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Rush: AZ Memorial T-Shirt Slogan Came From DNC’s Organizing for America

The presence of tee-shirts branded with the tragedy of last weekend’s Arizona shootings raised the eyebrows of many onlookers who worried the shooting was being subjected to politicization.  A group of Arizona students has taken credit for the tee-shirt design and motto, but many are suggesting the “Together We Thrive” motto actually came from Organizing for America, the campaign arm of the Democratic National Committee.

During his Friday radio program, conservative host Rush Limbaugh noted the coincidence (h/t DailyRushbo):

Indeed, on the Obama for America 2008 campaign site, the slogan was used by one Obama supporter to rail against American capitalism:

For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side effect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.

In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!

The My.BarackObama blog site does include this note:

Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign.

So, is a blog post from an individual blogger/Obama supporter enough to link the Tucson shooting tragedy to liberal politics?

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  • 123gone
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:06pm

    Anyone that would allow a memorial to be turned into a political rally ought to be ashamed of himself – Mr. POTUS !!

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Acornseiuvoterigged president as an ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT……

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  • jamesctheman
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:06pm

    They have been usung the same talking points & this is nothing new. I‘m surprised they have to dig this deep for slogan’s. Have they used up all the good slogans or are the ones used over & over just not resonate anymore. I knew this was a campaign speech type of trip. I think the speaker had an idea this is what it was too. That might be why he chose to stay & preside over the vigil in the house. Standing next to BO while he is stumping when you despise his politics would look like he’s endorsing them.

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    • 2gether
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:16pm

      AMEN! The truth has no agenda, I have been saying and now Glenn has taken up that mantra again! The progressives and the far right, too cannot wrap their heads around the idea that there are people who REALLY TELL THE TRUTH AND HAVE NO AGENDA EXCEPT THAT! How sad.

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  • 2gether
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:05pm

    anybody who believed this was thought of by AU was duped…to put it politely. If in fact it had been the college the shirts would have been red and not blue. And anyone else who thought this was not about politics, go back and listen again to the “speech” Obama gave and right around the time he starts to praise the 30 year old social worker who helped the senior citizens get the health care they were entitled to and the veterans get the benefits and medals they were entitled to, he says..”the system works…” Nope not political at all.
    Let me just add this, if the GOP thinks the progressives want to show bipartisanship by “sitting” intermingled with them they are fools! The only reason they want to do that is because they want it to appear as if there is not a GOP majority in the house when the “cheering and clapping commences”. Don‘t be fools and don’t throw pearls before swines. They are not interested in bipartisan movement, they are intested in 2012 and they will say and do anything they have to give the appearnce that they want decisions to be made together…I ask the question, is that after the GOP comes up from the back of the bus and the progressives have cleaned up after the Bush debacle? Sorry I got carried away.

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  • mamawalker
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:04pm

    roflmao…made my afternoon!

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  • AzTopCat
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:04pm

    Hmmmmmmmmmm Never let a crisis go by. Dem’s at there best. So Sad, So Sick, So Democrat !!

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm

    here is a link to Baracck the flying donkey

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraq

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  • Canada_Goose
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm

    So, is a blog post from an individual blogger/Obama supporter enough to link the Tucson shooting tragedy to liberal politics?

    Is Ms. Jessup implying that the Tucson shooter knew in advance that the memorial organizers would adopt the title of this blog entry in their tshirt give away??? The date on the blog post is Feb 11, 2008.

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    • Ashrak
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:12pm

      Kind doesn’t fit does it?
      That is the point of sarcasm sometimes……..to show exactly that.
      ;)

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    • Canada_Goose
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:59pm

      The sarcasm seems very forced.

      In order to have genuine sarcasm there needs to be a parallel scenario.
      For instance, a link between violent campaign rhetoric or imagery on the left preferably using ballistic metaphors on their conservative or republican opponents.

      In any case everyone appears to be focusing on the slogan on the tshirt coming from the OFA blog.

      White House was certainly behind this, university students wouldn’t have computers with internet access and time on their hands to surf the net. (Now that’s sarcasm)

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  • OldSkool
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm

    My fellow citizens were attacked by a mad man, and all I got was this T-shirt.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:05pm

      Looked like a bad joke to me. Ordering the t-shirts was the set-up. Giving them away at a memorial service was the punch line.

