It is heartening to see democrats who still do not believe the laws on the books apply to anyone who is not white, and still think the Constitution is irrellevent.
Obama would have had a much worse time in that crowd. McCain came across as TOO LIBERAL for them. Did you hear the complaints? “You can only stop illegals with bullets!” They said his ideas were not strict enough. Tough crowd…
“That whole meeting looked exactly like the Tea Party raids on Town hall meetings from 2007.”
Excellent post. The Koch Brothers, Dick Armey, Karl Rove, and others who financed the Astroturf rallies posted articles on their sites to tell people how to be maximally disrespectful, and how to shout down people to make yourself heard. Now they are reaping their own reward. Encouraging people to act/react by feeding off fear, anger, and intentional misinformation (a caustic and dangerous mix) cannot be channeled in one direction (or against one political party) only. This has now come home to roost on the people who worked hardest to make it happen. I am saddened that I was right to have predicted this.
Regardless, they made the monster, and now they do not control the monster. Let’s hope they didn’t make the monster too well……
The price of food is going up but strawberries rot in the fields for lack of workers to pick them.Some thinking adult needs to come up with a plan to allow guest workers to come and do the jobs Americans can’t or won’t do.
‘If this had happened to Obama, you would sing a different tune.’-Actually, I give credit to McCain for even having a town hall meeting. After a couple Republicans experienced the same anger expressed to Democrats earlier, they immediately canceled them. McCain’s is the first I’ve heard about since then.-Eric Cantor, the patron saint of ‘job creators’ experienced that anger and walked out and now will not even apprear in public unless the crowd is prescreened to be friendly.
The border is not safe. For those who think that this is just a “Hispanic problem” you are very naive. People from all countries are coming across the border, and that includes terrorists..We need to seal the border.======Oh, good. How much are you Inland States going to pay to put up a wall along the coastline so that those Communist Infiltraitors can be kept from immigrating from Cuba? And everywhere else; it’s just that Cubans are automatically LEGAL once they set foot on land, unlike everybody else.I can’t HEAR you. How Much???
I’m sorry Mr. McCain’s party has gone from being the GOP to the Tea Party. We need a good moderate Republican party just as we need a good moderate Democrat party. What we have is an extremely conservative Rep party, and, except for a minority of exceptions, a right of center Dem party that gives lip service to liberal concerns but, like the Reps, passes legislation approved of by monied interests.Progressives like me are left of both of these caricatures, and left out as well.Disappointedly,C.
zoidknight about 11 years ago
It is heartening to see democrats who still do not believe the laws on the books apply to anyone who is not white, and still think the Constitution is irrellevent.
Motivemagus about 11 years ago
“I don’t get that Anglo-Saxon stuff.”
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
It was funny to hear those crazies at the town meeeting yelling those things you read in chain emails that are not true.
Fourcrows about 11 years ago
Obama would have had a much worse time in that crowd. McCain came across as TOO LIBERAL for them. Did you hear the complaints? “You can only stop illegals with bullets!” They said his ideas were not strict enough. Tough crowd…
I Play One On TV about 11 years ago
“That whole meeting looked exactly like the Tea Party raids on Town hall meetings from 2007.”
Excellent post. The Koch Brothers, Dick Armey, Karl Rove, and others who financed the Astroturf rallies posted articles on their sites to tell people how to be maximally disrespectful, and how to shout down people to make yourself heard. Now they are reaping their own reward. Encouraging people to act/react by feeding off fear, anger, and intentional misinformation (a caustic and dangerous mix) cannot be channeled in one direction (or against one political party) only. This has now come home to roost on the people who worked hardest to make it happen. I am saddened that I was right to have predicted this.
Regardless, they made the monster, and now they do not control the monster. Let’s hope they didn’t make the monster too well……
moderateisntleft about 11 years ago
No, it is you who keeps einging the same tired old tune…..
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
The price of food is going up but strawberries rot in the fields for lack of workers to pick them.Some thinking adult needs to come up with a plan to allow guest workers to come and do the jobs Americans can’t or won’t do.
braindead Premium Member about 11 years ago
‘If this had happened to Obama, you would sing a different tune.’-Actually, I give credit to McCain for even having a town hall meeting. After a couple Republicans experienced the same anger expressed to Democrats earlier, they immediately canceled them. McCain’s is the first I’ve heard about since then.-Eric Cantor, the patron saint of ‘job creators’ experienced that anger and walked out and now will not even apprear in public unless the crowd is prescreened to be friendly.
Nebulous Premium Member about 11 years ago
The border is not safe. For those who think that this is just a “Hispanic problem” you are very naive. People from all countries are coming across the border, and that includes terrorists..We need to seal the border.======Oh, good. How much are you Inland States going to pay to put up a wall along the coastline so that those Communist Infiltraitors can be kept from immigrating from Cuba? And everywhere else; it’s just that Cubans are automatically LEGAL once they set foot on land, unlike everybody else.I can’t HEAR you. How Much???
chazandru about 11 years ago
I’m sorry Mr. McCain’s party has gone from being the GOP to the Tea Party. We need a good moderate Republican party just as we need a good moderate Democrat party. What we have is an extremely conservative Rep party, and, except for a minority of exceptions, a right of center Dem party that gives lip service to liberal concerns but, like the Reps, passes legislation approved of by monied interests.Progressives like me are left of both of these caricatures, and left out as well.Disappointedly,C.
Dtroutma about 11 years ago
The Republican Party is learning Japanese: Kamikazi.
kamwick about 11 years ago
Hey McCain…by kowtowing to these idiots for as many years as you have, there’s only one thing to say:
YOU BUILT THAT!