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EdHieron on 22 July 2011
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HappySqurriel said:
EdHieron said:


Was Bush ever called a Muslim or was the country of his birth ever questioned?


Even many non-religious Liberals doubt Obama's Christianity, although they tend to favour the belief that he is non-religious.

John McCain's birthplace was questioned by lots of people, but he immediately provided adequate documentation to conclusively demonstrate that he was born on a military base which is considered American soil. George W. Bush had his education and military track record questioned constantly, Sarah Palin had the maternity of her children questioned, and most politicians who achieve any level of success are constantly pressed with ad-hominem attacks.

 

Now, aside from being supposedly "racist" what do you actually know about the values and beliefs of the Tea Party movement? Have you watched any of the unedited videos from their rallies or read the blog posts and articles of their members?

Attacking the Tea-Party as "Racist" falls along one of the more common lines of political defence because, in modern times, middle-class white people will do everything in their power to not appear to be a racist and if you can convince them that a group, movement or individual is racist they will actually avoid seaking out information about them. I expect that it has worked amazingly well with you, and you realistically have never learned anything about the Tea Party that has not been spoon-fed to you by someone who is opposed to them.


This is what I know about the Tea Party and primarily from my own study and psychological profiling of the group.  it's basically a tool for those that have a lot of money (wealthy Consevatives), yet don't want to do their part to help out the poorer citizens in this country escape from Obama's plan to tax the rich a bit more in order to make things better for the majority of the citizens in the US.

As I said in a prior post without the Tea Party these wealthy Conservatives would just look like a group of Rich and primarily Old White Men that are upset that Obama is going to tax them a bit more to help the lower classes have better lives.  With the Tea Party though these fellows look as if their numbers are far greater.

At least half of the Tea Party is lower class poor whites that are opposed to Obama for a variety of reasons (primarily his skin color, his perceived nationality (which was more or less nit picking), or his perceived religion).  And they do make the Tea Party appear larger than it is as a lobbying group, however, most of these people would certainly rebel under the right circumstances ie. if the Conservative Senators decided to cut the things that they breally need for their survival like Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid / Medicare, and  Food Stamps.