What are your thoughts when you read something like this?
The lobbyist, R. Bruce Josten, said in an interview that the powerful business bloc “is not going to tolerate” what it saw as a “backdoor attempt” by the White House to silence private-sector opponents by disclosing their political spending.
“We will fight it through all available means,” Mr. Josten said. In a reference to the White House’s battle to depose Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, he said, “To quote what they say every day on Libya, all options are on the table.”
One of the top lobbyists in DC just threatened Obama's life (as a joke?) and he must have known he was doing so when he did it.
It was a joke. Probably. Mostly. Or then again, who knows.
But a question for those of you who actually believe Obama is as terrible as you claim in your blog posts (as opposed to some blog posts being more about a process of venting frustration and not to be taken 100% seriously).
Doesn't the fact that the top representative of Wall Street and big business is talking about murdering our President give you pause? Joking or not? Doesn't it make you think twice about which side Obama is really on?
I don't remember the top lobbyists for big business threatening Clinton's life. Maybe I missed it, but I don't remember hearing that.
I also don't remember hearing them threaten Carter's life, or Kennedy's life either.
Why aren't liberals finding relevance in the fact that the culprits representing everything we're against as human beings... that they seem to hate Obama with an unprecedented passion, seemingly sometimes bordering on treason? And these aren't random crackpots. These are the "Masters of the Universe."
Doesn't that make anyone think twice about the fact that maybe we're giving Barack a bit of an unreasonably hard time - that he really is on our side, possibly more so than any president that came before him?
Just a question for the community.
I would also ask that the community think about this diary in its proper context.
This is our nation's first black president. First non-white president. First minority president. The issue of threats against his safety are extremely important to many of us. I would ask that people not treat the issue as a joke. I would ask for some sensitivity at least to the African American community, who have good reason to worry about threats against Obama from powerful people - as we all should really.
I suspect some (not all) will twist themselves into all sorts of semantic knots in order to maintain that it is irrelevant when big business is against a certain politician. I have to admit that sounds like self-deception. At some level, big business targets politicians for reasons, normally for reasons that would benefit us citizens at their expense.