I was stumbling around CNN's Web site tonight and found this stunner knee deep in a series of online updates:
"according to the pool report when Obama entered the restaurant a woman screamed “Socialist, socialist, socialist – get out of here!” The woman, 54 year-old Diane Fanning was admonished by other diners and one woman yelled back “at least he’s not a war-monger.”
Are you serious? Stuff like this really ticks me off. These types of crass, uncouth attacks by people who don't know a Democrat from Lenin aren't helping anybody. Instead, it makes me realize how God awful our national discourse has become.
Fanning obviously hasn't done her homework, because she doesn't know what Obama's tax plan is. She also needs to start reading Miss Manners and figure out where to get some of her own.
It's one thing to talk smack about a national politician when you're around the water cooler, but I would hope everyone could show some humanity when they meet them in person. We're all human, and that means you should treat them as such. CNN reported that Fanning wouldn't even shake Obama's hand.
Actions like that are why America's most beloved penguin won't be around for much longer.
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