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Originally Posted by TheDirector
Well they arent "Racist" in the sense of having the white sheets on. But a bunch of old white people holding up signs of Obama dressed like an African witchdoctor with a bone through his nose or signs saying "Show us the birth-certificate" While chanting "WE NEED TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK". Would strike people as racial politics...even putting aside the fact that this whole "Movement" JUST started when Obama got sworn in.
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See that's where it just gets stupid. Both parties are absolutely merciless in attacking a standing President of the opposite party -- but if you are attacking Mr Obama then you're a racist. There are still a ton of Democrats who are firmly convinced that George W was behind the 9/11 attacks. There's a good number of people who actually consider
Farenheit 911 to be a documentary rather than a pile of propagandist BS. And accusing George W of betraying the nation and faking Muslim attacks - that's a lot more ridiculous than "show me the birth certificate!"
It's all just stupidity. Every President of the USA in at least the past 100 years became President because they wanted to make America a better place. It takes a special breed of
Sheeple (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8si43zB1QT0/TTurVqv4JJI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/1gqx_dBrGuw/s1600/633564940352646100-sheeple.jpg - broken link) to believe all the made up crap that people fabricate about each and every President in recent history. If George W and Bill get to be blasted in every possible way, Barrack Obama doesn't get a pass just because he's black. As for myself, I'm not dumb enough to buy into most of it.
"We Need To Take Our Country Back" ... if you don't get where they're coming from with that then you're hopeless. The Tea Party is basically a repackaged version of Libertarians. They want less government, less government meddling in absolutely everything, less taxes (hence
Taxed
Enough
Already Party), less huge federal programs and more common sense in government. These are not bad things in my estimation. Doing things like Social Security and Welfare at the Federal level is just to big to keep track of. People will rip you off from here to doomsday and back again because the programs are too big to watch closely.
Their message resonates with all Americans, especially those who have jobs. There aren't many people out there who want to continue to be taxed like crazy and have those hard earned dollars wasted on a whole host of programs that don't even work worth a damn. The Dems could have embraced the Tea Party but instead they chose to demonize them. So now the Tea Party is in the Republican camp -- for now. But they're really a different animal altogether.
Meanwhile the majority of Democrats and Republicans are this sort of animal:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8si43zB1QT0/TTurVqv4JJI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/1gqx_dBrGuw/s1600/633564940352646100-sheeple.jpg (broken link)