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    • Rn mom
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:41am

      The back of the tee shirt should read “I went to the Tucson Memorial, expected a dignified tribute to those murdered by a mad man but all I got was this lousy campaign Tee-Shirt”

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  • katzenbacker73
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm

    This is extraordinary! The importance of this cannot be overstated! This is borderline not having a soul territory…

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    • Xyz22
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:53pm

      I knew I saw that cold, unemotional look somewhere. . . Sam from Supernatural.

      Sorry, but I had to go there.

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  • Tagudinian
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

    What memorial? It was a campaign rally and the Messiah was ready with his teleprompter. It was a re-play of that Mt Olympus setting in Colorado. It was a replay of Obama trying to be oratorical. What a croc. This over-exposed black man needs to get back to the WH and do his job – create jobs and work on the economy. But no… he does not know how to do that. This is an inept community organizer who is good at agitating and spending money and flying in Air Force One all over the place apologizing to Muslims.

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  • Ashrak
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

    Notice that the “WE” is

    EMPTY.

    Just like the suit the Pres__ent wears.

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  • Blazing
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:58pm

    I’ve heard several comments that the tee shirts were inappropriate – but no one is blaming Obama. If Bush could be blamed for a “Mission Accomplished” banner on a ship that had accomplished its mission…then why shouldn’t Obama be blamed for tee shirts at a memorial service?

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    • Rn mom
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:52pm

      Notice how the blame only goes one way? The entire lot of them are disgusting. The victims of the Tucson shooting deserve a real memorial.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:48pm

      Great point. He can be and should be blamed. He‘s the one who keeps claiming to be ’in charge’.

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    • Xyz22
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:44pm

      Oh I blame Obama all the way. Can anyone think that he, his staff and the secret service did not know exactly what, who and where everything would be in that venue? He could have had those tacky shirts removed in two minutes flat, but he didn’t. He also could have (and should have!) acted presidential and spoken up when all the hooting and cheering started and told the “mourners” to act appropriately, but he didn’t. He reveled in all of it and it was disgraceful.

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:58pm

    Its a little known fact that Mohammed had a flying donkey
    Mohammed flew the donkey from Medina to Jerusalem
    the flying donkeys name was Barrack

    im not kidding (I couldnt make stuff up like that )

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  • Lantern
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:58pm

    “Together We Thrive” was definitely not made for a funeral memorial. The progressives SHOULD be ashamed, the students should be ashamed, but nowadays, there IS no shame. It used to be considered shameful to have a baby out of wedlock, to use food stamps, to niot support your kids, etc. No shame, no accountability, no responsibility.

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:35pm

      I guarantee some 20 something wiz kid will say “Hope and Change” is soooo 2008. Let’s use “Together we Thrive 2012”

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    • Tresse
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:59pm

      I think shame left this country during the Clinton administration.

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  • Utah_Carl
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:57pm

    Someone organized this (political) event. Who?

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:29pm

      George Soros organized this event, that would be my guess

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  • exliberalgrl
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:55pm

    Well there’s the proof. It was a pep rally and Nobama is an opportunist and has no shame. Here’s his new slogan, Doomed 2012.

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  • inexiletill2012
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:55pm

    W ! T ! F !
    Did anyone EVER think otherwise ?

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  • River0
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:55pm

    The Democratic Party holds nothing sacred; nothing is holy; and everything is for sale. When you become atheist/agnostic, nothing can be. There is no God, and no real innocence. All reality is material – money, power, and force are all that count. I have no doubt that they see nothing wrong, crass, or profane in turning a memorial service into a 2012 pep rally for Obama’s reelection.

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  • Patriot nurse
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:54pm

    This has come to be a real LOW for the Dems,using a memorial for their own pep rally.I think the Pre.should not have participated.Also I am angry that he couldn’t honor our young patriot who were gunned down in the Ft.Hood masacre.God save us all !!!! This has to be the most twisted in history.

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    • Rubicon
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:58pm

      I was thinking the exact same thing. Everything seems so wrong, yet there are tons of liberals out there saying “What? What did I do wrong?” with a clueless look on there face. Really!! It was OK to CHEER at a memorial service. I was at home watching the coverage and mourned in private, as soon as people started cheering and clapping I could not stand to watch.

