Roy Blunt compares Obama and Dems to monkeys on a golf course

proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:08 PM
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Roy Blunt compares Obama and Dems to monkeys on a golf course

Today at the Values Voter Summit, a gathering of more than 1,000 members of the religious right in Washington, D.C., former House Whip Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., told a friendly audience, "his is a time when our values are clearly being challenged." It was a time, he suggested, that Republicans, not having control of the Congress, had to field unexpected volleys.

Explaining his strategy for meeting those challenges, he told a story about British soldiers in occupied India. The story was meant to understand the task faced by the Republican right on the current political landscape, which is apparently not unlike a golf course carved by the soldiers out of the subcontinental jungle:

"...Something they didn't anticipate was monkeys came running out of the jungle and they grabbed the golf balls...," Blunt said, "and they might throw the golf ball back at you...So for this golf course, and this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was, you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it."

The crowd roared with laughter.

He went on to say that he recently saw a bumper sticker he liked that read: "Don't let Obama find out what comes after a trillion."

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/142737/_rep._roy_blunt:_you_have_to_play_the_ball_where_the_monkey_throws_it/

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CrownPrinceBandar

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:16 PM
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1. Monkeys on a golf course? Really?................

He couldn't come up with a better analogy than that? They're not even trying anymore.

It appears we have more red meat for the racist wing.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:18 PM
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2. No surprise coming from Roy

But it is still mind boggling that they are so bold with these comments.

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CrownPrinceBandar

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:24 PM
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3. I think they feel emboldened by the tensions..........

and said to hell with civil discourse and have all but erased the line of appropriate. In short, they see their own racist values reflected in the screaming 'baggers so they just let it fly with aplomb.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:34 PM
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4. Biggest difference between the left and the right these days

The right embraces the whackos on the far right and lets them say the things they are thinking. But the left ignores their far left voices.

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CrownPrinceBandar

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:53 PM
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8. To put a finer point on it...........

Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 01:55 PM by CrownPrinceBandar

the RW leadership gives the whackjobs a voice, and have picked up their habit of ignoring the truth and disregarding provable facts (czars outrage, etc...). To me, this is where it gets scary. How do you act honorably and fairly with people who refuse to embrace reason?

edit: grammar

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T Wolf

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:40 PM
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5. Roy Blunt is RIGHT, but not in the way he thinks. Obama is the golfer,

Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 01:40 PM by T Wolf

the nation is the ball, and the monkey who threw the ball way into the woods is you-know-who.

How come we cannot win, even when they write our material for us?

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:52 PM
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7. They need to remove the word monkey from their vocabulary

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tridim

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:57 PM
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9. The assumption that we have already lost is extremely premature IMO.

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Yavin4

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Sat Sep-19-09 01:42 PM
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6. And We Should Be BiPartisan With Assholes Like These Because?

...waiting.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Sep-19-09 02:39 PM
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11. Me too

Let me know when you get an answer to that.

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potisok

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Sat Sep-19-09 02:08 PM
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10. Blunt is not sharp

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Cha

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Sat Sep-19-09 02:51 PM
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12. Fucking dull as a

rash limpbaugh.

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Phx_Dem

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Sat Sep-19-09 02:51 PM
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13. Monkeys from the jungle. Good thing the GOP isn't racist.

Otherwise, I might think this was a racist remark.

:sarcasm:

Blount thinks if he includes all Dems in his racist description, it protects him from charges of racist. Fortunately, we're not as stupid as he is and his "strategy" is pretty transparent.

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