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so juvenille
Come on, your THE PRESIDENT!
US President Barack Obama went head-to-head with a prominent conservative Tea Party activist, in a microcosm of a political clash that will play out in the 2012 election.
Ryan Rhodes, a leader of the group in Iowa, took on Obama during an open-air town hall meeting, which marked a moment of new intensity in the president's campaign for a second term.
Rhodes shouted out that the president's calls for more civility in politics had little chance of coming to pass after "your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a 'terrorist.'"
His question referred to media reports that Vice President Joe Biden made such a remark in a private meeting with House of Representatives Democrats at the height of a debt showdown earlier this month.
"I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric," he said, before going on to detail some of the more explosive charges that conservatives have laid against him.
"In fairness, since I have been called a socialist who wasn't born in this country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms because I passed a health care bill, I am all for lowering the rhetoric."
Mr President, in fairness - in my 42 yrs on this planet I watched Chevy Chase, stumble and trip on himself mimicking Gerald Ford, watched countless comedians make fun of Reagan falling asleep, watched Dana Carvey make fun of GHW Bush, watched liberals drool over every mistake GWM ever made, blaming 9/11 on Cheney, bumperstickers, protests and everything else against Bush and NONE, NONE of them complained or retaliated. YOU AND ADMINISTRATION must be held to higher standards. Not the people. YOU must bring dignity to the office.
You've lived up to every concern, you're junior, inexperienced and a finger pointer. A college professor with very little leadership experience. It shows all the time
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