How Pathetic Are These Conservative Tea Parties?
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They held one in Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah is one of the reddest states in the nation. In 2008, 62% of Utah’s vote went for John McCain compared with his 45% number nationally. So how many outraged conservatives did they draw to protest the dictatorial Barack Obama? According to an Instapundit report – 75-100. By comparison, anti-war protests in 2002 drew 6,000 before the movement even became seriously organized.
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But those tens of thousands of people marching in the streets before the Iraq war were meaningless, because they were
rightdirty effing hippies, so the quality of their protest was not nearly as patriotic as the few and the far between.Surfed in for my monthly dose of Liberal Humor. I’m laughing at you, not with you. Phooey.
Eh, that’s Rocky Anderson’s town. The wingnut quotient is somewhat lower than in the rest of the state.
Apparently not so pathetic that liberal blogs can’t seem to stop talking about them.
Only the retarded few (see above) are listening to those rich, lying turds. The so-called “Tea Party” was D.O.A. before it started.
You trolls crack me up, you’re like the $2.00 hookers of the Rushpublican party, skanky and stupid.
Dennis, you know if you’re so keen on telling people what they should be writing about – a regular refrain of yours – you can start your own blog.
Or is this another lame attempt to say we’re also afraid of your tea parties?
The so-called “Tea Party” was D.O.A. before it started. Jack J.
Good. So why can’t lib bloggers stop reporting on it. Why is Rick Santelli, a reporter, Public Enemy Number One?
Why are you even talking about it, Jack J?
So why can’t lib bloggers stop reporting on it.
1. It’s not reporting, its commentary. This is a distinction the right doesn’t get, regularly. Opining on something is not the same as getting off your duff and assembling first-hand facts from witnesses and information sources.
2. We love laughing at you. We have not had this kind of opportunity to laugh at the right in a long ass time.
Dennis: So why can’t lib bloggers stop reporting on it. Why is Rick Santelli, a reporter, Public Enemy Number One?
Translation: Stop pointing out out stupidity. And look, over there! A strawman!
Amigo, do you not believe that pointing out the poor attendance at rallies against the president’s policies – particularly in stark contrast to the incredible attendance at rallies against the policies of the previous president – are not a legitimate subject for comment? Particularly for supporters of the current president?
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Oliver, Parthy- It’s ok to comment on them; it’s ok to laugh even though these times and what we are facing is no laughing matter, but these tea parties are resonating. I’m not sure these are all Republicans, either. My point in repeating that liberal blogs keep talking about something they think is pathetic, is because I don’t think that’s the reason. Maybe you are confident our economy is in good hands and there’s no reason to worry, but a lot of people don’t. I think Obama and his people are concerned (they damn well should be) and I think liberal bloggers are concerned too, and that’s the reason for commenting on these things as often as they do.
The article I posted from the DC Examiner on the other thread this morning summarizes why Obama is having trouble. So, laugh, commentary, reporting, I think there is legitimate concern on the part of liberal bloggers. They say everyone who criticizes Obama is a joke, they laugh and mock, but there has to be legitimate concern, otherwise they would just write one or two blog posts and move on. But they don’t.
Here’s an interesting op-ed from the Chicago Tribune on how people are feeling, whether they choose to attend a tea party or not:
Feeling chumped
Sorry if you think I was singling you out, Oliver. If I did, I didn’t mean to, or at least I shouldn’t have. I know every lib blogger is different, but most seem to be doing their best to mock the tea parties, Santelli and the general unrest about bailing out and positively reinforcing very bad behavior. Even to the point of backing a very false account of Santelli’s rant and how it came about. And fyi, I followed the blogs that went with that story and what they said, and went back after it was debunked to see if they ‘commented’ on it’s retraction. None did. You admitted it was false. John Amato would not respond, this after praising the two journalist for such excellent work. That right there is why I believe this all quite a bit more than just light-hearted ridiculing.
Or is this another lame attempt to say we’re also afraid of your tea parties?
ROFLMAO! More like that photo, please, Oliver!
They say everyone who criticizes Obama is a joke, they laugh and mock, but there has to be legitimate concern, otherwise they would just write one or two blog posts and move on.
Dennis, please. Conservatives have been serving up fresh bowls of hilarity almost every day since before the election.
You do it everyday here in these threads, yourself.
Dennis: these times and what we are facing is no laughing matter, but these tea parties are resonating.
