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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) says that Vice President Pence deserved better treatment during his stop at the University of Notre Dame, where a large group of students walked out of his commencement address on Sunday.
It is especially unfortunate that students walked out of the vice presidents speech on Sunday because if any young people needed to hear how important freedom of speech is to our country, it would be them, Cotton said in a statement Monday, according to NBC News.
I think the vice president deserves credit for speaking out on the spread of intolerance at college campuses and I know he deserved better treatment than what he received this weekend.
A group of Fighting Irish graduates stood up and began to walk out as soon as Pence began speaking.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/334636-gop-senator-pence-deserved-better-treatment-at-notre-dame
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,739 posts)He could talk all he wanted; nobody stopped him.
Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,013 posts)drray23
(7,634 posts)spooky3
(34,460 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Free speech means you get to say what you want. It does not mean that you are protected from criticism of what you say and stand for. Christ, GOP needs to grow some skin. WE DO NOT LIKE MIKE PENCE. We will NEVER like Mike Pence. In all honestly, no one REALLY likes Mike Pence. He has a face like a thumb and about as much charisma. Wah! Snowflakes, all of them.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)haven't asked you yet, uh, Tom?
flotsam
(3,268 posts)You call us "snowflakes" and then throw a childish tantrum when anyone disagrees with you. If you want students to be mandated to attend your shitshow go to Liberty "University". Notre Dame is an actual education center and some students who have educated themselves about you and walked out-that's also freedom. You guys claim to support that, right?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)were under no obligation to sit and listen to the illegitimate VP.
hunter
(38,318 posts)Was he invited by a deplorable, or did he ask?
Either way,
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)exactly what free speech is and they exercised that right, in a very respectful manner. They didn't boo or jeer or in any way prevent Pence from saying whatever he wanted to say. They choose not to listen to a hypocritical, hate-filled, pompous ass.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)They had not even gotten their diplomas. They didn't yell, throw tomatoes or interrupt him. He should be appreciative of them!
I'm very glad they are drawing attention to Pence. His obvious lies are getting lost in the continual stories regarding DTs outrageous corruption.
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)I bet you gave a similar comment every time your team disrespected President Obama.
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1. The birther fiasco (2009-2011). No evidence. No proof. No documentation. But the story traveled on for years. Yes, Hawaii is part of the United States of America.
2. You lie (Sept. 2009). That any individual no less a member of Congress watching a U.S. President during a joint session on live national television is so lacking in self control that this moment was made possible is incredible even in an age of incivility. Remember this happened only nine months into Obamas presidency and is another we cant remember that ever happening ever before moment. Close your eyes and pretend Rep. Maxine Waters was Wilson doing this to President Bush and image the reaction.
3. Signs of the Tea Party (July 2010) and Naked Racism (April 2011). Anyone remember California GOP official Marilyn Davenports racist e-mail? Did she ever resign for that? I remember all the criticism of the NAACP particularly from Black Republicans for their Tea Party resolution of 2010. Where was that indignation regarding what can be viewed in this video? Click here.
4. Donald unchecked ego Trump inflames birther fiasco, media assists (April 2011). The mouth of Donald Trump is a powerful thing when joined with a 24-hour cable news cycle desperate for viewers. That news organizations invited Trump on the air unchallenged with zero proof of what he was saying speaks volumes on the state of journalism. That Trump was completely comfortable demanding that a U.S. President show him his papers displays a superiority complex that exists among those who cant accept someone they view as lesser in a position of power over them.
4. Deadbeat dad and probable one-termer thinks his presence before the President actually matters and needs to tell everyone (Sept 2011). The disrespect isnt that probable one term Congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL) wouldnt attend the Presidents Sept. 8 speech. The disrespect is that Rep. Walsh actually believed that everyone knowing he wasnt attending was important. That he needed to announce he would not attend on national television, as if anyone cared, was yet another delusional superiority episode. That proudly showing public disrespect towards the President is a winning strategy in some political circles reveals a lot.
5. Newt Gingrichs Kenyan anti-colonial behavior comment (Sept 2010). Even Washington Post columnist and conservative thinker George Will slammed this attempt to define the President as foreign. Never mind the facts: President Obama wasnt reared by his father in Kenya with whom he spent only a month of his 50 years on this earth. The strategy to define the President as a foreign or alien being was started by Sarah Palin in 2008.
6. One of the underlying premises of disrespect towards the President is that he can be ordered around and dictated to like hes Tipi the laundry boy. The presumption that a U.S. President can be ordered around is a new phenomenon that appears to have gotten underway around January 2009. From big mouth Congressmen to millionaires with nothing to do, you name it they all inherently believe they can order President Obama around. At least Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an actual leader of something. Regardless, read this and ask yourself if you think this would have happened to Presidents Bush, Reagan or Clinton.
http://politic365.com/2012/01/27/the-10-worst-moments-of-disrespect-towards-president-obama/
Oh...just look at how many times the President was called a boy. I just bet you rushed to his defense....
Conservative pundit Dinesh DSouza calls Obama a boy from the ghetto
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/18/conservative_pundit_dinesh_dsouza_calls_obama_a_boy_from_the_ghetto/
Lawmaker sorry he called Obama 'boy'
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-14-davis-obama_N.htm
What were two Republicans thinking, calling Obama 'tar baby' and 'boy'?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0803/What-were-two-Republicans-thinking-calling-Obama-tar-baby-and-boy
Limbaugh repeatedly refers to Obama as a "boy" and a "man-child"
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2009/10/27/limbaugh-repeatedly-refers-to-obama-as-a-boy-an/156204
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**You know Tom...respect is not an entitlement, it is something that you have to work darn hard to earn. Neither trump or pence deserve respect because they do not respect our Constitution, this Country or it's people. So Tommie...STFU!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)They elected not to hear any more shit from him.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)You all better apologize right now for the way you've treated VP Snowflake!
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Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)They sometimes look like they were hatched from the same turd.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But he DOES look like Stone!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Silent walkout is intolerant. Shouting down overprivileged fuckhead is intolerant. Please let us know, Sen. Cotton, just what sort of protest against oppression would earn the Arkansas Seal of Approval?
Two-faced sell-out. Don't you have another letter to write to your buddies in Iran?
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)for GOP senators to respond to perceived DEM insults. It was your turn. But, we know that if Joe Biden had been the speaker, and students walked out, you would have praised those students. Tom, you are just a simple tool.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)By the way Cotton you stupid shit, walking out silently IS a form of free speech. Sometimes silence can speak louder than words. You obviously heard it. You might not like it but you did hear it.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)The absurdity continues...
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)right out of the White House to the closest prison.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)applegrove
(118,696 posts)and a homophobe. Be a man and don't whine. That being said I don't believe comedians should be attacked when they speak on campus. But it is a personal choice. That is too far for me. Pence is bullshit. Comedians punch through to truths. Universities are places for open thought, not for right wing social engineering that puts regular Americans into crisis so rich white men don't have to pay taxes. Walking out of your own commencement is free speech in itself.
panader0
(25,816 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)and Tom Cotton, and the entire GOP for that matter.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)And Pence got all he deserved.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)is worried about intolerance?
salin
(48,955 posts)Not about Mike Pence (who was in a shaky reelection campaign for gov when trump plucked him out of that iffy election to be trump's running mate.)
Kudos to these kids. ("whatever" hand held up to Senator Cotton.)