{"id":20534,"date":"2013-09-27T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20534"},"modified":"2013-09-27T07:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T11:58:24","slug":"id-be-more-inclined-to-listen-if-you-practiced-what-you-preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20534","title":{"rendered":"I’d Be More Inclined To Listen If You Practiced What You Preach"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The New York Times<\/a> January 12, 2011:<\/p>\n

It was one of the more powerful addresses that Mr. Obama<\/a> has delivered as president, harnessing the emotion generated by the shock and loss from Saturday\u2019s shootings to urge Americans<\/a> \u201cto expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully\u201d and to \u201cremind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cIf, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse,\u201d Mr. Obama said, \u201clet us remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy \u2014 it did not \u2014 but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Washington Times<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n

Senior White House<\/a> adviser Dan Pfeiffer<\/a> on Thursday compared Republican lawmakers to suicide bombers as the showdown over a possible government shutdown intensified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are for cutting spending, we are for reforming our tax code, we are for reforming entitlements,\u201d Mr. Pfeiffer<\/a> told CNN<\/a>\u2019s Jake Tapper<\/a>. \u201cBut what we are not for is negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Pfeiffer<\/a>, 37, who was hospitalized twice this month for stroke-like symptoms, also compared the GOP<\/a> to arsonists and kidnappers. He called Republicans\u2019 bid to attach other priorities to a debt-ceiling bill \u201cransom demands.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Nuff said.<\/p>\n

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