I don’t think any reasonable person could disagree that these times are no laughing matter. And I agree with you that Obama and his people are quite likely concerned, as they should be. The economy is in terrible shape. There is a lot that still needs to be done before things turn around and only a fool would think that there is any certainty on what the true best course of action is. Despite doing what they consider to be the best and wisest course of action I’m sure they recognize (being the refreshingly intelligent and reality-based folks they are) that this is a problem that will take a long time to solve and that there will be unforeseen difficulties and ignorant opposition to deal with.
But to claim that these poorly-attended tea parties “resonate”? That word don’ mean what you think it means.
And if it’s ridiculous for liberal blogs to “keep talking about something they think is pathetic” it is equally ridiculous for conservatives to continue to defend something that well, yes, is pathetic when defended as something that “resonates”.
Perhaps becuse conservatives have to work so 2,000 liberal dependents on the state don’t have to. Most of the tea parties have been on work days.
but these tea parties are resonating.
I think you meant to say “resignating.”
but these tea parties are resonating
Yes, with the same small slice of the population who gets agitated with every conservative con job, be it the immigration “crisis”, Obama’s birth certificate, Clinton’s “drug running”, or flouridated water. These pathetic events aren’t even of much consequence with conservatives let alone the moderates and liberals in the country.
but there has to be legitimate concern, otherwise they would just write one or two blog posts and move on. But they don’t
Well then find a way to get Sarah Palin back on the national stage because trainwrecks are fun to write about.
These are serious freaking times in the country, and while the Democratic leadership is trying to figure a way out the Republican leadership is listening to Rush Limbaugh and having tea parties and holding up tirades from Wall Street and defending widening the gap between rich and poor. I can’t speak for others, but all I can do with such an unserious bunch of yucksters is to laugh at them. Every day since the 20th of January I am so glad that the most the people who helped drive us into this ditch can do is Twitter about it.
So drink up.
Keep in mind that Mormons, as a rule, don’t drink tea, so they are perhaps conflicted. [/facetiousness]
These are serious freaking times in the country, and while the Democratic leadership is trying to figure a way out the Republican leadership is listening to Rush Limbaugh and having tea parties and holding up tirades from Wall Street and defending widening the gap between rich and poor. I can’t speak for others, but all I can do with such an unserious bunch of yucksters is to laugh at them. Oliver Willis
You’re not be at all honest. It is simply not normal behavior to laugh at a group of people that you had no respect for constantly. A few times, yes. Not like you do, though. These are people like you that have a different opinion than you do and are voicing just like the angry Left did for the last eight years, only not nearly as loud. People have been listening to Rush for the last twenty years. Nothing has changed in the last two months with Rush and his listeners. You’re just jumping on the bandwagon so you have something to blame when it becomes apparent Obama is not the great President you thought he would be. The goal among that same Angry Left and the liberal blogosphere is to not let the conservative radio and blogs do the same thing the Left did the last four years by controlling the narrative. Not one person here will admit that.
People have been listening to Rush for the last twenty years. Nothing has changed in the last two months with Rush and his listeners.
Indeed. Rush was always a racist asshole. Ditto for his supporters. But thanks for reminding us.
Methinks Dennis had him a couple of belts sometime between 2 and 6 pm.
Dennis says: “Apparently not so pathetic that liberal blogs can’t seem to stop talking about them.”
It’s the fail train. It’s the best the conservatives can do, and it is laughable.
But please, continue to think we are scared of you. You know what would scare us the most… Presidential nominee Rush Limbaugh.
“You’re not be at all honest. It is simply not normal behavior to laugh at a group of people that you had no respect for constantly.”
It is when they say, ‘Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!’
These ‘Tea Parties’ are meant to drum up publicity and to help the movement grow. That’s not working very well.
“The goal among that same Angry Left and the liberal blogosphere is to not let the conservative radio and blogs do the same thing the Left did the last four years by controlling the narrative.”
The left controlled the narrative for the last four years?
Really?
Why is Rick Santelli, a reporter, Public Enemy Number One?
Sorry, doesn’t ring a bell. Who?
More tea, Miss Prissypants?
Perhaps becuse conservatives have to work so 2,000 liberal dependents on the state don’t have to.
Oooh, burn! Good one. Glad to know your principles are so strong that you can’t take a vacation day for the cause, like a lot of working liberals did.
