Tea Party 1, President Obama 0
Barack Obama held a campaign event town hall meeting Monday night in Iowa (coincidentally the site of the Iowa Straw Poll) where he came face to face with the type of criticism Mr. Hopenchange largely avoided during his 2008 coronation campaign:
Ryan Rhodes, a leader of the group in Iowa, took on Obama during an open-air town hall meeting, which marked a moment of new intensity in the president's campaign for a second term.
Rhodes shouted out that the president's calls for more civility in politics had little chance of coming to pass after "your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a 'terrorist.'"
We can't help but be reminded of the countless calls fro civility from the left in this country immediately follwoing the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabriele Giffords this January. of course, these declarative statements were in sharp contrast to this comment from President Civility himself:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
Are we the only ones who remember Barack Obama's promises to be the first post-partisan president?
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