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Tea Bagger leader jokes about killing President Obama

Posted: Aug 26, 2011

Tea Party leader jokes about killing a president

Sumter, South Carolina, Tea Party chair Sherry Lanford Smith has taken her Facebook page private after using it to joke about throwing Barack and Michelle Obama out of a helicopter.

On Aug. 11, Smith wrote the following:

“Obama looked at Michelle, chuckled and said, ‘You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy.’ Michelle shrugged her shoulders and replied, ‘I could throw 10 $100 bills out of the window and make 10 people very happy.’

“Hearing their exchange, the pilot of the plane said to his co-pilot, ‘Such big shots back there. I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy.’

“If you’re one of the 256 million, PASS IT ON.”

The entry was pulled and the Facebook page privatized after Smith’s local newspaper, the Sumter Item, caught wind of the entry.

On Monday, Tea Party Patriots reacted to a hit from Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters — who said the Tea Party could “go straight to hell” — by complaining of a lack of civility by the Democrats.

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This joke was passed around when Bush and when Clinton were President - Nothing new - maybe the lesson is

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No matter how much you disagree with the policies of any president's administration this is not the kind of joke that should be told no matter who is president.

But, no it's not just Obama, I heard it with Bill & Hillary and with George & Laura's names instead.

Was it passed around on a party LEADER'S personal FB, who encouraged readers - to pass it on?

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If so, please document these instances, because I recall nothing of the kind. If you are unable to provide references specifically naming party leadership as the origin, it would be logical to conclude this is just another apples to oranges whine by fellow teabaggers rushing to distance themselves from this sick form of alleged "humor" via yet another transparent historical rewrite, a tactic that is becoming a totally crashing bore.

It came by email - which is as powerful as FB - sm - Nothing new - maybe the lesson is

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Same joke, was passed around by email after email after email. Same joke was told about Clinton and not many were happy about it, same email was told my Bush and that's when I really got bombarded - everyone thought it was such a great joke, now it's told about Obama's and people are shocked?

It's nothing new. It's still as sick as when it was told about anyone. Yes, I get it, you don't like people who belong to the tea party, hence the nasty filthy disgusting term you used.

Okay, so I get it, it's okay if its told about a republican but not a democrat. Thanks for clarifying that.

Which party LEADER'S or spokesperson's email was it? - No references, no dice.

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Your last sentence is responding to a figment of your own imagination. Nowhere did I or anyone else suggest such a nanny-nanny-boo-hoo notion. Let me repeat myself here in the hopes that you will get it the second time around. The statement is sick REGARDLESS of who it targets. This time it is a teabagger leader/spokesperson speculating on murdering the Obamas, which I think takes it to an entirely different level than a stupid viral email launched by blogosphere bottom feeders, don't you?

The point is - which you are obviously ignoring - Yes dice

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IS this joke was passed around about Clinton & Bush.

I guess you are the one who isn't getting it, so let ME repeat in hopes that maybe you'll get it.

The joke was passed around about 2 previous presidents. And let me repeat....no matter what president (yes even Bush) it is in bad taste.

And also let me repeat. This joke was passed through email after email after email. It doesn't matter, and I repeat DOES NOT MATTER, who passes it around. It's in bad taste. Just cos people hate the people who belong to the tea party with a vengence (i.e. your usual brainwashing thugs teaching you to hate anyone not affiliated with the liberal party), does not make the severity of the joke as bad as when it was told about Clinton and Bush.

The joke is in bad taste whether or not a politician or a carpenter tells it AND says to pass it around. No, it's not an entirely different level whether Michelle Bachman or Bill Gates or Les Schwab sends it out and tells everyone to circulate it. It's all the same thing. It's in bad taste.

And my last sentence spoke the truth.

I disagree. - sm

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The distinction the OP is making between Joe Blow and a tea party leader spreading this message is exactly the point, unless it's OK with you not to hold them accountable for their actions and words. I guess this means the tea party holds their leaders to a much lower standard. I know I would not appreciate it if a leader in my party had made such an ill-advised statement and wold not hesitate to call them out on it. Such actions, especially those alluding to or invoking violence, tend to discredit the whole party when it comes out of the mouths of people who have been recognized as party spokespersons.

