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- SkinnerBox, on 11/12/2009, -8/+70Wait, when did he mention 9/11? Flying a plane into the ground is a relatively common idiom. In fact I'd say that flying it into the ground means that it definitely WASN'T a 9/11 reference since that had to do with flying planes into towers.
Please do not make us Obama supporters sound like the right-wing nutjobs...
EDIT: Oh *****. Didn't see the "Let's Roll" part. What a ***** douche. - coraleaterlinda, on 11/11/2009, -9/+60Shocking and disgusting. I wonder what the families of those on that flight would reply to him.
- fadeout, on 11/12/2009, -2/+53For those piling in here that are apparently suffering memory loss, or pretending to not understand for partian reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_roll#Flight_9 ...
"Let's roll" with mentioning of flying a plane into the ground is an obvious 9/11 reference. - hautecritique, on 11/11/2009, -2/+47United 93... hence the 'let's roll' line he added for clarification.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 11/11/2009, -8/+47Only a truly wretched human being would abuse the legacy of 9/11 in this way. Has he no shame? (Yes, that's a rhetorical question.)
- ghengiskhan1, on 11/11/2009, -5/+42This country is being ripped apart. This is another example of how far apart the two sides are. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
- kward711, on 11/12/2009, -3/+38#1, The current recession started under Bush, proving that cutting taxes for the rich only work for a short time (and contribute greatly to the deficit)
#2, your comment is irrelevant to the article - Jordan117, on 11/12/2009, -0/+35Are you trolling? United Flight 93, which was piloted by a Muslim terrorist, crashed "right into the ground at full speed" shortly after the all-American hero on the flight roused his fellow passengers to attack the cockpit with the phrase "Let's roll."
Disgusting. And from a senator, no less.
EDIT: "This person has protected their tweets."
http://twitter.com/sen_schultheis
Douchey AND a coward. Nice. - Vaiper, on 11/12/2009, -2/+35My mom told me that if I don't have a solution to a problem then I should STFU and stop complaining.
- mtmankeith, on 11/12/2009, -0/+29FAIL>>>>>
1# Ronny took a 45 billion a year budget deficit and turn it into a 500 billion dollar a year deficit (and got his clocked cleaned in the 82 congressional cycle cause the economy was so bad).
Bush "II" as you call him took a Budget SURPLUS and turned it into a 1.2 trillion dollar a year deficit (fiscal year oct 2008-2009, and yes, he gets credit for that cause it was HIS budget. the current president who's name you have yet to learn to spell will have to take credit for budgets STARTING on oct 2009 and ending in 2017)
#3 GDP (the measure of the economy) was UP last quarter...
But nice try ...thanks for playing... stay classy and keep forgetting the facts... - wtrwlkr, on 11/12/2009, -3/+32Even if your comment weren't already completely asinine and flat out moronic, the "Odouche" zinger would've made your post completely irrelevant.
- BigVi, on 11/12/2009, -2/+29Good spin. The "Lets Roll" refers to United 93.
1) OK Makes Sense..
2) See United 93 (granted they didnt fly it to the gound on purpose)
3) Yod be right if he wasnt comparing someone to a terrorist because he disagrees with his political views.
And I would agree with the last thing you said about partisanship. Calling someone a Nazi, socialist, terrorist just because you are too stupid to argue against them is the problem here. - bjornski, on 11/12/2009, -0/+26@Voob
Hey dummy, Reagan didn't "turn the economy around". Any improvement that happened under his watch was BECAUSE HE PUT IT ON YOUR GRANDKID'S CREDIT CARDS!
Reagan was another "tax cut, and spend anyway" conservative. Never saw a tax cut he didn't like, and STILL refused to pay off the deficit, which EXPLODED under his watch.
Your "Messiah", Saint Reagan was a ***** moron. He wasn't even aware where he was the last 2/3 of his term, he was just a figurehead letting the military call the shots for him.
Your "hero" has a LOT of the blame for this ***** economy on his hands, and you blame it on Carter. Someone who if we HAD listened to him, could have helped break us away from being Saudi Arabia's bitch.
And THAT'S why the Reagan administration sent an envoy to Iran to negotiate a deal to trade weapons for hostages if Iran would only hold them until Reagan took office.
Reagan ARMED the people we consider "terrorists" right now. He cratered the economy for the sake of tax-breaks for the wealthy.
Learn some history, moron. - Ghostalker, on 11/12/2009, -0/+25It is a testament to our First Amendment that this man isn't being egged while on the street. Comparing the duly-elected president of our country to a terrorist who killed people (and sought to kill hundreds more) is despicable.
- bobhopeisgod, on 11/11/2009, -1/+26Ah. Totally didn't pick up on that.
