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[NetProphet]

I think these Tea Parties were in the making for over 2 years now. They just got their act together yesterday!

[NetProphet]

This whole thing was a farce! They're crying "no taxation w/o representation" - a borrowed phrase of 200 yrs ago and then it was under different circumstances! BESIDES...­..we've got "representation" it's called ELECTIONS.

These GOPpers are still moving in the past and don't want to face the music along with the rest of us .......OBA­MA won!.....s­o get over it and let's move on.

[maggie711]

Wrong again! Not all posters stated 'taxation w/o representation', that was NOT the only issue and even taxation w/representation is the problem! Familiar with the 1st amendment, it's called freedom of speech! Th Tea Parties were about multiple issues' starting with fiscal responsibility which there appears to be none! Its about 'future taxation' coming our way! It's about BIG government that steps into the private sector and tells US what to do! You like so many DON'T GET IT! You focus on part of the problem, you focus on the moment and you can't see beyond the horizon. Get out of your box and look at ALL the issues sir. Ignorance will be no excuse when you start crying.

[glalgoo]

You people don't get it. Who cares what a man said or didn't say 2000 years ago? You need to get over yourself and realize that this nation will not go on forever, nothing does. It will end and fade into history like so many others have before it. Your petty bickering will mean nothing in 500yrs.

[420]

We only see white people because they are bigots and racists. The only America they love is the one they love, and a very narrow minded view of that America. I love small town America, but it is a place where time stands still. One big reason the Gop is in a mess. A much as cities are a mess they truely represent all America.

[wltdnfaded]

Word.

[chelliza]

Several of the founding fathers were athiests so they were not setting up a country for a particular religion. They wanted a country with freedom for every religion and freedom of no religion as well.

[BelGazou]

It reminds me of Newt Gingrich's Contract on America but less populated. Keep up the hate speech and the hype; a little more backlash is always welcome.

[marianao415]

It's amazing how things have been changing in less than 100 days. Everything has been declared President Bush's fault. You people don't seem to realize that he is not President anymore, and that in the history of the U.S. no new President blames the previous one, only Mr. Obama Hussein has been doing it since day #1. I also thought that in this country where a Democracy has been instituted with freedom and liberty for all, every American has a right to complain, disagree and express their free opinions, not just a few. We have to see how your liberal news personnel post lies and inuendos, but noone can complain if the people of the U.S. is fed up with high government spending, and high taxes for the benefit of a few. We are amazed that with a Socialist-liberal Democrat Senate and many the same Representatives the "system" has been enforcing laws and the people have no rights to complain about it? I only hope that you people come to the realization that the "Tea Parties" are here to stay. The people will continue to complain and those that go against it, who have the same rights if not more will also be there. The difference: they get paid for standing against other Americans. Those that participated today in their rights did it of their free will.

[juanjo]

I do not know where you were for the past 8 years but the Republicans have been blaming everything on FDR, Clinton and Carter since Bush took office, Obama has nolt been blaming Bush for the mess we are in, the American people have been blaming Bush and for goiod reason.

[temenyeweet]

Economies don't go into the tank suddenly..­. the seeds are sown over many years. The libertarian disguised as capitalist regime of the last eight years did this to us. Bush did this to us. Cheney did this to us. We just get a chance to fix it slowly and to re-regulate the high fliers and separate banking from investment again. The inventors and speculators of and in derivates and credit default swaps set this off, and did it on Bush's not-watching anyone. We simply get to do what we an do. It's nice to think we may even have a President who's smarter than both of us, friend marianao415. As for taxes, if Obama gets his way taxes on the richest of the richest of us will be lower than they were under Reagan, and way lower than 1948. We have the lowest rates of taxation in this country of any industrialized nation. We've got it good. Some of us can afford more. We can eliminate the accumulated deficit by taxing the beneficiaries of it: the 10% of the people who own 90% of the wealth.

[oldguru]

marianazero415, Your hatred of PRESIDENT Obama is quite evident. You appear to be one of the unredeemable kool-aid drinkers. Nothing you have to say carries much weight with thinking people.

[schmoopy]

OMG. You sound like you have been brain washed. Quit listening to Rush and pay attention to the President. Hags like Rush never give you the whole story. If you pay attention to the President himself, you will see that he IS doing what is best for America. He loves this country. People like you are the problem with America. Yes, you have the right to protest, but you are dividing the country, not bringing it together. I keep reading in your piece, "you people", like the people that support our President are a different species. We are all Americans. Like our Commander In Chief said "We are not Red America or Blue America, but the Untied States of America". Listen to the message and realize that UNITED, not divided, is what will win and what our country needs.

[nananance]

It is obvious this is a right-wing anti-Obama action having little or nothing to do with taxes. The sign "This is a Christian nation" would offend Jesus himself, who believed in the separation of church and state

[marianao415]

nananance, May I ask you why you call the "tea party" demonstrations "right wing anti-Obama Hussein actions? If you are happy, which you seem to be and you can express your opinion in this forum/blog etc. it's other peoples same right to complain for what they seem to be fed up with in only less than 100 days. I have suffered committees for the defense of a so-called revolution, persecution, family in jail suffering the hardship of mistreatments, but here people like you complain that terrorists in Guantanamo are mistreated, when they are fed, can attend services of their own religions, have free time and are a burden to the American taxpayer, when they attacked this country and killed thousands of Americans and you seem to not understand that we have rights also to complain about anything and everything. This is a Christian Nation, something Mr. Obama Hussein disclaimed in Europe. Who was he trying to impress? The fact that he is not a Christian, but maybe a muslim, does not affect anyone, but he must and should respect the history of this land where as a Christian nation it was created and it will survive the present attacks. Have you read the Constitution? If you don't know what you are saying but only like to complain, that's your right. But please make sure you don't use blasphemy mentioning Jesus Christ with your mouth.

