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So the Boston Bruins were invited to meet Obama in the white house. Tim Turner, goalie, declined. The link below will take you to a page that is hosting all sorts of mainstream jewspapers commentary, hosted on the Ottawa Citizen page.

However, this one piece got me fired up.

Tim Thomas’s ‘Obama-able’ behaviour skewered by Boston columnists

The 37-year-old goaltender released a statement distancing himself from either political party and simply stated he believes the current U.S. government is broken.

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People,” said Thomas in a statement. “This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.”

The funny thing is that the Hollywood-actress thin statement brought very little to the table beyond tea party rhetoric. Thomas had a golden opportunity to look Obama dead in the eye and engage him in some lively conversation about his beliefs. That is the true democratic way: expressing beliefs, exchanging ideas and engaging in healthy debate over whatever is ailing this wonderful country of ours.

Instead Thomas — an American hero, an Olympian and the epitome of the American success story while building up from meagre beginnings in Flint, Michigan — remained behind at a hotel in Washington, D.C. crafting a Facebook message while his teammates, coaches, managers and team owner answered questions about his absence.

This writer embodies all the usual tactics of minimizing pertinent statements, shifting blame and propogating the LRP.

Tim eloquently tries to remind millions of people that the .gov is destroying the Country, and that the People are supposed to dictate to Government, not the other way around. He shows a certain amount of knowledge on the subject, just based on the fact that he knows the difference between the three branches of government.
That, and his reference to the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, and the fact that the .fed .gov is not adhearing to the principals outlined, shows that he is head and shoulders above the average "citizen" (Blue pill wal-mart jockies) when it comes to what is happening in politics.

This deciever then takes his statement and disarms it by stigmatizing it with the Tea Party movement, as if it is jsut a bunch of bullshit that militia wack-jobs would spout.

He takes this a step futher, and asserts that Obama is actually honorable and worthy of meeting, by explaining how Tim laid waste to a "Golden opportunity". (LOL)

Worst than that, he slaps the "Democratic way" in there, as if Tim has performed some sort of sacrilege by refusing audience with his angel Barack.

I had a chance to sit down with the brainwashing artist, I would tell him a few things:

1) The people didn't vote Barack in; Diebold did.
2) He is no more eligible to hold the presidental office than is Kim Jong Il
3) America is a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY. The voting process is a democratic process, but the form of Government is a Republican model.

It pisses me off, because Hockey is a big sport, watched by millions. People will listen to Tim in his statement, and so the jewspapers are trumpeting how unpatriotic Tim is for refusing to meet with the "President".

Articles like this serve the purpose of disarming his statements of truth and making them the ravings of an unpatriotic lunatic. It is so very easy for them to sway the pulic, especially when they are all saying the same message through every media channel.

Even the small detail Joe capitalized on, how Tim sat at home and made a facebook post while the rest of his team had to answer questions regardig why he wasn't there.
....brutally efficient at making him sound like some sort of Still-living-with-his-parents loser.
The comments on the Ottawa Citizen page prove how well this approach works.


Another comment was this one by Margery Eagan:


Two words: embarrassing and classless.

That describes Tim Thomas’s hollow refusal to join his Bruins at the White House yesterday to be honoured by President Obama.

The only thing I knew about Thomas until yesterday had to do with phenomenal hockey playing. Here’s what I suspect today: He’s a spoiled brat.
I wanted to post this so that you could all show support for the truth when this comes up in conversation, if it does. This is an obvious concerted effort to smear him, and I'm not a hockey fan, but I am a fan of the truth. What Tim said is the truth.

More programming at link:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/...314/story.html