You just stick out your finger, wag it, and tell others how to live their lives.

now the congressional clunkers are ignorant. And here I thought they were just dumb and not capable of critical thinking.

The lessons of August are many indeed.

Right, no guns at any anti-Bush rallies.  How about making a movie in 2006 depicting the assassination of George W. Bush, Joe and Rick?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/

Left is spelled h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e.

so i take it it's acceptable for random people to bring weapons into a politcal event then?

What??? A writer for a national magazine claiming that US citizens who engage their congresspeople in actual face to face dialogue are participating in a "celebration of ignorance"???

How can this happen? Where does this come from?

Oh. It's Time Magazine and Joe Klein.

Never mind.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Well, it seems to me, with the Town Hall attendees knowing more about the health care bills being offered than both their representatives and the mainstream media combined, Confronting Ignorance and Misinformation might be a better description!

metaphorsbwithu

Scaring the elderly????

Holy Cow!!  Liberals wrote the book on scaring the elderly:

Republicans don't want you to have health care.

Republicans don't care if you have to choose between food and medicine!

Republicans want to take away your Social Security!

Republicans want to do away with Medicare!

(But it's OK that President Obama says he wants to do away with Medicare supplement plans!)

This has been going on for years!!

Now, all of a sudden, they are concerned about "scaring the elderly." 

Give me a break!!

Rick Sanchez knows better than most that an automobile in the hands of a drunk man is a deadly weapon...and he is still driving.

The whole intent of the 2nd Ammendment to the Constitution was to give the population a way to defend themselves against a government that would try to take away freedoms and act against the populace at large. Perhaps a few public showings of AR-15s, 12 GA Riot guns, and similar armaments will make an impression on our ELECTED officials. It appears that the time is coming nearer that more forcefull shows will be necessary. Sad.

There should be a First Amendment requirement that cnn and msnbc talking head dolts respect the Second Amendmen, even though they fear it and hate it. 

Kind of like a Bill of Rights "Fairness Doctrine".

Well Joe Klein is certainly an expert where ignorance is concerned and the celebration of ignorance remark certainly shows his ignorance.

I don't get why people would take guns to a protest where the president will be. Seems like carrying gasoline to a bonfire. 

Yeah, I hate having to use the word ignorant and sound like a crybaby. Remember the South Park episode where Michael Jackson keeps claiming "Oh no, that's ignorant" so many times you just wanted to punch him in the face? (May he rest in heavenly peace, thank you very much.) In some cases, the truth requires use of the word ignorant, and the truth is that these people are ignorant and know nothing about what the healthcare bill says. Just go to Phil Hendrie's Twitter account (http://twitter.com/realphilhendrie) and you'll find a pdf copy of the complete healthcare bill word for word. And don't say that it's too long because that's crybaby talk. If you can read a Harry Potter novel in two-to-three days, then you can sure as hell read a 1,000 page healthcare bill. Just imagine it as the eight Harry Potter novel, like say Harry Potter and the Horcrux of Healthcare, and it shall be a snap.

These protesters are not getting anything done by at least backing up what they say with certain previsions of the healthcare bill, previsions on which they disagree and have a problem with. I had a more useful experience going to the Depeche Mode concert at the Hollywood Bowl last night than I probably would have at one of these protests, that's for sure.

"We’ve seen- you know, the celebration of ignorance and misinformation in this health care battle...But there are an awful lot of angry people out there, and most of them, I got to say, are misinformed.”

Why are the people attending these townhalls "ignorant" and "misinformed", Mr. Klein? Because they have the temerity to disagree with Obama, you and the rest of your libnut comrades?? Typical unhinged libs...If you find fault with or disagree with their views/opinions, you're ignorant, uneducated, intolerant, misguided, hate-filled, misinformed and/or uninformed. 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Be nice to these people-they are representative of our new masters.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

The accusations the left are throwing aren't sticking.  Public isn't in his favor.  

 Obama's base has given him a lukewarm response to his socialized medicine plan.  Obama is out of touch with everyone.

1) Economy is bad.  People are worrying about their jobs.  They aren't really worrying about a potential medical catastrophe they may personally face when they are just trying to get by.  General public has other things on their minds.  Government run healthcare doesn't help them keep their house, put food on the table, pay their car, or makes it easier to find a jon at this exact time.

 2) Democrat power base can afford private healthcare or already receives it.  The people who fund the democratic party probably don't need the public option.  Union folk have benefits.  Billionaires like Soros can afford the best care in the world. The wealthy celebrities and Hollywod producers pay for their plastic surgery out of their own pocket.

3) seniors and the disabled already have medicaire 

4) many of the poorest of the poor already have Medicaid

 Who really "needs" this plan?  Who is this plan for?  Nothing in it for people Obama already "owns."

It's easy. All you have to do is abuse it.

The idea that some people think it's acceptable for private citizens to bring weapons to a presidential event is sheer idiocy. We can quibble here over the technical meaning of the phrase "assault rifle", but the fact is that an AR-15 can easily be modified into an automatic fire weapon, i.e. an assault weapon. In this day and age, the technicality is a farce. Seers can be filed down or replaced. But this is just a diversion from the real issue.

In a country where no less than four presidents have been assassinated, one would think that responsible citizens would have some intelligent sensibilities about the issue that would cause them to reconsider bringing any kind of weapon at all to a public meeting with the president, especially when that meeting concerns health care reform. 

Bringing these weapons to this event was just plain stupid. If you're a genuine gun enthusiast or hunter, you should be furious with these morons for making people who share your interest look like lunatics. There is already enough public sentiment against gun ownership in this country.  As a veteran and a person who wants to preserve the right own rifles and pistol designed for hunting and/or target shooting or simple collecting, I think the irresponsible behavior of these people endangers the right to own those things.

In my view, there is no rationale that can justify a private citizen owning, and especially brandishing, an assault weapon-- or any weapon which can easily be modified into an automatic-fire weapon. These weapons were designed and manufactured for the single purpose of killing human beings on a mass scale, so the hunting and target shooting arguments are disingenuous to say the least.  Those who feel the need to possess them are operating on too much testosterone and not enough common sense.

The attitude toward President Obama on this website is less than subtle. That vitriole and hatred has bent some of your thinking to the degree that you actually think the behavior of these people was not only appropriate, but that it should be defended.  This unreasonableness, of course, makes all of your other opinions appear even less credible and driven by something other than political differences.

If you want to have a right taken away from you, just abuse that right and make it look like it is a potentially dangerous activity.  

                     Exercising one's rights is terrifying to liberals. I guess they would rather kill babies with abortions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

"There should be like a Second Amendment equivalent of the First Amendment- shouting fire in a crowded theater.”

Yes, Joe--but what if the theater is on fire? 

"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge

What would be the status of the health care bill if the grouchy old seniors had not protested????