The Buck Stops: With Kerry's Little People
Kerry spoke about not having to worry about Washington State at a campaign event on Friday at the Everett Events Center. Watch the video below to see why he's so confident.
"It's not just the little person at the bottom who ought to pay the price of responsibility," Kerry told union members at a steamfitters hall in Philadelphia. "Harry Truman had that sign on the desk, and it said, 'The buck stops here.' The buck doesn't stop at the Pentagon. And in this case, it doesn't just stop with any military personnel."
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 26, 2004
60 Comments:
great post Sally thanks for the heads up.
By Sherry, at 8:59 PM
Sally...some people are wondering what the Bush supporter said "to provoke" the guy. Not that it matters in the big picture (assault is assault)...but maybe I'd like to use it too, if it worked that well :D
SondraK
By Anonymous, at 10:04 PM
Awesome footage Recycler! Thanks for the link.
Kilabe
By Anonymous, at 10:51 PM
Here is a more detailed account from The Daily Herald in Everett (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/08/28/loc_kerrycrowd001.cfm):
"A 52-year-old Kerry supporter was arrested after punching Perry Valentine, 19, who was holding a sign for President Bush and wearing a Kerry sticker on the seat of his pants.
The men were shouting back and forth when the older man swung, said Braley, the Everett police lieutenant."
However, watching the video it doesn't look like there was shouting. There was just the punch, and it looks like it came from nowhere. But that's the angry left for you.
By The Recycler, at 2:40 AM
I find it rather heartening that the Bush support was so young.
By Anonymous, at 8:14 AM
Seems to me the Kerry supporter should be very happy that a cop was right there to intervene. Otherwise, I think he was about to get the giant, family sized can o whupass opened on him.
By Nukevet, at 9:47 AM
Sweet Sally. I linked you.
By Dr. Rusty Shackleford, at 1:42 PM
Great post. Thanks a bunch. Just linked it on my blog, Flyover Country.
Check out how Kerry's labor pals treated some College Republicans at the Minnesota State Fair this past week.
By Bunker, at 1:50 PM
I don't understand why one loose cannon reflects somehow on Kerry. We wouldn't blame it on G.W. if a supporter of his bombed an abortion clinic.
By Anonymous, at 3:29 PM
I don't think people are blaming Kerry for what that leftist did, they are just saying that the left proves itself again and again to be hypocritical. It's also typical that they should ask what the kid did to get punched, but ultimately the leftie had no right to hit anyone. It's assault; it's a crime. The left tries to blame the kid instead of holding itself accountable for its actions. Again, typical hypocritical behavior. It's got nada to do with Kerry, it's just that the Democrats try to blame what they do on others. As for abortion clinic bombers, the Left has the same mentality. It says, "It's ok to hate the haters because we are absolutely right, morally superior." The left spreads lies and hate in an effort to destroy that which it decides is "bad" and "wrong" while denouncing anyone who does the same thing. Abortion clinic bombers kill a few people in hopes of saving many. Lefties attack Righties because The Left tells itself it is morally superior and that the Right deserves to be attacked and hated. Same thing. They are hypocrites to the core. So much for pacifism; they don't know how to practice what they preach. As it ever was and will be with the Left.
By Anonymous, at 3:46 PM
If this were the one and only violent person I've ever heard of, I'd agree that this guy shouldn't reflect on Kerry. The trouble is that the rest of us keep reading and hearing about Kerry supporters and Bush-haters stepping over the line -- shouting at strangers in traffic because they have Bush-Cheney 2004 stickers on their cars, or keying cars that have Bush stickers on them, or tearing up signs being carried by Bush supporters, or openly wishing the President dead. Each such event sounds like such a little thing in the larger scheme of things, and yet such events do keep happening. They have a way of building up a really bad impression over time. And to be honest, I'm just not seeing this kind of rage coming from the Bush supporters -- open disgust at the leftists' cluelessness and antics, yes, but not hatred. It's the Kerry supporters and Bush-haters that seem to be letting their self-control slip, not the infamous "right-wingers."
-- Aitch748 (first-time visitor, referred here from RightNation.us)
By Anonymous, at 3:55 PM
Dawn...your link doesn't go anywhere.
