Democratic National Committee Attacks People’s Movement in AD featuring DE’s Eileen
Aug 5th, 2009 by David Anderson
The Democrats are losing ground according to the polls and evidenced by the disquiet at town halls from Oregon to New York to Texas to Delaware. They have decided not to address the issues the people have passionately brought up. They have decided to characterize people who differ with them as a staged mob. This is so outrageous that it is beyond the pail.
Since when are people not suppose to express their agreement with a speaker by cheering? Are they not allowed to express their collective disagreement with a proposal with a collective response to a question by saying just say no? When did peaceful seated people giving support to one another become a mob? Funny Democrats did the same thing back in the Civil Rights Movement and they did the same thing in the 1990′s to the peaceful rescue movement.
If we let them get away with declaring legitimate reasoned petitioning of the government as as a mob, our liberty will go down the proverbial toilet. They are attacking our freedom of assembly, right to petition government for redress of our grievances, and our freedom of speech, while mocking religion in the same ad (poking fun of the person who was quietly holding a Bible while standing outside of a meeting). Let’s just shred the first amendment completely. Oh, and they attacked freedom of the press by tossing in Rush Limbaugh as an inciter. I never complained about their expressing disagreement with him, but I will say enough when they want to accuse him of inciting mobs that never existed. This is the same tactic used by a President in South America whose name rhymes with Chavez.
Here is my email to the DNC. I encourage you to contact them.
What are you guys doing? This latest ad sends chills down my spine. The idea that peaceful seated people cheering a speaker is now a mob in your eyes is an affront to freedom of speech and the right of the people to assemble and seek redress from their government of grievences. I protest your attack on the First Amendment and respectfully request that you stand down.
I must give Delaware Liberal credit for bringing this ad to our attention. I am sure they won’t agree with my take, but this is still a free country so I don’t care.
Speaking of Mobs…
SEIU Campaign on Economic Stimulus vs. Tea Parties and Town Halls
SEIU.org ^ | January 7, 2009
SEIU’s “Change That Works” Campaign help fix the nation’s broken healthcare system and guarantee workers can freely decide whether to join in a union. As part of the campaign: Outreach efforts and other activities are planned in 35 states SEIU members have committed to more than 1,000 members and staff working full-time in the field and dedicated 30% of the union’s resources to the campaign. Already approximately $10 million has been set aside to build and mobilize public support in key states. SEIU has hired or assigned full-time state campaign directors for each of the 35 states. SEIU has created a “war-room”…
1000 paid workers and a $10 million dollar budget!
Who’s the “astro-turf” in this fight?
They accuse us of doing what they are doing. It is classic deception. They are the ones with the paid shills not us.
Keep it up folks. My 9 year old son said it sounds like when Hitler burned his own government building down and blamed everyone else. I agree.
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Note from me: What kind of search craw do these people have? I never seen them before. Oh well they brought more visitors to the site with the Malkin pieces so I won’t complain. I would still like to know how they find this stuff so quickly.
David: “The Democrats are losing ground according to the polls and evidenced by the disquiet at town halls from Oregon to New York to Texas to Delaware.”
David, are you giving credence to the mob scenes at these town meetings in which these anti-democratic thugs obstruct discourse? Well I think you just have!
Your attempt to characterize opposition to many of these obstructions as “attacks on free speech” is nothing more than a dirty joke, and, very revealing of your apparent abhorrence of congressperson-constituent meetings when you do not approve of some of the issues being discussed.
Perhaps the Dems have lost a little ground, but the Gallop Poll the other day gives the Dems the majority in 37 states, the Repubs in 4, with the remaining 9 too close to call. This, after Obama and the Dems are attempting to take unprecedented measures to clean up the mess that they have inherited. Therefore, beware of getting too cocky when you folks have a mountain ahead yet to climb, as your party flounders around in the foothills and plays games with extremists in your midst.
Moreover, Obama still commands an approval rating over 50%, not bad considering what he has had to deal with.
Instead of badmouthing Obama and the Dems, won’t your party step up and offer your proposals to move this nation forward? You have to release yourselves from the Atwater-Rovian mold that you’ve been in for three decades! Discard the corporate swift-boaters!
As I see it so far, refusing to address healthcare policy and energy policy and education policy with anything more than one great big “NO”, you Repubs by default continue to allow this nation to slide on a downward slope.
David – what is wrong with the ad? Right wing extremists have every right to vent in public, and Democrats have every right to call them out for it. Just because Democrats have been rolling over for the crazies in the past, doesn’t mean you can expect we always will.
Now both sides are actively engaged in the court of public opinion, as the Founders intended. Nothing has been trashed. What’s the problem?
I am going with a little bit of both sides on this on this one. The 9-12 Delaware Patriots has gotten into the thick of some of this. As a group we have set up public rallies in Dover, around the state, and in D.C. However, when it comes to a meeting we do our best to keep our members respectfull and remind them not to talk over others. We have also made efforts to speak with our representatives and their staff in small group settings at their offices where chaos can be
The very vocal public rallies have their place. In the middle of a town hall discussion is not the place. When people do that they don’t just drown out the politicians, but also the comments of their fellow citizens. In my opinion, not cool.
Michelle Malkin does a good job reminding us of what real mob rule looks like, and in this respect the rallies we have seen recently are pretty tame.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/this-is-what-mob-rule-looks-like/
I’m not a history buff, but a very educated elderly man I know says there is a lot happing now that is out of Hitler’s play-book. How scared should we be?
