Can a fucking CONGRESSMAN get away with calling the President "A Low-Level, Socialist Agitator?"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The whole "What can this douchebag say about a sitting President during a time of war" thing...you know?

Video from Fox's Greta Von Xenu Comedy Hour.

Allen West: Obama 'A Low-Level Socialist Agitator' (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/allen-west-obama-socialist_n_852668.html



Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) stood by eyebrow-raising remarks he recently made about President Barack Obama during an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Thursday night.

Speaking recently on "The Laura Ingraham Show," West asserted that the president demonstrated "third world dictator-like arrogance" in delivering a speech on the federal budget and government spending.

"I do stand by those words," said the conservative congressman, who was elected into office last November with support from the Tea Party movement. "The truth needs to be said."

"I am sick and tired of this class warfare, this Marxist, demagogic rhetoric that is coming from the President of the United States of America," West explained. "It is not helpful for this country and it's not going to move the ball forward as far as rectifying the economic situation in our country. And I'm not going to back away from telling what the truth is."

[bbinacan]

1. What do you propose be done?

Throw him in jail? Put him in the stocks? Tar and feather?:eyes:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Ask yourself what would have happened if something similar had been said about Bush.

My guess is that the wheels would have come off the world.

[Ter]

29. Nothing would have happened if it were said again Bush

They would have demanded an apology, but no one would have been jailed or impeached.

[golfguru]

35. Bush was called AWOL, 911 insider, idiot, chimpy, drunkard,

etc etc. That is just politics. In one ear out the other.
I would just ignore congressman West. Don't make him a hero
by giving him attention.

[Chakab]

36. He wasn't called any of those things

by sitting Congressmen.

[golfguru]

42. Congressman Weiner

called him at least one of those...is what I can recall.

[SusanaMontana41]

43. No problem with any of those. Bush was all of those things. n/t

[cliffordu]

33. Someone needs to kick his fucking ass.

[Turbineguy]

2. Standard Fox News

clap trap. He has to overstate his case to get all the crackers to tolerate him.

[Poiuyt]

4. Criticizing a president during time of war?

That's high treason.

[totodeinhere]

27. Did Congress declare war? I must have missed that.

The Bushies used that same line of reasoning while he was in office. They said we shouldn't criticize the shrub because we were at war. Well, I opposed that argument then and I oppose it now.

[boppers]

39. AUMF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists

They didn't call them the "we declare war" acts.

[hack89]

47. Time to read the Constitution again

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

[Curmudgeoness]

5. I think he can say it, and I think he should be able to say it.

Yes, I remember how we were chastised for criticizing Bush in a "time of war". But I will defend his right to say whatever idiotic comment that comes into his head. It is up to his constituents to punish him, if they will.

[fascisthunter]

6. freedom of speech protects him or anyone saying this crap

but that doesn't mean we have to listen to it. He's just another right wing loser promoting the myth that Obama is a socialist. PS... there is nothing wrong with socialism but there is something very wrong with FASCISM, and that we need to throw right back at them.

[RBInMaine]

12. Right, and our freedom of speech allows us to call HIM a fucking pile of rotten shit.

[fascisthunter]

18. exactly...

[totodeinhere]

28. And it allows us to work hard to get him defeated in the next election. n/t

[Avant Guardian]

40. I could never have said it more succinctly

...myself

[bluestateguy]

7. Notice that he stands for something and sticks with it

A lesson Democrats can learn from.

None of this Dick Durbin blubbering on the Senate floor apology stuff.

I hate the message, but there is also a lesson to be learned here.

[RBInMaine]

13. Yeah, but he's a fucking idiot whacko and a rotten piece of flaming horse dung.

[otohara]

24. If It Were Constructive Criticism

I would agree with you, but this guy just spews vile garbage about POTUS. He reminds me of those people with the "God Hates Fags" signs. No solutions, just nasty, vile comments about POTUS.

[Exilednight]

8. Freedom of speech. Free speech is not for speech we agree with, it's for protecting speech

that we don't agree with.

What the Congressman said says more about him than it does about Obama.

[tavalon]

21. Agreed

[FrenchieCat]

9. Of course they can. In fact, they all can get away with anything....

and most of us will sit there and take it,
and in fact, add to it.

Obama was a wimp here for a long time....
so more name calling is nothing new.

One day, folks will be sorry, but that will only happen
when the GOP finally comes for them...

[RBInMaine]

14. West is a fucking ridiculous whacko who can go feed on infected pig shit.

[RBInMaine]

10. I've seen piles of steaming cow shit more worthy of consideration than this NUTJOB.

[Ikonoklast]

11. West is a certifiable loon.

Anyone that voted for him should be ashamed of themselves.

[Davis_X_Machina]

15. I remember when Alan Grayson did it...

...and DU loved it.

A lot of people on DU don't actually have much use for democracy. Or the rule of law.

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[Davis_X_Machina]

31. What is the thread title?

I answered the question....and you didn't like the answer, is all.

And as for people who say he can't do it, why there 's one right here.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. When Alan Grayson did what? nt

[louslobbs]

16. In this terrorized Republicon America filled with lies, their media GOP/FOX, and their teabaggers

filled with hate and racism, anything is possible. Shouldn't everyone in the Repbulicon party be treating this guy as a pariah? Oh, I forgot, the Rethugs are pariah and they protect their own by remaining silent. There have got to be a few on their side who will eventually speak up or start shunning those types like Goldwater or William F Buckley did to the Birchers (todays teabaggers)? Where are all the grownups in the Republicon gang? People like Allen West need to be called out and shunned by their own, but that seems highly unlikely since most on his side are of his ilk and pedigree.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. Depends on who he's fucking, I would guess.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. Yes. He agitates for socialism to an insufficient degree. n/t

[babylonsister]

23. Rec'd for more eyes, and may I also voice my disgust?

Ugh on so many levels; who the hell voted for this guy? That's what is scary.

[Jakes Progress]

25. Yep. Cause this is America. Just like we can all him a asswipe bit of dung.

And an idiot out of his cage. And waste of his mother's breast milk. And walking argument for the right to choose.

[totodeinhere]

26. The way to deal with this is to work to defeat him in the next election. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

30. If a President, ANY President, can't stand the heat, he or she shouldn't be in the kitchen

or something like that...

If any person who wants that job is so naive as to think they'll be above any and all criticism whatsoever, mean-spirited OR constructive, they shouldn't be in that position in the first place.

I may not like what someone says about a President, past, present or future, but I'll damn sure respect their right to say it.

[Keith Bee]

32. Uh, yes

I don't like what he said, but I'm not going to support silencing the guy.

[Arkana]

34. Allen West is a scumfuck war criminal who should be languishing

in a prison cell.

Nothing he says carries any weight with me.

[johnaries]

37. *Not Intended as a Factual Statement*

That pretty much sums up everything the RW says.

[BklnDem75]

38. Ignore him

This is the same jerk that complained about Obama flying into Iraq under the cover of night. He's a self hating puppet the right loves to put in front of a camera.

[Enrique]

41. I don't care about him insulting the president

what I don't like is that he's lying. None of that is true, and West knows it.

[harun]

46. Agree completely. Lying is the problem.

[and-justice-for-all]

44. There is nothing wrong with be called a Socialist....

I gladly admit that I am a Democratic Socialist. But, in this instance I think it is called slander.

[TheKentuckian]

45. Cause we seldom call them on it and if we give what we give we apologize or call for civility.

[Hutzpa]

48. String his ass

show him how to party.

[Fire1]

49. Oh, goody! Another "oreo." n/t

[The Nexus]

50. It's people like West that makes it hard from not saying the N word.nt