Touchy, Touchy

January 25, 2012 | Filed under Barack Obama | Posted by TWB

There are a bevy of reasons that you could use to make the argument that President Obama is the most un-Presidential President of all time. You can go all the way back to when Maureen Dowd made fun of his ears and he just had to confront her about it, all the way up to the way he uses soaring, confrontational rhetoric and refuses to rise above the political fray. He likes to get down in the mud and play with the pigs. Certainly unbecoming of someone holding the office of President.

While no President, Republican or Democrat, is immune to criticism, this President seems unable to let even the slightest examen of his policies go without retaliation of some sort.

Take for instance the interesting encounter today in Phoenix between President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Obama, making a campaign stop in Arizona to push his agenda laid out in the SOTU speech, couldn’t pass up the opportunity to excoriate Brewer for not being “cordial” to him in her book Scorpions for Breakfast.

“He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast,” Brewer said. “I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So.”
Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: “That he didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”

Like I said. Touchy.

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Posted by TWB on January 25, 2012.
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DocEpador
Is this what he means by a classless society?
GarandFan
You’re liberal face is slipping Stephen.
GarandFan
Barry is notorious for his thin skin (you’ll notice Stephen that I did not mention the COLOR of said thin skin).
Most narcissists have the same problem – no matter their skin color. Ben Affleck immediately comes to mind.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Lol.
Brewer is shaking her finger in his face – but Obama has a thin skin?? : )
Separately – how is Obama famous for his thin skin?
I mean, show me one link or shot of video where Obama has lost his temper. I’m serious, I’m interested in being proven wrong here.
I’m just remembering the 20 month campaign he went through to get into the White House, with cameras in his face at least 4 hours a day every day, while flying all over the country – and I don’t recall him losing his temper once. While McCain *and* Hillary both lost their composure at least a couple of times.

GarandFan
Try pulling your head out of your Obama worshiping ass. To quote David Axelrod:
[David Axelrod referring to Obama]…At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I
don’t know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to
taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about
you.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Ha!
Re: head-> ass : Physician, heal thyself.
Re: requested link of Obama losing temper, you have nada. So you quote an advisor saying Obama cares too much about what people say about him. Which, even if true, is an entirely different matter – as Obama has not to my knowledge ever gone after someone in public for saying mean things about him.
Prove me wrong.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran
Leftist filth like you are a plague on this country. We should open up travel to Cuba so you can go to your socialist paradise where everything is just the way you want it, and leave us the hell alone, Raoul.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Fixed your post for you.
*Rightist* filth like you are a plague on this country. We should *suspend extradition from* the *Cayman Islands* so you can go to your *capitalist* paradise where everything
is just the way you want it, and leave us the hell alone, Adjoran.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran
Obama was sheltered and treated as special his entire life, which is why we aren’t allowed to see college records. Reality has a way of intruding into the special little world he believes exists around him.
Unless America opts for suicide, we only have another 12 months to put up with his poor behavior.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Wow!
Yeah, Obama sure was sheltered, growing up without a father in the racial paradise that was 1960′s America.
Hooooo boy.

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Commander_Chico
So Brewer ripped Obama in her book and Obama complained to her in a private conversation??? What an outrage! Of course nobody should complain to you in private after you’ve published a book lambasting them – that’s unfair! You might hurt the author’s feelings!
Why, that’s worse than Nixon plotting to kill Jack Anderson! What is America coming to with this communist president?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/15/nixon-white-house-plot-to-kill-journalist-jack-anderson.html
SteveCrickmore075
She also paints a much different picture of her June 2010 Oval Office meeting with Obama than she did in media interviews after the event.
At the time, Brewer described the conversation as cordial, but in the book she calls the president “patronizing” and said “he lectured me.”
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/10/20/20111020arizona-governor-Brewer-book-touts-immigration.html#ixzz1kYN0PD8k
And Brewer is decidely pointing her finger at Obama, from the photo on the Phoenix tarmac. Who has any manners, who is condescending and who is lecturing whom?
And the other irony on the contrary, of course, is Obama doesn’t have a thin skin.. as compared with Dubya, Bill Clinton, Newt, McCain or even Romney. If he did, he might be a little less calculating, unflappable and cool with people.

