You know, he’s right…that’s always a bad idea. So who are the extremists the President of the United States is referring to? Quiz time! Are they:
a) Apparent Muslim fanatics like Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who before murdering 13 of his fellow brothers-in-arms apparently tried to contact Al-Qaeda and, years earlier, attended the same radical mosque as a couple of the 9/11 hijackers;
b) Iranian leaders, who continue to ignore the peace prize winner’s overtures just months after violent crackdowns on their own citizens;
c) Tea Party attendees, guilty of the ghastly sin of protesting the One’s reckless spending and health care proposals
According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
I’m sure they all got a good laugh out of the ‘tea bag’ reference, too. We’ve always known Obama looked down his nose at large segments of the population, those who “bitterly” cling to religion and guns, but now we see how he feels about those exercising their right to criticize his administration’s actions and policies. Nothing presidential about that in the slightest. If only he displayed as much fervor when referring to America’s enemies as he does when assailing his domestic critics, huh?
Oh, speaking of fanatics, House Democrat abortion zealots promise to strip restrictions on covering abortions from a final health care bill, stabbing their fellow pro-Life Democrat colleagues in the back and proving once more that snuffing out the unborn remains a key priority in today’s Democrat Party.
#1 by Christa on November 9th, 2009
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Right Field, is that you???
#2 by Anon on November 9th, 2009
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No, its Anon. But I think you’re the 5th or 6th person to ask that.
#3 by Christa on November 9th, 2009
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I’d be willing to bet,….
#4 by jeff on November 10th, 2009
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I don’t care who Anon is the post that Anon and Megan post are the best anywhere.
#5 by zen on November 10th, 2009
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Do you think comparing health care legislation to Holocaust victims is extreme?
#6 by megan on November 10th, 2009
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Good point, zen. Peacefully holding a sign that illustrates the extremes of socialist health care shouldn’t be tolerated.
Send ‘em to Gitmo.
#7 by Anon on November 10th, 2009
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Of course it is…but Obama didn’t qualify his extremists reference by noting those with such signs, did he?
I’m curious if ThinkProgress ever had a problem with such comparisons when libs did it to Bush?
#8 by zen on November 10th, 2009
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I am not suggesting these people are criminals, or terrorists, or that their right to free speech should be infringed. I am simply asking if you view this type of visual rhetoric as extreme…thus making the participants extremists and encouraging it.
“The extremes of socialist health care shouldn’t be tolerated.” Yeah, and nobody promoting such extremes. Can you draw a line from health reform legislation to the Holocaust? Do you know anyone, or have any idea of how people that lost family or lived through the Holocaust feel about this comparison?