- felman87, on 11/12/2009, -2/+26First of all, the recession lasted until 1983 for Reagan (Yeah, it got worse under Reagan before it got better)
Second, how did you know the 07 recession was 2/3rds over? (And that started under Bush. Guess he didn't turn it around like you said) You can't tell until it's over. It went into the ***** in September and didn't start getting better until around March. It's still bad, but nowhere near as bad as last last year. - doobiebrother, on 11/12/2009, -1/+24Twitter just lets people show how stupid they are
- BasalCellBossk, on 11/12/2009, -0/+23Keep it up, crazy !right wing. This sort of boneheaded ***** is bound to drive more and more principled people away from your party.
- BasalCellBossk, on 11/12/2009, -0/+22Nobody really cares what you think, because of your biased username. You have no credibility.
- srs2000, on 11/12/2009, -0/+22..... 9/11 involved more than the WTC.
"We'll never forget..." .... Unless it happens to be a few years later. - unfromcool, on 11/12/2009, -4/+25Ironically, the people on United 93 DID want what was best for the US, and drove the plane into the ground in order to prevent it from crashing into a building and killing more innocent lives.
And oh yeah, guy's a douche. - Jordan117, on 11/12/2009, -0/+21Yeah, I'll never understand users (of any stripe) who insist on building their entire identities around such insipid political points.
- Numbski, on 11/12/2009, -0/+21Glad you caught that. The flames would be coming at record speed otherwise.
So yeah. DIRECT 9/11 reference. Unbelievable stupidity. - KillerMoth, on 11/12/2009, -0/+21What a douchebag; using a Flight 93 reference for political purposes.
- mtmankeith, on 11/12/2009, -0/+21Saying "flying the plane into the ground" alone post 9-11 is at the very least insensitive, unethical, crude and a real demonstration of a politicians narcissism.
following up with "let's roll"...just shows how vile, hateful, and hypocritical the "right" (i'm done even calling these people the far-right cause there sure seems to be a lot of them) is. These people have no Moral or ethical compass and hide behind a supoosed belief system that they through to the wind whenever it gets in the way of a vote.
Had a Democrat said "Bush is flying the foreign policy plane right into the ground...let's roll" Fox "news" would have lead with it for a week demanding every Democrat denounce the statement... - VsAcesoVer, on 11/12/2009, -0/+17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Flight_93
ctl+f: 'revolt' - sousademiami, on 11/12/2009, -1/+19I dugg it because the comments under the article show just how many whack-job republicans are out there. Scary.
- zip000, on 11/12/2009, -1/+18Wait, what? What does "Let's Roll" have to do with 9/11? Did I miss something?
EDIT:
Ah, got it from a post further down:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_roll#Flight_9 ...
What a ***** that guy is. - emkaysmith, on 11/12/2009, -0/+17"Let's roll"? Are you really that clueless?
- noahgelman, on 11/12/2009, -0/+17facts fail
- bigbluemachine, on 11/12/2009, -2/+18Glenn Beck said this very thing just before his insides tried to evacuate.
We shouldn't be laughing at these people and treating them like they are just clowns, they quite obviously have convinced themselves that all the wretched lies they spew is in fact truth and view everyone who disagrees with them, tries to use logic over running with emotion, or even try and hold a conversation about an issue instead of only listening to the people that blindly agree... you know the ones that only listen/watch them because they are told to.
They now see anyone who disagrees with them as veritable Freddy Kruegers out to get their children and nothing is going to convince them differently till they burn him down. It is painfully obvious that "they" really do believe, with the help of Limbaugh,Beck,Hannity, etc, that everyone but them is out to get them and out to destroy everything they love.
You can only incite a riot so long before one eventually breaks out.
- norwegianlegion, on 11/12/2009, -0/+16Yea, too often people forget 9/11 didn't just happen in New York.
- emkaysmith, on 11/12/2009, -0/+15No, the right wing is simply driven to defend the indefensible, no matter what. When all the lunatics insist on joining your team, you're stuck with them. And because they're "our guys," you have to defend them. Because they *must* be right. Otherwise, people on the outside might think *you* were a lunatic as well.
- norwegianlegion, on 11/12/2009, -1/+16Odouche? Really? That's not even a pun, that's a first letter and a random curse word. You should be ashamed to call yourself a soldier in the fight to take our country back, *****!
- bjornski, on 11/12/2009, -0/+15You are doing your damnedest to spin this thing away from what this dip-***** obviously intended to say.
Why? Are you being paid or something? - norwegianlegion, on 11/12/2009, -0/+14You're right. We need to stop holding these politicians responsible for their words and digg up lists of cute kittens instead.
- GrandZooby, on 11/12/2009, -0/+14You can keep repeating it over and over, but it doesn't make it true (even if Bush seemed to think that if you catapulted the ***** enough it would finally stick). It only makes you appear obtuse.
