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Not all Tea Party Protesters are civil. AP Photo David Becker
I believe a large majority of the Tea Party protesters conduct themselves in a civil manner. While I disagree with many of their viewpoints I support their right to express their opinion.
What is disappointing however is some of the protesters who chose to express themselves in a not-so-civil manner. If Republican leaders like Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) speak at these events they should be held accoutable for the tone and langauge used by the protesters. Furthermore the entire crowd of protesters should hold these people accountable for the language they use.
Pictures of some of the signs at the Tea Party Protest on 9/12 can be found at this site. Here is a sampling of what some of these signs say:
"Whoa boys I'll take it from here" (With an illustration of President Obama waving to terrorists)
"Where's the birth certificate?"
"The long legged Mack Daddy"
"Racist in chief"
Some more offensive signs which can be seen here read:
"Bury Obamacare with Kennedy"
"If your ears are so big...why can you not hear us AMERICANS" (with a drawing of President Obama)
In addition there are many signs which have President Obama side-by-side with Hitler or Stalin.
If President Obama is held to account for the actions of ACORN even though he has no official association with the orgnanization then Republican leaders should be held accountable for the actions of organizations they directly support. In the coming days Republican leaders like Rep. Cantor should be asked if they support this kind of langauge being used in protest against the President.
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Please tell me you are not serious. You seem to forget the hate that the Gore and Kerry campaigns spewed about George W. Bush. You also forget the physical assault on a man and his son at an Obama speech. Does this mean that Obama should be held accountable for the actions of that crowd since he was there? I am sick and tired of the one sidedness of the Democrats. The double standard lives on.
The signs were intended to be offensive. It is the best form of retaliation when you are under attack. Be thankful it is nothing more than words, and hope that they will bring about a reasonable response that will prevent it from escalating further.
The Republicans are desperate and it shows. It isn't any fun to not be in the majority, now does it? It seems they are trying to come up with all the ideas on health care, when they had 8 years to do something and didn't... because they don't care about the average citizen nor do they have any solutions. All they can do is get average Joe's undies in a bundle and spew hatred until it overflows. And what really gets me is they call themselves Christians. How hypocritical is that? What happened to love your neighbor as yourself… and with respect?
Ryan you are an idiot and have a very short term memory. Hmm, I seem to recall over the past eight years the extreme protests and posters of the left-wing fringe that ridiculed George W. Bush up one side and down the other. Where were you in holding those on the left accountable? I'm tired of all of this, as well as both ideological agendas of either "wing". All of them have got to go in 2010 and 2012, Republican and Democrat. Good riddance!
Tea parties are great drama but try to cut spending and the same people protest!
www.examiner.com/examiner/x-19977-Allentown-Fiscal-Responsibility-Examiner~y2009m9d13-Cut-government-spending-but-dont-touch-MY-program
I was there and the reporting of the event is so out of line with what was really going on. Show a view from overhead and you will see there were not thousands but hundreds of thousands. Metro workers said they had not seen this big of a crowd since the inauguration. That was a crowd of over one million.
The question you need to ask is, who are these people? What is their history or background? Retrace their steps and you will find them in Pro Duke KKK.
What is motivating them?
These are the same old KKK that has found covering under the name conservative Republicans. They no longer use the word race, black or Jew because they now have their worse nightmare in the white house, a black man. They are afraid, they think they have lost control over their life. They are afraid they might need to work hard now instead of riding over the labor of others in the name of white supremacy.
I am a conservative-libertarian Ryan, and I actually agree with you. I just wish that you liberals had done the same thing when Bush and Cheney were in the White House. In the economic sector I disagreed with many of the things that they did, but what was suggested about them was vicious, heinous, and completely unfair. I hope that at some point our political discourse will be more calm and level-headed. Maybe a decade or so from now we will be more united as a country.
Real is the ONLY racist to post her so far. When you see nothing but color and your entire world is tainted by the color of ones skin, YOU are the racist KKK type.
It was all Free Speech and First amendment gibberish when the people with the signs were CODE PINK or MOVE ON and the target was Bush...now that it's about Obama the Rock star Liberal Obamabots like you have got their panties all in a bunch! Seems you don't like the taste of your own medicine. Get used to it,as the tea partiers are taking a page from the Democratic play book and running some of the plays!
If what is good for the goose is good for the gander...why weren't the same questions raised regarding the signs disparaging Bush? I don't condone either, my question regards the equinamity of coverage. This may be a matter of race to some..but for most of us it is a matter of facing the reality of the national debt and personal freedom. I don't need higher taxes or the government in my life. I do not feel it is fair for me to work 10-12 housr a day 6 days a week to get ahead and then have the government "confiscate" my earnings to share with those who have not earned it!
Post Script...to Mr/Ms Real.... That is mostly BS. The vast majority of us are conservatives not racists with no roots in the KKK!!! My parents were immigrants who objected to government intervention and social engineering. Where is the money going? Who is benefiting from the last 8 months? We have been mislead...period! Neither the GOP or Dems represent the vast majority of the electorate.
Racist comments are so "last century".
They can't beat us on the issues or at an Election. So they continue to fight back the only way they know how. By creating constant distractions.