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    • Darla_K
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:21am

      I agree Patriot Nurse. I would like to know what the families thought about this so called memorial. I didn’t even watch it but heard the applause coming from the next room and knew right away that it was political. I am thinking Obama would have made a very good actor instead of a president.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Liberal education at it’s best.

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  • MBA
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:50pm

    T-shirts at a memorial service. That is so disgusting and disrespectful it’s not American. Oh wait, the failure in chief is not American. I am sorry that the victims in Tucson have been caught in the middle of such a low class, evil display of bad manners.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

      MBA, thank-you. Agreed.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:01pm

      Stupid liberal, can’t even get the theft of a name right, typical.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:17pm

      MBA, I am not a birther, but I believe that our president is not an American patriot. I am convinced that his agenda is to destroy America as we know it.

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  • fed up w/special interest groups
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Keep telling it like it is, Rush.

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    • ceili
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:30pm

      Stop using my name, everyone knows you are a fraud.
      Kate.

      Untameable-kate  
    • ablisterin
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Leave it to a liberal to commit identity theft.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:12pm

      @Ceili Kate

      Hillary sized bottom? God that would be a nightmare for anyone to see coming, save for finding one married to Pelosi in the morning.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:31pm

      Evil changes it’s name often, it’s still easy to spot and liberals are evil, keeping taking people’s names, only shows how desperate you’re becoming, I’m not worried, you won’t be able to change your face when the time comes. Good luck.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Copy cat, Your idiot statements are getting more ridiculous as the day wears on. What do you think you are accomplishing? I know Bob and the second post is obviously you, just come on here with you’re own name and say what you want to. We can’t hurt you since you can hide on the internet. Seems to me like maybe you are a coward.

      Untameable-kate  
    • Rn mom
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:38am

      The Real Untameable Kate- Sorry your identity has been stolen by someone who wants to hurt your reputation. Unfortunately this thief feels empowered by stealing your name and posting in ways that you wouldn’t. Although he thinks he is sly, he is nothing more than a common thief and now I and many others who follow you know that your ID has been stolen. In the court of law liability falls with the impostor- poster. The impostor Untameable feels protected when anonymously posting defamatory remarks. You can file a John Doe lawsuit and use the subpoena power granted by it to force the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to provide any information they have about the anonymous poster.

      Maybe there is an attorney on this blog who would do it pro- bono?

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:09pm

      Will the real Untameable-Kate please stand up? Snow, help me …

      Report Post » NancyBee  
  • JohnQTaxpayer
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Propaganda

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    • exliberalgrl
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:08pm

      That sums it up.

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    • JohnQTaxpayer
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:21pm

      The amazing part is they think we are so dumb, we will not figure it out

      Obamabotts didn’t have a clue that what it was

      OH SORRY Obmaniacs
      Didn’t mean to pee in your popcorn, but again hasn’t Obama been doing that for a long time now and he is telling you its butter.
      Wash it down with the cool aid

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Since when did massacres merit political slogans?

    Further, what’s this obsession with “we” and these nut cases anyway? They want to live in the world of Anthem do they?

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    • ceili
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

      I couldn’t bear to watch it on tv. I was embarassed for my state at the behavior of the people at the memorial. Young people no longer have any sense of decency in this country.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:44pm

      @Ceili

      I listened to it here with a fair number of residents of my apartment complex; the local progressives and socialists had taken over the TV in our community room to see the ‘great hero’ and we used a radio. One grandmother brought her kids, and the senior (high schooler) grand daughter of hers asked who the ‘clueless ranter on the radio was?’ when Obama came on.

      Not all of the students fail to get it; just the majority of them, then again the colleges are the centers for indoctrination and control set up by the progressives, so what can we honestly expect.

      We have to pray for them to see the truth and the light; and for the ones who already do, to continue on with the rest of us.

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  • LSX
    Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:48pm

    Campaign 2012 started at this memorial.

    Progressives should be ashamed – if that were at all possible.

    *

    LSX  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:54pm

      Campaign 2012 started at this memorial.

      ——-
      Sorry but I beg to differ.
      The campaign started in 2006,
      and it never stopped

      cheezwhiz  
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:56pm

      Maybe next Obama could go to Australia blame the flooding on Sarah Palin
      and sell some more teeshirts then give another speech about how awsome he is.

