the fact that I have a different opinion from you, due to the simple fact that I strongly disagree with you?
Is it wrong to compare a President to Hitler- Yes, In my opinion! Presidents Bush the Younger and Obama BOTH have been compared to Hitler. Is it outrageous to draw pictures of a President that make look like an animal? During the LAST Presidential administration, Mr. Bush was often made to look like a monkey in editorial cartoons.
Is it incivil and rude to walk out on someone in the middle of a conversation? Whoopie Goldberg and Joyce Behar walked out on Bill O' Reilly while he was an invited guest and being interviewed on ABC- TV's The View Program. Is it Right and dignified to call someone with a different view point from yours a " Bi*ch" on TV for holding an opinion that you DO not share, Joyce Behar said, again on The View, " Come to New York, Bi*ch.!" to a woman on the opposite side of her on a current issue.
Should attacks upon Presidents be greeted with condemnation and anger. It fascinated me that many Liberal pundits seemed to have no words of disapproval for the man in Iraq who threw heavy shoes at the head of George Bush? Should saying that The President of The United States should be assassinated be considered as " hate speech"? If you believe this to be true, Did You condemn Paris for the 1992 Song "Bush Killa"?
Is a movie about a fictional assassination of a sitting President considered being " wayyy out of line"? Few in Hollywood took that stance when it came to the movie " The Assaassination of George W. Bush"! Was Then Vice- President Albert A. Gore Junior speaking kindly and inclusively when he referred to some political opponents of his as "Extra Chromosome Americans"? Was Katie Couric being moderate and benign, a promoter of understanding when she used the genial and civil phrase, "The Great Unwashed" when she refereed to many of her fellow Americans.
Are there people who are rude, nasty, antagonistic and seeking to provoke as rumble among The Republicans, The Conservative ( not ALWAYS one in The Same) and Tea Party Members and Supporters - ANY Civil, Polite and HONEST person will admit that referring to Supporters of The Tea Party as " Teabaggers" is slandering them with a vulgar and unacceptable SLUR!- Yes, I certainly know there are some such people within the numbers of those groups? Do they need to be held to account and asked to tone down and rethink what they are saying? YES!!!!, They do!
Please, however, allow me to ask that some of the most prominent voices among the Democrats,,Liberals, Progressives need to hear the same message- Be civil be appropriate and measured or please be quiet and let those who know how to speak with DIGNITY in public be the ones who act as our public spokesmen.
Oh, One more thing - There are times when great and pervasive social change must occur- people long denied rights should have those wrongs that they have had visited upon the correction. However, Not all Change can practically be brought about- without bringing about chaos, disruption, anger and resentment - at this VERY second. So, In the interest of practicality,sanity and vital social cohesion do not insist that everything you feel you are in the right to gain be provided "NOW!!!". It comes across as childish, impractical. antagonistic,impatient and SIMPLY and Quintessentially Rude and Impolite!
- Johnny -
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