CHICAGO, September 6, 2011 – Warming up the crowd for the President Obama’s speech in Detroit Monday, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa issued a violent Tea Party death threat:
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….President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these SOBs out and give America back to an America where we belong.
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden was hard-at-work proving his unworthiness for his current position. “It [the political fight] is a fight literally for our right to exist. Don’t misunderstand what this is….You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates,” proclaimed Biden, cranking up the hate at an Ohio AFL CIO rally.
And one day later, what is President Obama’s response? Has he condemned the hate and violence? Has he repudiated Hoffa’s tea party threat? Vice President Biden's remarks?
No. He has been silent. Evasive. Hypocritical.
Unpresidential.
President Obama, members of the Democrat party, and mainstream media have spoken in lofty terms about the nature of civility. But civility has become just a political term like “unity,” “bipartisanship,” and “transparency.”
President Obama’s actions are proof these words mean absolutely nothing.
In a few days, America will mourn, once again, the memory of those innocent and brave who died on 9/11. But will we be one country in mourning or two?
When Barack Obama was elected President, our nation we hoped and prayed for unity. With his historic election, we believed President Obama would heal race relations – not inflame them.
As a candidate Barack Obama pledged he would be a bipartisan president. But, instead of governing, he has been in “campaign mode” for the last three years. Right after his election, Obama casually tossed his bipartisan pledge aside and shut Republicans out of discussions regarding his now failed $825 billion stimulus. Again, bipartisanship has become just a nice-sounding word people use to get elected. At least, that is what President Obama – the “One” as Oprah is fond of saying – has taught us.
Earlier this year, after the shootings in Tucson, President Obama talked again about the hateful political discourse he and his party helped create.
It was an emotional moment for the nation: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot by a crazed gunman; 20 people were struck; 14 were wounded; and six people – including little nine year-old Christina Taylor – were killed. But what should have been a memorial was also a moment of manipulation. An opportunity for political gamesmanship.
Democrats and their media henchmen immediately tried to pin the blame the Tea Party for the actions of lunatic Jared Loughner. They even blamed Sarah Palin and her use of a cross-hairs map commonly used in political campaigns. As it turned out, the Democrats were wrong. Dead wrong.
During his speech at the memorial for the Tucson victims, President Obama offered these words of comfort and criticism:
If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost. Let's make sure it's not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle. The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better, to be better in our private lives, to be better friends and neighbors and co-workers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their death helps usher in more civility in our public discourse, let us remember it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy -- it did not -- but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation in a way that would make them proud.
Were those just words, Mr. President? Were you just trying to score political points?
Since then, Obama & Co. have shamefully likened Tea Party congressman to economic terrorists. Chris Matthews has compared the Tea Party to members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown calls them “suicide bombers.”
But what is the Tea Party but a grassroots movement of moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas – real people who, until now, never participated in politics before. These are the voters. But to President Obama, they are the enemy. Why?
Because the Tea Party is making a difference. They have – by their simple participation – changed business as usual in Washington. They are changing the power structure – a terrifying prospect to the establishment. Those who challenge the establishment must be crushed, vilified, and destroyed.
With his participation in this campaign of hate, President Obama has destroyed the idea of the “Statesman President.” He is the unpresident. Perhaps, one day, we will have a real statesman again soon.
A statesman who can undo the damage President Obama has done to the country and the Presidency.
How's that for civility?
Conservative satirist and commentator William J. Kelly is also a contributor to Breitbart.com and edits the Tea Party Reports for the
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