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    • jgeezy
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:56pm

      This is unbelieveable. This has go to stop. If people are willing to use the deaths of innocent people to promote their agenda, what does that say about the state of our country? I don’t care what your views are, this is wrong.

      http://practicalpolitician.wordpress.com/

       
    • 79USMC83
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Really do not care were they came from. It was disrespectful and tasteless to be putting anything out like that for a Memorial Service. The whole Service was an EMBARRASSMENT and was Un-CIVIL

      Civility : a : civilized conduct; especially : courtesy, politeness b : a polite act or expression.

       
    • john bonham
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

      It’s exactly what I said yesterday (course you wont recognize my name ) but yeah this event was nothing more than to further the obama campaign started in 08 and a photo opt.. Shameful.

      one years food ration like glenn says  
    • dwh320
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm

      This explains the campaign rally disguised as a memorial that fooled nobody.

      dwh320  
    • Ashrak
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Cheezewhiz – Sorry, but Obama’s campaign started in 2004 at the DNC convention. I will agree it has never stopped ever since.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:03pm

      T-shirt and bumper sticker slogans are how the elites reach out to the “little people”….they think that it is all that we can understand….propoganda instead of substance is where we find ourselves in this country.

       
    • 101
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:05pm

      It was a pep rally…Wow. Who Knew?

      Never heard so much cheering at a Memorial before but, Obama had no control over the crowd@%$#@^$#

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:05pm

      I agree, hence the “let’s soften the rhetoric theme”. We saw how long that “honeymoon” period lasted – less than 24 hours before the blame game revved up again. I understand students, for the most part, are self-absorbed until they have a good dose of the “real world”, but the fact that no adult pointed out how tasteless that was is amazing. The fact that Obama didn’t curtail the applause after the first out burst is tasteless too. Hard to teach young people right and wrong when the adults are as clueless.

       
    • IndyGuy
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:08pm

      “AZ Memorial T-Shirt Slogan Came From DNC’s Organizing for America”…of course it did…

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    • Michiganjohn
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:10pm

      I did some digging last night and I suspect the shirts were already pre printed for some kind of debut in Tucson. There is no way a company (called Youth Movement) only 3 months old with less than 50 employees could have pulled off the logistics of making the shirts and getting them on the chairs in less than 3 days. A large company would struggle with that.

       
    • knotaclu
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:15pm

      I have a feeling we are now “forever in campaing mode”

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    • v.o.t.e.
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:29pm

      put a large audience of brainwashed students with political tee shirts in an auditorium and what do you expect—- a freakin idiot must have organized this disgraceful show of lack of decorum for murder victims— where is the msm on this one– beck had this wrong —it wasn’t what was the sudience thinking— it was what were the organizers thinking— ultimately its obama’s teams fault— potus should have told the crowd to cool it—period

       
    • ceili
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:36pm

      V.O.T.E.
      Agreed. All he had to do is quiet them down and remind them that their bevavior was inappropriate. I think he was enjoying the attention too much to do that though.
      Kate.

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    • Decade of Greed
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:37pm

      2 words – Paul Wellstone
      Dems never miss an opportunity to turn what should be a somber remembrance into a campaign event. Shameful.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:41pm

      @Grandmaof5

      Sorry to hear about the water pipes freezing last night; had the thing happen in Jay once. Took well into the next day to get them usable again…try using a low power light bulb with an socket and a extention cord next to them; will make a major difference.

      These students at the rally/memorial are to be blunt – clueless in the real jungle. They seem to be thriving on emotion, and chants/mantras fed to them by the Progressives.

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Hey everyone,

      Just seen this on the Drudge report: The Fed’s are getting ready to sue some states over their laws that protect the employees privacy over votes on becoming unionized or not. Check it out, for it is worth reading.

      Once more, Daddy Obama and the Fed’s are coming to make us pay.

      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110114/ap_on_re_us/us_unions_secret_ballots

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    • Chuck
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Hurray, for the Progressives, they sank to a new low IMO, disgusting, vile and debasing act of self engrandizement, F’em!!!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:58pm

      Thius is despicable! And, Obama sounded so sincere when he spoke. The truth is out! It was all politics!

