Patrick Kennedy responds to ‘Bury Obamacare’ signs

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Rep. Kennedy responds to ‘Bury Obamacare’ signs: ‘It’s not a real stretch as to what the message is here.’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/patrick-kennedy-bury-obamacare/

At the 9/12 rallies earlier this month, the American Life League distributed signs declaring, “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy.” In Providence on Saturday, the late senator’s son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), commented on the signs, saying that they carried a violent message:

“Unfortunately, these town hall meetings have been hijacked by these Tea Party folks and extremists who really take away from the honest dialogue on the facts of the debate and end up seeing this issue devolve into fear mongering and the peddling of misconceptions,” he said, referring again to the sign that referenced his father’s death.

“They had mass-produced signs, ‘Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy,’ ” he said after the AARP event. “It wasn’t just an individual who was over the edge in their ideology and vitriol. This stuff was mass-produced and mass-distributed and mass-funded. When you put that together with folks around the country calling in very destructive ways for other things about Obama, and connotations of my family name, it’s not a real stretch as to what the message is here.”

Judie Brown, the president of the American Life League, claimed that the over 10,000 signs distributed by the group were neither “violent” nor “insensitive.” “I believe it was extremely insensitive for his father to have advocated the death of millions of babies,” said Brown. “I don’t think what we did was insensitive.” After Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) worried aloud that today’s political climate could spark violence, five former Secret Service, FBI and CIA officers told Politico that they too were concerned that “supercharged political vitriol could lead to violence.”

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1. judie, you're a jackass

those signs are offensive, distasteful, crass, ugly, etc, etc, etc. these people have no shame or decency.

[quiet.american]

3. Seconded. nt

[Zoeisright]

2. Judie Brown = pro-death.

What a disgusting piece of shit she is.

[gordianot]

4. They also reject health care and cherry pick what they think violates principles.

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The heat is on and it appears to me will never end. What you get when you radicalize religious beliefs and try to impose them others.

Source: http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12178

I quote:

The ad highlighted six principled positions Catholic-supported health care must include: opposition to abortion, contraception, sterilization, human embryonic stem cell therapy, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Judie Brown, president of American Life League, the country's largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization, said the ad addressed a critical question from the nation's lay Catholic faithful: Why are the bishops largely remaining silent in opposition to the deadly provisions contained in Obamacare proposals?

"The president has laid before us a government mandate to subsidize a culture of death and impose it on Catholic health care," Brown said. "We desperately need our bishops to lead the fight against this plan so diametrically opposed to the Faith - yet their silence speaks their approval."

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5. Judy Brown you ignorant bitch

when a woman miscarries because she has no health coverage for prenatal care how are you not culpable?

[gordianot]

6. That thought is too complex for these people to even begin to grasp

On one hand they want a separate health care system "Catholic Health Care" with out Government intrusion, on the other they want to interject and eventually legislate their view of morality. At some point they event want a slice of Government support to pay for health care. Theocracy has always been and remains contrary to the Constitution. Judy is playing God.