives are ever slandered, the London Telegraph would certainly like to break that news.
And this video from Ben Johnson of Accuracy in Media, recorded last month at the heretofore top secret terrorist training center in Waco, Texas, is worth revisiting in light of Hoffa’s eliminationist rhetoric, which is surely neither Obama nor New York Times approved. Right, fellas?
Update: “Tea party group to Hoffa: Resign!”
The Rockford tea party called Hoffa’s comments “incendiary and dangerous.”
“If even one member of the Tea Party is harmed by anyone after Hoffa’s call to violence, then Hoffa should be held accountable by the Justice System and Charged appropriately,” the group said.
Though Obama wasn’t present when Hoffa Jr. made his incendiary remarks, Obama noted the presence of the Teamsters union president during his speech. Other union bosses joining Obama at the rally were United Auto Workers President Bob King, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and SEIU President Mary Kay Henry.
A spokesman for the AFL-CIO has not answered multiple requests from The Daily Caller as to whether Trumka supports Hoffa’s comments.
Meanwhile, Real Clear Politics notes that the event didn’t go very well for the president, either, who had a classic Kinsleyesque gaffe: “I think putting money back in the pockets of working families is the best way to get demand rising because that then means business is hiring. That means the government — that means that the economy is growing.”
Update: Cheat, beat and retreat: Fantasies of civility versus a far uglier reality.
– is over. Time to DO. It’s a fight. Getting anyone, including yourselves, on the ballot for any 2012 primary begins now. Check with your Secretary of State and local registrar. Get the forms, a pen, a clipboard, precinct lists and start walking and ringing doorbells.
Hoffa Jr. must be deathly afraid the next president and congress will repeal the NLRB Act,the Wagner Act, the Davis-Bacon Act, ban federal civil service unions and pass a national-right-to-work act.
While repealing the NLRB Act, the Wagner Act and the Davis-Bacon Act are good ideas I agree with, isn’t a national right-to-work-act a violation of the 10th Amendment? That sword cuts both ways.(Although aren’t the NLRB Act, the Wagner Act and the Davis-Bacon Act violations of said amendment, to start with?) (The Davis-Bacon Act was and is patently racist.)
How about eliminating deductions on Federal income tax for home mortgages and for state income tax?
“You and I are blessed to be born the heirs of freedom.”
–Sarah Palin, 9-3-11
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
–Ronald Reagan
It’s a fight they want, those who call us barbarians and sons of bitches; a fight they will lose and lose badly. They have no f#%*ing idea whom they are calling out, not a clue of the distance we will go to preserve the freedom so valiantly won and preciously guarded by those who fought before us.
Game on and games over, you filthy socialists. Get your bags packed.
To all youse union thugs: Bring it.
Today, Hoffa demanded violence against Obama’s enemies. Biden called us barbarians. Obama laughed with them and made some absolutely stunning statements:
“We’ve come through a difficult decade where wealth was valued over work and greed was valued over responsibility.”
If there was ever a money quote to show what a Marxist this President is, this is the one. But don’t expect the Republican leadership to pick it up. They’re busy standing on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets, staring at their shoes. Just like they’ve done since they won Congress last November. If you want people to see this, you’ll have to promote it yourself.
Hoffa,Biden,Obama the top of the moochers and looters. Bring it.
Someone tell Fatty McHugeass to have the salad
Perhaps this should be the official Tea Party song:
http://youtu.be/kyXz6eMCj2k
I wonder if Homeland Security will put out an alert on these homegrown outfits who are obviously prone to violence.
“I think putting money back in the pockets of working families is the best way to get demand rising because that then means business is hiring. That means the government — that means that the economy is growing.”
President Very Big Liar’s gaffe is telling. For somebody that wants to “put money back in the pockets of working families”, he spends a lot of time putting money in the pockets of big campaign donors, unions, friendly greasy Dem pols at the state and local level…. but not any actual working families.
Violent hate-filled unions ruled by violent hate-filled union organizers. Yawn. News at 11.
Hey, maybe the Teamsters…or maybe even all of the union members can wear snappy uniforms to help identify each other…and increase union group solidarity. Maybe some nice brown shirts, black slacks, shiny black knee-high jackboots, smart police-style headgear!
Perhaps Obama’s “army” of violent union thugs would want to be equipped with sidearms and police batons for their “campaign work”. And they could could work under the name, “Obama Union Campaign Helpers” (OUCH)!