This is an old post transferred here from another site.
I do have to say that recent matters have become very… Interesting!
On The 15'th of April there were some “Tea Parties” happening around the country.
At work I have a lot of opportunities to listen to talk radio. I like to listen to a certain Conservative on occasion, but After his show I have the opportunity to listen to um... A Liberal.
Now On the conservative's program they were talking with people involved in the tea parties about what the tea parties were all about and who set them up etc.
Some of the people I have heard from, both on these kinds of programs and in “real life” are all over the spectrum. They are liberals; they are conservatives, all ethnicities, and genders, even people of all sexual identities.
They all gathered for one purpose. They gathered to protest big Government.
To protest the over spending and over taxing being pushed on us by BOTH parties. They said so themselves.
But on the Liberal's show THE Host and HE alone! Declared that this was not a grass roots organization, THEN after that declaration he went on to state that this was organized by and I quote… “Community organizers”. He also wanted us to believe that these “community organizers are regular people in their communities who go out and get these events together. Statements made on his show included… “They lead by motivating people.” “It is so hard to be a community organizer.” “The right wing idiots made fun of Obama for being a community organizer but here they are using those very people to operate this Astroturf movement.
His implication being that using the “community organizers” to do this was to be hypocritical. This proves to me that he has lost the whole point.
Not only has it escaped him about the true nature of this event; but it is quite apparent that he missed the point behind why the conservatives were concerned about his being a community organizer.
So I wish to clarify this.
Of all the people I have heard from NONE of them were politicians. Many were motivated simply, in their own words, by the “extravagances of the federal government.”
And the point behind concerns about Obama were, that when Obama needed to present to us, the American people, all the experience he had that made him worthy to be the president of the United States of America; the best he had to offer was that he had been a Community Organizer.
Just about everyone in the country has, at one time or another done something like that. By his statement I might as well be president. I have organized things the same as he did.
I also have been an AYSO soccer coach, a Scout leader, and in the Army National Guard… based on my track record, I have 1,000 times more experience than Obama presented.
Thus the problem conservatives had with Obama’s Community organizing was that, that was the ONLY criteria he ever gave, to indicate his capabilities as a presidential candidate.
This is NOT hypocrisy. The people organizing the TEA parties have not said.. “oh by the way I am going to run for president because I got 500 people to show up for a TEA party.”
As for the event itself, regular people brought up this whole issue. There are no ties to ANY party or government agency. And when you look at the rhetoric that was brought out at most of the event’s held, you see that the issue is not entirely focused on the current administration.
The reason why it comes up on this watch is because Obama was voted into office, SPECIFICALLY, on the promise that he would change the way things work, he was going to stop the wild spending sprees in government and he was going to make the government more responsible to the people.
What he has done in reality is INCREASE spending, Increase big government, INCREASE the federal deficit and all against what he declared he was going to do.
And the American people have said “that’s enough. We are tired of having our rights trampled, and we are tired of the lies, AND we are tired of the idiocy we see in policies coming from our elected officials.”
One of the big “gotcha points” of the Liberal’s was “the Boston tea party, which this is supposed to be [emulating], was against taxation without representation.” But he points out, “ the people ARE represented. They were the ones who went to the voting places and they voted. That is their representation.” Well the problem here is these people who have gathered feel they are NOT being represented. The government under Obama has NOT LISTENED to the will of the people and thus is NOT representing that will. And therefore the people do not have representation.
Please listen people. We are not the enemy! We need to start cleaning it up.
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