OBAMA FLASHBACK: 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'...

Obamas Political Discourse Tone: If They Bring A Knife To The Fight, We Bring A Gun
Wall Street Journal: Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight? That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia Fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” The comment drew some laughs and appl

Obama Flashback: 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'...
Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight? That's exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said at a Philadelphia Fundraiser Friday night. "Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles fans." You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, exces...

Reminder: Obama Told Supporters, If They Bring a Knife, We Bring a Gun
(June 14, 2008- WSJ)- Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight? That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia Fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” Click here to ca...

Your Opinions
On Saturday, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was targeted and shot in the head during a mass meeting with voters. During the contentious Elections last fall, her opponent, Jesse Kelly, held fund-raisers where he urged supporters to help remove Giffords from office by joining him to shoot a fully loaded M-16 rifle (Page 1A, Jan. 9). Hate Speech proclaimed by politicians and political pundits riles up the violent to violence. Those politicians and pundits can't escape charges of complicity. Ther...

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, films critical of the president would be killed. And they
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR John McCain, films critical of the president would be killed. And they were right! ...

Remainders: Reprieve
In this artist rendering, Jared Lee Loughner makes his first court appearance at the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse in Phoenix, Ariz., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Loughner appeared in Federal Court on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a shooting rampage that left six people dead. (AP Photo/Bill Robles) Obama gets a reprieve, and a success, on Iran. Former American official begs to differ on "brave" Lebanese newspaper. Controversial Israeli developer ...

It's time to cool the rhetoric
Saturday's shootings in Tucson, in which six people were killed, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and nine-year-old Christina Green, and 14 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), tells us that we desperately need to cool down an overheated atmosphere of violent and hateful political Rhetoric. Contentious political issues bring out strong feelings on all sides, but civilized people in a Democracy can disagree about things without resorting to threats of violence or d...

Analysis: Giffords shooting cools rhetoric, but for how long? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
By Beth Reinhard National Journal We've been here before. An unthinkable, terrible tragedy occurs: the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center attacks, and on Saturday, a murderous rampage aimed at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. — and rounds of recrimination follow. Something is wrong. Political discourse is raging out of control. We have got to tone it down. "It should be a moment. It's a moment for both parties in Congress to come together,'' the often combative Rep. Debbie Wasserm...

Ignatieff hits the road to visit rival MPs’ turf
Last updated Sunday, Jan. 09, 2011 8:41PM EST Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is hitting the road again this week on what’s being billed as the “20/11 tour” – a sprint through 20 ridings in 11 days. But where his summer and fall cross-country excursions were intended to reassure and re-engage Liberals, Mr. Ignatieff will use the winter outing to take direct aim at vulnerable rival MPs. Should the opposition vote down the next Conservative Budget, expected in March, to fo...

Ex-Tory donor Wheeler joins UKIP
The wealthy former Conservative Party Donor Stuart Wheeler has joined the UK Independence Party as its treasurer. The spread-betting tycoon, who gave the Tories £5m in a single donation in 2001, was expelled from the party in 2009 after donating £100,000 to UKIP. He unsuccessfully ran for Parliament last year, after setting up his own "anti-corruption" party. The announcement of Mr Wheeler's decision to join UKIP as treasurer was made at a Press Conference in Oldham East...

This Week in Congress
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Leader Cantor Statement on the Legislative Schedule for the Week of January 10th WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued the following statement regarding the legislative schedule for the House of Representatives during the upcoming week: "In consultation with the Speaker and the Democratic Leadership, I have postponed all previously-scheduled Legislation for the coming week to accommodate any ac...

This Week in Congress
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Leader Cantor Statement on the Legislative Schedule for the Week of January 10th WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued the following statement regarding the legislative schedule for the House of Representatives during the upcoming week: "In consultation with the Speaker and the Democratic Leadership, I have postponed all previously-scheduled Legislation for the coming week to accommodate any ac...

Bachmann Ponies Up For Iowa Candidates
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) grabbed headlines and plenty of attention earlier this month when news broke that she will be speaking at a Fundraiser in Iowa at the end of January. And the Republican added fuel to the 2012 speculation when people close to her told ABC News that she is considering a run for president. There appears to be more to Bachmann's dabbling in Iowa politics than just the fundraiser. According to her PAC's post-general election FEC report, Bachmann gave more money t...

