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WHITE HOUSE: Obama Is Not Going to 'Serve as the Speech Police for the Democratic Party'
FoxNation.com ^ | Sept 7 | Staff

Posted on 09/07/2011 10:28:27 AM PDT by JesseWatters

A top aide to President Obama says Americans must decide for themselves how to be civil with each other -- a rather sharp departure from comments that Obama has himself made in the past. In an interview with the WMAL Morning Majority Wednesday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration is not going to be drawn into the "gotcha game" of reacting to comments made by Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. At a Labor Day rally in Detroit, Hoffa urged the President to use unions as his army to fight back against the Tea Party and "take these son-of-a-bitches out." Pfeiffer told WMAL that President Obama is not going to "serve as the speech police for the Democratic party."

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To: SMARTY

Exactly. If he were any sort of leader, he would condemn such speeches and tactics, no matter who was using them.

We all know that he will not condemn a Democrat, and he cannot bother a union boss.


21 posted on 09/07/2011 10:39:27 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Boardwalk

Just what I was thinkin’......:)


22 posted on 09/07/2011 10:40:14 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Magic Fingers

I meant to type “hell out of you”. But yell kind of works.


23 posted on 09/07/2011 10:40:29 AM PDT by barstoolblues (proud member of the sunzab itches club)
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To: kevkrom
If I'm not mistaken, Pfeiffer just publicly admitted that the Teamsters are part of the Democrat party. Anyone want to forward that info off to the FEC?

Oh my, yes. That was a colossal Freudian slip. When in fact, a significant minority (40%, I hear) of union workers are registered Republicans. It would seem that if the unions want to be more purely Democrat, they should cheer on right-to-work states. The Republicans won't bother being union because they won't have to.

24 posted on 09/07/2011 10:41:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: ClearCase_guy
He deserves catcalls during his stupid speech before Congress.

MEOW! MEOW! MEOW! You stupid neutered tomcat!

25 posted on 09/07/2011 10:42:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: barstoolblues

“I meant to type “hell out of you”. But yell kind of works.”

I was on “reading autopilot” and read is as “hell” anyway...but yeah, “yell” kind of works too.


26 posted on 09/07/2011 10:43:04 AM PDT by Magic Fingers
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To: JesseWatters

These statements, first by Carney and now this by Pfeiffer, make 0 look like such a hypocritical a$$hat.

It’s also a clear signal that this WH is in complete meltdown. It was once thought that Bill Daley would be able to bring some kind of adult perspective, but he seems to have failed. In the court of the Boy King, the jesters rule.


27 posted on 09/07/2011 10:43:53 AM PDT by mojito
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To: JesseWatters

He’s happy to do it for the Republicans, though.


28 posted on 09/07/2011 10:44:45 AM PDT by Antoninus (Nothing that offends God can possibly be a legitimate right.)
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To: JesseWatters

the Obama administration is not going to be drawn into the “gotcha game” of reacting to comments made by Teamsters President James Hoffa,
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They had no problem being drawn in when Perry made comments on Bernanke:

Carney: “Threatening the Fed Chairman is Probably Not a Good Idea”

Obama:”I think that everybody who runs for president, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing that this isn’t like running for governor or running for senator or running for Congress, and you’ve got to be a little more careful about what you say,” Obama said.

“But I’ll cut him some slack. He’s only been at it for a few days now.”


29 posted on 09/07/2011 10:46:46 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: JesseWatters

I remember when my kids were really little. It was quite an effort to get them to let go of the “I already did my share. She hasn’t done anything yet. Its not fair.”

Obama reminds me of that time.

I despise that attitude in people.

Be a man. Take responsibility. Focus on the solution, not the blame.

What a wuss.


30 posted on 09/07/2011 10:46:58 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ok, just to review. Here is a list of things that are NOT rights: A home, Health care, and a job.)
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To: Chandalier

that’s an insult to five year olds....zero is a petulant child- nothing more...


31 posted on 09/07/2011 10:47:28 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: JesseWatters

32 posted on 09/07/2011 10:48:10 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Osage Orange
That's true but already the MSM ‘tank’ is starting to leak. When the full realization of just how bad the rat party prospects are with Obama as its head, even the MSM will turn against him.
33 posted on 09/07/2011 10:48:53 AM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: kevkrom

It would appear so.


34 posted on 09/07/2011 10:49:31 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: JesseWatters
Obama doesn't have the time to act as the speech police for the Democratic Party. Obama needs all of his time to focus on jobs and he will focus all of us.
35 posted on 09/07/2011 10:51:52 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: ClearCase_guy
He deserves catcalls during his stupid speech before Congress.


You Lie!!!

36 posted on 09/07/2011 10:55:32 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: JesseWatters

They are finally admitting that the labor unions are part of the Democrat Party, however.


37 posted on 09/07/2011 10:57:05 AM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: JesseWatters

So, in other words, Hoffa speaks what Obamao is too scared to say.


38 posted on 09/07/2011 10:58:36 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: barstoolblues
Nancy Pelosi Desperately Attempts to Squeeze Out Some Crocodile Tears (condemning Tea Party "rhetoric")

I detest these subhuman maggots with everything in me.

39 posted on 09/07/2011 11:00:08 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I was thinking the conservatives in congress should hold cans or bags of frozen peas while obama is talking.

Time for him to shut up & eat his peas.

40 posted on 09/07/2011 11:03:28 AM PDT by A Cyrenian (Whenever I start to feel down. I always thank God I'm not Jay Carney.)
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