You know how we totally controlled the narrative, like when we stopped Bush from invading Iraq. And then when we totally stopped the mainstream media from reprinting lies about John Kerry’s military record, and all those phony stories about Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore that we kept out of the paper.
Oh, snap. That never happened.
Nothing has changed in the last two months with Rush and his listeners.
Except that they’ve gone from having the ear of the president and a hand in policy to being poo-flinging monkeys.
You’re just jumping on the bandwagon so you have something to blame when it becomes apparent Obama is not the great President you thought he would be.
Yeah, sad for me that Obama’s probably going to exceed my expectations of him.
It is simply not normal behavior to laugh at a group of people that you had no respect for constantly.
And you wrote this thinking someone wouldn’t laugh at you?
Dennis, keep bringing the comedy gold. You’re the best, dude.
Yeah, sad for me that Obama’s probably going to exceed my expectations of him. Oliver Willis
Yes, come hell or high water, right? No matter what happens, you’ll be the last to bail. The quintessential bitter clingerer, Oliver Willis and his band of merry men.
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Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, David Gergen, Andrew Sullivan, Marty Peretz, Jim Cramer….
I’m Maureen Dowd, And I’ve Been Had
They may need a support group before the month is out. They could gather in New York or Washington where many victims reside. The meetings would start: “I’m Maureen [or David]. I’m a duped Barack voter. And I’m mad.”
The ranks indeed are filling with the disaffected and the disappointed — Chris Buckley, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, David Gergen, and even that gynecological sleuth and blogger Andrew Sullivan. And then there is the very angry Marty Peretz. Their complaints are varied but expressed with equal amounts of remorse and bitterness. They all have been done wrong by Barack.
Dennis: “Yes, come hell or high water, right? No matter what happens, you’ll be the last to bail. The quintessential bitter clingerer…”
You just described yourself perfectly. Except you’re a Obama Hater and a Bush Clinger, of course.
Pure projection. 100%.
“Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, David Gergen, Andrew Sullivan, Marty Peretz, Jim Cramer…”
I don’t remember a lot of people giving a damn what Jim Cramer, Maureen Down, David Brooks, etc. had to say about Obama when they were supporters. So why should we care now?
So why should we care now?–Southern Strategy Strowbridge
Given that you’re a Canadian citizen and can’t vote in the US, you probably shouldn’t care, SSS. Worrying about your own country has to be tough enough I would think.
Dennis: “Given that you’re a Canadian citizen and can’t vote in the US, you probably shouldn’t care, SSS.”
Again, you attack my nationality in the same post you call me Southern Strategy.
Every time you do this, you reinforce my position; the GOP is systemically prejudice and it attracts prejudice people as supporters.
You could not be better evidence if you were a left-wing troll pretending to be a sexist, racist GOP supporter.
“Worrying about your own country has to be tough enough…
Actually, Canada’s doing pretty good right now. We had budgetary surpluses for nearly a decade so our fundamentals are strong, and thanks to strong banking regulations, and an equally strong social safety net, there’s little chance our economy will take a huge hit like yours.
In fact, our biggest weakness right now is being America’s largest trading partner.
“… I would think.”
If you did think, you wouldn’t be in this mess.
But back to the point at hand, no one paid attention to Jim Cramer, Maureen Dowd, etc. before hand, why should we give a fuck now?
In fact, Canada IS doing relatively great. Just read a Zakaria piece on that very topic. It’s a shame Americans are opposed to coopting other people’s good ideas these days.
Yes, come hell or high water, right? No matter what happens, you
Yes, come hell or high water, right? No matter what happens, youll be the last to bail. The quintessential bitter clingerer, Oliver Willis and his band of merry men.
Amigo, two things…
1) We’re two months in. Pump the brakes, dude.
2) As if the cons haven’t been declaring the president a failure from the second he took the oath.
“2) As if the cons haven’t been declaring the president a failure from the second he took the oath.”
You are being too kind. Before he had taken the oath, every time the market went down it was an attack on the upcoming Obama administration.
“…every time the market went down it was an attack on the upcoming Obama administration.”
(Perhaps not every time, but often.)
The quintessential bitter clingerer, Oliver Willis and his band of merry men.
Yup, only two months into the Obama president his only supporters are the bitter 20 percenters who really want to destroy America.
Jesus. You guys really lack any sense of self-awareness, don’t you?