More Blogger issues, probably.
photoncourier.blogspot.com
By Anonymous, at 4:03 PM
"And to be honest, I'm just not seeing this kind of rage coming from the Bush supporters -- open disgust at the leftists' cluelessness and antics, yes, but not hatred."
I guess you didn't attend any of the peaceful anti-war protests. Not saying either side is right. I think Bush is a moron and Kerry is a middle-of-the-road bore . . . but I've definitely seen terrible actions on both sides of the fence.
By Anonymous, at 5:38 PM
Yeah, I don't condone it from anybody but you must live in a very liberal area if you have missed out on the violence from Bushies. I know people who have had their houses and cars vandalized because they had a Kerry sign/sticker out. I personally have had to dodge a swing from a Bush supporter (though to be fair, he didn't try again and even apologized for taking the swing, but still...). The violence is on both sides and just as dispicable regardless of who is doing it.
By Anonymous, at 6:27 PM
Interesting exchange on Matthews today. He polled some folks watching from outside, asking how many there were democrats, and how many were GOP. When the GOP'ers cheered in recognition, the dems booed them. When the democrats cheered in recognition, not GOP'er booed THEM.
Matthews pointed it out and wondered why the democrats felt it necessary to boo the Republicans while the Republicans did not. He asked a GOP woman about it and she said, 'well, we're democratic, we think everyone has the right to their opinion'. Even as she was talking the democrats in the crowd were hissing and calling her names and shouting LIAR.
Matthews pointed out to the Democrats that even as the lady was trying to answer, they couldn't hold back their invective, or be tolerant.
I was surprised. He's having a sane day.
By The Anchoress, at 7:52 PM
Amazing how Matthews can make such comments when he yelled over Michelle Malkin last week.
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.
By Anonymous, at 9:09 PM
I'm a 29 year old supporter of Bush. I grew up with nothing except love and pride in a inner city home. Let me tell you how much I wish the man in the video had struck myself because he would be wearing a hospital gown instead of his Kerry sigh for the election! !
Tim Cruzen (Mpls, Mn.)
By Anonymous, at 10:34 PM
Like he wasn't hoping for that. As he says just before being punched, "I gotta do it" the lady replies, "is that so".
By Anonymous, at 11:51 PM
"I gotta do it"
"Is that so"
We'll never know the whole story behind that, will we? I'm guessing he was explaining to the woman why he was holding the Bush/Cheney signs and she was mouthing back. That's certainly the way it looks to me.
I'd certainly not want to get that guy riled... he's got more muscles and judging by the stance he adopted, he has some experience at defending himself.
The puncher there was actually lucky that cop was standing right there.
By Coder, at 1:53 AM
Wow that Kerry supporter kicked the Bush supporter's ass. Did you see the Bush supporter step back in fear. He was scared and with good reason. Kerry is going to do to Bush what his supporter did to Bush's supporter. It is about time. Wake up you repubs, its a new day and the Democrats are on the move. Hold on to your seats, its going to be a bumpy ride.......HA
By Anonymous, at 6:00 AM
I think that Bush supporter said something to the woman. It must of been off color or something cause that guy turned around and put the whoop-ass on that kid.
By Anonymous, at 6:05 AM
Thanks for the heads up anon. Link fixed.
Matthews was actually nice to a Republican? Must have had his meds adjusted, or his wife made him sleep on the couch this past weekend.
By Bunker, at 6:06 AM
I've seen this time and time again when I would go out doing protests or anti-protests with my fellow College Republicans.
We would be very loud, obnoxious, etc but we would always stay atleast 5 feet from others and never get confrontational or violent. Our chairman would always give a big speech before the events to remind everyone to be respectful of other peoples personal space.
However, every time we went out some liberal would always end up comming up, getting right into our face they would yell and scream, they would lunge at and make physical jesters twords up. Anything in hopes of scaring us into submission.
I'll admit it didnt' happen every time but once in a while one would physically attack us. Be it trying to take our signs or just trying to push us down.