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    • Bullcop34
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:59pm

      @ Grandma…..I agree. I watched Gov. Brewer speak and then when napalitano was introduced and all that whooping and hollering ensued, I was disgususted. The fact that napalitano could stand there and accept that applause from them was tasteless and so self absorbed. If, and that is a big if, she were a true adult or even half a human being, she would have stopped the crowd and reminded them what they were there for and to behave accordingly. What an embarassment and a total laughing stock she and this administration are for this country.

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    • ONETERM
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:17pm

      So very true and shameful.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:21pm

      DISGUSTING .. but NOT surprising … lower and lower .. .

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    • Rogue
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:38pm

      Um, Ceili… Kate would never call someone a P.O.S…. you cover has been blown. Go away, troll.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Don’t take us for stupid anymore! We are Awake and we are being Educated…the game is up…We Surround You!

      It is like everything else that comes out of anything associated with this administration and their shadow advisers…stealth, dishonest, underhanded, two-faced, disingenuous, haughty, arrogant, dismissive of the majority of WE THE PEOPLE and our CONSTITUTION!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:36pm

      “For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society.”

      No, a free market society values each individual, and their right to property – it doesn‘t matter if you’re poor or rich.

      “How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs.”

      This is how all businesses work. It’s even how Obamacare would work, if you could convince everyone to participate (it’s unConstitutional), since you would still need to maximize the availability of medical services for the society as a whole – which is of course where “death panels” would come in.

      “This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America.”

      Everyone has a right to property in America, both rich and poor, such that anyone can own the means of production. And since everyone has a right to property, even the rich should be able to do whatever they want with it, or offer any wage to workers – and workers can choose to accept that wage from the one employer, or go to another employer.

      We don‘t own other people’s wealth – it’s not ours. And nobody owes us a job; But we should all be spared the regulations which stifle our own entrepreneurialship, so that we can at least work for our own selves.

      “It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers.”

      A free market society competes to offer goods at prices others will pay, because you can only sell what people will buy, and so indentured servitude is unnecessary in a free society, in that it’s not stifling the economy with regulations, because we could just choose a different employer.

      “As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.”

      The one’s who are trying to divide us are those who classify people into groups – whether it be tax brackets, culture, or color. That would be the Progressives.

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:38pm

      ashamed??? this is the perfect crisis for them to use!

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:44pm

      I’d have held out for more than just a T-shirt to garner my vote. Hope these kids are smart enough to find out what really went on.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:48pm

      If they can link coservatives to the motives of a madman then Yes I Can!!!

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:54pm

      Rogue,
      Um, Ceili… Kate would never call someone a P.O.S

      Yes I did it. I lost my patience with this guy and said it. I am so tired of the snarky little comments he is making using other peoples screen names. I’m taking mine back, it is my name and I am not going to surrender it to a troll.

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    • betterthantv
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:56pm

      @BOOGER71

      Right on! You nailed it!

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:21pm

      I think I’ll have t-shirts printed up for my funeral. My slogan will be “The best ism is individualism”.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:41pm

      They learned nothing from the Wellstone funeral

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    • darkloch
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:52pm

      the progressive motto is: “the ends justify the means”.

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:19pm

      These bottomfeeder‘s will use or create what ever it take’s to achive there agenda,I can only imagine what come’s next.
      To bad the right does not have this kind of drive it take‘s to get your point across without the lack of moral’s and respect that the left has showen.

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    • happyboy
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:20pm

      WHAT A DISGRACE.

      If it was my 9 year old daughter, I would have walked up to Obama and scream in his face, turn and leave. These Blood Libel Democrats turned a memorial of 6 dead people into a pep rally. I hope when the Presidents days are ending, people cheer and applaude at his memorial.

      I wish there was a movement in my State to remove our Star from the US Flag. This was like Obama throwing us the Bird.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:26pm

      This won’t stop until every liberal is no more, they divided this nation once before, and killed 1/2 the men, under 50 in the south, raped 2/3s of the women and children, stole everything they could take back to the land of evil with them, and burned what they couldn’t. I hope the next war goes better.

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    • madwoman
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:39pm

      LSX, Progressives have no need for shame…they are so superior to Conservatives, at least in their twisted view on things.

      They are the rational ones, they utter no spiteful words…that they recognize. They just reason (somehow) that if they lead the stupid masses along they will do what they want.

      Boy, are they going to be surprised. For we outnumber them, and we are strong.