Instead of going off on this poster with all the name calling and throwing around such words as hate, vengeance, and brainwashing thugs, why not direct your anger toward the SC Tea Party Chair, the purveyor of the supposed joke which you find so distasteful? It is she who is at fault here, not the posters who brought up the subject. This really has nothing to do with whether or not the joke has been used before and IMO there is a big difference between Joe Blow and Susan Lanford Smith telling that joke. She is supposed to know better, but then again, maybe the tea party sees some weird kind of advantage in cultivating their image as a bunch of rude, crude, hostile hotheads.

Then you should hold the democrat leaders at as - high of a standard

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but you don't.

Thanks.

Oh believe me I do. I hold the people - ...sm

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I vote for to a higher standard than an ordinary faceless person on the web.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Someone who gets the point! - Yaaaayyyyy!

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Bravo. Thank you, thank you.

My point was... - hellooooooo

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First, yes we should hold our congress people accountable for their actions.

But we should all be held accountable. I'm not sure if you read my original message.

The joke is sick NO MATTER WHO it is being told about. That means Obama, Clinton and, yes, even Bush (i.e. there is no room in politics for this kind of joke no matter whether a politician or my manager at a company tells us to pass it around.

The second point I was making is that this is not a new joke. This has gone around about all leaders. Guarantee you 100% that there wasn't much outrage when it was told about Bush.

I agree. That kind of "joke" is not funny no matter who - tells it, ...nm

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Thank you! Finally - - someone who understands

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That's all I was saying. It's not funny no matter who is told about.

That and it's an old joke and used with Bush and Laura. Not funny then, not funny now, will never be funny in the future, no matter whether or not Joe the Plummer or Bill Gates or even Obama tells it.

So what upsets you more? - sm

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Obviously the Obama and Michelle joke upset you. Were you this upset when this similar joke was told about George W. and Laura? Because there was a similar one going around about them.

Also, it seems to me that you are more upset that the tea party reacted to what Maxine Waters said without being upset by what Maxine Waters said...which I find rather disturbing. What gives the politician the right to tell a group of people to go to he11?

Also, you seem so upset by a joke and yet you call someone a tea bagger. I'm seeing many double standards here.

I wish the "teabagger" term would go away. - hmmm

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It's overused. It's low class. It's offensive. Conservatives may be critical of liberals, but I don't see conservatives making widespread use of sexually-denigrating terms to refer to their opponents.

The evolution of the word 'tea bagger'. sm - Much ado about nothing

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It appears that the members of the Tea Party originally coined teabagger when describing themselves.

http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-bagger

The evolution of the word - sm

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The word began as a term referring to the Boston Tea Party. That is how this group came about. By reading the history of the tea party and why the people were upset and seeing the same thing happen in this current era with the current crowd. People were tired of nobody in government (even their own party) working and representing them. Then the liberals started using it in a derogatory sense. The definition in the dictionary (which you already know) is (and I quote) "2) a man that squats on top of a womens face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging"". I believe Chris Matthews was one of the first to turn it into something totally disgusting (while he smirked knowing how offensive it was).

When the people who belonged to the tea party realized how disgusting and disrespectful the term was many started asking others to stop using it as it was vile and offensive. But alas, the liberals couldn't pass up such a good chance to insult others that don't agree with their political viewpoints and hence continue to use and and smile knowing they are calling someone something offensive. However, they certainly don't like being called names themselves.

Do try and cover all the facts when you write something, not just the opinion you like.

Look, when someone calls you something offensive and you ask them to stop, isn't the only curteous thing for them to do is stop calling you that. Well the same goes for the other side. Has our country lost all humanity and decency that when someone is insulted that if you are doing the insulting the only decent thing to do is stop insulting them. Or has it gotten to a point where people are so uncaring and lost any sense of decency that as long as its against their political party they continue to insult and smile.

And it really does not matter who started the phrase first. People have asked others to stop. The only decent (and right) thing to do is stop, no matter how much joy people get out of insulting others).

BTW, it's as offense when someone calls me or my family the "N" word as it is when they call others the "T" word.

Perhaps they should have researched the term better before - adopting the moniker

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just as they should have more thoroughly researched the Boston Tea Party and its realities before usurping and twisting them into an unrecognizable misnomer. As you said, we must try and cover all the facts when we write something, not just the opinions we like.