In a Kerry protest I did a few weeks back one gentlemen, and I say that out of pure respect for his age becuase he was old and grey but no gentlemen, grabbed me and pulled me out of the crowd completly unprevoked and started screaming right into my face. His nose was an inch from my own. He was yelling at me like some drill sargent. I was mearly walking down the street holding my sign and doing pro-Bush chants. I didn't even look at the guy. I was too busy looking in disgust at some wrinkly old hippy with her top off!
It's almost a given that any event done by "liberals" (actually these are ususal groups so far left they belong in their own party) that claim to be anti-war, pro-peace, pro-environment, etc end up being non-peaceful, destructive and usually burn stuff.
By Anonymous, at 6:58 AM
if you turn up the audio loud skinny guy says "you gotta do it"
as arrested other guys says " he invited me to ...he invited me to punch him"
LOL this is such a classic clip
By Anonymous, at 8:09 AM
Now the guy's gonna find out exactly WHY they call prison "The pokey"! Hahaha!
That's one less Kerry voter down, many to go.
By Skizz, at 9:09 AM
Haha.
This actually made me laugh. I've been looking at these kinds of videos all day. Dems beatin' up GOPs. GOPs beatin' up Dems. I've noticed a serious change in the way you Americans do your politics.
That was one fat cop.
By Luis, at 11:43 AM
My guess is that he does about 6 months on the assault. As for the notion that the Bush supporter was about to get whipped, I note that the Kerry thug's only punch was when the other guy wasn't looking. He did not appear ready to duke it out.
Incoming link.
Pat from Kerry Haters
By Pat, at 12:47 PM
That's a typical Kerry supporter. Kerry supporters hate Americans. They hated our soldiers in Vietnam, they mocked the thousands of Americans who died taking Iwo Jima, SEE HERE the picture on John Kerry's book THE NEW SOLDIER. By the way read it at the site and see what the maggot has to say in his book. You can also read three chapters of Unfit For Command at that site.
Kerry supporters hate Americans,, but they LUV the Viet Cong and the terrorists in Afghanistan who slaughtered 3000 of their brothers and sisters in New York, and they LUV Saddam and his Baathist thugs. And today short shorts Edwards said we need to be nice to the Iranians and give them Nuclear fuel.
These guys are not just nuts, but also very violent as you see.
By the way, go to the site I link to above and read Kerry's testimony before the Senate in 1971. He actually threatens with violence if the government doesn't do what the anti-war protesters want. Apart from that the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which was led by Kerry were planning to assassinate more than 7 senators who were pro-war.
Don't think leftists are against violence, just ask Che Guevara.
By Anonymous, at 1:57 PM
"Revolution ... everywhere you're not looking."
-- anti-Bush protest song
How apropos that the moonbats adopt the same tactics and doctrine as Osama bin Laden.
The tactics and doctrine of George W. Bush will defeat both: a sucker-punch will be answered by justice.
Is it Christmas in Cambodia yet?
By Anonymous, at 2:04 PM
them wacko lefties again. :) sucks to be stupid. ;)
I'm kinda impressed that the younger guy was smart enough to back down. With cops everywhere, he would have had no excuse to fight back cause he'd never prove he was in any real danger. I don't even think that guy connected.
Although, he was being kind of a smartass by standing behind him with bush signs. I like it. :)
I did notice how he dropped all his stuff to the ground, but STILL didn't raise his fists, just kinda waited for the other guy to move in. Smart move, if he had raised his fists, he would've got cuffed too, but he got rid of the stuff that would have slowed him down without looking aggressive. Even if the cop only saw part of it, he would have seen the bush guy back away, and the kerry guy persuing.
HOOAAH! :)
By Anonymous, at 2:12 PM
It might not be appropriate to say alot of democrats are idiots....but I think it is safe to say that alot of idiots are democrats!!!
By Anonymous, at 2:23 PM
The Bush supporter was not scared, if you look closely, he moved back, took off his backpack to give him sone freedom of movement, got some room and was ready to defend himself when the cop moved in.
The guy that punched him was the lucky one, that kid was ready to take him down. The stance and the reaction tells me that the kid knew exactly what he was doing, and that old man was in deep kaka had it been allowed to continue.
