Posted on 01/08/2011 9:26:25 PM PST by Jaguarmike
After 9/11, the country came together, if only for a brief time. It was a wonderful thing to see - a silver lining in a very dark cloud. Compare that to today's tragedy. The corpses aren't even cold, and Sarah Palin's practically been indicted for accessory to murder. I think it's fair to say that on the Left, there's more anger toward her than the gunman.
It's an indication of how much more divided this country has become in the last ten years.
Most of the left is very sick. More like mentally ill. And I don’t think there is or will ever be a cure.
The 9 year old girl who was killed was apparently born on 9/11 and was in a book about those 9/11 babies.
sad.
Remember after Michael Jackson died some woman called Al Sharpton’s radio show and said that Sarah Palin had something to do with his death, Sharpton even said “I will investigate it” liberals are the biggest whack jobs on the planet..they are scary evil, not just evil, but downright scary
Only way is through expulsion. There. I said it. They need to live somewhere else.
I heard that state Sen from AZ make that remark about Tea Party people having nasty ugly signs at the town meetings last year. And a clip of the wounded congresswoman making the same sort of remark about 10 months ago when she voted for 0bamacae.
What has not been admitted to is that members of the SEIU were said to have infiltrated the Tea Parties to incite this kind of things. So for all the talk of keeping this sad event from being political I think at some point it will.
I did not dislike this congresswoman. I have seen her on Greta and while I don’t agree with her stand on 0bamacare there are areas where I do agree with her. She is a bluedog so ...in any event I hope she will recover and not suffer too many side effects of this event.
While not perfect the South still seems like the most sane part of the country and needs to consider secession. Like a divorce from a crazy spouse...
Yep.
The Left went tot he LCD so fast it made a sonic boom.
Now that we know the shooter was a liberal socialist commie bastard, they are trying to undo their words (impossible in the Internet universe).
The Sarah Palin “cross-hairs?” Done by multiple democratic candidates years ago.
Perp a Tea Party guy? Nope, he is an avowed democrat who helped get his victim elected.
Perp a “right wing-nut?” Wrong again, he reads the same screeds as the POTUS and the DNC: Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto, the driving documents of the democrat party.
The more facts that come out, the more it reveals how truly vile the liberal left in the USA is. And what liars they are.
But guess who is going to get "cured"?
Deleted an longtime acquaintance off my Facebook today after the statements he made that were the last breaking point.
I’m convinced that the U.S. is at a “point of no return” when it comes to serious attempts at trying to make the U.S. a conservative, capitalistic country again. IMHO, the final results of the November 2006 election was the “jump the shark” moment for the U.S. as a former conservative, capitalistic country. Leftists worldwide continue to dominate way too many jobs that are non-elected jobs, and this is ongoing: teachers, lawyers, social workers, judges who can’t be voted out, the MSM, the entertainment world, leftist religious leaders,...
Ditto to everything you said, cg.
The left practically grabbed the gun from the guy and emptied the clip.
It’s as if they are happy these people were hurt/killed.
I posted this earlier on Gawker.com. It didn’t go over that well - the guy I posted it to basically said “screw that - the Republicans are more guilty.” Of course I expected that response.
I don’t think that Sarah Palin’s map or anyone else’s map or use of the word “target” had anything to do with this nutjob doing what he did today. I also don’t think it’s fair to criticize Sarah Palin for that map when the use of the phrase “Republicans target” comes up with 109,000 Google hits and the phrase “Democrats target” results in 87,200 hits. That shows that the media clearly likes to use the idea of both sides targeting other politicians and policies in their headlines. It’s become part of the lexicon. Maybe after this incident the use of those phrases will be less frequent. Maybe if Sarah Palin were making a new map after today’s events, she’d place little statues of Liberty or little copies of the Constitution on the states that she wanted to highlight. All of that would probably be a good thing, but to say Sarah Palin or anyone else caused this because they used the metaphor of a target is ridiculously disingenuous.
In my opinion, it has parallels in our national reaction to 9/11. Most people generally accept that all politicians of both parties were equally unwilling to take terrorism seriously enough prior to 9/11 for us to have been able to prevent those events. Sure, there are some Republicans who say that Clinton’s administration left a framework in place that was predisposed toward turning a blind eye to terrorist activity (the “wall”), and there are likewise Democrats who push the idea that George W. Bush was asleep at the wheel for that first 9 months of his administration, but I think that most reasonable people understand that we (meaning WE - all of us) just failed to anticipate what the terrorists were going to do, so we don’t really “blame” anyone for what happened that day except for the perpetrators of the crimes. The same type of thinking should prevail here. Even though I don’t think that the map or the targets or any of that caused this shooting, if this event leads to a national consciousness that the use of phrasing and imagery that serves to make political opponents look like targets for assasination is bad, then let’s all agree not to do that moving forward, but let’s not pretend that one or the other group has been more guilty of such behavior in the past.
I think the matter has been overstated.
A bunch of lefties don’t dictate or reflect the thinking of the majority of the country.
The media makes the country appear more divided than it really is by disproportionately broadcasting the left’s position because they’re cut from the same cloth. That’s why they’re losing viewers and readers.
That’s why they had to make a lot of noise as quickly as possible.
But the problem for them is that the facts dont back them up, so when Talk radio gets back on Monday, the story will conveniently die off.
I mean, by mentioning Glenn Beck over and over again, they are guaranteeing him a HUGE audience on Monday for 4 hours.
>>But the problem for them is that the facts dont back them up, so when Talk radio gets back on Monday, the story will conveniently die off.<<
I am hoping not — I really hope the Conservative pundits will smash the early and wrong statements by the left back into their faces.
They might not, but hope springs eternal.
And, as I noted, the early threads on the Tucson tragedy here at FR offered prayers and concern for the victims. The DU, KOS and Huffpo threads just tried to lay blame at the feet of the Right. They didn’t give a tinker’s damn about the victims, except for how they could use them to advance their anti-American agenda.
A 9 year old child, born on 9/11, no less, and yet, she is just a leftist political pawn.
“The media makes the country appear more divided than it really is by disproportionately broadcasting the left’s position because they’re cut from the same cloth.”
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Oh, I think the country is very deeply divided.
Half the electorate put in place as Commander in Chief, a consummately unaccomplished, racist Communist, one of the most radically liberal left-wing fanatics in Congress.
The other half of the electorate correctly recognized that event, for the utter destructive disaster that it was, and has become.
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