08-23-2011, 05:16 PM
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Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MS Fowler
How partisan can you get?
The President is the one who has used the bully pulpit to decry the lack of civility. It is therefore incumbent on him to not be such a hypocrite. If he had not brought it up in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue.
I am not scoring points on the President--maybe the so-called fair-minded liberals here, but not the president.
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And are conservatives laudable, either because of their civility or because they have not made it an important issue, as you imply the President has?
I would guess that the "right wing" does not get a pass . . .
Sumpter, South Carlina, 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 Sumpter Item, caught wind of the entry.
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