By Anonymous, at 2:45 PM
Folks who commented on here about the short & fat Kerry supporter "kicking the kids ass" prove the point that liberals really are delusional. The kid was ready to make a meal of that fool but stood down because the cop was there. I would have paid a lot of money (note - I have a lot because I'm a Republican) to see the next 30 seconds of the video without the cop being there to break it up.
By Anonymous, at 7:14 PM
The title of the article referred to above in Daily Herald in Everett is: "Throng vocal but well-behaved during visit."
Did anyone notice that part of the story?
By stourleyk, at 8:46 PM
Pause the video when you can see the front of baseball hat the punch thrower is wearing, theres an Iron cross on it
By Anonymous, at 9:43 PM
All of the Americans posting on this blog should learn to live and let live, and to try and find the common ground between all of us. You make it sound like we're headed for another civil war. Each accuses the other of hating while making it clear the feeling is mutual and pointing fingers in all directions.
All for one and one for all, remember that.....
both Bush and Kerry are trying to do what they think is right for America.
By Film Editor, at 12:12 AM
The bush fan started walking backwards & did not take his first foreward step until he saw the cop walk infront of him. That is not an iron cross. It is choppers logo (Motorcycles)
To the person that attacked democrats above while he or she justified killing a few innocent people to save others, you will burn in hell.
By Anonymous, at 3:47 AM
"I don't understand why one loose cannon reflects somehow on Kerry. We wouldn't blame it on G.W. if a supporter of his bombed an abortion clinic."
Nor would we blame KERRY if a lunatic liberal NUKED a grade school KILLING HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN as well as THOUSANDS OF HELPLESS ANIMALS in a nearby animal shelter as a SWIFT BOAD sped by in OBVIOUS PANIC trying to escape the carnage.
By Anonymous, at 10:05 AM
SWIFT BOAT of course ;)
He may have captained Swift Boads too, but I have no proof of that.
By Anonymous, at 10:08 AM
I think he just bypassed the UN...
By Anonymous, at 1:37 PM
Surely if a right wing terrorist bombs a stem cell lab, or kills a doctor, or kills a queer, or drags a black person behind a pickup truck till his death, or blows up a Federal building in Oklahoma it wouldn't accurately portray conservatives as a whole.
By Anonymous, at 5:28 PM
Had the kid not been punched he could have talked to a friend and gotten a gun. It is clear to everyone that left alone the kid was a clear and present threat and the only course of action was a unilateral preemptive face-punching. Besides, that kid totally looks French.
By Anonymous, at 5:33 PM
*yawn*
Looks to me like the kid deserved to get a beatdown.
That's like the Christian that goes onto the pagan board and does everything to rile up the crowd. Everyone knows that if you do it in real life someone's going to take a swing.
Whatever happened to "Don't do dumb things?"
By Anonymous, at 5:40 PM
Oh please. Trying to paint an entire party by the action of a few idiots. I had two Kerry bumper stickers ripped off my car just last week. Just because some asshole Republicans hate free speech doesn't mean I think the entire party thinks that. Grow up and get some common sense.
By Anonymous, at 5:41 PM
Oh, yes Anonymous, I understand about your bumper stickers. In Washington State a couple of weeks ago, a Kerry supporter had her car vandalized because she had Kerry/Edwards stickers on it.
Only, see, it turns out, she did it herself so she could claim those mean Republicans were being, well, mean.
By Hawk, at 10:55 PM
Why is it when someone posts in defense of this leftist they always post anonymously? Also, why do they bring up hate crimes in their defense (IE - crimes against minorites and that assbag McVeigh)?
By The Smoke Eater, at 7:38 AM
I live in Chicago where W supporters are quite rare. The other day I had a valet attendant start kicking my car and assault me because I had a W'04 sticker on my car. Well, there was no police officer there to help protect him and I taught him a lesson. When the police did show up, they locked his ass up.
Plus, I can't tell you the number of times I've been given the finger or cut off while driving.
The left has gone absolutely insane. It's quite scary.
