Posted on 03/29/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by presidio9
We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama."
Stop Obama.
Why has somebody done it? Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or, more likely, that they should.
My son is in the seat next to me in the car. He says, "This isn't the only one. There are others in different parts of town."
At least here it is only vandalism about this President and the country's new health care bill, not phone threats left for some members of Congress. It is not an honorable old hero of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis hearing the kind of racial insults he heard nearly 50 years ago in America. Or other congressmen being spat upon, all in the name of democracy at work.
At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, being called a "baby killer," or a brick through a lawmaker's window. It is not Sarah Palin on her Twitter page - this woman who officially puts the twit in Twitter - posting the following message:
"Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD."
As always, you wonder where this patriotism and righteousness and Tea Party activism was during Bush-Cheney. You wonder if all the people who want to take to the streets - and to the television cameras now - decided they weren't needed for eight years because they thought the country was going so good. Or maybe they have just convinced themselves that the Obama who must now be stopped didn't just inherit this America, he created it.
This is no longer about political dissent. It is about storm trooper sound bites, and hate. This isn't the kind of honest debate on which our system of government has been built. It is vile, back-alley fighting, getting worse by the day, with no end in sight. People say that opposition to all Presidents, even the most unpopular white ones, sounds like this. No, it doesn't.
"It's so good to be here for the showdown in Searchlight [Nev.]," Palin says on Saturday. "So proud to be with all you who are proud to be Americans."
Palin is in Nevada because Sen. Harry Reid is a Democratic candidate she and other lovers of America are "targeting" this November. Of course, the implication, as always, is that anybody on the other side of the debate - about health care or anything else - isn't nearly as good an American as she is.
Palin is such a fighter and great American that she quit on her stool as governor of Alaska because there was more money to be made in the other 49 states, shouting about death panels and health care and "European socialism" and writing unreadable books. In so many ways, she is a perfect media darling for our times. She doesn't scrawl graffiti, she thinks in it.
If you even think that this President ought to be given a chance, that he might have some good in him, that he doesn't hate America the way the radio idiots say he does, then you must be someone just like him and she will help shout you down. You are another lousy, lefty Socialist who doesn't understand the new health care bill is unconstitutional. Why? Because the screamers say so, that's why. They learned it online.
"The country does not like this [health care] bill," Republican strategist Mike Murphy says on television Sunday.
The country. Another guy speaking for the whole country, coast to coast, Washington Heights to Starbuck, Wash. Is America divided over health care right now? Sure it is, the way it was divided over Social Security under FDR and Medicare under LBJ and just about every important social program in the country's history.
Will a bill be presented to my children and their children on this bill someday? It likely will be. And economists say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.
But Obama is the one who must be stopped, on health care and everything else. Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means. Sometimes you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate this President before you love America enough.
How could you live in NJ, care enough about politics to hang at this website, and still think that?
They need to hound the msm at these tea parties to tell the truth and not let them create their slanted reports.
Dissent was patriotic, we were told, even when the protesters supported the North Vietnamese military and Iraqi “insurgents” in victory over the US (clear naked treason).
There is no tea party support for a foreign power. There is no tea party support for throwing out our Constitution, protections of personal liberty (and accountablity). There is no tea party support for changing the way laws are passed and administrated by our THREE branches of government.
A chill wind blows.
The Pravda Media colludes with the DNC. Pass it on.
There are reports that President Obama himself may have used the term teabaggers in private to other Democrats.
Wow, some sportswriter’s got a little sand in his vagina.
These are not storm troopers, they are warning signs, like a stop sign, to save their own necks... but why try so hard? Tend the other cheek, have those liberals pimped by the government by Hitler the way he did it by making German liberals feel secure to be forced into bad business. It’s all going to implode from here on out, let them EMBARGO themselves from sanity. These lemmings have proven they are not deserving of being warned and saved.
Hey, they force us gay prostitutes and abortion on us who do not want to pay for them and their health care. Because it makes them feel bad, we should love them and masturbate them. ANd they call us storm troopers.
Liberals are vile disgusting morons.
I am not cooperating with this government until I get the appeals to the chain of command worked out.
I am not cooperating with this government’s investigation about people who are angry or getting into any conversation about terrorism in the US until I got the chain of command appealed on these issues, or until I get one that I can trust to reward the courageous.
Pieces of crap, all of them.
Any mention of President Bush hung in effigy?
Any mention of Code Pink assaulting Dr. Rice at a congressional hearing?
Any mention of SEIU thugs surrounding the homes of bank presidents.
Oh, the list goes on........
And while the writer is at it, can he explain to his child about the death threats against Congressman Cantor and his family?
Newsflash to Lupica: If a good American is someone doing the Republic good, you're not a good American. You're an overfilled sports reporter. You have been trying to rise above the social status of covering sports by making your bones as a Lefty weenie. You reached your level of smug incompetence at that about two decades ago. Go back to college hoops. (No offense to college hoops.)
STOP IT! STOP IT! YOU KNOW IT'S DIFFERENT NOW! STOP! You are VILE and STORMTROOPING!
That's DIFFERENT! You KNOW THIS!
Any mention of Code Pink assaulting Dr. Rice at a congressional hearing?
THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Any mention of SEIU thugs surrounding the homes of bank presidents.
THAT'S NOT THE SAME!!!!
while the writer is at it, can he explain to his child about the death threats against Congressman Cantor and his family?
STOP! YOU KNOW THAT'S DIFFERENT!
Holy cow, is that statement ever wrong!
Try the NY Post. Or the Wall Street Journal.
nothing violent about that huh?
Happy Easter.
And I forgot, self-professed Communist.
Who's this "we"? I went to Tea Parties in the beginning, but as soon as they started talking about running third party candidates, I was done with them.
THIS is stormtrooping:
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