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company (BEIC), the largest transnational corporation of the times, then in existence for 200 years. By the 1760s, the BEIC dominated trade from China to India to the Caribbean, and controlled nearly all commerce to and from North America, with subsidies and special dispensation from the British crown. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.

Here is an excerpt from an eyewitness and participant in the revolt entitled, "Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party with a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbor in 1773."

Hewes notes: “The [East India] Company received permission to transport tea, free of all duty, from Great Britain to America...," allowing it to wipe out New England–based tea wholesalers and mom-and-pop stores and take over the tea business in all of America. “Hence, it was no longer the small vessels of private merchants, who went to vend tea for their own account in the ports of the colonies, but, on the contrary, ships of an enormous burthen, that transported immense quantities of this commodity ... The colonies were now arrived at the decisive moment when they must cast the dye, and determine their course ... ”

A pamphlet was circulated through the colonies called The Alarm and signed by an enigmatic “Rusticus.” One issue made clear the feelings of colonial Americans about England's largest transnational corporation and its behavior around the world: “Their Conduct in Asia, for some Years past, has given simple Proof, how little they regard the Laws of Nations, the Rights, Liberties, or Lives of Men. They have levied War, excited Rebellions, dethroned lawful Princes, and sacrificed Millions for the Sake of Gain. The Revenues of Mighty Kingdoms have entered their Coffers. And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin. Fifteen hundred Thousands, it is said, perished by Famine in one Year, not because the Earth denied its Fruits; but [because] this Company and their Servants engulfed all the Necessaries of Life, and set them at so high a Price that the poor could not purchase them.”

This seems crystal clear to me. A revolt in protest of corporate tax breaks, a complete 180 compared to tea party ideology. They do not seem to even understand their own history (no surprise there) and have inadvertently adopted a name that represents principles diametrically oppposed to their own. For this alone, they have earned the mockery. This train left the station a long time ago and it is absurd to suggest that if Andrew Breitbart and his 90,000 video viewers are still "proud to be a teabagger," their detractors should stop ridiculing them.

What I find enormously offensive is the notion that there is any semblance of equivalent correlation between the use of the "N" word and the use of the "T" word, unless blacks decided to call themselves by that name BEFORE it was deemed derogatory. Give me a break.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2009/04/real-boston-tea-party-was-against-wal-mart-1770s

Thank you. Are you listening Tea Party supporters? sm - oldtimer

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The good old US of A was built on the idea of protecting small mom and pop businesses and taxing the big coorporations.

Not a tea party supporter (or any party supporter) - but they have as much right

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to be part of the process as anyone else.

And they have as much right not want to be called something some guy does with his genitals to a another no matter how much you disagree with that.

Doesn't matter when they learned with the meaning is. It should stop no matter how much you like insulting them.

It's the only decent thing to do.

Oh yes, you don't call democrats "democratters" and you don't call republicans "republicaners", so nobody should call people in the tea party the filthy term. No matter how much they enjoy it and enjoy watching them get upset asking them time and time again to please stop. Then that's just sick.

Ummm, sorry. They chose the name. They're stuck with it. - I stand by my post.

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They should have RESEARCHED the meaning of their name AND the historical context from which they plucked it. It is their NAME, for God's sake. They could have at least TRIED to get it right, since it is not only how they identify themselves, but how others identify them.

No one said they did not have a right to be part of the process but you will have a hard time drumming up sympathy for a group who spends an inordinate amount of time engaged in name-calling. I have lost count how many adjectives they have used (and turned into 4-letter words) to describe liberals, progressives, democrats, moderates, independents and even their own RINO party cohorts. They are the undisputed champions of labeling, absence of fact checking, misinformation, harboring open hostility toward informed intelligent discourse, butchering history, fomenting negativity, reinforcing division, obstructing, noncompromising and constant whining about their opponents, with essentially NO PLAN whatsoever other than to bring the current administration down and set the country back 100 years.

They tossed their hat in the ring and will have to learn to live with the consequences. Politics is a dirty business. Teabaggers have a lot of growing up to do if they want to play in the big leagues. I suggest you go back and read the article on the evolution of the word again, which devotes most of its content to describing how the TP commandeered the term, defended it AND more than a few times sniped, snarked and bristled in no uncertain terms when commenting on its negtive connotations. They didn't seem to need any help doing so.