By Johnny O, at 8:20 AM
Kudos to the Kerry supporter!! I wonder if that ass-fucked, inbred republican got the message? It's nice to know that WA isn't controlled by the bottom-feeding republican pond scum.
By Anonymous, at 9:00 AM
""Wow that Kerry supporter kicked the Bush supporter's ass. Did you see the Bush supporter step back in fear. He was scared and with good reason. Kerry is going to do to Bush what his supporter did to Bush's supporter. It is about time. Wake up you repubs, its a new day and the Democrats are on the move. Hold on to your seats, its going to be a bumpy ride.......HA""
your a fucking idiot, "fear" good one genious, he did what any smart man would do, wait until the police intervene. too bad that old fuck spend the night in jail while this kid slept comfty at home.
""Kudos to the Kerry supporter!! I wonder if that ass-fucked, inbred republican got the message? It's nice to know that WA isn't controlled by the bottom-feeding republican pond scum.""
*YAWN*, another kerry cocksucker, i hope your mother gets eaten by a hyena
By Anonymous, at 1:41 AM
http://ww2.7online.com/global/video/popup/pop_index.asp?ClipID1=247870&h1=Headline&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=111867&activePane=info&playerVersion=8&rnd=51992696
Watch this ABC news video of a young Republican supporter kicking a female protester inside Madison Square Garden as she was lying on the ground being held by three secret service agents. The protesters were arrested. The young Republican was not.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=25735
More thuggery.
"Also, why do they bring up hate crimes in their defense (IE - crimes against minorites and that assbag McVeigh)?"
Gee, maybe because all the examples referenced were perpetrated by conservative/right wing extremists that probably got a start being whipped into frenzies by right wing talk radio(clinton is going to take all your guns and eat your first born!). So much for all of your "SEE! DEMOKRATS ARE ALL STOOPUD AN' EVIL!" assertions. Grow the fuck up, you're being played the same way the rest of the country is. What the fuck happened to your party? Fiscal Conservatism? Small Government? States Rights? Non-Nation building? The only thing left is divisive social issues used to polarize the body politic(ie "queers gettin' hitched",black-druggie welfare queens[even though most recipients are white], iraq[you're with us or you're unamerican god hating scum], privacy, sanctity of our bill of rights and constitution). And don't give me that "it's different! remember 9/11! Everything we stood for goes out the window!" bull-shit. Nobody's forgotten, but it was an event, a lapse of security, it happened. We've had Presidents assassinated, senators gunned down, federal buildings levelled, and Olympics bombed, all here at home. Why were those attacks any different? You could argue body count but they may add up to or surpass that of 9/11 (how do you quantify the psychological effect of a President being assassinated). Here's why: they were for the most part carried out by 'one of us', white males. It wasn't done by "the others"(people with brown skin, the eternal boogie man). We wrote it off as a tragic but isolated incidents perpetrated by some lone kook. There was no big round up of right wing extremists, gun nuts or abortion martyrs, bunkered down in Idaho, Montana et al. This despite the fact that there wasand is a nice, clear trend and spate of right wing extremists carrying out such attacks and arming themselves, against the law, to the teeth for armageddon(McVeigh, Rudolph, Koresh[Clinton/Reno murdered them! they were God fearing maching gun owners! blah blah blah], Ruby Ridge). Most recently, the case of William Krar:
Friday, January 09, 2004
"One evening two winters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one envelope was a stack of fake documents, including U.N. and Defense Department identification cards, and a note: 'We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands.' "
"From that lucky break, federal officials believe they might have uncovered one of the most audacious domestic-terrorism plots since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Starting with a single piece of mail, investigators discovered an enormous cache of weapons in the East Texas town of Noonday, including the makings of a sophisticated sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands.
"Three people — William Krar, a small-time arms dealer with connections to white supremacists; Krar's common-law wife, Judith L. Bruey; and Edward S. Feltus, the man who was supposed to have received the forged documents — pleaded guilty in the case in November. They are being held in a Tyler, Texas, detention facility and are scheduled to appear before a federal judge for sentencing next month."
"Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control."
