And Lefties Claim Conservatives Poison Debate?
From
the February 5th Washington Post:
A visit former U.S. President George W. Bush planned to make to Switzerland next week has been canceled because of security concerns, after left-wing groups called for mass protests and rights activists proposed legal action against him for allegedly ordering the torture of terrorism suspects.
Bush's spokesman David Sherzer said the two-term president was informed Friday by the United Israel Appeal that his Feb. 12 dinner speech in Geneva had been called off.
"We regret that the speech has been canceled," Sherzer told The Associated Press in an e-mail Saturday. "President Bush was looking forward to speaking about freedom and offering reflections from his time in office."
Saturday's edition of Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve quoted the Jewish charity's lawyer, Robert Equey, as saying the visit was canceled because of the risk that protests by left-wing groups could result in violence.
"The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous terrain," Equey told the newspaper. "The organizers claimed to be able to maintain order, but warned they could not be held responsible for any outbursts."
Protest organizers had called for participants to each bring a shoe to the rally outside the lakeside Hotel Wilson -- named after Bush's predecessor Woodrow Wilson -- where the dinner was to be held. The shoe was meant to recall the moment an Iraqi journalist threw his footwear at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008.
See also the February 5th Denver Post:
Saying it received an "onslaught of personal attacks," a Colorado nonprofit announced in a news release today that it was canceling a scheduled May appearance in Glendale by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Palin, the former Alaskan governor and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, was to be the keynote speaker at the May 2 Patriots & Warriors Gala at the Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale.
The event, sponsored by the Sharon K. Pacheco Foundation, was announced to the media on Friday. The group said today the event had been canceled because of "safety concerns resulting from an onslaught of negative feedback received by the organization."
"Due to an onslaught of personal attacks against Gov. Palin and others associated with her appearance, it is with deep sadness and disappointment that, in the best interest of all, we cancel the event for safety concerns," according to the news release.
These days,
lefties are more likely to be lunatics than conservatives.
3 comments:
> These days, lefties are more likely to be lunatics than conservatives.
What's with the "these days" sh**, kemosabe?
For a very long time, the "reality based community" has been denying the very existence of any kind of fact-based existence... how can they possibly connect to any objective notion of reality?
psy·cho·sis
n. pl. psy·cho·ses (-sz)
A severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage,
characterized by derangement of personality and loss of
contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal
social functioning.
When your entire mindset is devoted to the destruction of the very notion of "objective reality" and all its rational underpinnings -- something at the very heart of Postmodern Liberalism -- it's no surprise the net long-term effect is sheer, unmitigated lunacy.
q.v. -- I just saw a bumper sticker the other day, with Obama's "Pepsi" logo in place of the "O"s:
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He Won.
Get Over It.
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No sh**. I've got photos.
...This from the group that refused to accept Bush as PotUS even AFTER he won re-election.
One of Bush's regrets while in office is mentioned in his book "Decision Points."
When that Iraqi journalist threw the shoe at him, he claims he should have and could have caught it.
That would have made a great image.
It's amazing, isn't it, that the LeftWing Loonies (so SINGLE-MINDEDLY INSISTENT that everyone else be tolerant and inclusive) somehow can't bring themselves to act like adults and do the same.
Essentially, it seems their game is the four-year-old's "I get to boss you around but don't you dare tell ME what to do -- you're not the boss of me!" (--stomping foot and flouncing out of the room)
It would be wryly amusing, except that some of their less-stable followers DO have access to guns...
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