Posted on 09/05/2011 1:47:09 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Via Breitbart TV, this is Labor Day the way it should be — with a guy named Hoffa threatening his political enemies while a union-stooge Democratic leader sits by and smiles. Honestly, I can’t decide how seriously to take him. On the one hand, this sort of salty tough-guy “we don’t take sh*t from no one” garbage is par for the course for labor leaders when addressing the rank and file, and all the more so when it’s the head of the Teamsters speaking. Sure, he makes $300,000 a year on the backs of his working-class constituents, but he knows conservatives are sons of bitches so his “authenticity” is secure. Plus he’s a Hoffa; this sort of rhetoric may be congenital. On the other hand, so filthy was the the left’s demagoguery of the right’s “tone” after the Giffords shooting that this sort of verbal excess by one of their own will never, ever be allowed to pass again without their faces being ground in it. So here you go. Start grinding, please.
A Twitter pal argued that this could have been a “Sistah Souljah moment” for Obama if he had challenged Hoffa on what he said. Interesting point, but I think O had other priorities today — like, for instance, noting how “proud” he is of Hoffa and other union leaders. Oh, and also questioning the patriotism of congressional Republicans who might object to his new jobs plan. That’s the second clip below, which doubles as a sneak preview of Thursday night. How rude it was of Boehner in hindsight to ask Obama to wait a day before accusing them of not caring about America on national television. Happy Labor Day, everyone.
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will 0bama stand up for all American citizens?
or is 0bama declaring war on specific American citizens?
Be patient Roy, Be patient.
It’s coming. Just prepare for when it happens.
Go there. Fight back.
But you need to have common sense also, as well as class because we are dealing here with “union thugs” who are spoiling for a fight.
Bbbwwwaaahahahaha....don't forget coffee breaks and vacation time.
Then the dumb basturds will go on strike for a raise.
Wonder if a high-profile Tea Party member has filed a complaint with the FBI, charging Hoffa with something like threats on his / her life as a Tea Party member, criminal conspiracy, or whatever. Someone who can make the national news, not a local from some backwater town. I mean, what better witness can they have than obama? lol
I understand your anger but that is a not so bright post.
The Hitler speech with socialist bobbing head O’bozo agreeing.
And here I thought the Dem-bulbs were all for peace and love plus anti-war.
Buncha F-ing hypogcrites!
I was just working at a gov’t site and telling the guy there I could help pick out the guy’s that don’t work to be the next to get laid off.
He agreed. He said he was at a job meeting and the shop forman was PLEADING with his guys. “Come on guys. If you give me just 4 hours of a work a day we can get back on schedule - just 4 good hours of work!” (BTW - they work 10 hour days, a four day week).
He said he has to plead, ‘cuz if he yells at them he’ll have the union on his back.
The media is going to ignore this. Every sitting GOP member of Congress should REFUSE to attend Zero’s speech Thursday night. Every damn one of them. Explain why. Then let the media sweep THAT under the rug.
When did he ever? I don't expect him to start now.
Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, 02/04/2010:
"Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. the president said this “erosion of civility” sows division and distrust.
“It poisons the well of public opinion. It leaves each side little room to negotiate with the other. It makes politics an all-or-nothing sport where one side is either always right or always wrong, when, in reality, neither side has a monopoly on truth.”...
The president said that progress does not come when we “demonize opponents,” or challenge each other’s motives."
Yeah, you bet, Mr President, Hypocrite-in-Chief.
I’m a non-union type who has had to work around union types. The term prima donnas always comes to mind.
The Hoffa/Obama view of America does not even rise to the dignity of a democracy! (A fair plebiscite would chuck them both out on their @$$e$.) To them, it’s a thug-demagogue-cracy.
There would be a different reaction from LMSM if a Tea Partier, or Republican, acted like this union thug.
Hey Hoffa, you are dreaming of the days when your dad had the mafia thugs behind him...those days are over. Yeah, the loyal union, the government had to go to the mob to make the union workers on the docks in WW2 keep down the sabotage and to support the war effort.
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