As reported on Politico.com, the statement from yesterday to which I refer (from McCaskill's Twitter): "I feel that I'm in an alternative universe. For eight years some people called anyone who disagreed with the President's foreign policy or war in Iraq unpatriotic. Then in the course of two weeks, those same people cheer when the United States does not get selected for the Olympics and boo when our President is the unanimous choice for the Nobel Peace Prize. Go figure."First a preface: Ma'am, you're correct that republicans did act outrageously when they were giddy about Obama's Olympics failure and when they exploded into a venemous frenzy (as I described it yesterday in this space) of outrage over Obama's absurd, yet unsolicited Nobel Peace Prize award. However, as a member of the democratic party, where in the you-know-what do you get off accusing anyone of living in an "alternative universe" or of lashing out at people who disagree? Ma'am, we just spent an entire summer in which members of your party used rhetoric conjuring up images of nazis, right-wing extremists and racists to describe anyone who disagreed with Obama & The Dems' health care reform desires, sweeping into their vile allegations all of the many Independent, non-liberal and non-conservative throngs who attended the town hall meetings. Ma'am, your party acted just as disgracefully, over and over and over again last summer, as republicans on their worst day. You are either completely blinded by political persuasion and ideology or you are completely disingenuous. Either way, you're out of touch, and your statement above is disgraceful given the conduct of your party last summer.
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