The liberal takeaway pulls from all or some of the same concepts every time. 1) Bush did it/didn't do it 2) Republicans are racists, 3) "Look! Over There!"
In this article the author clearly chooses #3 as the central focus. Use the behavior (ad hominem) as the theme so as to obfuscate the intent of the action. The fact is that the majority of Americans no longer approve of the President or his Congress.
The author doth protest too much, and I believe DOES believe that all or most Republicans are racists and are Beck followers. His has a limited and naive perspective, but how can we expect a liberal to judge conservatives through their eyes?
The truth hurts, especially when its on a sign.
More people attended the protest of Big Government and Barack Obama, than the innauguration of Barack Obama.
Government is spending this country into oblivion, and your upset that a few signs out of a million hurt your little eyes.
To Ryan: Were you calling on the Dems to condemn the outrageous behaviors by leftists who were hard on Bush? And this includes Harry Reid who publicly called Bush a liar. You're a hypocrite.
That's the worst you can find? What a joke. Not one of them even comes close to the outright threats directed at the previous President. This is both willful blindness to the rabid murderous hatred directed at Bush and conconcted outrage at the rather mild protest signs we saw the other day.
thats why you liberals are losing ground, bc u all dish it out but cant take it, hypocrits! obama hasnt gotten shoes thrown at him yet, until that happens he hasnt got near the criticism the previous president had, liberals need to shut there face!
They came to Washington fired up and ready to go.
Thousands marched on Washington, D.C. yesterday to voice their outrage over the possibility that the President of the United States would sign into law a plan that would call for all to gain universal health coverage.
That’s right, they came to march against health coverage and the costs of such coverage. Because NOW they are concerned about government spending. And they came armed with the tools of the right–hate and ignorance. One overweight man in his fifties walked around with a sign that simply read “Morans.” Another, an overweight woman also in her fifties, claimed she would no longer listen to the “Liberal Nazi in the White House.” Many held signs that portrayed President Obama as the Joker from “Batman” under which was scrawled the word “Fascism.”
Before we get to the main arguments, some housecleaning here is in order: My mother lived the first 24 years of her life under Mussolini’s Fascism. She lost a husband, an inf
... And if anyone living under Mussolini’s Fascism had carried a sign that painted anything on Il Duce’s face, he would have been shot dead on sight. Know the meaning of the word, moran, and the pain it has caused those who lived under its weight before you choose to use it.
There is no such thing as a liberal Nazi. Nazis were right wingers and the people in the march yesterday did not have to venture far to discover that for themselves–they could have simply asked the Neo-Nazis in attendance on which side of the aisle they cast their vote.
And Morans? What can I say? The Moran who wrote that is indeed a moron.
They even call themselves Tea Baggers and modeled their protest after the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party of Samuel Adams–the patriot not the drink, morans. Mr. Adams strongly believed in the guiding principle “that all men were born with natural rights, life, liberty, health and possessions.” The government, he also believed, was there to “protect and provid
The government, he also believed, was there to “protect and provide these rights for the people.” That’s right, you tea bagging morans, Samuel Adams, Mr. Tea Party himself, was in favor of government health coverage.
The protesters yesterday also seemed very agitated over debt and costs. “Our grandchildren are going to have to foot this bill,” one shouted. “No way, no how.” The cost in money for the war in Iraq would have paid for universal health coverage and still had a few billion left over. Not to mention that thousands of those grandchildren they are now so concerned about would still be alive or have all their limbs. We are still paying a heavy price for a war that should never have been fought. But did this crew march over that? Were they concerned about the human and financial cost of that? Did they worry about their kids or grandkids having to pay the cost of a fool’s war?
You can bet 5,000 lives they didn’t.
All of you whiners claiming that all the anti-war protestors that were out protesting during the Bush admin. were full of hate towards Bush and therefore its ok for everyone to do the same with Obama. Not true. First off, not one teabagger was protesting the fact that Obama is continuing the policies of Bush in regards to the war. They were actually protesting against the government putting regulations on private insurance companies who have been raping us for the past decade. Health insurance corporations have amassed a 1100 percent profit since 2005! So you cannot compare the two. Plus, anti-war protestors during the Bush admin. never received any media attention, much less any favorable attention. In fact, most protestors were viciously attacked, tasered, maced, and arrested. None of the teabaggers were arrested despite their harrassment of all journalists who didn't work for FOX.
Also, learn the definition of socialism. The USA is so far from socialist it isn't even funny. We are under fascism. In fact, there is only one country in the world that is more fascist than the USA and that is Mexico according to OECD. The USA is 2nd followed by Turkey. Fascism is the opposite of socialism btw. Democratic socialism are countries like France, Norway, and Sweden, which have seen a rise in middle class incomes since 1990. The USA has seen a steep decline in the middle class and lower class wages. The upper class has risen dramatically under George W. Go to this blog post and see the linked proof...
onlinejournalDOTcom/artman/publish/article_5023DOTshtml
aangirfanDOTblogspotDOTcom/2009/09/love-storyDOThtml
I will condemn uncivil conservative protesters just as soon as you condemn the liberal ones. You first.
George Copeland
National RNC Examiner
www.copelandweb.com
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