Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt <a href="http://gawker.com/5478186/which-enraged-scott-brown-facebook-fan-comment-is-your-favorite" target="_blank">http://gawker.com/5478186/whic...favorite</a>
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Tea Baggers need to switch to decaf for awhile. There're all whipped up with no place to go. They're chewing the scenery.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I am not sure why everyone seemed to think that a senator from Massachusetts was going to be be super conservative. If he voted with the far right consistently he would probably not be reelected for a second term.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt It seems like a big part of the problem here is that the Tea Bags don't really understand what they are, what they stand for, or what they really want - much less who represents their ideals.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan All they know is they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. As they start to get down to more specifics, the fractures start showing up a lot more. What you essentially have is the same people who didn't ever like Obama still PO'ed that McCain/Palin fizzled out and making a lot of noise about it.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt MA still likes Sen Brown. He was right not to attend the TP Rally last week. It might not help him get reelected to associated with the TPers
Originally Posted By ecdc The longer this goes on the more convinced I become that race is an important factor. I don't think most tea baggers are overtly racist. I just think in an increasingly diverse America, they have a sense that things are changing and there's a vague notion that it isn't them that's doing the changing and they don't like it. Hence comments like, "I want my country back!" when nothing's really changed.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The longer this goes on the more convinced I become that race is an important factor." Absolutely. There is simply no other logical explanation. If Obama were a white man with the very same agenda the outrage certainly would not be so high.
Originally Posted By Mort2 Someone pointed the following out to me re both Teabaggers and Birthers: 145 years after combat ceased, what we are now witnessing is the true beginning of the end of the civil war.....
Originally Posted By DAR <<If Obama were a white man with the very same agenda the outrage certainly would not be so high. >> Bill Clinton?
Originally Posted By ecdc It was definitely bad with Bill Clinton, no question. A lot of the same attitudes of, "Since you don't agree with me, you're not a legitimate President." But the threats of violence and the direct attack on the President's constitutional right to serve (birthers) were not in existence then.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I don't recall this talk about Bill Clinton being a socialist either.
Originally Posted By ecdc Right. Socialist kinda has that foreign-sounding ring to it. It's just not American - and that's what these people think. They have Avery narrow, warped definition of what America is, and if you don't line up with it, then say goodbye.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I also don't recall people claiming Clinton was not legitimately the president. I know the rhetoric was bad back then too, but I don't think it was anywhere near as bad as it is for Obama.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Right. Socialist kinda has that foreign-sounding ring to it. It's just not American - and that's what these people think. >>> Just look at the current Drudge Report: <a href="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2010/04/22/20100422_142047.htm" target="_blank">http://www.drudgereportarchive...2047.htm</a> Right under the story about a proposed VAT, there's a headline that reads "EVEN OBAMA'S NEW $100 BILL LOOKS EUROPEAN..." on a link to a Bloomberg article on the new bill that makes no such claim. A perfect example of editorializing done by Drudge in what supposedly is just news coverage, and also how just calling something "European" is considered an insult. Not to mention that the headline doesn't match up with the story.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Not to mention that it's doubtful that Obama had little to no (my guess would be no) input on the design of the new bill. Yet it's "Obama's" new $100 bill?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Sorry... it's LIKELY that Obama had little to no input. I was about to write something like "doubtful he had any" - I hate when that happens.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan That Che Guevara t-shirt Ben Franklin is wearing on the new $100 bill? That was all Obama's idea.
