Obama adviser: Republicans are "a**holes"

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[married21]

“Liberals have such limited vocabulary skills.

I despise foul language. and I am so saddened by how much our culture has been coarsened.”
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YES.
1. As a recovering liberal, one of the things I found I had parted ways on was this horrible use of language. I tried reading comments on liberal political forums. As much as I try to see other people’s point of view and try to learn from people, even when I disagree with them, the comments were so frequently vulgar and inarticulate that it was really disheartening. I kept drifting back over here to lurk. Many people here actually speak correct English and care about English. There’s a level of civility and clarity of thought among many freepers that I am really grateful for.

2. As to the coarsening of the culture, my kids have a very hard time understanding why I won’t let them use “butt” in conversation, when it’s everywhere, and I even let it slip myself, sometimes. At least they understand, though, that our family has some standards, and that you can tell a lot about people by which words they choose.

[ETL]

Presumably the word "noetic" is from the Greek noesis meaning intelligence or thought (from nous, mind).

All of these commies are such great "intellectuals"...

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[skully]

well at least he didn’t call Conservatives a$$ holes...

[dajeeps]

The question put to him was how did republicans manage to push through everything they wanted without a super majority and democrats can’t seem to manage health care reform.

Well, the simple answer is that they had cooperation from dems and no we didn’t get what we wanted because republicans were of sort of a like mind just not near as authoritarian.

One thing highlighted by this talk that I picked up on is that he threatened for ‘some senators’ to have some really bad days. Now, if I were an unconfirmed extra-legal nitwit advisor of the president I wouldn’t be going around threatening senators, especially after proclaiming a real desire to remake our political economy into the socialist republic of America. Really, just who the heck does he think he is?

[EyeGuy]

Yes, it is an interesting question.

Have we reached a point in America where government officials are comfortable declaring themselves as Communists?

I would say, if they ae part of the protected class of blacks, most assuredly, yes, very comfortable indeed.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Just another hack ghetto communist.....

[boomop1]

They can keep this up for all I care it will only backfire on them.

[skully]

The situation will reach a boiling point sooner or later

I think sooner before later...time to clean the 12 & the .308

[a fool in paradise]

Van Jones is a Clymer.

[a fool in paradise]

Now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done]."

I thought the word "uppity" was cast into the same lot as the n-word these days. I know black activists got upset about it within the past year (it may have been used to describe Obama's approach).

[BP2]

Aw, come on Van Jones, "can't we just get along" ... you know, be "bipartisan"? LOL

BTW, FULLY expect for Obama to change his tune next week and start asking for us ALL to UNITE and be bipartisan on ObamaCare and other of his agenda items. HINT: When a Democrat rat bastard wants to be "bipartisan," it REALLY means that he's losing and wants you to meet him half way and be "reasonable."

Since the old tactics don't seem to be working to label Conservatives:

Racist
Sexist
Homophobe
Nut
Slut
Nazi
Draconian ... and now add to the list ...
a**holes ...

... it's laughable to think that Obama and the Democrats would dust off the oldest Washington trick in the book by extending the olive branch of bipartisanship, ESPECIALLY after NOT consulting with ANY Conservatives to help draft their failed health care legislation.

Well, Mr. Obama and Mr. Van Jones, here's my response to any future half-hearted, feign plea for bipartisanship (courtesy of the "Man in Black"):

[a fool in paradise]

Van Jones acted stupidly.

[St. Louis Conservative]

LOL - Beck is going to have a field day with this. He has been hammering Van Jones for a week straight.

[Syntyr]

Now don’t go gettin all “Wee Weed up!”
/s

[do the dhue]

My Grandma used to say that if you couldn’t think of another adjective to use, then you are showing your ignorance. Van Jones must be an ignorant keysterhole.

[Girlene]

and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done]."

A little "uppity"? Seems like this representative was slammed during the election for calling obama "uppity". Georgia GOP Congressman Calls Obama 'Uppity'

And this one, Gergen "implied" McCain was referring to Obama as "uppity" based on some of the campaign ads. Gergen: McCain Using Code Words to Attack Obama as Uppity

[gimme1ibertee]

Yet, they ran on a unification platform.

They ARE for unification....
it's just that it's unification of radicals who wants to overthrow the Republic in favor of a Marxist regime,that's all.....see?

[DrC]

“and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done].”

To me, the subtext of his comments was that Obama was too chicken to take on political opponents (or perhaps it was beneath his dignity: either explanation is plausible, and BOTH might well be true) and hence he “out-sourced” these unpleasant chores to people like Van Jones. Clearly Van Jones knows what he is expected to do, implying that he doesn’t believe one words of his boss’s claims to be seeking bipartisanship or post-partisanship.

It will be sweet justice when Obama’s extremely partisan efforts on behalf of Democrats culminate in their losing the highest number of seats ever recorded for a party in power during an off-year election.

[kellynla]

Van Jones?

Isn’t Vanessa the card-carrying Commie?

[Girlene]

It will be sweet justice when Obama’s extremely partisan efforts on behalf of Democrats culminate in their losing the highest number of seats ever recorded for a party in power during an off-year election.

Yes, it will.