I think this story is about three things: The Bushies’ authoritarian tendencies and Bush’s intellectual and emotional stability.
Politicians love to control the message and the environment in which it’s given, but the Bushies carry this to extremes, particularly by using (often false) arrest, confrontation, and intimidation to control their message. Is any conservative willing to defend “free speech zones”? How about calling meetings “open to the public” and then removing anyone who’s not clearly a supporter? Personally, I think the whole country’s a free speech zone, but Bush’s people don’t agree.
Bush’s public appearances are virtually the only way ordinary Americans can make themselves heard by the President, and Bush almost never hears from anyone who’s not in agreement with him. There’s a reason one of Bush’s nicknames by the Left is “Bubble Boy.” Bush has shown over and over that he doesn’t handle argument or criticism well; he tends to lose his temper and his ability to string words together. His outbursts are legendary in the White House, and when he was debating John Kerry, there was that little box that looked like a receiver under the left shoulder of his jacket…
I think Bush’s handlers have sold him short by keeping him so insulated. Bush hasn’t developed the thick skin and quick feet that most politicians do, and Bush’s isolation from the country hasn’t helped his administration at all. Remember, he wasn’t shown footage of Katrina’s damage until days after the storm, and his slow, ham-handed response became a debacle. But all this is part of a Republican mindset that says “we’ll do what we want, no matter what anyone says.” Eventually, that strategy runs into walls.
NoOneYouKnow - 02:08pm on 08/22/2007
Okay, two things.
Also, “dirty hippies?” You’re dating yourself.
NoOneYouKnow - 02:08pm on 08/22/2007
I think this story is about three things: The Bushies’ authoritarian tendencies and Bush’s intellectual and emotional stability.
So when Clinton did the same thing it was different.
How about Memorial Day 1993 I believe when President Clinton moved the Vietnam Vets from in front of the Vietnam Memorial so he’d have his sycophants in the front section?
The Whistler - 02:08pm on 08/22/2007
When a President appears in the kitchen
he needs to be ready for the heat.
When cliches are outlawed, only outlaws will use clitches!
We are not serfs.
Hyperbole alert! Or surfers, dude! (No one is “shredding the Constitution”, either!)
Tell you what. Next time you want to observe your “right to disrupt” (it’s hard to even type that with a straight face!) buy a movie ticket, so that you have every right to be in the theater, and loudly heckle the actors on screen. See how that works out for you.
Proof - 02:08pm on 08/22/2007
buy a movie ticket, so that you have every right to be in the theater, and loudly heckle the actors on screen. See how that works out for you.
You should see a movie in the inner city....they exercise free speech and aren’t arrested.
dallas - 03:08pm on 08/22/2007
The lefties have confused group entitlements with individual rights. The Constitution describes our individual rights; nowhere does it even mention group entitlements.
robert108 - 04:08pm on 08/22/2007
No, it wasn’t OK when Clinton did it and it’s not OK when the boy emperor does it.
The reason people want to go disrupt his speech is because his words are torture to those like me who have a very limited capacity for hypocrisy.
His policies and his administration also happened to have brought the world to the brink of self-destruction, and idiot enablers like you aren’t
helping by supporting and even encouraging the subversion of the Constitution.
P.S. Don’t you think it’s pretty tired by now to always bring up Clinton to defend EVERYTHING Bush does? It’s been nearly 8 years now...can’t you
come up with a valid argument already?
abraham - 04:08pm on 08/22/2007
Don’t you think it’s pretty tired by now to always bring up Clinton to defend EVERYTHING Bush does? It’s been nearly 8 years now
No, but it’s amazing that anyone over 8 yrs. old could have forgotten that Clinton was guilty of the same things, unless they are seriously deluded or hopelessly partisan!
Proof - 04:08pm on 08/22/2007
No, it wasn’t OK when Clinton did it and it’s not OK when the boy emperor does it.
