The mood in the country has gone from bad to worse. Just when you think the country has truly evolved, by electing a black man to the presidency and by finally overcoming the big insurance lobby to get a start on reforming health care for all Americans, the dark side of democracy which perpetuated slavery for over 100 years comes back to rear its ugly head in the shape of a tea bag.

I refuse to dignify the tea baggers with the distinction of calling their cause a movement. A gang of rednecks who can’t stomach a black man in the oval office are out here trying anything to make the president of the United States fail to accomplish anything no matter how good it is for the country. They call him socialist, they say he is not a born American, they call him a dictator, they just stop short of calling him what they really want to call him and it rhymes with bigger. They call him uppity. Those in my audience of color know full well what that means. The tea baggers are mobilized and determined to destroy anyone who assists the president in accomplishing anything.

Where was all this “patriotism” while the Bush administration was really taking away personal freedoms. Where were these voices as they led this country into a war for oil. Oil which the country has not seen a drop of, by the way. Where were their voices as that administration thoroughly destroyed any good will we may have had in the world? Conspicuously SILENT!!!! Oh, I see, they saw no threat in any of that behavior because a twanging Texas buffoon and his master, the then vice president were the right skin color.

Politicians who have stoked the high pitch of the dangerous rhetoric and atmosphere of hate and calling it just politics deserve to be called what they are. A bunch of race baiting, fear mongering, hypocrites who would rather see defeat for the other side at any cost should be and largely are, rejected by any thinking human being. Call it all by the name it deserves, BIGOT!!

Refuse to be afraid of becoming the America that we can be. A land where neighbors care about each other regardless of what color they are, the name they use for their creator, and who they sleep with. America deserves better from our elected officials and must hold those that would bully the citizenry into following their path of “win at all costs”. It is all about power and control of the masses.

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Originally posted 2010-03-27 03:53:53.

I would like to extend my personal thanks for clearing up the mystery behind the euphemism, “Conservative.”

With his decisive trouncing of Trey Grayson, Mitch McConnell’s endorsee, he has proven that good ole Mitch has absolutely no juice in his home state of Kentucky. This also proves that when McConnell uses the phrase, the American People, he is speaking for a minority so small that any objections he makes to anything, he cannot be taken seriously; which I don’t believe any thinking American did any way. He has single handedly indicted the “just say no” policy of his Senate Minority leadership as impotent and nothing more than sour grapes because the right guy won.

Then the Tea Bagger candidate, had an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show, and the sky fell. He exposed what the “movement” is all about. He said exactly what they mean when the say “We want our country back!!” He removed all doubt as to why militia’s are being formed in red neck states. He ripped the scab off any notion that, people carrying guns to rallies are really protesting for a constitutional right to bear arms. He showed that the Tea Baggers are made up of a bunch of scared white people who are looking for some one to lead the nation back to the “good ole days” of segregation, fire hosings, beatings, murders, rapes and discrimination based on your not being white.

What he said is what he actually believes. The only reason he did not call for the outright repeal of civil rights legislation was that he knew that it would be political suicide. Hard as he has been trying to walk back the positions he took this will dog him for quite a while. Even if the outrage does wane, you better believe his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, will remind all of Kentucky and the nation of what he really believes.

In a nutshell he believes that it is OK to treat people inhumanely; to discriminate on any basis whatsoever. Never mind that he would nor like to be treated that way but he is just a good ole boy from Kentucky and he’s alright. He is one of them.

So Thank you Dr. Paul there is no more doubt as to what the true Conservatives, the Tea Baggers are all about. Got any relatives in Arizona? Is it a Southern thing?

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Originally posted 2010-05-21 22:42:46.