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    • jzs
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:15pm

      “Together we thrive” motto is offensive to someone? The way I read that is that if we, as Americans, work together, we all benefit. And maybe the converse would be that if we Americans are not working together, we thrive less. Is that false?

      The Giffords‘s family applauded President Obama’s speech, as did almost everyone from the left, right and center. And yet here on the website you ask “did Obama lie?” when he said Gabby opened her eyes for the first time in his speech, parsing the words “opened her eyes” when her doctors said that was the first time she opened her eyes (eye really) voluntarily rather than as a reflexive movement.

      Think about yourself and ask what is it that prevents you, what makes your view so skewed, that you will extend any Herculean mental effort required to deny that President Obama has done or said a single positive thing. Politics aside, that’s a form of mental illness, the inability to see gray and only view the world as either black or white with nothing in between. Sorry to be the one to tell you, but there’s a lot of gray in the real world.

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    • prage2001
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:19pm

      I don’t think progresives have any shame.

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    • Sondergard
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:43pm

      the pep rally was just as sad as them taking advantage of a childs death to try and make the right look bad. its too bad that liberal did not kill sheriff dumas instead of that young girl. would be a better world

       
    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:29pm

      The problem with the progressives is that they think the “American Dream” can be created and distributed by the Government. The “American Dream” is not one thing, it’s a frame of mind. It’s the concept of an individual aiming high and accomplishing the goals he or she is striving to do. It’s the concept of hard work and getting the most out of life. My dream is different then your dream, and is different to the dreams of my neighbors and friends. Government can’t fulfill my dream, only I can do that. I will do achieve MY dream myself. If I fail I have only myself to blame.

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    • RCScrolls
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:19am

      The Liberals have no cooth, noting is out of the question, just like their slamming conservatives about that which dosent exist.
      About time for Lets play Cowboys and Liberals
      if one exists after we are done with them it will be to many.
      They have already lost thats why they are trying such childish acts.
      Wish they could read and understand Hyperbole, analogies, alagories etc metaphors
      because they sure do ware them out..

      Can you imagine they start all the Rhetoric and blame evryone else for it
      how much more stupid can they be.
      Liberals are closet conservatives, they just havent been the reality blow yet of life!!
      Save our country get a liberal on your Target and pull the trigger yes I said that!!!
      Socialists that say they are in this country need to go and live in Venezuela with out their Money.

      Save a Liberal Buy them a Daddy

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    • sodizzy
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:20am

      It’s not.

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:30am

      Democratic National Committee has sponsored people like ME. In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!

      During my previous career as a leader of diversity I fought so that all Foreign spies had equal opportunity to commit espionage and help their motherlands thrive!
      During my previous career as a leader of diversity I fought so that all Foreign terrorist were able to come to this county to get the best education and job possible so that not only would they have self empowerment to speak out against the evil USA but to murder people who stand in their way. Not only that but a portion of the money these people made at their good jobs we help them find goes to sponsoring other overseas groups to finance more people like this.
      During my previous career as a leader of diversity I fought so that illegals everywhere could freely use other Americans social security number to commit all kinds of fraud against the taxpayers. This empowered them to wave their home countries flags here and the while smuggling drugs, gangbanging and helping more of our people come here to turn this place into the next great 3rd world country!
      Together WE have thrived with the help of Democrats!

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:34am

      The Progressives know no shame.

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:52am

      Does it surprise anyone that the progressives want to do everything in their power to win political positions at ALL COSTS? They want to cram socialism down our throats, and kill capitalism – pretty simple to me. What is sad to me is that they turned a time for mourning into a political pep rally party.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:57am

      Obama hasn’t QUIT campaigning since he got to D.C. what are you talking about.. and while this is a so called independent blogger wanta bet he gets money laundered through to him for OBAMA’S master?? listen I’m from IL I KNOW how the PROGRESSIVES work..this man is a JOKE and it’s time REPUBLICANS called him OUT on it..

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    • jusayin
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:03am

      What? Haven’t any of you heard? According to Nancy Polosi the masacre was an accident.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:58am

      .
      @LSX “Progressives should be ashamed – if that were at all possible”

      You nailed it – Conservatives err when they expect Progressives to feel shame for their words, actions, and beliefs. We waste our breath and energies pointing out all the times when they should be ashamed because they could care less. According to their leader, Saul Alinsky, telling the truth and being consistent is not a winning strategy. Progressives are all about winning at ANY cost. Read their manifesto written by Saul Alinsky and you’ll understand that feeling shame is something they only pay attention to when they can use it against conservatives.