Two months in and Obama has passed the largest tax cut in American history. He’s made the Republican party look foolish (the Rush thing is my favorite, but there’s also the fact that Boehner and Congressional Republicans have much lower approval ratings than Pelosi and the Dems). He’s looked presidential on his foreign trips to everyone but, of course, die-hard Republican kooks like Jay and Dennis.
I’ve said multiple times that Obama’s legacy will be defined by how quickly America recovers from the Bush Recession/Depression. It’s not going to be easy, not by a long-shot. But if he gets us out of this Republican hole in decent order (hopefully less than one year, but I’m thinking that’s highly optimistic, probably closer to two if all goes well) then, to the wailing and diaper-shitting of our own resident winger trolls, he will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents of all time. Maybe not as good as FDR (who defeated both Hoover’s Great Depression and the Nazis and the Japanese), but definitely up there. If the first tier is Lincoln, Washington, FDR, then Obama would be at the forefront of the second tier — Teddy Roosevelt, Clinton, Eisenhower.
Yeah. We’ll have to wait and see. Eight years of disastrous Republican rule, and wing-nuts expect Obama to fix it all in two months. Let’s try two years and until then, stop hoping that America fails.
Yup, only two months into the Obama president his only supporters are the bitter 20 percenters who really want to destroy America. fafaroo
Didn’t say that, fafaroo. Although it’s a charge leveled against me every day. No matter if Obama’s stimulus spending and tax strategy work or not, you guys will be defending him. Even Joe Biden says this has a 30% chance of not working, which means it’s probably higher.
Again, you attack my nationality in the same post you call me Southern Strategy.
Every time you do this, you reinforce my position; the GOP is systemically prejudice and it attracts prejudice people as supporters. –Southern Strategy™
I don’t attack your nationality, you WATB. And I call you Southern Strategy because you repeat it so often.
You keep asking me ‘why should I care?’ with every post I write. I’m not prejudiced to respond that as a foreigner you don’t have to waste your time caring. If someone posted on here from France, or Sweden, or Iran and repeated the same things over and over and over like you do and asked why he should care on whatever it was I just said, I’d tell him the same thing.
fafaroo: “Yup, only two months into the Obama president his only supporters are the bitter 20 percenters who really want to destroy America.”
Dennis: “Didn’t say that, fafaroo. Although it’s a charge leveled against me every day.”
Wow. Are you really this dumb?
Me: “Again, you attack my nationality in the same post you call me Southern Strategy.
Every time you do this, you reinforce my position; the GOP is systemically prejudice and it attracts prejudice people as supporters.’
Dennis: “I don’t attack your nationality, you WATB. And I call you Southern Strategy because you repeat it so often.”
I literally face-palmed myself when I read your post.
It was so full of dumb that I was startled. It’s so full of dumb that it stands out compared to the usual shit you write.
“You keep asking me ‘why should I care?’ with every post I write.”
That’s a lie. You’ve brought up my nationality before with no reason other than to attack me over it. And considering I work for an American company, and get paid in American, I do have a reason to care what happens south of the border.
You can’t vote here, Southern Strategy™. So when you ask, ‘why should I care’, I don’t have an answer. Obviously you must care, because you respond to every one of my posts, and then ask that same question. My response is simply, maybe you shouldn’t bother. I don’t let your inane thoughts bother me to the point that I repeat over and over the same question, ‘why should I care?’.
I voted for Obama in my state primary, as did my wife and daughter. My daughter voted for him in the general, even though I could’ve easily swayed here otherwise; I told her I was proud of her and it was her decision. In any event, I’ve done for more for Obama and this country than you ever will. You pay some American taxes and blog to people in a foreign country who don’t need convincing and ridicule the ones who don’t think like you do and then pride yourself for it.
You are a fraud, sir.
“I’ve done for more for Obama and this country than you ever will”
This is very true. Every time you post a comment somebody realizes what type of lunatics are in the Republican asylum these days.
Dennis: “You can’t vote here, Southern Strategy”
I’ve already addressed that, Dennis the Bigot.
I work for an American company. I get paid in American currency. I indirectly pay taxes to the American government. I have a stake in how America is run, even if I don’t have a say.
“Obviously you must care, because you respond to every one of my posts…”
You can’t count past two, Dennis the Bigot, perhaps you shouldn’t make claims like this.
“I don’t let your inane thoughts bother me to the point that I repeat over and over the same question, ‘why should I care?’.”
