Like a lot of Americans and Conservative political pundits, I have been giving President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), the benefit of the doubt concerning his responsibility for the passing out of blue t-shirts with the slogan TOGETHER WE THRIVE at the memorial service in Tucson, Arizona Wednesday night.

Now, thanks to a poster at my favorite Conservative website, hotair.com, it turns out that this warm and fuzzy slogan actually originated during Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign:

This is an article posted on the president’s website, Organizing for America, by John Berry IV on February 11, 2008. It’s title: TOGETHER WE THRIVE:

For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.

In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!

Togetherness.  How…civil.  Together, how?  Together under the benevolent dictatorship of the Progressive movement and their Dear Leader? 

No thanks.

Speaking of civility, that seems to be the new buzzword du jour that has emerged in the aftermath of Saturday’s horrible tragedy in Tuscon.  Even though Scooter, in his well-written speech at the memorial service, admitted that harsh political rhetoric had nothing to do with the actions of the psychopath, Jared Lee Loughner, the Dems, the media, and their blogging sycophants in their Moms’ basements’ are using the word civility as a thinly veiled pseudonym for censorship. 

Translation from the Dems:  Harsh political rhetoric is acceptable, as long as we’re the ones dishing it out.  You ig’nant Conservatives just need to shut up and take it.

The arrogance, cluelessness, and hypocrisy being exhibited by the Democratic Leadership and their media minions is breath-taking.  Do they seriously expect Americans not to speak out as they attempt to radically change our country?  What do they think caused the results of the Midterm Elections?  A misunderstanding?  San Fran Nan thinks that she knows what caused the Midterm  Tsunami:

That was civil, huh?  Let’s look at a couple of other examples of the Democrats’ civility, shall we?

And then, of course, there’s Paul Krugman, who wrote these pleasantries in an op-ed posted on nytimes.com on January 9th after the mass murder in Tucson.  Check out this civility:

The point is that there’s room in a democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.

And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence.

Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It’s hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be “armed and dangerous” without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

And there’s a huge contrast in the media. Listen to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann, and you’ll hear a lot of caustic remarks and mockery aimed at Republicans. But you won’t hear jokes about shooting government officials or beheading a journalist at The Washington Post. Listen to Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly, and you will.

Didn’t that just give you a warm, fuzzy feeling all over?  Don’t be fooled.  That’s nausea.

Through their disingenuous rhetoric and the classless, branded exhibition at the memorial service for the victims of psychopath Jared Lee Loughner, the Progressive Leadership of the Democratic Party has proven that their definition of civility is vastly different from that of the majority of Americans.  While  they claim to be issuing a call for reasoned political discourse, in reality, they wish to impose censored servitude.

And Americans aren’t buying what they’re selling.