The TP cannot simply claim imminent domain over the term and declare themselves the only persons allowed to use it, nor are they in charge of the context in which the word is placed. Neither you nor they own the term or the language which gives it its many shades of meaning.

I truly believe that most people, it was certainly true...sm - oldtimer

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for me, didn't/don't have a clue what that derogatory definition is. (I do now thanks to all the indignant republicans who have been bringing it up ad infinitum.) This is what history will say the Tea Party called themselves in the beginning. You cannot take it back and rewrite history. If there were not so many deviant minds out there bringing it up every two minutes, the whole issue would have died long ago.

That being said, whatever they wish to call themselves, I wish the Tea Party members would not liken themselves to the Boston Tea Party as the principles are diametrically opposed. Maybe some higher education history lessons would be in order to avoid similar claims in the future.

You wrote: "You cannot take it back and rewrite history." - sm

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Well, you CAN take it back and rewrite history, especially if you're from Texas! LOL!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html

Gosh you went to a government school and they indoctrinated you. - shorty

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I did not know what the term teabagger meant and looked it up. I wish I hadn't. It is offensive to ALL. Politely put, an orifice for gonads practiced by male homosexuals.
There are gazillions who belong to the tea party and do not know it. It's a true grass roots movement against all of Bambi's tax and spend policies. I guess YOU don't care that every man,woman and child owes $20,000 plus each now and is growing every time the US wastes more money. Wait til 11/2012, you betcha you will see the fury of Americans as they vote out Obama.
Betcha all the MTSOs will be letting their employees move to Obamacare. How wonderful that will be.
When you over tax the companies MOVE THEIR BUSINESSES OVERSEAS. Duh.
Liberalism is truly a mental disease.

Please stop the disrespectful name calling - NM

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What disrespectful name calling? I saw none and what was said is by far - no worse than what liberals

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call others who don't agree with them. When you're called that filthy "T" word maybe you'll understand. But there was no disrespectful name calling in his/her post

First of all, I am a liberal who has never called anyone a name. - sm

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in my memory (which is pretty good). Second of all, who is Bambi? I thought a deer. Second of all, I drink tea from a teabag all the time. When I think of a teabag I do not think of any nasty connotation, I think of Lipton. When I hear the word teabag in relation to politics I think of some misguided, seemingly uneducated people, making hardly-veiled racist remarks, that look very silly when they call the president a Muslim. Sorry, but that is the way they look. No name calling necessary.

Name calling - no worse than what liberals

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No people in the tea party are not called "Tea bags". But then again you know that. People in the Tea Party don't want to be called the "T" word because of the meaning of it, so I say, if people ask others to stop calling them a name that insults them then the only decent (and adult) thing to do is stop calling them that. Well I guess you and I have different ideas on political parties because when I hear the word liberals I think of some misguided, seemingly uneducated people". As for the racist remark you are highly misinformed. People in the tea party are not making any racist remarks, and you have nothing to back that up. But then again you know that too. As for the Presidents religious view points I have no idea what he believes and I don't care. I guess maybe people get the impression he is a muslim because he's the one who said he was.

No name calling? Yeah, right. Well that proves true what the psychiatrist said about liberalism.

In reference to Bambi - Just heard this

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I too thought it was in reference to (duh) Bambi the cartoon. So I'm listening to something on Fox called The Five or at five or something like that. It's got Greg Guttfeld, Bob Beckel and a couple other people I've seen on Fox but don't know their names. Anyway... they were talking about digging in the Everglades and some insane thing Bachman said and someone said Michelle Bachman is a Bambi, then as they were going off the air for a commercial (the music started up), Bob Beckel said "I would shoot Bambi". I still don't understand what a Bambi is. Maybe someone who is outdoorsy? Don't know, but I'm sure Bob Beckel was not talking about the cartoon character.

Boo-hoo. Those filthy libs call us by the name we - pinned on ourselves.

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Boo-hoo, boo-hoo.

Yeah,...those filty libs won't act like adults - sm

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and stop calling us something offensive. Guess I don't understand the makings of a sick mind that when people are asked to stop calling them a word that's offense that they get even more enjoyment and use it more. If humanity can get over calling people the "N" word, why can't they stop calling others the "T" word.

Guess it's true.....liberalism is a mental disorder.

THIS name is what THEY chose. If they can't - even get their own (sm)

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name right, what kind of decisions will these people make in the House and Senate?