But you will call me Southern Strategy over and over again? I guess that makes you a hypocrite, as well as a bigot.
“You are a fraud, sir.”
And you still haven’t answered my question. You merely attacked my nationality as a way of diverting attention, Mr. Bigot.
No one gave a damn about Jim Cramer when he was an Obama supporter. Or Maureen Down. Or David Brooks. Why should anyone care now?
And if that question gets your racist blood boiling, I’ll rephrase it…
Why should any American care?
Is that better, Dennis the Bigot?
Didn’t say that, fafaroo. Although it’s a charge leveled against me every day.
Hmmmm. Maybe you want to rethink your phrasing a bit then? And speaking of phrasing …
No matter if Obama’s stimulus spending and tax strategy work or not, you guys will be defending him.
Um, Dennis, if his plans work and you’re still attacking him, what exactly would that say about you?
It’s not racist to point out you are a Canadian citizen, Southern Strategy. It’s not bigoted either.
Sounds like you have some sort of inferiority complex about your nationality, though. I like Canada and most Canadians; you should be proud of your citizenship. I couldn’t imagine looking up some Canadian political blog and ragging endlessly on people who didn’t share my same political philosophy. Asking them why should I care what they think.
Actually, Americans did care what Dowd, Cramer and Brooks thought. Same with Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan. You’d have a hard time proving otherwise, but if you want to try, go ahead. I disagree with you thesis, so I can’t answer your question.
Even Joe Biden says this has a 30% chance of not working, which means it’s probably higher.
That’s still a 70% chance of success. I can live with those odds.
It’s not racist to point out you are a Canadian citizen, Southern Strategy. It’s not bigoted either.
No, perhaps not. But it is prejudicial. You’re trying to belittle him because of where he lives. Know what? It ain’t working for you. Just makes you look small.
Um, Dennis, if his plans work and you’re still attacking him, what exactly would that say about you? fafaroo
We’ll cross that bridge when we get there, fafaroo. But if you’re implying I’ll act like liberals did when it became apparent the Surge was working, no, I don’t think I’ll imitate liberals if and when the stock market comes back and the economy starts humming again.
And speaking of how liberals acted before, turns out a whole lot of them were rooting for Bush to fail, now they act all hurt when Rush Limbaugh says he hopes Obama’s plans for a socialist state fail.
2006 poll: Dems wanted Bush to fail
And the U.S. military to fail.
How soon they forget.
No, perhaps not. But it is prejudicial. You’re trying to belittle him because of where he lives. Know what? It ain’t working for you. Just makes you look small. Duros
I don’t have a problem with where he lives, Duros, I just have a problem with his being a citizen of another country and constantly ridiculing people who live, work, raise families, vote, pay taxes, donate to charity and help their community in this country, because he doesn’t agree with their politics. It takes a special amount of nerve few of us possess. Like I said, I couldn’t imagine doing that on a Canadian website. And I can’t recall you having any problem whatsoever with anything he’s leveled at any of us.
That’s still a 70% chance of success. I can live with those odds. Duros
For the love of God, please consider the source. Someone by your own admittance you once declared a complete idiot. You can forgive and forget his racism, but idiots don’t usually change their spots.
So he’s assigned the gargantuan task of overseeing this monstrosity of a stimulus package. Ask yourself, would he overestimate or underestimate it’s chances of success? And are you seriously comfortable with him overseeing it when he’s never run anything in his life before, save for some campaigns? And you’re comfortable with his prediction for success?
I just have a problem with his being a citizen of another country and constantly ridiculing people who live, work, raise families, vote, pay taxes, donate to charity and help their community in this country, because he doesn’t agree with their politics.
Well, pin a fucking rose on you. It’s called discussion. We are having a discussion. He, like you, is allowed to disagree regardless of his geographic location. And he’s not ridiculing “people.” It’s mostly just you. I am not put out by his remarks simply because “I’m an American and we’re No. 1!!!”
For the love of God, please consider the source.
Oh but I do. Joe Biden is no economist (though from what I can see economists are largely like alchemists), so I can take his prognostication with a grain of salt.
But you brought it up.
We’ll cross that bridge when we get there, fafaroo.
Oh. okay. So you get the benefit of the doubt until such time but liberals don’t. Got it.
Haven’t seen the first criticism of The Won here by anyone, fafaroo, but I admit I am projecting. I’ve only read how awesome he is.
