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December 18, 2009 11:26 PM UTC
21 Comments
lot of insults there jeffco. How would you know who paid for that sign? It could have been a Republican. It could have been an Independant. It even could have been a disgruntled gasp Democrat. It even could have been paid for by someone not affiliated with any party. Just someone who dislikes the spending spree Obama and his buddies are on with no end in sight.
Don’t throw us all in the same pot if you don’t want to be in the same pot as Cindy Sheehan and the clowns at MoveOn.org to name a very few.
…but playing the odds would you bet that it was a Republican or a Democrat if you had the 2 choices and had to put your hard earned money on one or the other?
Blaming Republicans aside…the point is that whoever did this is evil. Spending the $ to advertise who you think is to blame for those people’s homelessness is stupid, misguided, and evil. It wasn’t Obama’s ‘spending spree’ and it most likely wasn’t Bush’s economy that put these people on the streets. I’d vote that Jack Daniels is more to blame than either president.
you glossed over the “Scumbag Republican” jab and the “……but these are Republicans we’re talking about.” poke.
I take offense to this kind of crap. Just as much as any of you would take offense if somebody put up a sign when Bush was Pres stating the same thing.
Correct?
Plus some more.
First off, could have been anyone. There’s a lot of disgruntled Dems too. Odds favor it being a Republican but it’s not assured.
Second, what is wrong with someone spending money to make a political statement. Yes the money could go to help the poor. But that is not a reason to stop all political expenditures.
Would you have been upset if someone paid to run ads pointing out that our present economic depression is due to Bush? Reasonable political speech is not solely speech you agree with.
I think the sign is trying to shift blame. But hey, every-one’s entitled to their own political opinion.
exploiting the homeless?
And if someone on the left politicized that situation by taking pictures and putting up signs trying to get them federal aid – you would support that.
It’s political speech. I don’t agree with this message, but I think it’s well & proper for someone to make that statement that way.
Remember all of the screaming and protests and signs aimed at Bush after a hurricane hit New Orleans? Those people had a right to hate Bush and blame him for all those people living under sea level, (I know, it was still Bush’s fault), and our bloated government being so slow to respond, so why is this sign any different?
You are always going on about individual responsibility. I can’t seriously believe that you think that the people who are homeless at this place are homeless because Barack Obama became president.
And to compare the 2008-09 recession to the Bush Katrina fuck up is beyond wrong historically. I’m sure you can see the difference between economics and meteorology.
At any rate, if this sign should read anything, based on whose fault this recession is, it should say Bushville.
First off, the historical context isn’t even correct. Hoover initiated many of the policies that, after Harding oversaw the stock market crash in 1929, helped to further push the country into the Great Depression. When little tent communities started popping up, it actually made sense to call those Hoovervilles.
Second, if someone on the left took pictures of them and was trying to get them federal aid, you’re right that I would be all for it–because it’s the right thing to do. Whoever made this sign was only interested in exploiting the homeless–not in helping them. And this is absolutely exploitation David.
Third, this isn’t about 1st amendment rights. This is about common human decency. JeffcoBlue is right when he says that the money for this crass political statement could have been better spent by actually trying to help the people it was exploiting. Did this despicable excuse for a human being have a “right” to put up this sign? Sure. But you know what, it’s my right to think that they are pieces of shit.
you’ve come a long way.
The sign spontaneously combusted as a group of right wing conservatives were taking a picture of it!
Luckily no one was seriously harmed, just a few singed pages on the manifestos and a few less nose hairs.
Interestingly, one of the conservatives was able to snap a few pictures before the sign was engulfed in flames. Lo and behold there in the picture was an image of Jesus floating in a bed a flames.
Go figure….
thanks for that
And I was FP editor earlier this year!
I realize you aren’t a journalist writing for a newspaper but there is a whole lot of guessing going on in this diary as to the perpetrator. Without facts, it sort of turns into a hit piece.
As to the sign well,free speech is free speech. We don’t have to like it but the guy or gal who paid for it certainly has a right to post it if that’s how he feels.
Rec’d for the discussion this will hopefully generate.
I’m not a journalist, we agree.
For discussion’s sake, what scenarios can you imagine where this sign would have been put up by somebody other than a Republican looking to score a hit on Obama using homeless people?
Hooverville.
I can name you about 10 Democratic activists right off the top of my head that would probably applaud this sign. I can also think of a 100 that would find it deplorable. I’m just not a big believer in the Rush Limbaugh overtones of the diary. I think we can have this discussion without the smearing. I guess that’s my main point here. Coming out swinging usually puts people on the defensive and stifles all hope of reasonable debate.
Either something isn’t translating well in what I wrote or you are reading a hell of a lot in to it. Either way, alrighty then.