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Party activism is not about political dissent - It's about vile, storm
trooper sound bites
Monday, March 29th 2010, 4:00 AM
Rep. Bart Stupak was called a baby
killer, Obama is accused of being a Lefty, while Palin talks constantly
of being a 'good American.'
killer, Obama is accused of being a Lefty, while Palin talks constantly
of being a 'good American.'
Near a suburban school, one of many
graffiti-hit signs that serve as mindless political protest.
graffiti-hit signs that serve as mindless political protest.
We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the
front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath
the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama ."
Stop Obama.
Why has somebody done it?
Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or,
more likely, that they should.
My son is in the seat next to me
in the car. He says, "This isn't the only one. There are others in
different parts of town."
At least here it is only vandalism about
this President and the country's new health care bill, not phone
threats left for some members of Congress. It is not an honorable old
hero of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis hearing the kind of racial insults he heard
nearly 50 years ago in America . Or other congressmen being spat upon, all in the
name of democracy at work.
At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak , a Democrat from Michigan , being called a "baby killer," or a brick through a lawmaker's window.
It is not Sarah Palin on her Twitter page - this woman who officially puts the twit in
Twitter - posting the following message:
"Commonsense
Conservatives & lovers of America: Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD."
As
always, you wonder where this patriotism and righteousness and Tea
Party activism was during Bush-Cheney. You wonder if all the people who
want to take to the streets - and to the television cameras now -
decided they weren't needed for eight years because they thought the
country was going so good. Or maybe they have just convinced themselves
that the Obama who must now be stopped didn't just inherit this America,
he created it.
This is no longer about political dissent. It is
about storm trooper sound bites, and hate. This isn't the kind of honest
debate on which our system of government has been built. It is vile,
back-alley fighting, getting worse by the day, with no end in sight.
People say that opposition to all Presidents, even the most unpopular
white ones, sounds like this. No, it doesn't.
"It's so good to be
here for the showdown in Searchlight [Nev. ]," Palin says on Saturday. "So proud to be with all you who are proud
to be Americans."
Palin is in Nevada because Sen. Harry Reid is a Democratic candidate she and other lovers
of America are "targeting" this November. Of course, the implication,
as always, is that anybody on the other side of the debate - about
health care or anything else - isn't nearly as good an American as she
is.
Palin is such a fighter and great American that she quit on
her stool as governor of Alaska because there was more money to be made in the other 49 states,
shouting about death panels and health care and "European socialism" and
writing unreadable books. In so many ways, she is a perfect media
darling for our times. She doesn't scrawl graffiti, she thinks in it.
If you even think that this President ought to be
given a chance, that he might have some good in him, that he doesn't
hate America the way the radio idiots say he does, then you must be
someone just like him and she will help shout you down. You are another
lousy, lefty Socialist who doesn't understand the new health care bill
is unconstitutional. Why? Because the screamers say so, that's why. They
learned it online.
"The country does not like this [health care]
bill," Republican strategist Mike Murphy says on television Sunday.
The country.
Another guy speaking for the whole country, coast to coast, Washington Heights to Starbuck, Wash. Is
America divided over health care right now? Sure it is, the way it was
divided over Social Security under FDR and Medicare under LBJ and just about every important social program in the
country's history.
Will a bill be presented to my children and
their children on this bill someday? It likely will be. And economists
say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who
have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the
other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much
money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.
But
Obama is the one who must be stopped, on health care and everything
else. Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means. Sometimes
you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate
this President before you love America enough.
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