I’ve only read how awesome he is.
Suggesting that just maybe Obama isn’t going to “destroy America as we know it” isn’t an argument for how awesome Obama is. It’s an argument for how completely ridiculous you are.
Oh gawd, yet another false equivalence between Bush’s disastrous Iraq occupation and Obama’s stimulus plan.
Here’s the difference, dipshit: Invading and occupying Iraq with no clear exit strategy was dumb in the short-term (and now the long-term, since it’s been what, six years?). Plain and simple. Installing a Shia, pro-Iranian, pro-Hezbollah, anti-Israel government was dumb in the long-term. Catastrophically dumb. Bad for Israel, and bad for the Middle East in general.
Dems like me didn’t see it as an issue of fail or win, because “winning” in Iraq means hurting our interests. We’ve turned Iran into the most powerful regime in the region, with the exception an Israel that gets propped up with billions in US tax dollars.
As for Obama’s simulus plan, the goal is objectively good for America: create more jobs to stop the Bush-era unemployment “bleeding,” invest in America infrastructure that is literally falling apart (remember that bridge in Minneapolis?), and try and stimulate growth in the Bush Recession/Depression economy. You might not think stimulus spending is a good idea (although I’d love to hear what your economic credentials are), but you can’t deny that the goal of ending the Bush Recession/Depression is a good one. A necessary one, even.
Bush failed America the moment he sent troops into occupy Iraq with no end in sight. It’s not a question of hoping for failure, it’s a question of hoping America realizes what a disastrous and expensive mistake it made by invading in the first place. Getting the American economy back on track? Only wing-nuts like you and the party of Comrade Limbaugh are actively hoping for America to fail right now.
Have fun being a member of a dying political party with no future.
Dennis The Bigot says: “It’s not racist to point out you are a Canadian citizen, Southern Strategy. It’s not bigoted either.”
Actually, it is bigoted to treat someone differently based on their nationality. When you bring it up in a dismissive fashion like you do, it is definitely bigoted.
However, you are so prejudice, you no longer recognize racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry around you.
“Sounds like you have some sort of inferiority complex about your nationality, though. I like Canada and most Canadians; you should be proud of your citizenship.”
Hell yeah of course I’m proud to be a Canadian. We have a strong economy. Better banking system. Better health care. Better football league. Hockey is a much more exciting sport than baseball, basketball (which was invented by a Canadian), or football. We have a more sensible immigration policy. More inclusive politics. The parliamentary system is a better system of choosing leaders than the electoral college.
I would like some changes. Like a Senate elected by regional popular vote, not appointed.
But overall Canada is one of the best countries in the world.
“I couldn’t imagine looking up some Canadian political blog and ragging endlessly on people who didn’t share my same political philosophy. Asking them why should I care what they think.”
So I asked you why you should care what I had to say? Are you really that stupid?
I asked you why WE should care now about people that were not being quoted as experts before.
“Actually, Americans did care what Dowd, Cramer and Brooks thought. Same with Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan. You’d have a hard time proving otherwise, but if you want to try, go ahead.”
No. It’s your fucking claim. You supply the evidence.
Or should we just assume you are wrong here?
Dennis the Bigot says: “I just have a problem with his being a citizen of another country and constantly ridiculing people who live, work, raise families, vote, pay taxes, donate to charity and help their community in this country, because he doesn’t agree with their politics.”
And you called me a WATB? Wow. You are a hypocrite.
Like I said before, I work for an American company. I get paid in American. I have a stake in how America is run. Even if I didn’t, the Canadian / American trading partnership is the largest in the world. What happens down south affects me up north.
So kindly stick to the topic at hand, and leave your prejudices at home.
“And I can’t recall you having any problem whatsoever with anything he’s leveled at any of us.”
Why should they? I don’t recall you saying the GOP shouldn’t make fun of France without living there.
Only 1/2 of the population will pay a dime in taxess instead they will get freebes and checks from Obama’s government…the other half will carry the burden. How is this a fair situation? Get off of your butts and take care of yourselves. Don’t wallow in the largess and “pity” that is being used to control your lives. Do something! Do liberals think that the “lower class workers (or non-workers)” are helpless? What have 50 years of welfare done to improve their lives. Don’t keep giving fishes give them an opportunity and MAKE THEM FISH!
Conservatives join a Tea Party and meet like minded people,prepare yourself!