Chip Bok | September 4, 2009

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Tee hee. After health care "reform" goes down, watch Nancy go
down.
And not in the good way (gulp).
If Bok managed to draw Pelosi right, he wouldn't have to put "Nancy Pelosi" on the podium. Political cartoons, like jokes, are best when you don't have to explain them.
A little on the nose. Are those crumbs coming off her
fists*?
*SugarFree, don't you dare.
Hmmm... And here I thought Nancy Pelosi had said that the
screamers at Town Halls shouting other people down were
"un-Democratic", not "un-American"...? Not that, to me, there isn't
much difference. Shouting other people down at Town Hall meetings,
where citizens are trying to make their voice heard, express their
concerns, ask legitimate questions IS un-Democratic. And sure as
hell should be considered un-American.
In most cases, I think it's really quite simple: If you can't
respect the rights of others, you don't deserve yours. And that
goes for the "birthers", the "deathers" and the "Code Pinkers"
alike.
That presumes that politicians deserve to be treated like human beings, DS.
An understandable conclusion you no doubt have reached, LG,
though not one that I share. At least not in most cases. That
aside, hopefully you would agree that the citizens who are being
shouted down at these Town Hall meetings probably deserve to be
treated like human beings...
An example:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/woman-in-wheelchair-shouted-down
The goon in the orangish checkered shirt in the back continued on
afterward: "I don't know how a handicapped woman in a chair has
more rights than I do".
Those who were shouting her down, shouldn't have got a chance at
the microphone. Quite simply, they don't deserve it. And I believe
that does go for both sides, too.
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