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White House Declines Comment On Union Leader’s Anti-Tea Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally
ABC NEWS ^ | Sep 5, 2011 6:59pm | Mary Bruce

Posted on 09/05/2011 4:08:50 PM PDT by penelopesire

Despite President Obama’s repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House has no comment this afternoon on incendiary statements made by a union leader who spoke before the president at today’s Labor Day rally. Warming up the crowd before President Obama’s speech in Detroit this afternoon, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. warned the largely-union crowd that the Tea Party was waging a “war on workers” and said that, come November, they should “take these sons of bitches out.” “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,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual event organized by the Detroit Labor Council. “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he concluded.

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41 posted on 09/05/2011 4:32:03 PM PDT by KevinDavis (What has Ron Paul done in Congress??)
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To: molson209

Oh PLEASE!! of COURSE Obama heard what Hoffa said.....Obama is as big a THUG as Hoffa and the REST of the union thugs!


42 posted on 09/05/2011 4:33:01 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: penelopesire
Let's think about this situation. Hoffa, a son of a thug who deserves contempt from a normal world, is trying to rally his “troops” against the Tea Party. Let me tell you there are many Tea Party people who are union, ex-union, or have relatives and friends who are STUCK in a union because they live in a state that forces employees to join one. There is no sympathy for unions, as to my knowledge, in the Tea Party but for the “leader” of the Teamsters to speak as he did today, declaring war, is foolhardy. He will someday join his Papa in the NJ Meadowlands..not a threat from the Tea Party but from his own kind. He has screwed the pooch.
Not a coincidence that he was warming up the mob for the mobster in chief.
43 posted on 09/05/2011 4:34:05 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: penelopesire

As usual.... Hypocrites and their double standards.

That’s what happens when absolutely everything they utter is always for political gain. They end up not being able to back anything up.

What complete losers!


44 posted on 09/05/2011 4:34:37 PM PDT by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: Truth29

Maybe you are just 29 and don’t realize that someone in the network has to GIVE YOU TIME to go in front of a mic and get airtime!! It;s not like you think.....and the leftist media do NOT want to give our side one minute on these things.


45 posted on 09/05/2011 4:35:14 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BatGuano

You are right.I have actually been reading the comment sections at news sites with this story and quite a few union members are condemning it.


46 posted on 09/05/2011 4:36:46 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Ann Archy

Here ya go:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414


47 posted on 09/05/2011 4:38:55 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire
Thank you!!

EVERYONE should CALL the WHITE HOUSE with your disapproval!!!!!

48 posted on 09/05/2011 4:40:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: penelopesire

Failure to comment on it and denounce it is tantamount to Obama saying it himself. We’ve always know it was how he feels.....’...they’ll have to ride in the back of the bus.....they bring a knife, we bring a gun......if the power of persuasion does not work, then we will use the persuasion of power....and on and on it goes.


49 posted on 09/05/2011 4:40:23 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I ou)
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To: penelopesire
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. warned the largely-union crowd that the Tea Party was waging a “war on workers” and said that, come November, they should “take these sons of bitches out.”

Well allrighty, then.

50 posted on 09/05/2011 4:42:05 PM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Yep..I bet the little thug is chain smoking marlboros as we type! He has really jumped the shark on this one! His speech will be overshadowed by his supporters threats of violence on American citizens.

Talk about a ‘war-mongering’ president...he is ‘war-mongering’ against his own citizens....(shaking head).

Just how different is he right now from the Syrian President?


51 posted on 09/05/2011 4:44:19 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire
In an exclusive interview, Al Sharpton echoed Hoffa's sentiments saying:

"Resist We Much!"


52 posted on 09/05/2011 4:46:14 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: comebacknewt

“Google news” returns twice as many stories on this as it did when I looked earlier.

I remember the DC Freepers chanting “Woofie” at him in the Clinton years. Hard to believe he’s still around.
Well, he always knew where his bread was buttered.


53 posted on 09/05/2011 4:48:41 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: comebacknewt

LoL!
I like it!


54 posted on 09/05/2011 4:49:24 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: mylife; All

Now Hoffa is saying he would say it all again and re-interated that he has declared war on the American people:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/teamsters-president-no-regrets-after-firey-speech-draws-right-wing-criticism.php


55 posted on 09/05/2011 4:49:34 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: mylife

WH: We have no comment, however union members may pick up their brown shirts, arm-bands and clubs in Auditorium C


56 posted on 09/05/2011 4:50:52 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: penelopesire

He should also be forced to condemn the CBC attacks on the Tea Party as well. He is the President of just Union thugs, liberal idiots, and Holder’s people... all others are the enemy.


57 posted on 09/05/2011 4:51:01 PM PDT by Shqipo (I'm in a reckless and smarmy mood these days. Help!!)
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To: penelopesire

IMPEACH THE IMPOTENTATE!


58 posted on 09/05/2011 4:51:59 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: Humble Servant

LOL!!...It certainly takes some kind of complete impotency for a president to have any qualms about condemning such rhetoric!


59 posted on 09/05/2011 4:55:22 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire

I was at the gun range earlier today with my daughter, so
1. `bring it on’ and ... 2. what happened to `civility’?


60 posted on 09/05/2011 4:55:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (It's the Donner-Reed show!)
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