Commander_Chico
Yeah, the picture attached to this does not support the premise. It looks like Brewer is shrewishly berating Obama like a wild harridan, wagging her finger.

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
Obama descending from plane: “Where is that bitch?”
Brewer: “Mr. President – welcome to…”
Obama: “Shut up. Why the hell did you write what you did in that damn book?”
Brewer: “Excuse me?”
Obama: “You heard me. Who in the hell do you think you are?”
Brewer: “I’m…”
Obama: “Shut up – I’m not through. Don’t you EVER write something like that again, or your state’s going to be audited like the IRS was the wrath of God. There’ll be something wrong with every federal program, and we’ll find some way to pin all the responsibility on your skanky bitch ass. You’ll be fucking bankrupt within five years.”
Brewer, shocked: “Now you just wait one minute – (finger raises) why do you…”
Obama turns away: “I’m done here. Let’s get on with the show so I can leave this fucking place.”

Commander_Chico
The only video I’ve seen does not look very dramatic:
I wonder if Brewer saw the finger waving picture early and decided to make a preemptive strike.

jim_m
The problem with that is that is is perfectly in line with obama’s character to be petty and petulant and to be easily offended by someone who fails to faun all over him.
obama believes his own hype as much as the most deluded of his followers.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
I get that you don’t like his policies.
But can you seriously show even one instance of Obama losing his temper?
I mean, I seriously would love to see it, just because that is so alien to every video I’ve ever seen of the man.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Brewer: Driver! I need another gin and tonic.
Brewer’s bedraggled assistant: Ma’am, you really shouldn’t. We’re almost to the airport -
Brewer: Don’t tell me not to drink! You sound like that nogood uppity Obama! Just because I went after the liquor cabinet in the White House. It’s not his booze! It’s America’s booze!
Brewer’s bedraggled assistant: Look, we’re here. Why don’t you step out – here I’ll steady you – oh God. The book. Why did you bring the book?
Brewer: So he can sign it! He has to want to sign it! I’m the Governor of Arizona!
Obama: Hello. Mrs. Brewer. What a nice surprise. I was here to congratulate Arizona on the fine job -
Brewer: That’s right! It’s my book and I wrote it all by myself! That ghost writer is a liar and I won’t pay him the last installment! You sign it!
Obama: Um, whew. So, uh, just here to tour some new factories with new jobs for Arizonans….
Brewer’s bedraggled assistant: As you can see, our liquor stores are also doing just fine. Lot of extra business lately…
Obama: I feel for you.
Brewer: You listen to me, Kenyan! I’m on to you! Sign this book or I’ll let everyone know you’re a secret Muslim robot!
Obama: Okay, Mrs. Brewer, thanks for your time. (Walks away not shaking his head, because he’s a gentleman.)
Secret Service man: Did that really just happen? Did she seriously wag her finger in the President’s face for no reason?
Brewer: Did you see that?
Brewer’s bedraggled assistant: Unfortunately. And I smelled it too. Binaca?
Brewer: Not now! Get the pictures! Tell everyone in the right-wing media I shook my finger in his face! That’ll show ‘em.
Brewer’s bedraggled assistant: I think it’s time for a drink. Yes it is.

UOG
Might as well claim Brewer was hysterical while you’re at it Chico. Expecting NOW with charges of misogyny in 3… 2… 1

The_Weege_99
What a load of crickmore.
Immediately after any event, sometimes it takes time to fully digest and analyze what occurred.
And cordiality is more the tenor of the discussion, while patronizing and lecturing describes the content. So, it was not antagonistic or confrontational, but that does not mean it wasn’t patronizing.
Pointing a finger is confrontational, not condescending, and based on Obama’s treatment of Brewer and AZ, she has every right to confront the smug bastard. She has no obligation to bow or show deference to any president.
Dubya “thin skin”??? The man was roasted and lambasted in the press and even directly at press conferences, and he never lost his cool, never responded with the same crass partisanship or vileness with which he was treated. You must have had your head completely buried in some hole during his administration.

