(Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords served a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday to Air Force personnel in her first constituent event since she was shot in the head in January, her office said.
Giffords dished out turkey with tongs as she stood between Brigadier General Jon Norman and her husband Mark Kelly, said Giffords' spokesman Mark Kimble.
The event at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was expected to draw more than 400 people, mostly U.S. Air Force personnel, retired service members and their families.
Giffords serves turkey at Tucson air base - Yahoo! News
I would definitely vote for her regardless of party affiliation.
We're sure you would:
- Prochoice.
- Prostimulus.
- Propublic housing
- Pro restorative justice
- Pro-hate crime legislation
- Pro-public education
- Pro-renewable energy
- Pro-environment
- Pro-strong support programs for federal employees
- Pro-sex education
- Pro-gun control(AKA - OMGZ TEH LIBRULZ TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNZ AWAY!)
- Pro-expanding health care
- Pro-SCHIP
- Pro-Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo detainees
- Pro-expansion of unemployment benefits.
- Anti-flat tax
- Anti-Iraq war
- Pro-National Service(AKA MO'BIG-GUV? OH NOES!)
Maybe voting is a bit of a stretch for you j-mac. Let's settle for.... You'd watch her on TV regardless of affiliation, how about that?
This woman is one class act! If she were my representative, I would definitely vote for her regardless of party affiliation.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, may you all have a great day, and plenty of Turkey and fixin's .....:2wave:
j-mac
You're right; no matter how classy she is, her politics suck donkey balls.
We're sure you would:
- Prochoice.
- Prostimulus.
- Propublic housing
- Pro restorative justice
- Pro-hate crime legislation
- Pro-public education
- Pro-renewable energy
- Pro-environment
- Pro-strong support programs for federal employees
- Pro-sex education
- Pro-gun control(AKA - OMGZ TEH LIBRULZ TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNZ AWAY!)
- Pro-expanding health care
- Pro-SCHIP
- Pro-Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo detainees
- Pro-expansion of unemployment benefits.
- Anti-flat tax
- Anti-Iraq war
- Pro-National Service(AKA MO'BIG-GUV? OH NOES!)
Maybe voting is a bit of a stretch for you j-mac. Let's settle for.... You'd watch her on TV regardless of affiliation, how about that?
FYI, politicians don't really stand for anything. Their purpose is to fulfill the legislative objectives of their sponsors, period.
If giffords were truly anti-war (which she isn't), pro-education (a laugh), or pro-environment (not even close), then its life might have some value.
The shooting of giffords was no big deal. Killing a pol is like breaking a light bulb--they can easily be replaced. The only reason the shooting was a tragedy was because humans (including a 9 y/o girl) were also killed.
Nevertheless, it needn't be said that the giffords' behavior after the shooting suggests that it has courage, something complete uncharacteristic for politicians. So it appears there is hope for it.
Bold & Underlined: Where I stopped reading because the nonsense was too much.
Excuse moi, but a 9 y/o girl being killed is not nonsense. It is a big deal. A light bulb or pol can be replaced but not a child. The scumbag who killed her was troubled but he got what he deserved, IMHO.
We're sure you would:
- Prochoice.
- Prostimulus.
- Propublic housing
- Pro restorative justice
- Pro-hate crime legislation
- Pro-public education
- Pro-renewable energy
- Pro-environment
- Pro-strong support programs for federal employees
- Pro-sex education
- Pro-gun control(AKA - OMGZ TEH LIBRULZ TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNZ AWAY!)
- Pro-expanding health care
- Pro-SCHIP
- Pro-Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo detainees
- Pro-expansion of unemployment benefits.
- Anti-flat tax
- Anti-Iraq war
- Pro-National Service(AKA MO'BIG-GUV? OH NOES!)
Maybe voting is a bit of a stretch for you j-mac. Let's settle for.... You'd watch her on TV regardless of affiliation, how about that?
You don't know jmac in real life. Neither do I, so I will take him at his word when he says that he would vote for her, regardless of political affiliation.
No. The nonsense lays in the fact that you claim that if a 9 y/o girl hadn't died this wouldn't have been a tragedy and that killing political officials is like breaking a ****ing light bulb. Get some perspective please and thank you.
glad to read this. her recovery has been amazing.
Yes, there's no question that it's showing courage. In spite of its injuries, it's resolved to go on living, which is highly uncharacteristic of a politician.
The serving of Thanksgiving meals to troops is a standard political move, but there's other evidence that giffords is not just a run-of-the mill tool. The key evidence is that, immediately prior to the shooting, it chose to communicate directly w/the people in its district in an open outdoor setting, exposing itself to danger. Even with security guards present, this is highly atypical. No other federal politician has ever held anything like a "Congress on your Corner" event outside a grocery store.
Still, although I'm aware that the popular perception is that pols should simply be considered humans like people, I would have to see much more evidence before placing giffords or any other pol in that category.
Is that what I said? Maybe statements like the above are why people think you can't read.
You're right; no matter how classy she is, her politics suck donkey balls.
So, just out of curiosity, what did politicians do that made them, in your eyes, be less than human?
How anyone can attempt to use the word CLASSY in the same sentence as the words that end your sentence is one of the truly enigmatic puzzles in the known universe.
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