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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
And that black guy you are refering to is doing an awful job. His ratings are terrible. He is simply carrying on the Bush plan. Obama was all about "change" and "hope"......haha. The economy will crash, the wars will escalate, and the constitution will continue to be ripped to shreds in favour of more globalization.
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It is too bad that any criticism of Obama will go straight to the race card.
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1) The sad / funny thing about the Tea Party is that they're not even focused on the real important Constitutional issues. They want to adhere to the Constitution blah blah blah but there is not one Tea Party splinter group that is shouting from the rooftops about how the current and past administrations have been incarcerating (and marking for death) US citizens without due process. I'm not sure you can find much in the Constitution about running fiscal debts, but I'm quite sure there is at least one prominent line about the rights of American citizens to due process. The Tea Party's complaints are just an amalgamation of the fiscal and cultural anxieties of the middle / lower middle class of white America bubbling to the surface.
2) As for the race card, i see it being played in reverse. The 'aggrieved' whites are trying to play themselves as the victims in current society, as living under a new 'regime' (a term used constantly on Fox / Limbaugh / Ingraham / Bachmann / Tea Party Express spokesman Williams). The NAACP, the new black panthers, and Sherrod stories are all being framed on these venues as the white person being the victim. This is typical of majorities who feel the landscape shifting underneath their feet, expressing publicly and vaguely that they "want their America / country back" because they have no other way of expressing the nativism that they're feeling deep inside.