“the boy emperor”? Just another BDS sufferer.
robert108 - 04:08pm on 08/22/2007
"NoOneYouKnow” rambles, His outbursts are legendary in the White House, and when he was debating John Kerry, there was that little box that looked like a receiver under the left shoulder of his jacket…
Kook alert!
Remember, he wasn’t shown footage of Katrina’s damage until days after the storm, and his slow, ham-handed response became a debacle.
It wasn’t his response that was slow. The feds aren’t allowed to go into a state until INVITED.
I think this story is about three things: The Bushies’ authoritarian tendencies and Bush’s intellectual and emotional stability.
Politicians love to control the message and the environment in which it’s given, but the Bushies carry this to extremes, particularly by using (often false) arrest, confrontation, and intimidation to control their message. Is any conservative willing to defend “free speech zones”? How about calling meetings “open to the public” and then removing anyone who’s not clearly a supporter? Personally, I think the whole country’s a free speech zone, but Bush’s people don’t agree.
Bush’s public appearances are virtually the only way ordinary Americans can make themselves heard by the President, and Bush almost never hears from anyone who’s not in agreement with him. There’s a reason one of Bush’s nicknames by the Left is “Bubble Boy.” Bush has shown over and over that he doesn’t handle argument or criticism well; he tends to lose his temper and his ability to string words together. His outbursts are legendary in the White House, and when he was debating John Kerry, there was that little box that looked like a receiver under the left shoulder of his jacket…
I think Bush’s handlers have sold him short by keeping him so insulated. Bush hasn’t developed the thick skin and quick feet that most politicians do, and Bush’s isolation from the country hasn’t helped his administration at all. Remember, he wasn’t shown footage of Katrina’s damage until days after the storm, and his slow, ham-handed response became a debacle. But all this is part of a Republican mindset that says “we’ll do what we want, no matter what anyone says.” Eventually, that strategy runs into walls.
Okay, two things.
Also, “dirty hippies?” You’re dating yourself.
So when Clinton did the same thing it was different.
How about Memorial Day 1993 I believe when President Clinton moved the Vietnam Vets from in front of the Vietnam Memorial so he’d have his sycophants in the front section?
When cliches are outlawed, only outlaws will use clitches!
Hyperbole alert! Or surfers, dude! (No one is “shredding the Constitution”, either!)Tell you what. Next time you want to observe your “right to disrupt” (it’s hard to even type that with a straight face!) buy a movie ticket, so that you have every right to be in the theater, and loudly heckle the actors on screen. See how that works out for you.
You should see a movie in the inner city....they exercise free speech and aren’t arrested.
The lefties have confused group entitlements with individual rights. The Constitution describes our individual rights; nowhere does it even mention group entitlements.
No, it wasn’t OK when Clinton did it and it’s not OK when the boy emperor does it.
The reason people want to go disrupt his speech is because his words are torture to those like me who have a very limited capacity for hypocrisy.
His policies and his administration also happened to have brought the world to the brink of self-destruction, and idiot enablers like you aren’t
helping by supporting and even encouraging the subversion of the Constitution.
Here, Henry says it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9-hgFbJWs
P.S. Don’t you think it’s pretty tired by now to always bring up Clinton to defend EVERYTHING Bush does? It’s been nearly 8 years now...can’t you
come up with a valid argument already?
No, but it’s amazing that anyone over 8 yrs. old could have forgotten that Clinton was guilty of the same things, unless they are seriously deluded or hopelessly partisan!
“the boy emperor”? Just another BDS sufferer.
"NoOneYouKnow” rambles, His outbursts are legendary in the White House, and when he was debating John Kerry, there was that little box that looked like a receiver under the left shoulder of his jacket…
Kook alert!
Remember, he wasn’t shown footage of Katrina’s damage until days after the storm, and his slow, ham-handed response became a debacle.
It wasn’t his response that was slow. The feds aren’t allowed to go into a state until INVITED.
Carry on, ya disingenuous partisan twit.