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
Selective perception.
Attacks on W? Patriotism of the highest order, being dissent and all…
Attacks on O? Foul, foul treason, worthy of whatever punishment can be derived.
You don’t attack the O. You don’t criticise him. You don’t suggest he’s not less than stellar. You don’t even think about the possibility of criticism – because that is just one small step from becoming a traitor.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Let’s try the reverse.
Attacks on W? foul treason. All Leftists want W to fail because they want America to fail.
Attacks on O? Why, they must all be Obama’s fault and he deserves it, because he’s some very bad person for reasons which are never fully explained.

jim_m
All Leftists want W to fail because they want America to fail.
Glad to see you admit it.;)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
No problem. Thanks for the total irony fail. : )

herddog505
Lesse… Barry is suing Arizona over a lawfully-passed bill with heavy support throughout the state, claiming that AZ’s efforts to rein in cross-border crime and illegal immigration is (somehow) unconstitutional. He and his minions have called Brewer and her entire state racist. But he complains that, in a book that he hasn’t read, she treats him “uncordially.”
Try walking in Sarah Palin’s shoes for a few days, bub. For that matter, try what Bush went through for eight years.
Candy a**.

UOG
It does look a lot like Obama just being Obama to me as well. The President engaged out on the tarmac, in view of the media’s cameras but out of range of their microphones. That’s the same kind of ambush as lecturing the Supreme Court justices during a State of the Union address.
It’s also completely without class, which is typical for Obama.

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
It just shows his style. A good manager (which is ultimately what the President is – the manager of the US) will praise in public and chastise in private. He knows his success is measured by what the people under him get accomplished, and that his part is just directing their efforts efficiently.
Obama takes all the credit he can, rarely praises (except when pretty much forced to), and chastises in public. It’s all about him.
Slight difference there, isn’t there?

UOG
Yup, and Obama’s is to be always campaigning. Just like with his State of the Union address, AZ was treated as a campaign opportunity. Considering the type of semi-public venue he chose for provoking a confrontation with Brewer I would love to know if any member of the media photo pool was tipped-off to “be ready.”

herddog505
How could you suggest such a thing? Next you’ll be hinting that Moochelle’s trips to Target are scripted…
http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
And staged, and choreographed.

Commander_Chico
C’mon how did Obama “chastise in public” in this case?
Both Brewer’s book and her comments are her speaking in public. Obama has said nothing public on the matter. It’s all Brewer complaining and wagging her finger in public.

