An undecided Sarah Palin chided the SOB comments of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa. The former Alaskan governor pointed to his "thuggery" and the lack of admonishment from Barack Obama.
She has not committed to running for the GOP nomination for president in the 2012 elections, but she is not holding back in appearing like a candidate. It's the best way to test the waters without diving in. Just call it the "try it before you buy it" approach.
In a show of Tea Party loyalty, Sarah Palin did what she said the Commander-In-Chief should have done in the wake of the toxic comments by Jimmy Hoffa, when he suggested voters "take these sons of bitches out" in reference to tea partiers.
Palin quickly rebuked the comments and dismissed them as "thuggery" in the face of partisan politics, and suggested that union workers, the voting public, and President Barack Obama part company with the lack of civility rhetoric.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh dug up the usual conspiracy theories in the same way Glenn Beck does. He even hinted that Obama "suggested" the Jimmy Hoffa comments to the union leader.
But here is where the American people must separate rhetoric from ideology and beliefs. Certainly, Jimmy Hoffa is not suggesting that Americans bear arms and use violence or guerilla warfare against the Tea Party.
But during election years, politicians hang on to every word and past involvement of a candidate, especially one who is a front-runner.
For example, Ron Paul tied Rick Perry to Al Gore in a 2012 campaign ad. Here, he suggests that the surging GOP candidate supported the former vice president in unseating Ronald Reagan in 1988. Well, so if he did?
So Sarah Palin's attempt to chastise Jimmy Hoffa for his SOB comments does nothing to derail Obama's chances for re-election. It's just the expected course of strategy as each party jousts for center stage.
Was it a "bitch slap," as one site said? Perhaps it was, but that's politics, especially during election years.
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Really? When a thug like Hoffa says something like this one should consider the possibility that some nut job might take him at his word. If it were a Tea Party leader that said something like this the media would be all over it telling you how bad they are.
I'm speaking of those manufacturing, commerce and service employee blue collar workers who are fighting for their very existance in order to feed their families, those working class people which in reality are nothing but "Thugs." As such, they should be dealt expediently by firing each and everyone of them and thereby, once and for all, to put a stop the "Thugery" they are commiting on their ultra rich employers by asking for appropriate wages and benefits to the jobs they are performing for those employers and the American economy as a whole.
Unfortunately to do so would result in the closing of the small amount of manufacturing businesses left in America as well as competely crippling the entire United States economy. A scenario which would place the U.S.A. 80 years into the past and thereby would not be profitable to American Corporations and their owners {Greedy Bastards}.
Therefore, let's just relegate them all {Employee Thugs} to be paid minimum wages, with no days off, no sick leave, no overtime, no vacation, no minimum hours worked, no pay raises, no health insurance, no retirement, no representation and no job security on which to depend for the future existance of themselves and their families.
Thereby the employers will once again be free to treat them with no respect nor appreciation for their acquired work expertise and efficiency. The welfare lines and federal assistance programs will be overwhelmed with those who are unable to sustain their families wellbeing and our country will fall into another great depression with the only difference being that this time the business owners will become richer than they presently are, instead of commiting suicide as many did in 1929.
The healthcare system will also be overwhelmed to the point of having to close down hospitals since the nurses will not be able to survive on minimum wages and will therefore seek other employment. Schools will be in utter chaos because teachers will be doing the same thing. City, County and State governments will cease to be able to supply their citizens with proper service and normal service activities will grind to a halt. Mail will cease to be delivered to your door and shipped packages may takes weeks instead of days to reach your home and/or business. Trains, planes and trucking will be running on shoestring budgets with little to no assured transportation schedules. Parks, playgrounds and entertainment centers will be forced to shut their gates as well as professional sports teams becoming a thing of memory.
Yes, By All Means, We Must Put Those Nasty Employee Thugs in their proper place {Minimum Wage Earners}, and the sooner the better.
