Don't ask me why President Obama is taking a bus tour through the Mid-West. (MSNBC calls it the Jobs Tour). Actually, I do have the answer. He is spending taxpayer money making a campaign tour to bash Republicans and make the case that they (Republicans) are putting party before country in the debt squabble. (As if the Democrats are any different.) This is a campaign trip to be followed by a vacation at Martha's Vineyard. Unfortunately for Obama, two more everyday citizens in Iowa cornered him on Joe Biden's statement about the tea-partiers being "terrorists", as well as Janet Napolitano's irresponsible comments in that vein.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/15/obama-conversation-with-tea-partier-gets-heated/
(Hannity just showed the exchange between Obama and a man/woman couple who asked him about the comments by Biden and Napolitano. It should be up shortly.)
*Update: Here is the video:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/15/obama-conversation-with-tea-partier-gets-heated/
As he has shown time and time again, the President is not nearly as eloquent once you take the script and the tele-prompter away.
A lot of people are asking whether the President should be riding a bus through the Mid West as well as flying off to Martha's Vineyard while the country is mired in an economic crisis. They are also asking why Congress should be on recess in the middle of all this mess. They say get the President and Congress back in Washington and back to work. I am not so sure. When they are not in Washington, they can't hurt us, can they?
Let's see how many jobs this bus tour creates.
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Since there is no video of what Rhodes said, I can't script another "what I would have said if I were Obama" as I did when you posted Jan Schakowsky being questioned about the health care mandate last fall. Certainly, citizens who support whatever they think the "Tea Party" platform is have every right to voice their opinion, even to the president. Anyone taking a bus tour in America should expect almost half the citizenry to be asking them tough questions, no matter what the individual politican's views are.
In my seldom humble opinion, it is a mistake to broadside "The Tea Party," when there are dozens of reasons people identify with that label, and each individual needs to be spoken with regarding their own views, not a broad stereotype. It is not a particularly coherent political platform.
The Republicans in congress, particularly many of those who got elected on some kind of Tea Party rhetoric, showed they are willing to play a game of chicken with the United States of America as the vehicle at risk. That's not as violent as holding a gun to a hostage's head, but it may be even more dangerous to the lives and livelihoods of the American people.
No video? Here you go.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/15/obama-conversation-with-tea-partier-gets-heated/
You posted a second post on this Gary, saying nothing new, just running the same number. I've already responded to the video there. I won't take up precious bytes repeating it here.
Grand idea.
I note that you had no significant refutation to offer where I did post it either.
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