COMPASSIONATE LIBERALS: UPDATE (AGAIN) (antiwar protestor spits on Iraq war vet)

Newsradio 620 WTMJ ^ | FRIDAY, Oct. 22, 2004, 2:51 p.m. | Charlie Sykes

[CyberAnt]

WOW! That's a classy looking W poster.

[xenawp]

Note the results of the Channel One vote. Those KIDS who are sitting under all those liberal teachers, want Bush!
I'd say that there is something to be said for teenaged rebellion, this time.

[dmartin]

It sounds to me as though someone was looking to provoke the candidate. Nothing better for his opponent than for the morning papers to read 'Republican Candidate Hits College Student'. My money is on the Marxist he is running against instigating this.

[ejo]

Inquiring minds would like to know? Where was john mcain during this debacle?

[PhiKapMom]

Good question! Probably still talking about how Kerry is a friend?

[campfollower]

Thanks for the ping. All good Americans should not allow this to happen. Anyone seen spitting or disparaging our troops in any way should be shunned, shamed and banished from the same area as our soldiers and Marines.

All good Americans should continue to express their thanks to our troops...buy them a lunch, give them an airplane seat...do something nice. They will be so appreciative.

[grey_whiskers]

And in doing this, it will make you better than the spitter in what way? Tell me how your attitude is different than his?

The spitter spat upon a politician with whom he disagreed, lied about having spat, and tried to get into a spat as a result. All apparently without the slightest trace of class, tact, or decorum.

This respondent is replying to the uncouth behaviour and thuggery with a show of force, to intimidate the boorish. If they had restrained their actions, he would have made no such threat.

Full disclosure:

Responding to such people is always a dilemna.

If you mirror their tactics, they will cry "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

If you ignore them, they go away smirking, and escalate their tactics.

Proverbs 26:4-5 says:

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Apparently, Solomon had to deal with politics too...
OTOH, politics was really hardball in those days.
See 1 Kings 2 for a description of how Solomon's brother tried to connive his way into the kingship, and was killed for his trouble.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Matt Lambert? Is that the guy Lambert Field was named after?

[Bitter Bierce]

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[Casloy]

I commend him for his restraint. Had he cuffed the snot out of the little punk I would commend him for his good deed.

[dozer7]

"This sounds like the Viet Nam protestors all over again. Now, you can understand better what the Viet Nam vets came through when they came home. Kerry has been encouraging this sort of his behavior by his treatment of those brave men."

Anybody that had to run the guantlet at SanFrancisco airport can relate. It was not the welcome home I was expecting.

regards

the dozer

[DJ MacWoW]

Responding to such people is always a dilemna

I agree. The poster was suggesting to "seek them out". Revenge benefits no one. However, in a crowd of people, pointing out the childishness of an action may work. A statement such as "I don't believe spitting to be an adult form of disagreement" may humiliate. Admittedly, it wouldn't work in a room full of disrespectful partisans. But I do believe that acting with dignity makes the spitter feel frustrated.

[King Prout]

*sigh*