UOG
If that’s what you really want to believe Chico, it is your right to do just that.
I remain skeptical.
herddog505
How many speeches have Barry and his minions made about AZ in general and Brewer in particular?
Let’s say that you do something that X doesn’t like. X not only says bad things about you in public, but gets his friends and coworkers to do the same. X then files a lawsuit against you.
How would you greet X if he showed up at your house or place of work? Might you be just a touch frosty toward him? Could it be that you’d feel a trifle agrieved? Maybe you might want to say a few choice words to him?
Commander_Chico
I don’t know how many speeches Obama made ripping Brewer - I haven’t heard of one. Do you have any links to one?
The federal challenge to the AZ statute is just another state-federal case. Is immigration a federal matter? What are the boundaries of federal and state action? Those issues are not personal.
Brewer is personalizing it by using emotionally charged terms like “condescending” and “patronizing” about private meetings of which there is no video. Seems like she’s got no class, and it does not matter who the president is or what parties they are. Obama just looks like a harried guy in the picture getting lectured by Brewer.
herddog505
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/7626736/Barack-Obama-criticises-Arizona-immigration-measure.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703709804575202110136576160.html
Brewer is the governor of AZ. She signed the law. I think we can take that as personal criticism to some extent, don’t you?
And try googling “Jan Brewer racist”. You’ll get quite a few hits on that.
As for taking Brewer’s word… If somebody tells me that Barry was condescending to them, I’d believe it in a heartbeat. The man is NOTED for this. I know, I know: to lefties, he’s merely being the lofty, professorial, deep-thinking intellectual that they love and adore. To the rest of us, he’s the a**-clown who leaped into the fray to claim that the police “acted stupidly”, who mischaracterized the SCOTUS in a forum where they couldn’t defend themselves, who hectors and lectures us about being “lazy” or having too much or not doing enough or eating too much.
Yeah, I believe Brewer.
Commander_Chico
Hmmm, I did not see any personal criticism of Brewer, her manner, demeanor, or attitude in the links you provided – only criticism of the law, which like it or not is a highly debatable subject.
Brewer is either using this to boost her party’s prospects amongst women by portraying herself as a victim of a condescending, lecturing man, or is a complete buffoon who is working on the reptile brain level. Either way, it’s not professional, even if she felt (subjectively) that Obama was condescending in a private conversation. She is the governor of a state trying to start a catfight with the president. But in public, it’s all one way, from her.
I will indulge myself here and say that chicks, if you can call Brewer a chick, are the queens of subjective judgment and emotional response.
herddog505
You’re right: I can’t find where Barry has personally said that Brewer is a racist bigot nazi pooh-pooh head.
He merely sues her state over a law that she signed, citing his deep concerns that it isn’t in accord with our sacred American values.
It’s the rest of the left that’s made it personal.
My mistake.
jim_m
obama uses his surrogates to do the direct personal accusations and attacks. He won’t call someone a racist but Jay Carney or Nancy Pelosi or some other stooge certainly will.
http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
You don’t get much more public than ramp space with a horde of photographers watching.
Obama’s good with impressions and playing to the camera. He’d have made a great actor, and a hell of a used car salesman.
President? Not ready at all for the job… and it’s showed. Imagine Bush in the same situation – meeting someone who wrote a book critical of him, in public. For some reason, I don’t think Bush would have said a word about it… He knew that as President, he was a lighting rod for every criticism anyone had of how the country was run. That was part of his job.
I don’t think Obama’s figured out yet what his job is supposed to be.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
So let me get this straight. Obama walking out of his plane and being confronted out of nowhere by Brewer is…Obama ambushing Brewer.
That makes sense to you? Really?

UOG
I realize that a number of Democrat politicians, facing re-election this year, have chosen to absent themselves when the President has visited their state but… protocol is that the Governor or Lt. Governor of the state is present on the tarmac to greet the arriving President. Sometimes there is even a large turnout of state officials and political players.
But you already knew that, didn’t you?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Brewer did not announce herself, but showed up unexpected and went directly towards him.
But you already knew that, and are trying to create abstract excuses for Brewer, aren’t you?
By the way, are you aware that Brewer is rumored to be called “Otis” at the Arizona capitol? As in, the town drunk from Mayberry.
I’m absolutely serious.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
I mean, OMG.
Let’s say what you’re saying is true. Wouldn’t that ALSO mean Obama couldn’t have ambushed Brewer?
I await your answer.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
I mean, OMG.
Let’s say what you’re saying is true. Wouldn’t that ALSO mean Obama couldn’t have ambushed Brewer?
I await your answer.
UOG
Commander Chico posted a link to a youtube video awhile back. Scroll up the page. Find it. Watch it. It doesn’t support any of your proposed narrative.
In summary, you claim for yourself:
(a) ignorance of any of the protocol surrounding an official Presidential visit.
(b) willingness to base a line of argument on rumor when such rumor is convenient to your purpose.
(c) a lack of understanding surrounding the nature and tactics of an ambush.
You have your answer. Expect no further answers from me.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Great! First let me clear this up for you:
As re: a) ignorance of any protocol – Either Brewer was expected, or she wasn’t. You’re saying that it’s protocol, so she was expected. Okay then.
If she was expected and was expecting to meet Obama, then how could this be Obama’s ambush either?
And as a side note, if it was Obama’s plan to ambush her, wouldn’t there also be microphones for him at least???
re: b) – “Willingness to base a line of argument on rumor…”
Nope. My line of argument is not based on that rumor at all, sorry. That’s why I said “By the way…” It’s a side note.
My line of argument is criticizing this notion of yours, that somehow
it’s Obama’s clever plan that Brewer tried to jump in his face and ended making herself look
foolish.
re: c) Great! If I’m so ignorant, then it’s a wide-open field for you to show me my ignorance, tiger.
Please explain to me how it’s Obama’s planned ambush that Brewer showed up AS EXPECTED and started talking to Obama when they were both out of microphone range, and then as his coup de grace Obama made her shake her finger in his face, thus making her look like a shrill irrational harridan with no respect for the office of the President.
You know, with actual logic. That stuff.

