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Old 03-17-2010, 07:44 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I am questioning if the guy even has Parkinson's.
And I am questioning why it would even make a difference to you. If he WAS faking, that doesn't excuse the tea bagger's behavior. No one forced them to approach the guy and start screaming and throwing money.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Wow just wow. How anyone can even come close to excusing this behavior. If this was the other way around and a teabagger was sitting in a wheel chair and a support of the bill was standing over them yelling in their face...ah never mind. Truely pathetic
Your argument requires these people to understand "empathy." It won't work.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:49 PM
 
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Ummmm.....how would this be any different than when Obama made fun of handicap people in Special Olympics???? Real classy of Obama.
So now everybody gets a free pass on "r-people" because Obama made a joke about them?
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:49 PM
 
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Does anyone have a full video of this incident they can link too? Or is it just the 30 second clip? One thing that has been obvious is the left loves to go to events and get really short vids of things to outrage their sheep. This vid looks as much like a set up as anything I've ever seen. I mean really, a man with Parkinsons is going to make up a sign and go sit in front of a bunch of people who disagree with him? While its possible, its more likely that this video was a set up. Until I see a long version of what happened, I'm not buying it.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:54 PM
 
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Does anyone have a full video of this incident they can link too? Or is it just the 30 second clip? One thing that has been obvious is the left loves to go to events and get really short vids of things to outrage their sheep. This vid looks as much like a set up as anything I've ever seen. I mean really, a man with Parkinsons is going to make up a sign and go sit in front of a bunch of people who disagree with him? While its possible, its more likely that this video was a set up. Until I see a long version of what happened, I'm not buying it.

long, short or a 3 piece mini series. No matter what explaination you try to come up with NOTHING excuses this behavior NOTHING.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:55 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Does anyone have a full video of this incident they can link too? Or is it just the 30 second clip? One thing that has been obvious is the left loves to go to events and get really short vids of things to outrage their sheep. This vid looks as much like a set up as anything I've ever seen. I mean really, a man with Parkinsons is going to make up a sign and go sit in front of a bunch of people who disagree with him? While its possible, its more likely that this video was a set up. Until I see a long version of what happened, I'm not buying it.
Post #50 has the full version as it was filmed by a local news media. The man with Parkinson's was part of a group of pro-health care reform supporters who were on the other side of the street from the tea baggers. And, yes, disabled people will go out of their way to support a pass-the-bill group like that, especially on something that effects the quality of their lives so much.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:58 PM
 
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long, short or a 3 piece mini series. No matter what explaination you try to come up with NOTHING excuses this behavior NOTHING.
Having a disease does not give one a free pass to do or say anything. If the man was being reasonable, then the people yelling and throwing money at him were scum. If he was there purposely agitating, calling names, and being an ass himself, he's just getting what he was giving. I don't know how he acted.
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Old 03-17-2010, 08:00 PM
 
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Having a disease does not give one a free pass to do or say anything. If the man was being reasonable, then the people yelling and throwing money at him were scum. If he was there purposely agitating, calling names, and being an ass himself, he's just getting what he was giving. I don't know how he acted.
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Apparently you did not watch the video
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Old 03-17-2010, 08:00 PM
 
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So now everybody gets a free pass on "r-people" because Obama made a joke about them?
Obama was making a joke about himself.... not about anyone else.

He was being teased about his "poor bowling skills"...

Obama really didn't mean to harm anyone by what he said. Even so, once he realized that he'd made a faux pas, he made formal public apologies.
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Old 03-17-2010, 08:03 PM
 
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Apparently you did not watch the video
obviously they did not....
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