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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

America Is Angry, Very Angry. Why That's Not All Bad

Through the smog and the smeariness of the seemingly ceaseless process of selecting a president, one thing is clear: Americans are seething.

Some Americans are livid over illegal immigration. Others are ticked off about Obamacare. President Obama himself is not too happy about the way things are. "If one emotion came through in President Obama's State of the Union address," Forbes magazine notes, "it was anger."

Newt Gingrich growls every chance he gets: "I am angry, and every American should be angry" about what he calls Mitt Romney's dishonesty. Recently rising Rick Santorum tells Fox News that Romney's health plan is "something to get mad about."

Tempers flared during Florida's primary in January, and former Gov. Charlie Crist told MSNBC that he was struck by the tone of the Republican Party. "This past week or 10 days in Florida," Crist said, "it has been a very angry tone, and regrettably, amazingly negative. My hope is, as a Floridian, as an American, we can get away from that negative tone."

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1 comment:

lmclain said...

Don't want anone upset with raising taxes and diminished services, or old people having to choose between medicine or food, and young people watching their future mortgaged into bankruptcy, or American kids getting killed and horribly wounded trying to bring "freedom" to Muslims, or own own governemnt, sworn to uphold the Constitution, beating, killing, and "detaining" us without charges or warrant (and in SECRECY!), now do we? Just sit down. Shut up.