Didn't hear alot about this? Most people I know didn't, I did because I stay fairly abreast of current affairs as do many of you, so many of you probably have read something about it. But most people never even heard pieces of this story let alone the whole thing. Why no Ashcroft+Mueller+Ridge Press Confrence telling us to be on the lookout for exploding brief cases and angry, white, small government types? Because it doesn't fit the profile of "us vs. them", "good vs. evil." I'll cut the bullshit, I've got left leaning tendancies and right leaning tendancies, I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal and an ardent supporter of states rights in cases where they don't encroach on civil liberties. I've got a healthy mix in me and get my news from a myriad of sources left and right(drudgereport being one of my primary ones). What I'm seeing though is the burning of the Reichstag. Wake up! Will you be happy with all thes expanded domestic spying powers and the "Constitution Lite" when Hillary is President? Or Kerry should he win? Both candidates, on the surface are kind of sucky, I think we can all admit that and if you're really going to sit here and pretend like Bush isn't just as guilty as "flip-flopping" as any other politician or that he somehow is making us all kinds of safer by fulfilling to the letter the stereotyping of our country as an oil hungry, arab hating bunch of bullies, well then just go scream "YOU HATE AMERIKA YOU COMMIE" into your pillow and spare the rest of us interested in real discourse. Because some muslims might get pissed off if we absolutely have to invade an oil-rich arab country for our national security, should we think of their opinions first? No, of course not, but unless this is the tip of a campaign to invade syria, iran, north korea, lebanon, palestine, pakistan, saudi arabia, yemen, qatar, kuwait, alot of africa, chechnya etc, then I'd say a better approach is to deal with the root issues of Jihad, not give those fundamentalists a gift wrapped recruiting tool. Here's a good example of misplaced priorities as a result of this war: the entire 2005 FBI budget is 1/3 of the reconstruction contracts Halliburton recieved. Imagine if we had never invaded Iraq, if we had spent the ENTIRE contract ammount on bolstering/restructuring intelligence, and hell the rest of the money outside of that example of private sector spending on this mess, at home, where we need it. We've got some major fiscal issues facing us guys, that are coming hard and fast. Yes security is important, but can we achieve it through the muscled exportation of democracy in regions with a history of serious conflict and ethnic/religious tension? No, and we couldn't do it in Vietnam and look what happened, communism spread throughout the world eventually enveloping even us. Er, wait, that's not what happened...
Our country is being torn apart, Bush ran on being a uniter, not a divider, and that's the one campaign promise he's kept, uniting the country against itself(almost evenly). Stop being stupid cheerleaders for christ's sakes. All of us were scared by 9/11 but life goes on, and when you make decisions out of fear, you usually wind up making poor ones. The only reason McVeigh didn't fly a jet into a much larger federal building than the one he blew up: he didn't think of it! Had that happened though, would it have made much sense to go around looking suspicously at right leaning white males who were in favor of less gun laws and less government intrusion? No, not only for the logistical problems with profiling such a large swath of our country, but because his actions DO NOT REPRESENT THE ACTIONS OF THE WHOLE. All muslims do(er, did) not hate us. Sure they don't like our unilateral support for pro-zionist positions in the Israeli-Palestenian conflict(the declared reason for 9/11, not "hatred for our freedom" as our Pres. likes to say). Yes, they are living in often opressive, intolerant and unstable countries with strong anti-western sentiment as a result of still recovering from meddling by imperialist superpowers attempting to acquire(steal) resources from them or use them as a pawn in a struggle with their enemies(afghanistan->USSR; Iraq->Iran). It almost never pays off when we try and "install" government, it usually bites us in the ass later.
By Anonymous, at 11:35 PM
You want to throw some gas on the fire? How about this?
That kid was merely expressing a contrary politcal opinion. In this country we have that right. The union thug's violent reaction is reminiscent of Bolshevik thuggery. And if that doesn't burn your bacon how about suggesting that it's reminiscent of National Socialist thuggery? Are you spinning out of control yet?
That kid was more brave than the union thug, by the way. He was expressing his opinion in an unfriendly forum, knowing it was unfriendly.
