taichiliberal
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Your confusion is understandable as the Far Right do not speak for conservatives. They do however, through the magic of media, get the majority of the attention. Same way Christians are all painted as the Westboro Baptist Church crazies. Those of us that disagree with Obama's idealogue policies of big government and govt being the answers to all of this country's woes are painted with the same broad liberal brush and lumped in with these fools on the far right just as the far left do with the liberal cause. Race seems to be a subject brought up more times by the liberals than the conservatives.
One would be confused if they bought your version of history. You seem to forget the FACT that it was Ronald Reagan that lifted the tent flap and let the wingnut Christian fundamentalist onto the GOP campaign stage. Hell, Nixon warned about that to no avail. Since then, we've seen "God" being used as an excuse and justification by various politicos and pundits for neocon driven GOP policies. The old chestnut of "big government" is truly tragic, being that "big government" in terms of Reaganomics, the Patriot Act, don't seem to concern the Obama critics from the conservative seats. "Race" via buzz phrases and innuendo has been barked by the likes of Buchanan and Kern LONG before Obama came on the scene. Neocon parrots, teabaggers and the like have been video documented using such bigoted and racist innuendos and assertions....when others point out, the absurd tactic of calling the critics, "racist" is used...but no one is buying it.
Obama's faults lie with his inexperience as a leader and as a non partisan president. The love affair the media has had with him since campaign allowed him to be the least vetted presidential hopeful ever. To completely ignore his past relationships with terrorist (Ayers and Dorn), Slum Lord Tony Rezko and racist preacher Wright were all but given passes by the media.
Newsflash for you....all the names you just dropped were discussed, examined and resolved BEFORE the conclusion of the 2008 election. The PEOPLE weren't buying the neocon smear job, and only the most bitter and insipidly stubborn anti-Obama people are still barking that nonsense...as YOU are doing here.
Bottom line, with todays economic problems and no real improvement (seen the unemployment numbers posted this week?), the facts are Obama is and will go down in history below Carter. He owns every cent of the increase to our deficit (govt spent more in Feb 11 than all of 2007). His love for big govt, unions and hatred for oil, coal and etc have further divided this country. Not to mention for all the talk of a post racial president, there is a deeper divide within the races as ever.
Bottom line: you leave out a few facts: like the Party of No fighting to continue the economic policies that put us in this mess in the first place....that Obama took two wars and a medical perscription plan off the credit card and onto the national budget, where they belonged....the neocon love of the fallacy of free market solving all problems, tax breaks for the rich, privatization, deregulation, outsourcing and off shore bank accounts....
Rather than sweeping generalizations and grade school name calling (tea baggers), your argument would be somewhat stronger without though far from accurate. The term racist is only used now to stifle debate in an attempt to distract from the failed presidency of Obama.
Teabaggers got their name when at one of the first astro-turfed rallies funded by Dick Armey's Freedomworks and helpfully organized by Fox News pundits, a woman raised a picket sign that read, "Tea bag Obama before he Tea bags You". Sounds like that woman was a teabagger to me!
No one is trying to "stifle" a debate. If you don't like the racist and bigoted bilge spewing from the mouths of Kern and Buchanan, then go bitch at them, because I sure as hell didn't put a gun to their heads to say those things.
Neither of which are Tea Party members. I never stated they were, I merely pointed to the Fact that what they said could be found in the many documentations of teabagger rallies. The term racist has no meaning any longer and I doubt those that spout the word often, have not clue as to the true definition. Newsflash....your limited experience in the world has NOTHING to do with reality. Only a stubborn fool or a die hard revisionist or someone merely ignorant of the evidence would deny racism in the USA in the face of documented FACTS:
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT INSURANCE REDLINING DATA MUST BE MADE PUBLIC
Insurers Fought Disclosure By Claiming Data That Could Expose Discrimination Was A Trade Secret
Major Victory in California Insurance Redlining Lawsuit
Race Discrimination Case Headlines
Race Discrimination Cases - EEONews - Employment Law Case Headlines
BTW the famous documented evidence of racial slurs hurled at the politicians during the Obamacare vote, NEVER happened. There was no such documented proof though accusations were flying. Even with a money reward offered, the proof still remains missing. Breitbart is a proven fraud, so don't take his reward offer seriously. If you speak of the few nuts in every protest whether left or right, you do not speak of the masses.
By the way, you're repeating a neocon lie: Here, for your education:
CNN's Crowley confirms Tea Party protesters yelled "anti-gay slurs" at Rep. Frank "more than once"
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRLeJw1aG8&feature=related]YouTube - Tea Party Hate and Spit Targets Blacks and Democrats[/ame]
Tea Party Protestors Hurl Racial and Sexual Slurs at Congressmen
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msjxC9NEN9E]YouTube - Tea Party Protestors Hurl Racial and Sexual Slurs at Congressmen[/ame]
In a UCLA study (not exactly right wing), the findings were that most Tea Party signs were not racist. UCLA study: Most tea party signs not racist - National post-partisan | Examiner.com
I never said all Teabaggers were racists, now did I? But you sure as hell have a lot of them that did this, and it wasn't readily condemned by Tea Party leadership. Observe and learn:
Right-wing media attempt to erase "bigoted statements" from the tea party movement | Media Matters for America
Keep trying to paint them as such and their strength will only grow. They were dismissed early on and because of that party, the Repubs were able to take back the house. I wish for the left to continue the baseless bashing as it serves greatly in helping the movement. The continuing name calling and false accusations from the left continue to help too.
Dream on, pal. Here's a little reality check for you:
The Incredibly Shrinking Tea Party Rallies
The Incredibly Shrinking Tea Party Rallies | Renaissance Post