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Time to stop the hate rhetoric after Gabrielle Giffords shooting

Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 03:39 PM
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Congreswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a "very wonderful perky young woman, very popular in Arizona, a wonderful woman" is how Congressman Jerry Nadler described his friend.

Giffords is a Jewish American. Her husband Mark Kelly the astronaut was named in Irish America magazine's Top 100 last year.She told Dana Bash of CNN that she had attended midnight mass at the Vatican this Christmas after flying to Rome.

Rhetoric in Arizona has been very violent in the past few months. It has been sad to witness the type of naked threats and inflammatory laws that have been passed in that benighted state.

Governor Brewer has invented anti immigrant stories such as headless bodies found that were later discredited. Now she is cutting off people who need transplants to stay alive. No wonder her state is so politically highly charged

Gabrielle Giffords was threatened last year and her office was shot at. The above report is an anti Giffords tape from the Tea Party. If it transpires that Giffords was a victim of a hate crime from a deranged political opponent then it surely the moment when American must stop, take a deep breath and draw back from the poisoned political rhetoric that has plagued our politics.

Congresswoman Giffords, like so many other politicians is an easy target.Very few politicians have their own security. This may be a very sad day for America if it means that politicians can no longer be accessible to voters.

Perhaps it is time for Senator John McCain, her Arizona colleague, to show the way here and seek to end the partisan bitterness that has become such an unfortunate part of American politics


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maloney | Jan 22, 2011, 09:24 AM EST
Trexnine..How can one person be so wrong & so right at the same time? Your so far left you make Grayson look civilized. Who were you before you changed your name to rexnine?

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rexnine | Jan 22, 2011, 02:25 AM EST
Borefield..are you really so stupid you think Patrick Roberts is Left-Leaning? Every time he's forced to acknowledge the left, he apologizes. .Now you just look Stupid, Borefield.

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rexnine | Jan 22, 2011, 12:40 AM EST
I live in AZ, And as a hunter, and a Qualified Expert military marksman, and a Christian, I can tell you that there's no hope for Arizona. Not until there's enough democratic representation to offset the tyrannical hold the republican party has here. I live in Jeff Flakes District..and here we have 20 percent of the population living with no health care. And nearly 20 percent unemployment. And one of the good ones got shot here trying to do the right thing for Arizonans. It's a Shame. Yet you will not hear Any republican from Arizona admit that the vitriol rhetoric, or the lax gun laws may have played even the most minuscule role in the shooting?? Give us good citizens a break ! McCain, Kyle, Flake, and all the republicans here in my home state have Blood on their hands, Period!

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desertliving | Jan 22, 2011, 12:36 AM EST
peterson, most people do agree with AZ's laws INCLUDING the gun laws. In fact, AZ is ranked #49 for crime ratio and New Hap is #51 (including Wash DC)Look it up on dept of justice site. Most American, (3 out of 4) agree people should own guns for SELF DEFENSE. Both states have carry conceal laws without a license needed. Besides, who can purchase firearms is a FEDERAL law, not state. I respect what your trying to say but get your facts a bit straighter.

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peterson | Jan 20, 2011, 08:27 PM EST
Most U.S. citizens agree with Arizona's Laws except for their recent Gun Law. They should be more careful about who can purchase fire arms.

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seanomelbourne | Jan 15, 2011, 05:07 PM EST
You love arguing with yourself Maloney.

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yakimak | Jan 14, 2011, 01:28 PM EST
As regards a certain idea mongers remarks of a couple of pages back whose name I don't want to even remember. Yes I agree with him that the Iberian Catholic conquest of Latin America was just as wrong as the Anglo -Saxon Protestant one was in the North American continent with the consequent enslavement and exterpations of the native inhabitants. The fundamental differance being that in the Amglo-Saxon Protestant part of the Continent that became the United States for some reason or other we developed a Mind Writ that gave us the illussion that we had some sort of a right to go invading other nations to preserve liberty or democracy.Curiously a number of those nations we invaded either had oil fields in them or oil pipelines thru them. The The Iberian Catholic nations south of the Rio Grande did not develop this illussion after their land stealth.

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borefield | Jan 14, 2011, 09:46 AM EST
Let the Call for "Rehtoric and Hate Talk to Stop". Let it begin with Patrick Roberts and his leftist followers. What he writes is baseless and irresponsible. Patrick and his leftist clientel are so enraged by the results of the last election they just couldn't exercise a smidge of restraint or dignity. They used this tragedy to put out their hate agenda ASAP. The NY Times, without any facts put forth their vitriol within 2 hours of this awful tragedy. They then point fingers about retoric. The deranged young man that caused this had nothing to do with despicable politics. Patrick writes nothing of interest,just self serving trash. He is no asset to Irish Central.

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maloney | Jan 14, 2011, 09:28 AM EST
McNamara..I try not to think when possible. I've seen what it's done to all you poor lame arse liberals.

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maloney | Jan 14, 2011, 09:17 AM EST
seano...as likable a fellow that you are, you worry me with your infatuation with grunting pigs. Don't the Aussies have laws against beastiality? How do you find time between the roos & the oinkers? By the way moneybags Brazil wants you to pony up. They say their problems are worse than yours. The next thing you know you'll be tellin us America doesn't send more disaster aid worldwide than any other country.

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seanomelbourne | Jan 13, 2011, 04:45 PM EST
Maloney Aussies gave generously to New Orleans relief,we also sent emergency service crews to California when the state was burning.You have shown your true colors of meanness and narrow mindness.Well I suppose all you can expect from a pig is a grunt.

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seanomelbourne | Jan 13, 2011, 04:39 PM EST
No need for him to panic Mman,give me his number I'll set him straight.

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eiriamach | Jan 13, 2011, 01:55 PM EST
People are revisiting a one-minute video titled "Nancy Pelosi Desperately Attempts to Squeeze Out Some Crocodile Tears," posted on You Tube by a Pelosi critic in Sept. 2009. The title is ironic now since Pelosi's words have proved prophetic. (And likely her "misting up" was genuine too, as she recalled the assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978.) She says, "I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco, this kind of rhetoric. . . . It created a climate in which violence took place. . . . I wish we would all curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statements may assume."

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Monsoonman | Jan 13, 2011, 01:53 PM EST
Lad: I have been watching the "biblical proportion floods" in Oz, on the telly. A friend who lives there just contacted me by shortwave and said it has been raining heavily for three days now. His wife has done nothing but stare through the window. If it doesn't stop soon he will probably have to let her in.

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McNamara31 | Jan 13, 2011, 12:20 PM EST
Maloney....To make jokes out of the misfortunes of other, like the mass flooding in Australia...is a bit sick...don't you think?

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