President Bill Clinton: "we must all assume responsibility for our words"

[kpete]

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Op-Ed Contributor
What We Learned in Oklahoma City
By BILL CLINTON
Published: April 18, 2010

"As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters," Clinton wrote, "we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/opinion/19clinton.html
(Weapon in rampage was banned under Clinton-era law)
http://www.salon.com/news/gabrielle_giffords/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/01/09/giffords_shooting_assault_weapons_ban

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To call Jared Lee Loughner a Tea Partier is not a credible claim. But the culture of political intimidation that surrounds Democratic politicians is reinforced by more than a few Tea Party-identified leaders. It is not enough for leading Republicans such as House Speaker John Boehner and John McCain, the senior Arizona senator and former presidential candidate, to denounce the attack on Giffords, Roll, and 17 other Arizona citizens, six of whom died, including a little girl. They must call on media figures like Beck, political leaders such as Palin, and figures such as Pratt and Broun, to end the gruesome rhetoric. After all, words do have consequences.

http://www.alternet.org/news/149460/how_the_right%27s_rhetoric_fueled_the_actions_of_arizona%27s_mass_murderer/

[Swamp Rat]

1. Jared Lee Loughner is toast. eom

[Zoeisright]

2. If only Palin, Bleck (sic), Angle, O'Reilly, and all the other teabaggers were toast too.

Then I would consider justice served.