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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (58057)	4/18/2007 10:31:41 AM
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Day by Day By Chris Muir daybydaycartoon.com

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Obama: Insults, Outsourcing 'Violence' By Ed Morrissey on 2008 Captain's Quarters The culture of victimhood has a new champion, according to the Texas Rainmaker, and that champion is Barack Obama. Faster than someone can say "Ismail Ax", Obama used the Virginia Tech massacre to decry violence in American lives -- but as it turns out, "violence" covers a lot of ground in Obama's political lexicon: <<< Dem presidential hopeful Barack Obama condemned a violence obsessed culture in his first Wisconsin campaign stop, reflecting on the shooting deaths of more than 30 people at Virginia Tech earlier in the day. ... The Senator described a culture in which "the violence of children and communities" is ignored, working class jobs are outsourced overseas, and foreign policies are put into place favoring military responses. Obama also referenced comments radio host Don Imus made last week about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. "There’s a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other," Obama said to raucous applause. "Last week obviously had to do with Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at women who were role models for all of us." >>> The news report missed the pertinent quote from Obama, who decried "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country." So, in Obama's world, "violence" includes making a derogatory (and utterly insipid) statement about a women's basketball team, as well as a business decision to relocate. Where exactly is the "violence" in these actions? It used to be that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." That has apparently changed to "names may as well be sticks and stones, because either one will damage my fragile psyche." And if one wants to avoid the "violence" of losing a job, the only way to do so is to never hold one in the first place. All of this is a despicable attempt by Barack Obama to tie his political platform to the Virginia Tech shootings. Efforts to push gun control in the hours following the shooting may be tacky, but at least the topic relates to the event. For Obama, the shootings are a valuable hook to play his class-warfare cards and to evoke Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail. UPDATE: I'm including the relevant clip of the speech, and it actually gets worse. captainsquartersblog.com Did you know that ignoring the voice of the children is another form of violence? What's next? Is voting against an insubstantial candidate with only two years of national office who exploits a shooting tragedy for political gain another form of violence that Obama insists we correct? UPDATE II: Via Instapundit, Mickey Kaus says that the speech "doesn't come off quite as obscene as you'd expect" -- thanks to Obama's near-comatose delivery of it. I noticed that too, and even in the short clip you get the impression that he's mailing in his appearance. He has no energy at all. UPDATE III: CQ commenter Geoff says that Obama's refusal to acknowledge his pain when his roommate switches off "American Idol" amounts to genocide. That's the spirit, Geoff! captainsquartersblog.com wispolitics.com texasrainmaker.com instapundit.com slate.com