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August 10th, 2009 6:48 pm
Hillary: “We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any Administration.”

The Obama Administration and so-called leaders in Congress have gone to great lengths to portray opponents of  government-run health care in a negative light.

Taxpayers who have turned out in large numbers at town hall meetings across the country have been labeled AstroTurf.   Senator Barbara Boxer has implied the protests are “staged” because the people doing the protesting are “well-dressed.”  And in an op-ed in USA Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have gone so far as to call the hard-working Americans who have chosen to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and petition their government… “Un-American!”

So let’s get this straight, when Left of Center organizations and Big Labor Unions pay professional protesters to turn out and support their agenda, that’s the American way.  But when hard-working Americans who are frustrated that their elected officials won’t listen to them speak up in opposition to a major piece of legislation, that’s un-American?

Well, here’s what the mother of government-run health care, Hillary Clinton, had have to say about such criticism of civic participation back in 2003?

 

To a cheering crowd in 2003, Hillary said: “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. And, we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any Administration.”

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