      They know that we care about truth and honesty and that we feel shame when we err, so they point it out very publicly whenever a conservative makes a mistake… but do not be misled by their ecstasy when pointing out our mistakes – that it means they truly care anything about honor… it doesn’t – it just means they might have a better chance of ‘winning when they can point out conservative’s imperfections. How often have conservatives dropped out of races when some skeleton was found in their closet… but when was the last time a Lewinskyite stepped down or even admitted that any error was made?

      Seriously folks – quit wasting your breath on pointing out the left’s hypocrisy! They could care less whether or not they are hypocritical or else they wouldn’t be so good at it.

      Focus instead on the fact that their policies never work – and that the long-range unintended consequences and missed opportunities are far more damaging than the short-term benefits they are promoting.

      ‘Catching’ the left in another lie is like accusing snakes of being “biters”… Duh! – They have no other option since their ideas do not work!

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    • mendolover
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:25am

      They won’t be.

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    • avenger
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:42am

      so what else is new from the marxists…..

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    • Jackers
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:54am

      “Together We Thrive”… New blue t-shirts and a new blue slogan… Obama’s been on the campaign trail for seven years now, and where did it get us?

      If Obama truly wished for us to “thrive,” he would listen to the majority will of the American people and honor his oath to the Constitution and the rule of law.

      With 27 million Americans unemployed or under-employed, it is time for this Administration to back up their so-called concerns for the “creation of jobs.” Mandate e-Verify nationwide, and 7 to 8 million jobs currently held by illegal aliens would open up overnight…

      We all deserve to thrive; not just our political elites!

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    • butterfly53
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:02am

      The left obviously has no concious. To use the fallen for politcal gain is sickening. They don’t recognize evil, so they proceed with their evil in blaming others. Sarah Palin scares the bejeezus out of them so they will stop at nothing to discredit her. She sees evil for what it is and calls it by name. She fears and honors her God, they have no God.
      We have to defeat them or they will ruin us all.

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    • byehlik
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:04am

      I knew this was a pep rally even before I heard about the t shirt and slogan. As soon as the witch doctor stepped up to the podium, all I could think was… UNFREAKING BELIEVABLE! This was such a transparent grab for political power in the aftermath of an extremely unfortunate event perpetrated by an apolitical madman. Not buying the BS Obummer, not buying.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:12am

      jzs, at 10:15pm. You act like a fool when you say “Together we thrive” motto is offensive to someone? The way I read that is that if we, as Americans, work together, we all benefit.”

      It is not the phrase that is reprehensible, for we all can appreciate it (yes JZS your screwed up bias and bigorty once again forces you to look down at everyone here exept your buddies). You, either on purpose or because unconsciously you are who you hate, just don’t get it. Free tee shirts at a memorial service? When have you ever seen such a thing? Seriously? I’ve been to funerals for Presidents, and other government servants, Democrats and Republicans, and I’ve never ever seen anyone offering tee shirts for “mourners” to wear, and I think this is the first time any of us have seen such a horrible disregard for people who have been mass murdered. That our president and government made no attempt to return the occasion to the somber event it should have been, and that you don’t condemn that, speaks volumes. When you are wrong, you are wrong, and you are almost always wrong, so why don’t you just shut up?

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    • setusfree2012
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:28am

      They know no shame, and therein lies the problem.

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    • rubintheartist
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:26pm

      Getting to the root of deception and exposing brainwashed stupidity is the subject of a new comedy animated web movie. Laughter can heal and educate. http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu

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    • bak2basics
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:30am

      @cheezwiz You are so right.. The campaign never stopped. July & Aug 2010 they started pulling campaign staffers.on lost campaigns, 3 mo. before D-Day, But they already knew, so they pulled resources from “lost causes.”

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    • LadybugsTX
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:25am

      Are you kidding me? From Obama’s website? How sick… And when has Obama ever not been campaigning. It’s a good thing that slogans only work on the Obots. Nobody else is buying the slogans anymore. Fool me once…

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