Chatham County School Board Candidate calls Tea Party Treasonous and Immoral!!

[SBB]

Doesn't Turner post here as SBB?

I know Del but I am definitely not Del.

Sorry, my mistake.

You know there were at least 253 people at the Raleigh event for Health Care Insurance Reform and many of them were from Chatham County so it should not be surprising that there is more than one person who cares about health care in the County.  Del is a wonderful, passionate person who cares deeply about people and gives her all to the causes she believes in.  No one works harder than Del. The county would have a great advocate for their children if she is elected to the school board.

[BillyRay]

As the Serpent did in the Garden of Eden, he includes just enough truth in the lie to fool a couple of people, but be clear that a half-truth is by definition, a lie.

Bro, you need to lay off the sauce if'n yer thinking snakes can talk.

Ooops, you may be right. There is Glen Beck.

[whatsup]

[mary51802]

Del can watch the national news this morning and see that the American are just about equally divided on passing the bill or not. I find it refreshing that 78% of Americans want to "clean" house and replace everybody in the house and senate with fresh thinking.

Del, you need to take a step back and realize what the Tea Partiers or any offshoot people are doing is democracy!
All people voicing their opnion......

[bladernr]

Del is a wonderful, passionate person who cares deeply about people and gives her all to the causes she believes in.  No one works harder than Del. The county would have a great advocate for their children if she is elected to the school board.

That may be, but I'd seriously have to question allowing anyone to control the future of the United States (in the form of its children) who so easily throws around the accusation of treason.  Does Del, the Passionate, even know what treason is?


trea·son   /ˈtrizən/ Show Spelled[tree-zuhn]
–noun
1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

Speaking out against a bill or against the current government is far from treasonous.  It's in fact the very reason that the First Amendment is the FIRST Amendment.

Then again, I also have issues with people who throw the term teabagger around so easily as well.  They apparently don't understand exactly what they are talking about (that or the Tea Party has a great sense of self-deprecating humor)...

Possibly offensive if you have gentle sensibilities...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagger

That term has been used in a much different connotation than in reference to the current "Tea Party" for a long time.  Heck, I knew what teabagging was when I was 11 or 12, and seeing serious news programs using that term still makes me giggle quite a bit...

That being said, the more serious point here is that I would have a serious problem with a school board member (or a BOC member, or any government official) who has such a poor grasp of the basic tenants of our society:

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Religion
And so on through the Bill of Rights...

[NC YIPPIE]

Yes, it's kind of like calling everyone who supports reform socialists and communists, not that anyone at the Tea Parties ever did anything like that.

[bladernr]

Yes, it's kind of like calling everyone who supports reform socialists and communists, not that anyone at the Tea Parties ever did anything like that.

Not saying that they are any better, but this thread wasn't about Tea Parties calling anyone a socialist or communist.  It was about a prospective BOE member insinuating that people who do not support the current President and the current ruling party's health care plan are treasonous...

I don't personally agree with either side and their name calling.  I didn't agree with the Republican part and Bush with their "Either with us or against us" mentality and the accusations that anyone who wasn't for the war was a durn'd dirty terrist, nor to I agree with the Democratic Party accusing anyone who doesn't agree with their policies and beliefs as Neo-Cons or whatever insult du-jour they use.

That kind of childish behaviour out of elected officials who are supposed to be doing things for ME, not for themselves, is one of the biggest reasons I am an across the board Independent.  I don't vote party lines, or even vote party or even support ANY party really because they all spend too much time pointing fingers at everyone else.

[Chathamoriginal]

Yes, it's kind of like calling everyone who supports reform socialists and communists, not that anyone at the Tea Parties ever did anything like that.

Yeah, the slang definition of teabagger and calling someone a communist is exactly the same (I know what you're trying to say but frankly, the two just don't compare)

[NC YIPPIE]

I hear ya, but when you tape a tea bag to your head, that might just happen.

[snowcamper]

I know that this is obvious, but the most frightening thing about this woman and this letter is that she wants to be in charge of education in this county, but yet is spouting this groupthink junk.

I don't really care what side of the issue you're on, or whether you are in the Righty/Bunkey camp or the Leftie/Coalition camp... someone sending out a letter like this needs to be shunned from any form of leadership position, particularly the one which she seeks.

Do we really want someone overseeing curriculum who doesn't believe in the First Amendment?  Who apparently doesn't understand the fundamental basics of freedom or the "rights" that all people are entitled to?

Recall, the first amendment of the constitution includes the right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. " (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#Amendments)
yet she says "to attempt to persuade him NOT to vote for the President’s proposal on health care. The nerve of them!"

Calling names is one of the major signs of a faulty, ignorant argument.  "Teabagger" aside, there is a far deeper problem with the way this woman thinks, what she believes, and what she will presumably try to "educate" our children/grandchildren on should she ever be elected.  God help us all if that happens.

[mary51802]

I second Snowcamper...

Why would you want someone in charge of your kids who cannot see there are 2 sides to an arguement?

Zeolots are dangerous to education on either side.

[belle]

it would appear the parties have decided Bd. of Ed. races are now partisan after all. look at Wake Co.

Tom Fetzer has stated publicly that there is no such thing as a non-partisan race.

[Claude Bowles]

people who do not support the current President and the current ruling party's

It's really comical to hear the Democrats called "the ruling party" inasmuch as the Republicans thus far have blocked everything the Dems have tried to do.

[munn5]

it would appear the parties have decided Bd. of Ed. races are now partisan after all. look at Wake Co.

Tom Fetzer has stated publicly that there is no such thing as a non-partisan race.

Based on my experience trying very hard to run a non-partisan race, I concur that BOE elections have become partisan. And I think that is sad.

[belle]

it would appear the parties have decided Bd. of Ed. races are now partisan after all. look at Wake Co.

Tom Fetzer has stated publicly that there is no such thing as a non-partisan race.

Based on my experience trying very hard to run a non-partisan race, I concur that BOE elections have become partisan. And I think that is sad.

it is beyond sad, it is disaster.

in Wake, it led to a well financed Republican majority, which is being very destructive.

in Chatham, I don't know the result yet, except Munn lost, and that was a very bad sign, she has been a better board member, having lost, than the so-called winning Democrat, a very bad sign of partisanship. but I think and fear it is the future.

[Tags:]

Jump to: Please select a destination: ----------------------------- Chatham County Online ----------------------------- => Chatham County Online => Chatham County Schools => Chatham County Food & Drink => Chatham County Music & Arts => Chatham Community Calendar => Free Classifieds & Help Wanted Ads => Noah's Ark - All Creatures Great & Small. => Neighbor to Neighbor => Gardening and Agriculture => Chatham County Real Estate => North Carolina => This, That and Everything Else