Let’s come together, America
September 10, 2009 by afp
Filed under *VirginiaPoliticsToday.com
So this is what we have become. America, the greatest nation on the planet, and our own elected officials, feel it more productive to heckle the president, and likening him to Hitler, rather than come up with practical solutions for the daunting problems that confront our society.
Congressman Wilson, Steve Landes and others, please tell us how your behavior is helping to create a better life for the communities that you represent? Is calling your president a nazi helping to put food on the table for the thousands of unemployed in your district? Is it creating good-paying jobs or reducing the burden on our educational system? hmm? Is disrespecting the decorum of Congress by calling the president a liar helping people with their medical bills or solving the energy crisis? By demeaning the office of the president, do you honestly think that you are helping to reduce taxes, fix the immediate transportation problem or bettering the quality of life of the people who you were elected to represent?
The childish name-calling, useless rhetoric, hate speech and shallow, unfulfilled promises have become second nature to our career politicians and exposes the dysfunctional nature of our political system. We are tired of ineffective politicians, beholden to special interests, who have forgotten their communities and constituents. We deserve elected officials who humbly honor the office that they hold, and who respect the office of the President of this great nation. More importantly, we deserve officials who want to actually make a difference and help our neighbors prosper. We deserve better.
Greg Marrow is the Democratic Party nominee in the 25th House District.
HonestT on Thu, 10th Sep 2009 8:36 pm
It sems hypocritical to me that Dr. Marrow had nothing to say when Chris Graham, the chairman of the W’boro Dem. Committee, used a Nazi comparison to describe the beliefs of a Christian radio talkshow host. Where was the moral outrage then, Dr. Marrow? Are you willing to denounce the offensive words of Chris Graham?
chrisgraham on Thu, 10th Sep 2009 8:59 pm
So, HonestT, are you willing to denounce Steve Landes’ comments to the same effect? This isn’t hard. Either you do, or you’re as hypocritical as you accuse Dr. Marrow of being.
HonestT on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 7:07 pm
Sorry, Mr. Graham, but no free pass for Doc Marrow today. His denouncing of your comments is not contingent upon me doing anything. I’m not running for office so my personal beliefs are really meaningless here. But Doc Marrow IS running for office. And he DID make a big deal out of Landes’s comments. And he DID accept your endorsement even though you made comments comparing someone to a Nazi.
So, Doc. What’s your pleasure?
chrisgraham on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 9:50 pm
No free pass for you, either. The “Christian” radio host I denounced regularly spews vile and hateful things about gays, lesbians, people who support women’s reproductive rights and anybody who doesn’t march in lockstep with the far-right social agenda. Her comments reached a low when she said on “Larry King Live” that a murder victim brought about his own demise because he was gay.
I will not stand down from my comments about her, and I am in fact quite proud to have stood up to her and what she stands for. As a Christian, I am offended that anyone would refer to her using that same label, because Christ doesn’t hate the way she does and the way you obviously do.
I call on you to apologize for endorsing such a hateful person and for raising false moral outrage to defending her and attacking Dr. Morrow. And I call on Del. Landes to distance himself from extremists like Janet Parshall and yourself.
chrisgraham on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 9:54 pm
And just to be clear about this to our readers, this “HonestT” person is the same who has been posting under several different names from the same IP address. The Landes campaign obviously doesn’t like that we’ve raised issue with his comments, and absent a popular groundswell of support for Landes went the route of creating a false groundswell.
Shame on you, Del. Landes, and shame on your supporters, limited though they might be at this point in time.
Mike on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 10:55 pm
One IP address, one rogue agent.
chrisgraham on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 11:00 pm
The phrasing is similar to the comments in the NV thread on the same story. I wouldn’t have access to their knowledge of where the comments there are coming from, but my intuition tells me it’s probably the same person. (Who ironically is accusing me on that thread of not answering questions after I posted twice there. Hello! I’m here!)
As a resident of the 25th, I should probably call Landes’ district office and ask them to look into this for me.
Mike on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 11:10 pm
Obama can probably get you the answers quicker. Surprised he hasn’t emailed you already.
chrisgraham on Fri, 11th Sep 2009 11:39 pm
Just did some sleuthing on the web after considering how the commenter on the NV refers a couple of times to me calling a reader on that site a “fascist” a few months ago. Did a site search for the word fascist - the most notable thing I found there was a piece from the editor calling Woodrow Wilson a fascist. Did a Google search of my name and News Virginian and fascist. Only the reference on the NV site pointing to me calling somebody a fascist in today’s NV thread.
More sleuthing, then I stumbled upon something on a local website. Jackpot. A familiar foe, slap my head, should have known it. Same tactics - threatening to expose me to people and advertisers and everything.
I was reaching when I titled one of my columns this week “The attack machine.” It’s the attack machine.