I don't agree that Hoffa's comments are helpful - but Palin is certainly not one to criticize him. Maybe, as the boomers begin to die off, future generations can get beyond the political divisions that began during the 60s. I mean post-boomer generations may have a better handle on the fact that it's their future that is being torn apart.
I agree that the aging of the boomers is a factor in the rise of conservatism. Just as their youth was, per se, a factor in their liberalism in the '60s. There are other elements of similar scope as the age-factor, though, at both ends of the era they've dominated.
However, it's tough to make a good case, that one generation or century is smarter or dumber than another ... esp. that we learn ("from history") and benefit as we go along ("progress").
That entitlements resemble a Ponzi scheme, was a point made many decades ago. It was just decided to ignore those who made it.
I'm a boomer, and there have been very good and very bad things about my generation. The political wars are one of the latter. I'm not necessarily saying that subsequent generations are "better". I'm just saying that it's their future - and maybe, realizing that, they may be able to get out of the political extreme positions - enough to at least begin to solve things for themselves. One can hope.
"Entitlements" aren't the problem, Ted. While it's true that politicians are cowards, and haven't leveled with voters about them, it wouldn't take a helluva lot of "reform" to address them. As I said above, there needs to be a system of retirement that is fair. But those, who keep harping on "the entitlements" just want to have control of those assets. One place I'd start with medicare and medicaid - I wouldn't subsidize poisons that are passed off on consumers as "food". I'd tax that crap and then subsidize real food. Just a suggestion. There are ways.
But the real problems in our economy have to do with its unsustainability, bleeding $billion/day for foreign oil, increasingly escalating medical bills because people don't take care of themselves, trade deficits, a busted housing bubble, and banking shenanigans. The emphasis on "entitlements" is something of a distraction.
I dont advocate any violence but I dont see Hoffa's statements as being the same as the TP Dont Retreat-Reload or calling for 2nd amendment remedies.
And exactly what has Palin done to earn that right?
It's all the left has left, seeing they can't sing the praises of the current President.
Back when language like this would indeed lead to cracked skulls, Hoffa would end up in the slammer for incitement. Doubtful today; his 'thugs' are used-to-was.
Truth is, it would be a pure God-send for the Tea Party movement, if some rowdy union fellas did show up at an event and try to put the fear in 'em.
Yeah, sure thing Mr. Hoffa. That would probably be the lock on Pres. Palin.
This is totally unlike you, inasmuch as when reading your comment it would appear that you believe that Mr. Hoffa was rallying the blue collar union workers to once again bash heads as in days of old. When both you and I know that in his speech he was plainly encouraging union workers to use their voting ballots at the polls to throw out those politicians which he and they considered to be Congressional bums.
Had he been speaking and/or suggesting that the workers should do otherwise, I too would have come down on him with the full force of my pen. But that was clearly not the case and I am surprised that you have suggested that he was avocating for them to use force.
Summer finally arrived on the Olympic Peninsula, tho; we are working non-stop, playing as we can too, and I've got long-waiting projects both out in the shop and here on the computer underway. I just couldn't do it all. I'm probably not really "back".
You're right: Hoffa wasn't trying to rally any head-knocking. "Politically", it makes him more exciting, to be seen/interpreted that way ... but like Bachmann in a similar quote, he's really talking about the ballot box when he says "take them out" (her line was the less-titillating "take out").
Both of them like the appearance of aggressiveness that comes with the easily-spun phrase.
But it works better for Hoffa, because he & Daddy used to really do that. Not any more tho ... it's all just political charades.
We aren't totally beyond riots & such, but if Democratic or Leftie forces do try for a disruption-strategy like that, I expect it would easily be turned around the TEA etc element, and they would win more approval from the public.
And logically-speaking, there were no crosshairs on Loughner's Glock.
When a Union chief urged working class Americans to use their most sacred constitutional right, the TP and the zombie minions act like a crime has been committed.
Un-frakking believable.
In today's Republican Party it is very believable !!!