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In reply to the discussion: Raise your hand if you enjoyed/cheered when that guy threw a shoe at George W. Bush. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)You heckle people who are OPPOSED to your POV. Not people who are on the same page.
The Obamas are supportive of Equality in all its forms. If Obama signs an executive order, that just gives Congress reason and excuse to NOT ACT. It takes the pressure off demanding real change, it provides NO urgency as a campaigning issue in 2014.
Further, Michelle Obama is NOT an elected official. She gets no government paycheck. She was speaking about providing funding for inner-city kids that evening. Her focus and emphasis was on that issue, and how we need more people who are on that page in Congress.
Screaming at her isn't going to make her want to either hear what her heckler was griping about, or repeat it to her husband.
Sorry Bill--this was a Major, Massive FAIL. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong target. I was viscerally offended by it, and I'm not the only one.
When these Bravehearts start heckling Boehner, I'll be impressed. But they don't DARE, EVER--and I notice that, too.
No guts, no glory. Go after the lawmakers--not the wife of the President giving a speech about poor kids.