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Hank_M
Once again, Obama could learn a lot from W.
W never ever complained about criticism he received, whether in books, the outright lies coming from the media, or his political opponents. Hell, he never complained when they made the movie about his assassination.
Obama is a very small man.

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
And getting smaller all the time.
It’s got to be rough for him – being pushed to the top of the heap and always told that HE was the best, HE was the smartest, HE was the most incredibly capable person to ever hold office…
And then – to have everything he touches turn to shit? That’s got to be eating away at him.

jim_m
I don’t thinkit is rough for obama at all. He denies any criticism by blaming anyone who disgrees with him for being too ignorant and simple to understand his genius. Every failure he has had has been explained as the American people are just too stupid to understand his brilliance.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Sorry, that’s absolutely not true about Bush. He complained a lot. In fact, he went so far as to lodge an official complaint with Ireland’s embassy because a reporter who was interviewing him dared to ask him an uncomfortable question.
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=25173
Just keeping the facts in play.

Hank_M
Very revealing that you should write something as disgusting as that.
(Reminds me a lot of what Bob Armstrong used to write.)

herddog505
Yep.

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Hank_M
Barry seems to have a problem with women.
Looking back…..
Telling Hillary during a debate “You’re likable enough, Hillary”, and in a later speech, giving her the finger.
Dismissing a female reporter as “Sweetie”.
There’s Anita Dunn telling Ron Suskind ““This place would be in court for a hostile workplace,…”
And of course, the lipstick on a pig comment he directed at Palin.
ackwired
Speaking of class, who is pointing their finger at whom? Who has had enough class not to run to the press to make sure they get “the proper spin” on the story and to maximise their political capital?

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson
Who came off the plane and instead of acting like an honored guest acted like someone with their paties in a twist, looking for a fight… and then once they got in their zingers (well out of earshot) turned and walked away?
Of course, maybe you act that way whenever you go visit someone, I dunno…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Brewer did all of that. The only difference is she stepped out a limo instead of an airplane.

Hank_M
Yes, Repubs always run to the press to get the “proper” spin.
Repubs can always count on the press to carry their water, so to speak.

http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C
“Repubs can always count on the press to carry their water, so to speak”
Now that is a laugh … how ignorant do you have t0 be to beleive that ? or are you just stupid ?

Hank_M
Actually, just careless. I thought the sarcasm would be way too obvious.
Next time I’ll use a /sarc tag.

ackwired
The story around here (I live in Phoenix) is that she planned this confrontation in advance to distract the press from his message. It is a possibility. She did run right to the press in spite of your whining about the press. She also has a history of using public confrontation for political gain.
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Hank_M wrote, in response to ackwired:
Yes, Repubs always run to the press to get the “proper” spin.
Repubs can always count on the press to carry their water, so to speak. Link to comment

Hank_M
“She also has a history of using public confrontation for political gain”
Fair enough. Good to know Brewer and Obama share some common ground.

ackwired
Fair enough.
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“She also has a history of using public confrontation for political gain”
Fair enough. Good to know Brewer and Obama share some common ground.
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Oh yeah. All of talk radio and and entire frickin’ network that pushes the agenda. Poor little conservatives…

Meiji Man
The Video and reports from the reporters support Brewer’s View. Barry has a history of this action. (See Bobby Jindal). She gave a great radio interview last night on the radio Supporting her story. Verdict, Barry is a condescending jackass.(see Hillary “you’re nice enough”)
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jim_m
The fact that you even think that others might think that way demonstrates how prejudiced you really are. You present a facade of not being a racist, but underneath simmers a very deep and very ugly racial hate that you project on others for the sole purpose of being allowed to finally express yourself.

iwogisdead
Exactly. Liberal Democrats are deeply racist. That’s why the see EVERYTHING in terms of race.

