The Rush to Blame the Right for Giffords' Shooting

CriticalBill wrote:

Whatevergreen wrote: Can you imagine the outrage if it would have been Osama Bin Ladin and NOT Sarah Palin who put the crosshairs on Giffords' District, and it was a muslim that killed those people?!

Yes I can imagine that, and I would be blaming the individual and not all Muslims. And comparing Palin to Bin Ladin? Obama has a great history of killing and terrorism, what has Palin done?

Maybe you meant to say "osama' and not Obama having a history of killing. Maybe a slip though neh? I believe you would be wrong about most others. they would be jumping around blaming all muslims and then ragging on Homeland security.

....and the liberal Marxian Socialist left wing media begins portraying Obama positively...let the talking points begin....they have even named the event.

President Obama is off to a good start in his handling of what the networks are now calling “The Tragedy in Tucson.” The moment of silence he asked for on Monday at 11 a.m.—resonant for older Americans of the exact hour on November 11 each year that the World War I Armistice was once observed—is an appropriate expression of what we need right now: Less Noise.

But silence will not be enough. This horrific event offers the president a chance to show leadership qualities that he’s inexplicably hidden away in some blind trust. The shootings and the resulting debate over the climate of incivility play to his strengths as a calm and rational leader. Just as Bill Clinton’s response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings helped him recover from his defeat in the 1994 midterms, so this episode may help Obama change—at least in the short term--the trajectory of American politics.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/10/the- ... dency.html

...but wait the Dem strategist said that Obama needed an "Oklahoma City for Obama to connect." Wow, I guess Obama really doesn't like Blue Dog democrats.

Mark Penn, Democratic strategist and former chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, let out the kind of doozy, on last night’s Hardball, that must be seen to be believed. Comparing Obama’s current situation to the aftermath of the 1994 “Republican Revolution,” Penn noted that it took the Oklahoma City tragedy in order for President Clinton to “reconnect” with the American people.

He then stepped off the cliff by saying that President Obama needed a “similar event” to achieve that reconnection following his party’s midterm losses.

Could this really have been an orchestrated event? Pelican Brief? 24?

Science Chic wrote:

Beeks wrote: There's simply a rush to blame somebody, anybody. Unfortunately, that's the nature of our culture these days. Lately, it's all along political divisions. Sad......

Whatever happened to waiting for all the facts to come out before rushing to judgements?

You're dealing with politicians here, not scientists. Not the same thing. Hang on I stand corrected. Climate scientists are just like politicians. Neither give a hoot about facts, just spin.