Many of my Republican co-workers are angry about Obama's speech

[Cali_Democrat]

They said Obama made it seem like Gabby Giffords opened her eyes because he was there. They said he was trying to take credit for the medical miracle. :eyes:

I thought he made it clear that she opened her eyes after he left?

Whatevers. These people are grasping at straws, angry that Obama was very Presidential and above the fray. They desperately want him to be dragged int the mud along with Palin.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Wha... that has to be the dumbest faux outrage ever.

[Ken Burch]

7. Just wait...it'll get dumber...

:eyes:

[Raven]

2. Worse: she opened her eyes because Nancy P. was there. :-)

[patrice]

12. 1++++++++++

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

3. They think/feel by making others look bad...they make themselves look good... pua tings....patetic

[The Wielding Truth]

4. I think he heard about it from Nancy and others there and wanted to spread the news.

[JI7]

5. fuck them

[mtnsnake]

6. The real reason your Republican friends are angry about Obama's speech

is because they and their Republican mouthpieces have been struggling to find a way to criticize the speech and are coming up empty handed. They are totally stumped!

[Enrique]

8. why would that make them mad?

if I thought a republican claimed to have performed a miracle, I'd laugh at them, not be mad at them.

[CanonRay]

9. They're angry when the sun comes up in the morning

Fuck 'em all

[Pirate Smile]

10. He made it perfectly clear that she opened her eyes when she was with some of her Congressional

friends.

It was the first time she opened her eyes on her own. The Doctors said while testing her reactions to stimuli, they got her eyes to open in response to stimuli. That is not the same as her opening them under her own control. The Doctors said there is a significant difference. Jackasses are acting like jackasses. Rush & Co are feeding their normal garbage to their minions getting them in their normal agitated state. People like him aren't going to change the vitriol they shoot into the body politic on a daily basis. It is sad really.

[Empowerer]

15. And he didn't say who was with her or whether they were Democrats or Republicans

It turned out that she was with three Democratic women Members. But the President referred only to her Congressional colleagues.

[CTyankee]

19. Those evil Dem WITCHES cast a spell on her!

Had to be that...

[Arkana]

11. They're grasping at straws because there is virtually no one

in the "liberal" media who will trash Obama for the speech he gave. They want a reason to be angry and they can't find one.

[patrice]

13. They own God, so they are hyper-defensive to any perceived challenges to their role as

gate-keepers.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. How DARE a Native American give an invocation...in Arizona!!

The Freepers own True Christianity(TM)(SM) and NO OTHER religion is allowed to be displayed at any political function.

All good Americans are supposed to be Protestant, even if they are not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants! No Idol-Worshipping Papists either!

I thought the Native American man's invocation was very cool. And he mentioned "Mother Earth"!!! That's a sin too! No female goddesses allowed, only an all male trinity.


Reminds me of the time Harry Reid invited a Hindu Priest from Nevada to give the invocation in the Senate and some Christians in the peanut gallery yelled and screamed and raised hell and drowned him out. I assume they were immediately removed for being disruptive.


The stupid, it burns.

[patrice]

40. "Christian" blasphemy is sold by Church/SaintCo. They have become so habituated to it that,

like a fan running in a room, they no longer notice it though their blaspheming is there nonetheless, all pervasive, and destroying their perception of truth, which falsehoods, blasphemers that they are, they then inflict upon the rest of us.

[ProSense]

14. It's always frightening to realize that

mainstream Republicans are just as desperate and moronic as their wingnut counterparts. Still, some of them could be wingnuts.

[backscatter712]

16. If he's freaking out the wingnuts, he's doing something right.

Enjoy today! :evilgrin:

[DrToast]

17. That reflects more on them than it does on Obama.*

*

[discopants]

18. They believe that because that's EXACTLY how the Fox web story reported it

Fox re-writes the event to inflame their readers.

[RobertSeattle]

20. "Obama cures Cancer"

...Right Wing complains about all the oncologists who will be out of work.

[Kweli4Real]

41. I doubt they would raise hell over ...

someone losing their job ... No, it would be "Look at all the millions the insurance companies and Pharma will lose ..."

[Bluerthanblue]

21. just like the outrage over the t-shirts, people are desperate to find

something to detract from the fact that President Obama responded to this tragedy so effectively and appropriately.


It just goes to show how little there was in what he said and the way he said it to seriously criticize.

[zulchzulu]

22. If I was there

If anyone seriously said anything like that to me, I would merely laugh right in their face and make a circular movement around an ear while I continue laughing. They're nuts.