"Let's roll", even without a plane reference, is now equated in US cultural memory, to the purported events on Flight 93 during the attacks on 9/11.
However, I have the feeling you'll ignore this and post several more times, "but he didn't". Please prove me wrong. - BasalCellBossk, on 11/12/2009, -1/+151) Usually a country is compared to a ship, ie, 'ship of state' - not a plane, which is an awkward metaphor that I've not heard before now. Keeping something afloat, as you so aptly mention, is nothing to do with aircraft as they do not float. Boats do.
2) United 93 ring a bell?
3) He's not evil, just mendacious and unprincipled, and not for disliking Obama, but for total lack of taste and standards in using 9/11 for this petty attack.
In short, good spin, chump - VsAcesoVer, on 11/12/2009, -2/+15Stay classy Mr. Schultheis
- bigbluemachine, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13But he's a "literary hitman" who is probably trying to stir up as much as he can where ever he goes, as his long comment trail points out. He probably likes to think he is going to be the next Beck and if only he pisses on enough liberals or disagreers he wins some sort of prize -read job.
I for one hate political correctness just as much as I hate those who try and push others to rush to judgement before they can think clearly about something but this is not a case of p.c. anything or easily offended anything, or anything of the ilk, and I would wager you know that. - bigbluemachine, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13Way to make a case against yourself and way to at least be honest about where "your people" are coming from unlike the others who would rather act like "he just didn't mean it that way".
Ignorant people who are proud of their own ignorance are their own worst enemy and assuming you aren't one clever troll you should go educate yourself on what really happened during the 80s and just who did what exactly because other than doing your people a disservice with your honesty your "facts" are as factual as a Fox News Broadcast. - enantiodromia, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13i really do envy your ignorance. i truly honestly do.
you might want to, you know, read something on the topic. maybe start with how reagan and wendy lee gramm actually built the entire infrastructure for the bubble which tanked our economy.
seriously, if you are able to read a book, i encourage you to read about wendy lee gramm.
nah, it's easier to parrot what the man on TV says... - emkaysmith, on 11/12/2009, -0/+12"Let's roll" is a deliberate tie-in to Flight 93. You have an appalling short memory. Or else you're only 13 years old to begin with.
- malex, on 11/12/2009, -0/+12What, that President Obama doesn't want what's best for our country? *****. Reprehensible *****.
Obviously, people have radically different ideas about what is and isn't best, and that's fair. But to say that he hasn't spent his life trying to improve the America is deliberately petty and juvenile.
Hell, George W Bush's ideas were catastrophically ill-informed, and even *he* wanted what's best for America... it just happened to start with his richest friends. - sciencelovesyou, on 11/12/2009, -0/+12An ***** is an *****, regardless if he has a (D) an (R) an (I) or an (L) after his name.
Although, to be fair, outside of Giuliani's weird fund-raising brooha, I can't remember any others for the life of me. I think most people have the common sense not to touch this with a ten-foot pole. - enantiodromia, on 11/12/2009, -1/+13my favorite part is how all you crazy nutters wore american flag hats and tshirts for a few weeks after 9/11, promising to never forget, then, you promptly forgot.
- Junkyarddawg, on 11/12/2009, -0/+11Reagan took power towards the end of a recession, when recovery had already started. He started deficit spending, and the economy went into overdrive. Here he _should have_ stopped deficit spending, and instead cut costs, and lowered taxes when there was room for it, but he kept deficit spending and cutting taxes like a drunken sailor.
Spend during recessions, save when the economy is booming: the hardest lesson to learn in politics. - factsahoy, on 11/12/2009, -5/+15This disgraceful part is that a ***** like this was elected to the U.S. Senate.
You want to know who's flying this country into the ground? ***** citizens who vote despicable, ignorant pieces of ***** into its highest offices. These people are traitors, plain and simple; they're harming the country more grievously than a spy would. - enantiodromia, on 11/12/2009, -0/+10offended, like when all those liberals engage in mass email and letter writing campaigns to have shows they have never actually seen removed from television because their priest some how linked the show to "promoting the gay agenda", or, offended like when their precious snow-flake tries to start a prayer group at their school but is nicely asked to pray somewhere else, causing a huge controversy about how they are an oppressed people and we should all go out of our way to accommodate them?
maybe you mean offended like if one of those crazy liberals hears a swear word on television, _used in context during a documentary or news report_, then complains to the FCC. perhaps you mean offended like when you tell a liberal you don't believe in an invisible sky ghost, and they look at you like you just shat on their mother?
you may even mean offended when you suggest that their "had earned dollars" go to more than just purchasing more and more personal possessions, but should go back to the very society in which they live.
let me know in which way you mean, please. - LoopyChew, on 11/12/2009, -0/+10I was gonna say. Flying the plane straight into the ground is what the civilians did to prevent the plane from reaching its intended target and cause further terror.
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