Hope and Change

[Winnie]

Disciples of Soros? My goodness, this thread is laced with hatred.

Is starting from the position of an already made-up mind, and going to a town hall meeting not to learn and argue your policy positions but to disrupt and derail a meeting really in the best interest of our democracy?

The only thing the protests will accomplish is to 1) bring out the crazies from the opposite extremes of the political spectrum, and 2) end open access town halls and the average citizens opportunity to have input into the political process -- which is perfectly okay with K Street and the think tanks behind this whole movement.

Hope and Change or Pessimism and Disenfranchisement? Gosh...that's a toughy.

This is an often repeated, erroneous accusation lately.

 

[lerxst]

This is new territory for the left. They thought their unions, hippies, moveon.socialists, community organizations and disciples of Soros were the only ones that knew how to stand up and yell. All we heard for the last 8 years was that it wasn't un-American to protest the Iraq war, yet some how it is un-American to protest the government takeover of our healthcare and 17% of our total economy. It is quite disgusting how all the war protesters have magically gone away now that King Zero sits in the big chair.

I can assure you that if this were democrats acting in this fashion it would be seen as honorable, free-speech, standing up for liberty and idividual rights. It really saddens me to see government leaders, and the white house actually fomenting division and labeling instead of trying to extinguish this mess and yes they are clearly posturing in a way that does not help this situation out at all.