[lunatica]

23. Selective hearing is part and parcel of teabaggerati behavior

[DCKit]

30. Selective hearing, and a built-in, real-time translator circuit.

Everything that reaches their brain is processed to match their world-view and prejudice.

[AldebTX]

24. My Republican coworkers Were angry

about the line were he said "spouses or life partners" They felt he was saying the two are equal....mind you they were noting this to an Out gay man like there was nothing bigoted in their faux outrage.

I think they are just trying to find a reason to dislike the speech because it was so moving....

[prolesunited]

27. Perhaps they should have been reminded

that the hero that saved Gabby's life is gay.

[Pirate Smile]

29. I knew some would freak at that. It is one of those inclusive things he does that just pisses them

off.

It just reminds them that things are changing, tolerance and inclusiveness are increasing and expanding, along with civil rights.

I love that he does that.

He also does it when he mentions non-believers when reciting a list of the various religions. They hate that too. :)

On some level, it is one of the basic differences between Democrats and Republicans.

[wilt the stilt]

25. They are really mad because he is Black

The bottom line is we were all hopeful that having a black man president would be great for the country. Unfortunately, it blew up the country along racial lines. All the hate is because a black man is president.

[onenote]

26. send them this link and ask them to take the hate out of their ears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00QtOgJLdDg

[vaberella]

28. He did clearly state it was after he left and HER COLLEAGUES and husband was there.

These people are assholes. But you should have made the effort to set them straight. I realize they are frustrating. But the thing is....we can't let them continue controlling the narrative. Even if they hold no real power. We need to take control of the narrative and make sure that even if they continue thinking whatever it was they believed---they'd also be aware that in the back of their mind their wrong and you told them so. They need to wake up and I'm tired of being too tired o fight back a bit.

[Puzzler]

31. Didn't Beck finally cave today and admit that Obama gave a great speech?

[BeyondGeography]

32. That's why he said her husband gave him permission to mention it

Prez covered his ass. Too smart for them. Again.

[CakeGrrl]

33. Grasping at straws, ignoring what was actually said

He stated clearly that after he left, she opened her eyes.

He also said that her husband gave him permission to share the news.

They're just bitter that they have such zeros representing their party while Dems set the leading examples of maturity and character.

[Kurovski]

34. It was because of "girlfriend power" .

And that's that.

[old mark]

36. K&R-THey are mad because they are fucking nuts and there is no cure for them...nt

[rasputin1952]

37. What is the matter with some people? Seriously...

Here's a woman that took a bullet wound to the head, suffering terribly and perhaps permanently damaged to who knows what extent, yet shows a sign that things are getting better...and someone has to make a political cowpie out of?

Every human being with even a smidgen of a soul should be celebrating this individual, or any other that comes back from the brink of death, with relief and gratitude for the human spirit.

I worked for years in a hospital South of Seattle, and with each "victory" as a patient recovered, it was a time for relief at the least, celebration at the best. I worked w/a pt w/Guillian-Barre syndrome, he was terrified he would be paralyzed for life. The first time I worked with this man, (his wife was in the room at the time), I told him I was going to walk him out the door. I am not a physician, my job was to help where I could and do what I could to ease the suffering of those that I came in contact with; I'm certainly no one special. After 3.5 months, I was informed one day that this pt would be discharged the following day, and I was determined to keep my end of the bargain, we had fought this together, and I drove the 40 miles in on my day off to do so. I wheeled this individual to the front door, helped him up and into his car, we shook hands and off he went...the warmth we had was felt by everyone we came in contact with that day.

My point is that he, his wife and I celebrated a "victory". Through the months of good and bad, we fought through this and every step of the way, we celebrated the small things, the good things, and we fought against the bad things. The same thing goes for what we see today with Congresswoman Giffords, and the others that are recovering...it is not their position in life, but the life itself that we find celebration in. The steps of progress show each and every one of us that we can make progress, we can overcome, and that is always a reason for celebration.

[Papagoose]

38. My Republican acquaintances are trying their hardest to turn this all against President Obama

I'm not arguing with them, I think that most people are seeing through them this time around. The more the Right tries to spin against President Obama, Democrats and Liberals in regard to this incident, the worse they make themselves look.

[femmedem]

39. Reminds me of my neighbor who gets outraged that after a blizzard, there are snowbanks

on the sides of the streets after the plows come through.

Some people aren't happy unless they're angry.