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Obama's aristocrats attitude toward TEA Party "Let them eat cake"
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by CynicalPatriot | January 10, 2010 at 10:49 am
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I read the two articles mentioned below and wrote and article about my opinion on Examiner.com. I hope that what you read hear will entice you to read the rest there.
I was motivated to write this article after reading the following two articles:
Is The Tea Party Simply A Symbol Of Public Anger Or Is It The Future of the GOP? (Sodahead)
which was inspired by
The Tea Party Teens (New York Times)
Both of these articles seem to be attempts by liberal would be Political Pundits to explain, what seems to them to be, the unfathomable present status of the TEA Party Movement:. To quote NYT's David Brooks:"But it is now more popular than either major party. According to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 41 percent of Americans have a positive view of the tea party movement. Only 35 percent of Americans have a positive view of the Democrats and only 28 percent have a positive view of the Republican Party."
Sodahead's Lon (no last name - maybe in hiding?) put it this way:
"The Republican Party holds a 28% net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating, the Democratic Party holds a net-negative fav/unfav 35-45%. The shocker is that the Tea Party movement holds a 41-23% net-positive score."
NYT's Brooks posited the explanation for the rise of the TEA Party as being backlash by the uneducated commoners against the educated class.
If you would like to read the rest of the article, please click here - Examiner.com
Those were my thoughts
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at 12:03 on January 10th, 2010
Brooks is full of himself. Even some educated elites support the Tea Party.
at 13:08 on January 10th, 2010
Firstly, both of the quoted articles are very nearly identical.
Secondly, nothing in those articles that I can see, (I have no doubt I will stand corrected shortly) says anything new, in any new administration, there will be lows as far as polls are concerned, look at it logically, someone takes over from someone else, with all the inherited problems, it ain't going to get better overnight!
We have our version of the tea party family here, called the conservative 1922 committee.
I honestly think that any organisation that identifies itself and it's views and ideals with something so far back in history has absolutely no place trying to make and direct policy in modern society, it's no bloody different to what they keep accusing those "dreaded" muslims of....living in the past on ancient rules and tenets of faith and belief
at 20:53 on January 10th, 2010
You missed the point. I don't care abut the poll, I care that Liberals have admitted to feeling intellectually superior to the common man. I care that they think they should be able to ignore the constitution because they are our intellectual superiors... (would be God Like Benefactors) And that pesky principle of old fashioned Liberty means nothing to you.
Some place it is written that we were all created "equal" and someplace it is written we all of equal rights... Apparently Liberals feel they are more equal than the rest of us.
How soon before Obama has us living under a class system like India?
I don't have the need to feel superior to anybody.
Ditch digger or doctor, I view them as being equal to me so long as they abide by 3 simpe rules
1) be happy with your life
2) pay your own way
3) don;'t screw anyone over
And how ridiculous to compare freedom, liberty and equality to your negative perception that you cast on all Muslims. Perhaps you should some of the books of THE ENLIGHTENMENT that the Founding Fathers were reading when they drafted the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. How out of touch with reality must you be to compare the literature that world dubbed the "enlightening" as outdated. Do you really find the concepts of Natural Law and inalienable god given rights as outdated?
In closing, thank you for showing what liberals and progessives really want and believe.
It will only strengthen the tea party movement
Respectfully Submitted,
Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot
at 13:26 on January 10th, 2010
And I must add having read you're article, sir, that you need to stop spouting vitriole and hang back on the invective at least sufficiently long enough to attract an audience before you totally alienate it with hate filled diatribes.
It would also help your cause somewhat, when attempting to quote Obama to belittle him, that you do - in fact - quote him, and not what someone has written about him.
at 21:06 on January 10th, 2010
I already have an address.
As for vitriole, would be tyrants that would shred the constitution and declare themselves the intellectual superiors of others should expect some scorn, should they not.. ?
And talk about intellectually dishonest, how many times have the progressive liberals try to paint the entire tea party movement with the right wing nut brush?
You ask me not to attribute what persons that voted for him said to Obama, but what is more important is what all of you Obama supporters did not say...
None of you have said that expressing "educated class" superiority was wrong and you do not agree.
That is the most telling fact of all.
Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot
at 17:22 on January 10th, 2010
"....the TEA Party as being backlash by the uneducated commoners against the educated class. "
As an uneducated commoner, i not only resemble that remark - the part that is correct - but resent the idiotic and incorrect part.
While not a "Tea Partyer", i do agree with their right to express themselves. Nothing i have seen sets them up as being against the "educated class". They oppose the overbearing burden of government on their lives, and the ongoing power grab by the ruling elite. Education has absolutely nothing to do with it.
While Brooks, in his sniveling arrogance, may feel threatened by the likes of the common man, i doubt they are much impressed with his "education".