Fuck its silent in here.......

[Gilgamesh]

I can point to things 10,000 times as bad as a Palin site with targets, there is about a decade of evidence of all the left wing hate speech, and violent imagery against Bush. Palin has had her fair share thrown at her and her family as well.

since you've paraphrased Michelle Malkin's latest screed here, allow me to rebut.

There are plenty of websites, imagery, etc. with all kinds of hate on them - Nobody is truly President of the United States until he's been caricatured as Hitler - but all Malkin's examples (and, by extention, anything you'd provide) are done by the left-wing version of Birthers.

Not by former Vice Presidential nominees, probably Presidential candidates, or groups funded by the DNC. You are comparing apples to basketballs.

DPD.  Damnit Fork, your insistence on acting like one of these parties is better than the other (hint - it's not) has forced me to post this.  I've tried to stay out of this, mainly because a nutjob's a nutjob and all this bullshit about the rhetoric causing anything is, well, bullshit.

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253055&kaid=127&subid=171



Those look like bullseyes, a "targeting strategy," and "BEHIND ENEMY LINES."  From the DLC.  So stop acting like it's "The right does rhetoric like THIS, the left like THIS."

Also, Oleg's conclusion is perfect.  Well said, indeed.

Holy shit!  The democrats want to assassinate 8 states - and Florida!

NOT AMERICA'S WANG!!!

[Oleg]

Now...clearly the National sentiment bears a ton of responsibility, but the shit may work.

From teh DNC map, all but AR and MO went Dem in the 2008 election.
From Palin's map, only Giffords and and Rahal (WV-3) won.

Saying that taking a more civil tone in the political forum would have prevented this from happening is like saying that if the city of New York had just banned talking dogs, David Berkowitz never would have shot anyone.

You might be right, CT.  But it couldn't hurt, could it?  Let's just try it.  If you don't like it, we can go back to accusing each other of having out-of-wedlock black babies.

[Armchair_QB]

Does the memorial service start after the pep rally or did they hold it earlier?

[Gilgamesh]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

[PenPho]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

[Fork]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

[R-V]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

What Fork said.

Also, I've seen this complaint in a few places and it's the same stuff we saw after Paul Wellstone's memorial. I don't understand it. Is there something particularly wrong with having something positive/celebratory rather than a somber rending of garments? Who are we to decide how people are allowed react to something awful?

[PenPho]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

I'm planning on having a table for my internet friends, can you guys all let me know if you're thinking of coming?

[Gilgamesh]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

What Fork said.

Also, I've seen this complaint in a few places and it's the same stuff we saw after Paul Wellstone's memorial. I don't understand it. Is there something particularly wrong with having something positive/celebratory rather than a somber rending of garments? Who are we to decide how people are allowed react to something awful?

This.  I think Americans like to cheer sometimes.  As I said in the SBox, the whole thing felt very Irish wake-y, which isn't a problem.

That Indian fella at the beginning set the tone.  He was good.

I did not care for the university president's Obama dong chugging during the President's intro.

[PenPho]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

What Fork said.

Also, I've seen this complaint in a few places and it's the same stuff we saw after Paul Wellstone's memorial. I don't understand it. Is there something particularly wrong with having something positive/celebratory rather than a somber rending of garments? Who are we to decide how people are allowed react to something awful?

This.  I think Americans like to cheer sometimes.  As I said in the SBox, the whole thing felt very Irish wake-y, which isn't a problem.

That Indian fella at the beginning set the tone.  He was good.

I did not care for the university president's Obama dong chugging during the President's intro.

Can I complain about all the bible readings too?
Less from the President, but more from Napolitano and Holder.

[SKO]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

I'm planning on having a table for my internet friends, can you guys all let me know if you're thinking of coming?

[Fork]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

What Fork said.

Also, I've seen this complaint in a few places and it's the same stuff we saw after Paul Wellstone's memorial. I don't understand it. Is there something particularly wrong with having something positive/celebratory rather than a somber rending of garments? Who are we to decide how people are allowed react to something awful?

This.  I think Americans like to cheer sometimes.  As I said in the SBox, the whole thing felt very Irish wake-y, which isn't a problem.

That Indian fella at the beginning set the tone.  He was good.

I did not care for the university president's Obama dong chugging during the President's intro.

Can I complain about all the bible readings too?
Less from the President, but more from Napolitano and Holder.

Not enough blood in your motzoh today?

[morpheus]

That was a pretty good speech, but holding the service in a field house might not have been the best idea.

But on the whole, pretty moving.

I thought the actual words were great, but the entire setting seemed a bit too....celebratory?

You cheer like that at a campaign stop, not a memorial.

We all plan on cheering at yours.

What Fork said.

Also, I've seen this complaint in a few places and it's the same stuff we saw after Paul Wellstone's memorial. I don't understand it. Is there something particularly wrong with having something positive/celebratory rather than a somber rending of garments? Who are we to decide how people are allowed react to something awful?

This.  I think Americans like to cheer sometimes.  As I said in the SBox, the whole thing felt very Irish wake-y, which isn't a problem.

That Indian fella at the beginning set the tone.  He was good.

I did not care for the university president's Obama dong chugging during the President's intro.

Can I complain about all the bible readings too?
Less from the President, but more from Napolitano and Holder.

Pen would have preferred readings from the Pentateuch.

[Fork]

Obama and Palin, together at last.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Obama and Palin, together at last.

Stuck-up Riverdale punks.