Brucehenry
Yes yes, we all know the Wizbang mantra when it comes to racism: “Nuh-uh, YOU are!!”

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen
lol…
EricSteel
Stephen is the only person in the history of this blog to call Barack Obama an Uppity Negro. Though Lee Ward came pretty close a few times.

iwogisdead
A point that’s seemingly too subtle for the resident liberals to grasp.
EricSteel
The point is not lost on them, Stephen is a racist, plain and simple.
Jwb10001
He’s also the first idiot to suggest that unicorn is a racist code word.
Brucehenry
And this is the only blog comment section I’ve ever seen in which, if one is using sarcasm, one MUST insert a “/sarc” thingie so that readers will “get it.”
jim_m
It wasn’t the sarcasm that I criticized, it was the diseased thinking that presumes that everyone he disagrees with thinks in such disgusting terms. Stephen’s comments weren’t sarcasm they were projection from his own racist psyche.
Brucehenry
LOL that’s rich coming from you, Jim. Do you ever read your own stuff?
jim_m
I don’t go making racist screeds and them excusing it as what the left is thinking. I do make assertions about what the left thinks but when I do it isn’t in the form of racist remarks.
If you are unable to see the difference then I severely overestimated your intelligence.
Brucehenry
No, that’s true. Instead you characterize any and all disagreement with your world-view as anti-Americanism and anti-Christian bigotry.
Your pretense to knowledge of the “mind of the left” is no less ridiculous than Stephen’s pretense that every conservative utterance is race-based.
jim_m
No I don’t characterize all disagreement in those ways. But yes I do believe that many on the left have exactly those issues.
And yes, I make some sweeping generalizations and I use hyperbole to make a point, but I don’t make vulgar comments and directly attribute them to you.

retired.military
Bruce
Can you cite one racist comment from conservatives on this site? If you can I would be willing to bet that comment was slammed by other posters and that person is not a regular poster.
The racism mime is old, boring, and utterly without any proof at all.

Brucehenry
I don’t believe I’ve ever accused anyone here of racism, RM. I HAVE pointed out that “He Who Smelt It, Dealt It” is not a valid defense to allegations of racist speech, and that if someone says, “Hey, that seems kinda racist to me,” that doesn’t mean that guy is a racist himself.
My pet peeve, and one I don’t usually let pass, is when a conservative says something like, “Liberals see everything in terms of race, and therefore they are racists. Gotcha, stupid liberals!”
While we’re on the subject, here’s another: The conservative insistence that there ARE no racist code words or dogwhistles, while simultaneously claiming that “social justice” or “coexist” bumper stickers ARE code words and dogwhistles for…umm, er…communism, or something.
jim_m
Yes people say that there are no racist code words because 99+% of everyone doesn’t think in those terms. The only people I have ever met that thought that way are lefties.
As for social justice, I have seen that most people who call for that are doing so as an argument for socialist ends. Coexist bumper stickers are just a marker for the terminally naive.
And no, I don’t recall you being abusive about calling everyone racist. Most people who do have gone the way of Lee Ward and Bob Armstrong. The long term lefties here like you and Chico spend more time trying to actually prove a point rather than smear those you argue with.
jim_m
The other thing I would say is that the people who see racism the most frequently are the ones who tend to have a vested interest that it never go away (mainly because that is how they make a living).
Brucehenry
What a hoot you are, JIm.
jim_m
What? Are you going to deny that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who see racism around every corner have no vested interest in there being racism long into the future?
Or that dem pols have no vested interest in keeping the spectre of racism alive?
That’s just naive.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_425GVKQCLFZMQYYENR7CJBRDVA jb
Yeah, those liberals who make sweeping generalities about other people must be the truly intolerant.
Sigh.

jim_m
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Brian_R_Allen
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Like I said. Touchy ….
Pathologically Narcissistic.
Iinfantile.
914
Should have bitch slapped him..
http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson
The word “cordial” means “friendly”. Why should Brewer be friendly toward Obama when writing about him? His administration is at odds with hers.

914
Yes, after all the dumb ass scholar in chief and his Marxist minions thwarted the will of the Arizona voters. Screw him!!

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