I disagree with President Obama on several policy areas – health care reform, government spending, his $9 trillion in projected deficits, the stimulus package, cap and trade, EFCA, to name a few. I attended the 9/12 Tea Party rally to protest these policies.
According to many liberals, that makes me a racist. Even former President Jimmy "stagflation" Carter said so. Here's what the Peanut Man said during an NBC interview:
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American. I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time … and I think it's bubbled up to the surface, because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country."
Carter is out of his mind, but this is interesting, because when I attended the 9/12 D.C. rally, along with around 100,000 other people, NOBODY brought up the issue of Obama's race, which leads me to believe his race is NOT the issue. What was clear at the 9/12 rally was that Obama's expansive big government policies are the issue, along with the expansive big government policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Yet, Jimmy Carter thinks it is "overwhelmingly" about race. Oh, well. You can't fix stupid. The Peanut Man is entitled to his opinions, and he does have his supporters. For example, Osama Bin Laden is a big fan of Carter's latest book about Israel.
Another nominee for the Stupid Hall Of Fame is Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who is currently under investigation for her husband's ties to a bank that received federal bailout money. I brought up Waters on this blog before, when she was tallking about nationalizing the banks. I disagreed strenuously with Mrs. Waters about that. Because Waters is black, I guess I'm a racist again, according to the liberal anti-free speech Thought Police.
Here's Commissar Waters talking about the Tea Parties, according to The Hill:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that it's not enough for African-Americans to levy allegations of racism against the right-leaning protesters, and that the media must look into their views.
"I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed," Waters told the liberal Bill Press Radio show in a podcast. "I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers."
"What I'm looking for is the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like 'Obamacare' and 'Barry Obamacare with Kennedy,'" she said. "What I've been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody's referring to — everybody on the Mall, in the rally."
So, not only should we protestors be smeared as racists, we should be investigated too. Our brains should be probed for using racist terms like…."ObamaCare" ????? Huh ? I don't quite get the racist element in that term. What about "HillaryCare" ? Was that racist too ? Notice that Waters herself has no qualms about using actual defamatory terms like "teabaggers" to slur her opposition. We've gone through the looking glass, folks. The inmates are running the asylum. Up is down. This is crazy.
After all this insane race baiting, I have to agree with Pete Wehner of Commentary Magazine, who says liberals are having a nervous breakdown:
It’s fascinating to watch how furious liberals have become despite Obama’s being president and Democrats’ controlling the Senate and the House by wide margins. This period should be—they expected it to be—years of milk and honey for them. But events and reality have intervened. They see the Anointed One, Barack Obama—their “sort of God”—failing. He is not only a mere mortal but also a deeply flawed one.
They see support for Obama’s effort to nationalize our health-care system collapsing. They see the American people rising up against his brand of liberalism. They see Republicans with all the intensity on their side. They see GOP candidates leading in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. They see the popularity of their majority leader, Harry Reid, cratering. They see the Republican party drawing almost even with Democrats on issues like health care—and surging ahead of Democrats on many other issues. They see a dangerous loss of support for Obama among independents and the elderly.
We’re only eight months into the Age of Obama—the period in which he promised to unite our divided country, heal our wounds, and bind up our divisions—and Obama’s critics are now routinely labeled as unpatriotic, racists, liars, mobsters, evil mongers, practitioners of un-American tactics, and more. As Obama’s failures mount up, it will only get worse. The volume will only get louder. And the charges will only get more desperate and incendiary.
It will be an ugly and sad thing to witness. Nervous breakdowns often are.
Also, to paraphrase Wehner, all this time we thought liberals were merely suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Now we are finding out they are just deranged, period.
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King,
One of the talking heads of MSNBC said that the Joe Wilson needs to prove he is NOT a racist.
Due to your critical comments concerning Obama I suggest you suspend your blog untill you too can prove you are NOT a racist.
I dont have a clue how to prove it other than publically swearing total allegiance to the progressive movement but if you know of another approved method let me know.
Getr ready King here it comes. Nancy P. said today that we have to balance free speech with public safety and those making statements have to understand that those listening may not be as balanced. Seems to me you may quilty of promoting violence by your statements in this blog and may need to curtailed.
And the blacks who participated in the protest (and all black Republican or Libertarian) are clearly racist. Because they disagree with Obama's ideas and he is a black man, they clearly are disagreeing with him because he's black.
But let's be clear: Jimmy Carter has seen racism in politics for half a century. He's watched it shift from overt to covert, from proud stands to winks and nods, from front and center in campaign platforms to symbolic gestures in campaign appearances. He watched it transform Lester Maddox from inciting a mob of customers to grab ax handles and follow him as he pointed his revolver at blacks, to advocating a mildly stated support for "voluntary segregation."
