| Viper1 said: Akuma, I already told why we're seeing much more organized protests than ever before. Because the ability to organize them is much easier than ever before. Not a tough concept to grasp. There were several different Tea Parties. Their agendas differed depending one which one you attended. Most were anti-spending, many were anti-Stimulus and bail outs while others were anti-income tax. All of them touched on each to some degree but some were more focused on one of those specific agendas. So to say the people couldn't agree on why they were protesting is to admit you have no idea what the Tea Parties were to begin with. Denouncing the spending, the stimulus, the Income Tax, Obama fiscal policy, Bush fiscal policy and to show support for HR 1207 was the purpose of these Tea Parties. If a few racists joined in just to slam Obama well that sucks but don't knock the whole group for the actions of the few jumping on our bandwagon. It's rather ridiculous to group us in with them based on their attendance alone. |
I'm not claiming they were based around racism at all (well, maybe slightly, but nothing significant). I just posted that video. Just because I post something doesn't mean I endorse everything it says.
If you honestly think there weren't people behind the scenes coordinating this who have a vested interest in making Obama look bad, you are fooling yourself. Obama knows the genius of this. Why do you think he used electronic media so much in the 2008 election? What he did was really no different, although I would say it wasn't quite as much of a joke as some of these protests.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
