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What I find so contradictory about the extremists/teabagger's viewpoint is that they are rabid with rage about this president, yet they claim that he hasnt done anything, or changed anything.
Well if he's only been in office for a year and nothing has changed, and he hasnt done anything, what are they so enraged about?..if they are mad at this guy for not having done anything, isnt it only logical that they should be calling for the last guy's head on a platter?
but it is perfectly well reasoned to demean people by suggesting they like to be slapped in the face with another mans genitalia?
Yeah, it would be great if while they're out their encouraging people to protest they also encourage them to protest the issues. It just makes you look like a crazy nut job when you're protesting an issue and the person standing next to you has a T-shirt that says "Show us the Birth Certificate, Hussein!"
It'd be great if they would just call out those people and say "that is not why we're here"
What's sad is that the more civil acting Teabags actually have a few good points. Govt. does seem to be way too involved in private affairs..but as you just stated, they allow their personal emotions towards the guy's race, and nationality to intercept and supersede their political objective (of course I am speaking of the ones who are actually protesting politics).
I think the bigots should create their own spinoff group, called the Trashbags or something..that way they could spew all the racist garbage they want, and no one would confuse them with rational, civil, and intelligent people who just object to the guy's policies, not his race and nationality.
Tea baggers, with their attitude, have no credibility and are in fact hurting credibility of tea party. Just like...
- "government is evil/bad and can't do anything right" folks who keep asking to be the government
- "mainstream media is bad" and we're the most popular (but, somehow, not mainstream media) outlet.
- and more recently, I'm hearing about "grass roots organizing" from same folks who have been typically the slaves of everything trickle down (much less detest "organizers" as recent history proves). Oh, and these grass roots events are being mostly sponsored by corporations and their shills.
Over two centuries ago, tea party was to have a socialistic institution called the government and anti-corporatist. Now, it is paid for by corporations and anti-government.
I guess that floats your boat eh? and it appears solytaire can't make a post without dreaming of it. I personally find it disgusting, but to each its own.
and can someone translate the rest of this? it makes absolutely no sense at all. What major corporations were around in the 18th century? and which of the founding fathers were socialists?
but it is perfectly well reasoned to demean people by suggesting they like to be slapped in the face with another mans genitalia?
To be honest I only read that you called someone a pervert. And I was meaning to ask where that came from...lol...I initially had no idea what you were talking about. But if someone did suggest that another person get slapped in the face with genitalia in this conversation then that is both immature and yes, perverted imo. Thanks for clarifying that for me because I had missed that comment entirely.
I had such great hopes when BO was elected. In my view, he is a total failure. I started disliking him when he picked his crooked czars, and things went downhill from there. My like and hope for him turned from disappointment, to dislike, to outright hate..! Now, the more I see of this crook, the more I hate him.
The health care bill is the last straw. He is doing everything he can to destroy our great country.
He better pay attention to the tea baggers, because after those dirty, crooked buttheads passed the bill on Saturday, he has opened a whole new can of worms. He is going to see a revolt like he never imagened when he was in the Chacigo mob...!
I don't think Obama has done very much at all to split the country. I think a lot of very unhappy people are doing everything they can to exploit this split though. And while I would never say that even the majority of people who are unhappy with our President are racists, I think that a significant minority are quite outspoken in their disdain for Obama, and this is quite sad.
I can certainly recall some things that Bush said and did that struck me as rather elitist, and certainly arrogant. His signing statements were redolent with arrogance.
I wish that Obama would take more advisors and input from the Midwestern region of this country, and that such advice and information would give him a more balanced perspective than what he's getting from the East Coast network he tends to favor, but it's not exactly like any of the Presidents we've had in the past century have strayed far from the East Coast influence peddlers.
I think what I meant about splitting the country has more to do with a couple of things: mostly his arrogance. Yes, there are some arrogance in anyone that would even want to be President, but he stands out more than any in recent times. (this is my opinion) I would like to say the race issue has nothing to do with it and I am so tired of the race card being played at every corner, but yes, I am sure it does play some part, regardles of how small. I think it is smaller than you may think.
To many, even a few democrats we know, there is just something about him that isn't liked or even respected..Maybe it is over exposure...
Those who are truely to the right will not like any democrat elected Pres and those to the left will feel the same about republicans, but right now I see more anamosity than in the 50 years since I cast my first vote..
Our country didn't have the same feelings about Carter his first year in office or Reagan just to mention a few past Presidents. By the end of Carters term Americans were fed up with him, the same as they were with Bush after 8 years, but certianly not in the first year..
On Saturday before the vote on the health care bill Obama met with the entire Dem Caucus in the House to urge them to support the pending health care bill. In his remarks to the legislators he called those opposed to the bill "teabag, anti-government" types. So he de-legtitimized almost 50% of the House of Representatives and (by some polling) more than 50% of the American people. Apart from the implied obscenity and the callous arrogance of this man one has to wonder about his political acumen. Does he honestly think that the American people will ignore his slur in the next elections?
Over 50%?
Please...
I honestly think the teabaggers are a tiny minority. But a minority with big mouths. And small minds.
I guess that floats your boat eh? and it appears solytaire can't make a post without dreaming of it. I personally find it disgusting, but to each its own.
and can someone translate the rest of this? it makes absolutely no sense at all. What major corporations were around in the 18th century? and which of the founding fathers were socialists?
OOOHH!!..lmao..I get it now..lol..Im just a step behind everyone...I wasnt thinking along the sexual track at all...I just thought that was what they were called...Hell, it doesnt matter to me..we can call them The Teabaggists(?)..Teabaggies(?) for all I care...I just called them what I heard everyone else call them...
no offense..Ill refer to them as something else from now on..lol..but I must admit "Teabaggers" is funny now that I think about it.
I honestly think the teabaggers are a tiny minority. But a minority with big mouths. And small minds.
He could have looked at the package to see how to spell it.
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