Never mind. Most of can see what kind of job they're doing: disrupt, delay, fillibuster and, in general, act like 2-year-olds throwing hissy fits any time a good idea is uncovered that might be good for America. Heck, in the past, they were tearing into Obama, so they came up with some amendments, and the ADULT in the room (President Obama) actually liked their idea, and as soon as the President agreed with them, they voted NO to their own proposals.

Their only job is to constantly "beat" on this President and interfere with any kind of progress that he would like to have in the USA. He wants to succeed, but the Tea Party (primarily) will not permit it.

I will vote for Obama (again). Seeing how the Republican party (in general) have a personal vendetta against Obama and the Tea Party (the CONS on steroids) is trying to speed up President Obama's demise.

AND THIS name THEY asked others to STOP calling them that - sm

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Can we say it's time to act like a grown up and if something offends someone STOP CALLING THEM THAT.

Sure don't like it when it's on the other foot do ya.

The shoe is always on the other foot with TP-on-lib namecalling. - Tell ya what

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Teabagger goes to the wayside just as soon as sniper fires cease from their camps and ranks. Don't hold your breath.

Look, it's as simple as this - sm

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To put it bluntly - I don't like when people call me a "nigger". I'm sure you wouldn't like people to call Obama that either. It's offensive. Same with the T party. Just because you hate a group of people doesn't mean you have the right to call them an offensive name they have asked to stop.

How much more simple can I make that. If you can't even see that I don't know what to tell you. Doesn't take a rocket scientist you know.

They asked people to stop, so stop. It's as simple as that.

To compare the two is, simply put - totally ridiculous.

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I'm not happy about being called a Koolaid drinker or socialist every time I turn around. I find the terms highly offensive, but I do not spend a single second whining or gnashing my teeth over it. It's politics. Get real.

Are there ANY MTSOs that provide real health insurance? - sm

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You know, the kind where the employee does not have the premium deducted from her salary and actually covers something like an appendectomy or an annual physical? Get real.

Wrong. This lib went to the finest private schools - uber wealth could buy. Problem with that

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was their very special flavor of indoctrination was so out of touch with middle/working class realities that many of us went screaming into the night as far away from it as we could get just as soon as we graduated. The three closest activist friends I have were products of the same lame institutions, so mine is not at isolated case by any means.

I am a tea party person. I don't belong to a group. - shorty

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You are as rude a person as I have ever seen on a board. The tea party has been demonized since day one. Liberals ALWAYS demonize people they disagree with just like you. I don't think most tea party people had a clue about the term. It was the left .... specifically Cooper Anderson who used the term on TV and yep I looked it up. In the 90s we had the dems teaching kids that oral sex is not sex and is just fine. The way left try to destroy anyone who doesn't agree with them. I don't. I'm just going away. Garbage in, garbage out. If I want your point of view I'll read democrat underground or huffington post.

You got that garbage in garbage out thing down pat. - Congrats. nm

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nm

I'll never understand how CONS can rewrite - history to the (sm)

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degree they do.

As far as destroying anyone who disagrees with them, the CONS not only destroy that person, but they can't just stop there. They have to destroy the person on a personal.

My first recollection of them doing that was when Bush fired his writer on Karen Hughes' suggestion, and then he went on to explain how the replacement writer had terrible personal problems, basically saying the writer was a drunk, and the writer had been a family friend for a very long time.

They destroy, Destroy, DESTROY!!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htm

The statement is sick regardless of who it targets. - sm

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The First Amendment gives Maxine Waters the right to tell all the teabaggers to go straight to hades, just as it protects the stupidity of Sherry Lanford and her freedom to speculate about murdering the Obamas with her bare hands. Unless and until you are willing to denounce her specific reference to personally throwing the president and first lady out of helicopter, you can spare us the disingenuous lecture on double standards and uncivil partisan rhetoric, as they command zero credibility, given the circumstances.

Stop assuming please - sm

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Did I say I didn't have a problem with the joke or that I thought it was funny? No..I did not. I find jokes like that tasteless regardless whether they were about George W. and Laura or Obama and Michelle. Just like I find your name calling and obvious hatred for a group of people tasteless as well as highly disturbing. I also believe Maxine's "go to hell" comment was very tasteless, rude, and highly inappropriate.

