| I had to see for myself, so I went to a tea party here in Chicago. I went as a gay man, a Democrat, and as an American to see who these "right wing crazies" were.
Well, I hate to burst your bubbles, but there were no right wing crazies except maybe two or three in a crowd of a few thousand. There were more left wing crazies protesting everyone there by calling their fellow Americans "rascist" for oppsosing massive multi-trillion dollar spending with little appearance of oversight or sense of where the money was going, other than bailing out a vast nebulous black hole of toxic assets at 100% to the dollar!
There were men, women, Democrats, Independents, Republican, Libertarians, gays, straights, Black and White, Latino and Asian, Young and Old, Urbanites and Suburbanites and Ruralites. It was a rainbow coalition of Americans who were fed up depending on who you were talking to. For some it was escalating taxes and fee and fines here in Illinois. For some it was the lack of PECORA Hearings before we doled out trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to people who were criminally negligent. For some it was an over-reaching government forcing states to accept stiumulus money, despite the supposed soveriegnty of states in this Republic of States. So you see, my eyes were opened by the reminder I experienced first hand; THAT AMERICANS CONTINUE TO BE RICHLY DIVERSE IN OUR OPINIONS AND IN OUR DIVERSE WAY OF EXPRESSING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH WHEN PROTESTING OR DEMONSTRATING! How this can be characterized as Anti-Obama, is beyond me, that is unless Free-Speech is now classified as being anti-Obama? Certainly beginning to seem that way.
Screw MSNBC, the Chris Mathews, the Rachel Maddows, the Glenn Becks, and the Keith Olbermanns who only comment on edited footage that fits their particular narative. I decided to find out for myself and come to my own conclusion.
I love America but I was always told as a progressive liberal that Republicans are all evil...yet today I was surprised to find, we have more in common than we do differences as the media would like one to think! I challenge everyone to do your own research, find out for yourself, and go knock on the doors of your neighbors and listen first, before arguing. You may save the breath you might have wasted screaming at one another if you start by finding out what common ground you may share.
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