And when a man who lost to Lester Maddox says he's watching racism in action, we ought to at least give him the benefit of the doubt.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/17/783096/-Jimmy-Carter-knows-racists-when-he-sees-them.
I like how people on the left say, with seriousness, that people on the right are the "wingnuts." That takes a lot of audacidy when you have people like Maxine waters in your own party.
Jimmy do you really think that Dailykos is a very good source of anything. I think that Kos has about as much verity as you think Newsmax does. Jimmy Carter has proved that he actually sees Jews as something less than people compared to Palestinians. I always get a kick out of seeing you people using kos as a source for anything. He is so far left that you just can't go along with him.
Nancy P. seemed to claim that Harvey Milk and Moscone were killed due to partisan dissent, though I thought they were killed by an ex-city employee who wanted his job back. It seems very insensitive to the victims' families to mis-portray their deaths that way for cheap and dishonest political trickery. The left is falling to pieces.
No if YOU disagree with those things It does not make YOU a racists. I haven't heard anything to make me think you are one. But Joe Wilson I believe is a racist. If you look at his past , where he is from and he has shown racist tendencies. You can make a educated guess on him. And Carter said He THINKS he might be one. I think so too. There are also many tea baggers and anti Obama people who are racists among the group. I work with such a person . I happen to know he is a racist . He is also a protester against Obama. I know because of his actions . When a person calls the President a N***r , when he hates any black person who walks in the door you can pretty much figure he is one.
When people show up at rallies holding guns making threatening remarks there anger is a bit over the top for what they are supposed to be protesting – you got to wonder . When their signs have nothing to do about health care or stimulus package but have Obama dressed in Warrior robe or a joker face you can pretty much guess they MIGHT be a racist. So while you and others might not be one , they are in the crowd mixed in with ya . And they are a dangerous group of people, who if left alone might one day do something awful. We have seen it before , anger over kenendy because he was a catholic liberal. Racism comes in all forms not just against blacks .
Acting obliviously, King, is not going to cut it.
You say Carter said this…"Jimmy Carter thinks it is "overwhelmingly" about race." Of course, as any simpleton can see…what Carter said was ,"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,…"
King purposely, I guess, misconstrues Carter's words.
Secondly…..King, a 9-12 attendee, says race was not part of last week's gathering…..yet ample evidence from the event, …signs and slogans….disprove what King says.
Thirdly…..King's suggestion that Maxine Waters' use of the title "Teabaggers" is, itself, a slur…..is, at best, a red herring. The RNC chair, Steele, said earlier in the year that "teabags" are a beautiful thing. Conservatives are very proud of being considered "teabaggers, apparently…..yet to King, if a Democrat uses the title, they are slurring those same "baggers."
Finally….jimmy states the facts about Carter and what he experienced firsthand…..to conservatives, firstthand experience, wisdom about historical events, are signs of a crazy man.
angryc,
Let's see, how can I prove that I'm not a racist ?
Hmmm, let's see. Well, I guess I can't, unless I swear fealty to Obama, and go against my own beliefs.
Which is the whole point of the lib-nuts' argument. You CAN'T prove it.
Andrea,
Let's say the crowd at the D.C. rally was 100,000. I don't know for sure how big it was, but it was big. Now, out of that 100,000, were there any racists there ? Yeah, there were probably a few, but I didn't see any signs of them if they were there. In my experience, actual racist groups like the KKK and the skinheads aren't too shy about their racist views. They put them right out on main street. I didn't see ANY of that. Yet, Jimmy Carter said the "overwhelming majority" of us were racists. Maxine Waters wants our brains to be probed for racism. By defending such statements, you are defending insanity.
And let me remind you, there were no acts of violence at the rally. It was entirely peaceful. Nobody was arrested, unlike what happens at left-wing protests, such as the anti-war protest in D.C. during the Bush years, where 239 were arrested. Let me also remind you that there were black speakers at the Tea Party event, whom the crowd cheered for.
Liberals are weaving an entirely false narrative of what the protests are about, and they are doing it in an attempt to shut us up. It will not work. The more we're called racists and other pejorative names, the more full of it we know those liberals are.
Rev,
I'm sorry I misconstrued what Jimmy Carter said by QUOTING HIM WORD FOR WORD. Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff ?
I didn't see any racist signs or slogans at the rally. But I was only THERE. I'm sure you know better by NOT BEING THERE.
And you know damn well what "teabaggers" means, as do your smirking heroes over at MSNBC who grin every time they use the term.
All lies all the time from the Reverend. Same as ever.
But King, there were winks and nods and covert racism. Unlike people like the Rev Wright, Farakhan and now Kanye West and the thug rapper lifestyle promotes, all who openly hate white people and aren't afraid to call them names.
"Liberals are weaving an entirely false narrative of what the protests are about, and they are doing it in an attempt to shut us up. It will not work. The more we're called racists and other pejorative names, the more full of it we know those liberals are."