So now that I have denounced Sherry and her spreading of that tasteless joke...are you in turn willing to denounce Maxine for her inappropriate "go to hell" comment?

For starters I am not the OP and I assumed nothing. - sm

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The prepositions "unless" and "until" introduce an implicitly hypothetical and speculative concept, meaning it was yet to be determined whether or not you denounce the teabagger leader's musings about murdering the Obamas with her bare hands. Specifically, you were given the benefit of the doubt.

I do not think it is inappropriate for anyone to voice strong condemnation of any group whose leader openly considers murdering ANY president and first lady, especially when the leader or followers show no capacity for remorse, regret or imperative to aplogize or even retract the statement. Instead, the FB page just "went private." Waters voiced her disgust with such persons who "joke" about breaking God's 6th commandment law with a distinct sense of impunity, calling for them to reside in the biblically prescribed confines of eternal punishment. At least she did not sentence them to immersion under the Seventh Circle rivers of boiling blood and fire as described in Dante's Inferno. I do not find her comments nearly as offensive as the vision of a teabagger pushing the president and first lady out of a helicopter. You, of course, are free to "believe" otherwise.

Telling someone to go to he!! - sm

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and meaning it and telling a joke are 2 different things. I don't agree with the joke. I find it tasteless but it is just that....a joke. It is not a plot to kill the president. Your spin on this whole situation is utterly ridiculous. So please explain to me how a joke can be turned into a plot to murder the president and first lady. Maxine wasn't joking. She literally was telling a group of people to go to he11. How you can defend that while complaining about a joke is beyond me. I personally have a problem with both the joke and Maxine's comment. They were both wrong in my opinion and at least I can toss aside the double standards and see that instead of being blinded by my hatred for a certain group.

No double standard need apply. Name calling from right every bit as vehement - as that from the left.

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Not going away anytime soon.

You're passing on something that was banned from - Facebook? Nuff said. nm

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Goggle Tea Party Leader Jokes and you get 22,200,000 hits - sm

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Didn't have time to sift through them all but I can assure you that many of them came from legitimate news publications, not FB. 'Nuff said yourself.

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Feb 08, 2010
CAR TROUBLE A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.She says, 'What's the story?' He replies, 'Just crap in the carburetor' She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?' SPEEDING TICKET A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license. She replied in a huff, 'I wish you guys would get your act together. Jus ...

Aug 10, 2012
What is a cow with no legs? Wait for it... Wait for it... GROUND BEEF! Whats a cow with 2 legs? Wait for it... Wait for it..... LEAN BEEF! ahhh ha ha ha ha ha ha Good stuff, hey? ...

Jan 06, 2013
I admit I was wrong. http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-joint-resolution/15 ...

May 20, 2013
It may be old news, but I don't recall any positive comments about it on this board. Deficit Prediction Trimmed for the Rest of the Decade By JACKIE CALMES Published: July 27, 2012 WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit will be slightly lower for fiscal year 2012 and for the rest of the decade than projected earlier this year, the Obama administration said Friday. Its required midyear update on the nation’s fiscal health showed that while revenues are coming in lower tha ...

Feb 24, 2015
I just turned on the TV and learned about the 90 to 100 Christians who were kidnapped by ISIS. Why is the White House silent on this? ...

Mar 14, 2010
My mom told me it was because Marilyn Monroe always played a dumb blonde. Is this true, or did it start earlier? Just curious because I'm also a dumb blonde with an above-average IQ who graduated from college with honors. Yes, I have a sense of humor. Just curious. I guess I could always Google it. Dumb blonde jokes are very funny. But why can't it be a dumb brunette occasionally? There are lots and lots of those, too! Makes me question sometimes the ...

Sep 06, 2012
A friend told the blonde, "Christmas is on a Friday this year." The blonde then said, "Let's hope it's not the 13th." ------------------------------------ Two blondes find three grenades, and they decide to take them to a police station. One asked, "What if one grenade explodes before we get there?" The other says, "We'll lie and say we only found two." ------------------------------------ A woman phoned her blonde neighbor and said, "Close your curtains the ne ...

Nov 18, 2016
election victory, but he instead offered empathy for some Trump supporters. Full title - "'That hypocrisy is also real' — Jon Stewart takes liberals to task for calling all Trump supporters racist" Video at link. ...