RNC Race Focusing On Finances
The voting members of the Republican National Committee are spending the final week before electing a chairman on Friday debating each Candidate's Fundraising prowess, a recognition that the next national party chairman will have to spend most of his or her time dialing for dollars and rebuilding a cash-poor committee. And the conversation is turning nasty. Each Candidate's supporters are delving into rivals' Fundraising performance in hopes of dredging up material that would raise doubts in vot...

Fox News abruptly cuts away from Tucson vigil after mourner mentions Sarah Palin
© Fox News The Fox News Channel abruptly cut to commercial after a mourner attending a Tuscon, Arizona vigil for those killed in Saturday's shootings mentioned Fox employee Sarah Palin as one of the culprits behind a rising tide of violent Rhetoric in US politics and media. As they awaited the beginning of a Pima County Sheriff's Department Press Conference, Fox News host Shep Smith cued a live video from the vigil for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who sustained a bullet wound to the h...

On Violent Metaphors
Paul Krugman in today's NY Times: The point is that there’s room in a Democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist Rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary. And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence. Where

Barry's Angry Words
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, overseeing the investigation the Tucson shootings that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a coma and Federal Judge John Roll and five others dead, wasted little time in blaming heated political Rhetoric for the crime. Shortly after the first reports of the shootings, Dupnick said, "The anger, the hatred, the Bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous, and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital," adding "We have become...

Christianity and Gun Control
In the wake of the horrific massacre in Arizona Saturday, there are calls to renew restrictions, some of which lapsed when Congress permitted the federal assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, on certain types of weaponry, particularly the high-capacity magazine used by the Arizona shooter. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), whose husband was murdered in a 1993 rampage on the Long Island Railroad, plans to introduce a measure in the House, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in the Senate. The General B...

Buchanan wont stop public events
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, said Saturday’s shooting in Arizona won’t stop him from holding public events like the one U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding when she was shot. Buchanan on Monday night went ahead with a planned open house for his new offices in Sarasota. More than 300 people attended the event at 111 S. Orange Ave, in Sarasota. Buchanan said he won’t be intimidated because of one isolated event. “I don’t see ch...

How safe are we during an election year?
During the mid-term Elections so very many active Conservatives helped candidtes with their runs for office. There were picnics, town hall meetings, and all types of events attended by hundreds at a time. How safe were we? After the Arizona shootings I am not at all sure our elected officials might need to look both ways leaving their homes. We attended an event in a Pikesville shopping center for Bob Ehrlich just before the election. A crazed gunman could have easily taken him and everyone ther...

Mayhem in Tucson III: The Truth about Jared Loughner
   “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”  Those words were not spoken by alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner nor by Sarah Palin nor by Glenn Beck but by Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama at a town hall meeting at Radnor Middle School in Wayne, PA on June 14, 2008:  “That’s exactly...

Chris Matthews Grills Tea Party Leader: Why Would Someone Bring A Gun To A Political Rally?
Chris Matthews talked to Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips today, and grilled him on Second Amendment issues and the "history of violence" in America. Referencing the fondness of tea partiers for bringing guns to political rallies, Matthews asked: "Why are guns talked about so much, especially on the right?" Phillips replied that "guns are talked about on both sides of the political spectrum," and "liberals talk about it all the time. Usually in terms of taking the right to Bear Arms aw...

We Can Not Fear Free and Open Debate
My family and I were shocked and saddened when we learned of the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, her staff and constituents. Gabrielle is a hard worker, a talented legislator and a genuinely dear person. She is universally liked in the House and every member who served with her feels deeply for her, her family and all those involved. We are praying for her recovery, the recovery of all those injured and comfort for the families of the fallen. This attack was an unspeakable act of violence a...

Hold bad political actors accountable (Politico)
Every Sunday morning starts the same way: I go to Starbucks, pick up The New York Times and dive in. Every Sunday morning, that is, except for the one that just passed. When I went to the Coffee Shop, I passed the newspaper rack without a glance. I simply couldn’t bear to look. The day before, my wife, Susan, had rushed into our apartment, shaking and with both fists clenched. Through tears, she told me about the shootings at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s meeting at a Parking Lot in Tu...

A Responsible Democracy in America (Guest Voice)
A Responsible Democracy in America by Martha Randolph Carr U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, 63 was one of six people who have died as a result of the shooting Saturday at a Tucson, AZ Safeway Grocery Store. Fourteen others were wounded with eight still hospitalized and one is reported to be in critical condition. Roll had stopped by to shake Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ hand at her down home meet and greet for constituents. Roll lived nearby and was said to have read about the scheduled appeara...