So you want to blast Bush's policies? Okay, you're not entirely wrong on some things there. You want to attack contemporary conservatives IN OFFICE, again no problem. We agree on some things there. But it does NOT change the fact that the old guy physically attacked the young guy because he didn't like the young guy's politics.
Leftists, et al, like to talk about how fascists suppress opposing opinions through violence. So who's the fascist in that clip?
By Brodie, at 9:25 PM
It is way past time to eliminate compulsory union membership and to toss any union officials who illegally divert dues to political purposes so far in jail they have to get sunshine from postcards. The arrogance of compulsory unions is not appropriate in a free nation.
Walter E. Wallis
Palo Alto, CA
By Anonymous, at 6:59 PM
A similar thing happened in Gainesville Florida about a week ago. The local head of the Republican party was at the local office and a left wing nut took a buss from where ever he was, downtown and attacked the head person. he also trashed a lifesized standup picture of bush. The Republican guy was hurt a fair amount too.
Call the local talk radio to get details. WSKY 97.3 FM radio.
By Anonymous, at 9:13 AM
Yeah, I don't condone it from anybody but you must live in a very liberal area if you have missed out on the violence from Bushies. I know people who have had their houses and cars vandalized because they had a Kerry sign/sticker out.
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Okay, I live in THE MOST conservative state in the US(Utah), and I have yet to see anyone's property or person violated because of a sign or bumbper sticker they may have supporting the left. However every year we have problems with the Democrats taking down Republicans signs all the time. The Republicans won't even put up signs until a few weeks before the elections.
By Anonymous, at 9:14 PM
I NEVER see Bush-Cheney signs around here that stay up. People tear them down all the time. And this summer a bunch of rowdy Dems elbowed some Republican students upside the head just for wearing Bush-Cheney T-shirts and kicked them too. Why are we all so violent? I swear this whole election is dividing us terribly and the division is getting to be America's new obsession.
By beejay, at 11:55 AM
I recently attended a Republican debate party where about seventy people gathered to watch the debate on a big screen TV and cheer the President. We rented a conference room in a downtown hotel in Charleston, WV.
A Kerry supporter was sitting in the lobby with a full-size cut-out of the President and rigged it so that the President was holding a Kerry/Edwards sign.
Of course, everyone ignored the guy, but that didn't make him happy. He went over to an old lady that had to be 85 or older, who was using a walker, pushed her and started yelling and cussing her out.
The police was called and the guy was arrested. Needless to say, the poor old lady was shaken for quite a while. She just sat down and sobbed while some of the staff and hotel management tried to comfort her.
This just shows the caliber of the Kerry supporters and their complete lack of integrity.
By Anonymous, at 9:08 AM
I find it very interesting (but not surpising) that liberals support free speech as long as it is their own speech. When a conservative syas something contrary to a liberal's mantra, they lashis person did here. I can never debate a liberal because they do not accept logic and when confronted with the truth often resort to violence or cussing--probably due in part to the fact that they cannot articulate their thoughts and are used to people doing things for them. But go ahead and vote for Kerry. I was in Massachusetts for the first 25 years of my life and Kerry is yet to accomplish more than naming a building.
By jlang, at 7:11 PM
I find it very interesting (but not surpising) that liberals support free speech as long as it is their own speech. When a conservative says something contrary to a liberal's mantra, they lash out as this person did here. You cannot debate with a liberal because they do not accept logic and when confronted with the truth often resort to violence or cussing--probably due in part to the fact that they cannot articulate their own thoughts and are used to people doing things for them.
By jlang, at 7:12 PM
The really interesting thing about this clip, I think, is that the attacker kept holding onto his sign. Did he think he was going to whack the kid a few times and then turn around and keep rallying for Kerry? Even after the cop appears, he's still clutching his sign.
I'm guessing he's so delusional (as many ultra-lefties are) that even when the copy showed up, he thought it would still be cool and he could just turn around and hold up his sign again like he did nothing wrong.
By Anonymous, at 7:15 AM
LOL!!!!! That was hilarious! You can tell that the REDNECK was talking trash and he got POPPED in the face. Seems like a perfectly normal reaction to me. You have the right to your opinion, but if you're asking for it....you're asking for it.
By Anonymous, at 4:21 PM
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