May 04, 2011
That's what I want to see more of in our country. I like that much better than braggadocio bluster on either side of the aisle. He has common sense in addition to being highly intelligent and well educated. I know I won't agree with every decision he makes, but I'm very pleased with our President. ...

Mar 25, 2012
for part of the pipeline. Regardless of how he feels about continued use of oil for energy, he's gotta admit that it will at least put Americans to work....and God knows we need that. However, I still don't get why he talks about green energy and opposed this pipeline for the longest time before agreeing to it....when he funded off shore drilling in Brazil. I guess I don't get the double standard there. We give aid to Brazil for drilling and yet Obama seems ...

Jul 15, 2011
Apparently the Republican "Mr. Right" does not exist. The Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, indicates President Obama hitting 50% or above when pitted against every Republican candidate except former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, but President Obama still tops Romney 47% to 41%. ...

Jul 30, 2010
I am reminded why I voted for him and still have confidence in him, even if I don't always agree with him. Bash me all you want, I don't care. It reflects on the bashers more than the bashee, and he is great man. http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/behar-and-hasselbeck-praise-obamas-view/ ...

Jun 21, 2011
No need to flame. The author is conservative and yes, it's an opinion piece. It's the opinion of the author on why Obama will be a one-term president. 10 Reasons Obama Is a One Term President by Daniel J. Flynn Posted 06/20/2011 ET Less than two months ago, buzzing from the president’s gutsy call to eliminate Osama bin Laden, liberal pontificators had practically sworn in Barack Obama for his second term. “For the GOP the sands are rushing through the ...

Feb 13, 2013
The link to the article and the excerpt below is showing the progress that is starting to be made with the change in focus of our health care system. Not a moment too soon with all the Baby Boomers entering retirement. If it were up to the Republicans, we would be doing the same ol' same ol' that doesn't work and just cutting benefits. Groundbreaking Project Shows Drop in Hospitalizations and Rehospitalizations among Medicare Beneficiaries ANN ARBOR, Mich. and ENGLEWOOD, ...

May 19, 2014
It's being reported that the president knew about the problems at the VA since 2008, and so he should since he is Commander in Chief. So, if he knew about those problems and all these other scandals brewing, just what has he accomplished during his presidency other than the colossal failure known as Obamacare? Of all the scandals, the one involving Veterans is right up there with Benghazi. The very people who have volunteered to protect America, including the President, and this is the than ...

Nov 21, 2016
Every president has stayed out of the next president-elect's policy changes, etc. and helped them transition to the new administration. Not this guy. He is one spiteful ex-president and two-faced hypocrite. Last week when he met with Trump, Obama said his "number one priority" in the next two months in office is to facilitate the transition to the Trump administration. He said the two talked about "organizational issues," as well as domestic and foreign policies. "I believe that i ...

Sep 17, 2015
who thwarted the subway crazy attacker. ...

Jan 16, 2016
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who has been held in an Iranian prison on spy charges for almost 18 months, were freed Saturday along with three other Iranian-Americans in a prisoner swap on the eve of the lifting of U.S. sanctions against Iran, according to the Iranian news media. Oh, I know, he played some golf and took a vacation or two. Not as many as anyone else, but he didn't deserve as many days off as anyone else, did he? http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world ...

Aug 18, 2011
As a matter of fact, even though this was allegedly a "joke," other GOP goons did'nt quite get it. Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert drafted legislation to allow members of Congress to carry concealed weapons in the District of Columbia - including in the Capitol itself. DC law bars individuals from carrying concealed weapons for self-defense. Betcha Gabby Giffords never could imagine after all she has been through to get herself back to work, that she would be ...

Dec 02, 2016
At about 1:20 mark, a producer in the background says, "Trump's Plane is about to land. If I do this, he's landed" And then she says, "If I do this, he's crashed, hopefully." You can see Suzanne Malveaux snicker and roll her eyes when she hears this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NWpTxIuHc ...

Apr 13, 2011
I have no political heroes. None! I don't see President Obama as a hero. I don't see him as a villain. I think he's done some things well and others not so well. However, his speech will determine for me whether I will support him or not. There is not one person running on the other side that I would tolerate so far, so I'm sure hoping he doesn't lose me. LOL. How can he lose me? If he caves in to the people who want to take my Medicare and/or social security from me, ...