No truer words have ever been spoken and I will tell you whites are getting sick of the accusations. It will eventually cause racial problems in this country again. Again the Libs reversing progress 60 years. Using our past indescresions to cause a split among the people. Again just like when the Dem congress f'd up the economy to get Obama elected they are now f'ing up our racial progress to get their special intersts passed.
Again it's the Libs using the black man, and their leader is sacrificing them just like the black slave auctioneers did in the 1500's. When will the black people learn, the libs/dems could care less about them, they use them as a tool.
If we ever reach true racial equality the libs will be out of business. They know this.
Please Below Avg., keep working towards that elusive G.E.D. Meanwhile stop posting!
Tbomb, you disappoint me. You give absolutely no evidence that what averagejoe5 was saying is false. You just toss out a cheap insult. If you had evidence to back up your opinions on the matter, you'd make more of a point by posting said evidence. Instead, you resort to childish insults. Don't you have any arguments?
I searched for pics of the 'racist' signs, except they weren't. One site showed the Obama/Joker thing, conveniently forgetting that some liberal had already done that with former president Bush. That's not racist, and if it were, wouldn't it also be racist when done to a white man? http://www.adhd-information-exchange.com/images/BushJoker.jpg
I'm not saying that racists don't exist. My own SIL about had a fit when I was dating a very nice, highly educated black man, even though she has black friends. My best friend, who is both black and white, had a boyfriend whose parents made him break up with her because of the white part of her. But we're never going to get past that kind of stupidity when the liberals are out there race-baiting the blacks to win their votes.
I've given several examples in my past couple posts of why what averagejoe says is true. I think Tbomb is the one who needs the GED, or at least a remedial reading class.
Tory, I agree with you. Racism does still exist, and it exists in all races. But it's not at all what the Tea Party movement is about. Being a part of that movement, I should know. If I heard a bunch of racist talk coming from the Tea Party people, I'd run from them like the plague. So far, I haven't heard ANY such talk. It's not about race, except in liberal fantasy world.
TBomb doesn't like me Tory. I have a masters degree in business and finance. T doesn't like to read. He just kinda listens to the news here and there, maybe reads a couple of websites and then makes comments that make no sense.
It's funny how libs take the racist gospel from a man whose ancestors owned slaves on the peanut farm. His mom was known to go to Klan meetings(of course she said she was "just seeing what happens there'). And his church, before he became president wouldn't allow blacks to attend that church. His church had to amend the church charter to allow blacks so that he wouldn't get "Rev Wrighted". His past was just like Obama's growing up in Rev Wrights church.
Even Obama said yesterday that this is about the legislation and values and not about race.
Dude, if you have a Masters in anything it's an indictment of our educational system.You my friend, are dumb. Needless to say I, and I would guess, even the casual reader thinks you did not graduate from college.
I don't give a sh*t what you believe TBomb. I've read your posts. I know that you have a no ability to think or research beyond the the internet and the sour news put out by your leaders, typical lib. You can't face the truth therefore you feel you have to personally attack people. You believe that everything is honky dory and that your leaders are telling the truth, You will blame the current circumstances in the way a simpleton does. By copying and mimicing Meanwhile your leaders are shoving a
Dude I bet I pay more in taxes in 2 months than you make in a year. Why? because you feel you are owed a living, a job instead of making your own way through life. You never tool the time to educate yourself beyon
oops maybe I am a moron. I hit the post button on accident. Anyway it doesn't matter I was wasting my time.
Read a book Tbomb
Why was Michael Steele not invited to speak at the 9/12 Tea Party rally?
Good question jimmy. Weren't Pence, Cantor, and DeMint there? Steele has said that teabags are "a beautiful thing"…..so I'm flummoxed why the black RNC chairman didn't attend. Flummoxed, I tell you.
Oh good. The thinly veiled race card. Refreshing.
How do you know Steele wasn't invited? If you are talking about Chicago, there was discussion of him speaking. He was in Chicago but was going to be in meetings all day.
Look for quotes not just blogger spins. It takes a little longer because you have to rummage through the top 20 bloggiars, but it's well worth the extra time.
There were black speakers at the 9/12 rally. Jimmy and Rev are just doing what they usually do, trying to confuse people with nonsense.
joe,
I noticed that Tbomb didn't actually offer anything to counter your words. His comments were irrelevant.
King, I apologize for the tone of the comments from that evening. I had gone to a wedding and had a little too much celebration….well maybe more than a little to much.
joe, nothing to apologize for. You were correct.
Did anyone notice the point that I think Reverend Red was making in that post about Steele not speaking at the rally? I think he was trying to make the whole thing a tool of the Republican Party since those lefties spend so much time trying to make the movement out to be that. Ok, Rev is that not what you were pointing at? Weren't you following party lines by attempting to make the leader of the Republican Party the most necessary speaker at that rally?