Ed, I am worried. However, Americans have some muscle and we are using it. I know that President Obama has a lot of plans he wants to carry out, but if we stand up with our own plans and don’t back down I am sure he will listen. Either volluntarily or because he can’t avoid us.
I guess you know where I stand. There is nothing wrong with people responding in the manner that you see. In Great Britain it would be normal. In America, we give a lot of deference to our leaders, normally. Historically, we don’t let them get away with the crap they are pulling and deference goes away. We want answers and more importantly we want our voices heard. I am all for rattling some cages on both sides of the aisle. I would not be for mob scenes at this point. That is not what is happening. To characterize it like that is at best propaganda and at worst it is a dangerous prelude. For the first time in over a decade, I am really concerned about the government laying down the ground work for oppression.
We can’t let these guys intimidate us. I have not been at any of these meetings, but now I will go if I get the chance.
RE: Post 7 Ed Heath, the elderly man was right.
If the subject is disrupting meetings – disrupting the opponents meetings is the oldest political strong arm tactic in the book. Your elderly friend probably remembers the intimidating tactics that got Hitler in power. It was well known, the opposition was unable to conduct public meetings so aggressive was the Hitler Youth and SA. Defenders of Jews were shouted down, hounded out of meeting halls.
The Nazi Party was formed in January 1919 by Anton Drexler. The party was transformed by Hitler and became a political party rather than the discussion group that it had been when he joined. The SA (Brownshirts) was formed to protect Hitler and other party leaders at meetings. It also disrupted the meetings of the Nazi’s political opponents.
A basic American Family Value is Good Sportsmanship . When you lose in competition, golf or a national election, you don’t try to discredit destroy the winner. You try to win next time. 69 million of your friends and neighbors voted for this new Administration. In the American neighborhood, 53 out of every 100 voters, voted for this change in Washington. In less than 4 years you will get a chance to win again. Until then be a good American, be a good sport, play fair.
How many of those 69 million voters now regret their choice?
Good sportsmanship is all well and good, but it does involve the loosing team training and preparing to blow the competition out of the water next time. In the political arena you make a mistake if you think there is anything in our Constitution that limits the involvement of citizens to just election day. The freedom of speech is identified in the first amendment and the right to petition for redress is also in our law. There are a lot of political skirmishes and matches between now and the next election and we aim to win them.
How many of those 69 million voters now regret their choice?
Well, here’s one way to get a rough idea: Obama won with 52% of the vote, and now stands at 49% approval rating (via Rasmussen Daily Tracking… traditionally the lowest numbers for Obama are from Rasmussen).
So you can say at worst, 4% of the voters who voted for Obama no longer say they approve of his performance. Which doesn’t mean they regret their vote.
No crosstabs available, but 58% of liberals “strongly approve” (can’t see how many ‘somewhat approve’). I’d say of the people who voted for Obama, not many regret their vote.
Certainly, the Obama voters now receiving extended unemployment benefits, subsidized COBRA, cash for clunkers, ARRA jobs, and tax cuts, probably don’t regret their vote.
Where were these protesting disrupters in the run-up to the Iraq War? Oh, wait…they were CHEERING for the war we now know was based on bullshit.
Frauds the whole lot of them.
John McCain would have extended unemployment, had better tax cuts, subsidized everyone’s healthcare with real bipartisan health reform like Bennett-Wyden, and created private sector long term jobs with the corporate tax cut and small business tax credits.
President Obama has done some good things. Don’t mistake that I don’t recognize them. The problem is that he has made some major errors especially with the ill conceived stimulus bill and the health care reform.
I support the war. Why would I protest it? I don’t want to refight that debate.
I supported the right of people to protest the war. Why won’t you support the right of people not to have their grandparents offed and be forced to pay to abort their grandchildren? The anti health deform people are a lot more controlled than the code pink crowd.
Why won’t you support the right of people not to have their grandparents offed and be forced to pay to abort their grandchildren?
I’m reporting you to the White House.
Find out what Jim Crow is yet, no-man? LOL!
Hube,
Get a blog.
Noman, don’t forget to provide a link to the blog, we really need to expand our readership in the DC area.
Thanks for your public service.
“Certainly, the Obama voters now receiving extended unemployment benefits, subsidized COBRA, cash for clunkers, ARRA jobs, and tax cuts, probably don’t regret their vote.”
Add in convicted felons and eliminate the Cash for Clunkers group and you have the Democrat base.
We are partially responsible for “the mobs”, Noman. The White house should know it. We posted the Georgetown town hall and it went viral. Now everyone is doing it. It had just a few hundred views when we posted it. Three days later it went viral then hit Rush’s show and the rest is history.
We do love the President here though. We are only trying to help him. Mr. Obama is going to save us all.
BTW Noman to change the subject, you had a great comment over at Resolute Determination on upgrading the freight lines. You have been holding out on us; it was powerful. You convinced me.
think123 wrote:
In less than 4 years you will get a chance to win again. Until then be a good American, be a good sport, play fair.
We have had such good examples from the left over the last 4-6 years, have we not?
Perry wrote:
…as your party flounders around in the foothills and plays games with extremists in your midst…
Good grief, the Democrat Party is run by extremists! Do you think anything these people have done since they took over is mainstream?
Freedom needs to be defended 24/7/30/365. It is not an election year project.
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