Wow

[thewayne]

"150 years ago today, the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. America is forever indebted."
—tweet sent Tuesday by Senate Republicans

This just boggles me. Are they condoning assassination as a form of political protest? Are they saying killing presidents is good? I particularly don't understand their pointing out that it was a Republican president that was killed: is it now open season on the Bushes?

Lincoln's assassination was a world-shaking event. The world shakes because of the current Republicans in Congress, but for a different reason.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

Apparently, they were trying to say that America is indebted to Lincoln and did their usual ham-fisted job of communication. They followed up with another tweet to clarify it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I remember listening to a podcast last year that was talking about the generation gap regarding social media. The point that the speaker was making was that a lot of people, particularly teens and tweens, post without reflection, I wish I could remember the exact phrase as it was quite good.

So this means the RNCs are adolescents? ;-)

[silveradept]

I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of calling them teenagers.