[brownswan]

Who is this Mr. Obama Hussein? Distorting our president's name is so obvoiusly an attempt to inflame hatred for an 'un-Christian' sounding name (as in Sadam Hussein) that it should embarrass the reasonable men and women among us. .

Our president's name is Barack Hussein Obama. God bless him, which I believe He does, just as He does not bless those who resort to hate and prejudice and fear and ignorance. The New Testament tells us to turn away from exclusion, to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. If anything, it preaches socialism as it has seldom, if ever, been practiced to date.

Those of you who call yourselves Christians and patriots might do well to consider that.

[juanjo]

Some of my forefathers helped found this nation. They were not Christians and they did not help found a Christian Nation as you define it. I have read the constitution and it stands for keeping religion out of government and government out of religion. You might not like that byt as they say where I grew up, "them's the facts".

[Aimleft]

Anyone who deliberately inflames hatred by distorting our president's name in such a way does not deserve to call themselves a Christian. And anyone who stil believes our president is a Muslim (and so what if he was, but he isn't) should do a little more reading and a little less knee-jerk hating before spouting off their extreme right-wing views. You have every right to SAY what you want to say, which includes the right to show your absolute ignorance and lack of free will to actually think. That is exactly what is wrong with those at the so-called tea party demonstrations. They don't even know what they are demonstrating against. You are angry, hating racists who call yourselves Christians. It's almost funny. Almost. The entire intent of those demonstrations is to have a free-speech zone to express hatred against Obama. That's it.

[wltdnfaded]

You realize "Christian Nation" is Nutterspeak for "White Power", don't you?

[schmoopy]

ABSOLUTELY

[Carmichael]

I agree, why argue with stupidity. The sign that read "Obama speak for yourself, we're a Christian Nation". That person needs a reality check and true understanding for what Christ stood for when he was here, and what his words continue to say. These people use this event for one reason, and that is to show their resentent and hatred for president Obama, and what is also sad, most of them out there are just pure copycat. Ask them something about the economy along the political line and I guarantee you that ther answers will be stupid.

[HooverBush]

Carmichael,
All those people giving the same stupid answer like to call themselves "Ditto-Heads".

[marianao415]

Carmichael,

I have heard a common American saying: what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Why do you have a right to complain and we cannot use our rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press to proclaim what we believe is right?
Wy are you being so offensive. Who called you stupid and copycat? Did it hurt you to see many
Americans for the first time since 1772 defending their rights in their own country?

[Aimleft]

Marianao - I bet you weren't defending the people who protested against Bush's war in Iraq, were you? Oh no, back then, it is the same people like you, who called anyone who spoke out against ANYTHING traitors who "hated America," anti-Americans, and every other name in the book. I'm sure you joined right in with them, because you don't even know how to follow your own words - "what's good for the goose is good for the gander." And by the way, that "free speech" you so like to mention DOES go for all of us. For those who protested the war and other horrible actions brought about by the Bush administration, AND for our disdain for those now protesting against Obama after his only 100 days in office. It is KNEE-JERK, right wing extremism and hatred being displayed at these little tea parties, from people who don't even know what they're talking about. It has been funded by right-wing billionaires. People were not protesting against Bush until he gave them a reason, and continued to do so. You should open your eyes and shut your mouth, because your comments go against everything I have ever read about Christianity when you support the obvious hatred being shown at the tea party rallies.

[dibick99]

let's just face it. you can't argue with stupidity.

[HooverBush]

Stop picking on the "Teabaggers":
All they want to do is tell Obama to stop doing things for the working middle class, and start helping the rich, like Bush did for 8 years. Stop cutting our taxes & give the money to the rich, like Bush did. Don't extend working peoples' unemployment benefits to the people who lost their jobs, due to Bush's trickle down policies. These teabaggers have every right in the world to act like Bozos, and they're doing an outstanding job of it.

[marianao415]

Hoover.
Your post is so sad it's funny. You are full of greed. You are also full of hatred vs. the working middle class. It must be you live on welfare and don't need to work. Where is the money being given out by Obama Hussein? It's been given, as you seem illiterate and don't read the news correctly in CBS, NBC, MSNBC all government media, to the high corporations to use for their relaxing parties, bonus, and retirement benefits. Also those that should defend the working class are sold out to the "new system". These "tebaggers as you call us" are not Bozos, they are plain American workers, retirees and young voters that have all the rights in the world under our Constitution to the freedoms you want to enjoy and deny others.

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[PeaceSuccess2be]

Calling them Bozos is actually polite. I would say delusional and ignorant.

[writerroz]

I meant they'll drown in their tea pees.

[writerroz]

Who ever pretended this is a CHRISTIAN NATION? Let's hope a lot of tea partiers will drown in their tea peas.

[marianao415]

FYI these Americans are not going to drown on anything. They'll be coming out more and more in hordes to tell the world that something that never happened in this great land of freedom and liberty since 1772 is happening now. Why? Because we have a type of government that offered CHANGE. But never showed an income tax return for the President to be. Never showed a Birth Certificate for him. Never showed that he was a Community Organizer and was not ready to be President. Good talker and better reader but nothing more. He has discredited the U.S. in all of Europe and now Spain wants to take over and condemn our government people from previous years. Where is the respect we always enjoyed from these countries? Everything lost in less than 100 days.. Is that the CHANGE offered? It sounds to be like "the pits".

[MoeB]

LOL!!!

Please enlighten me. What is going on now that hasn't happened since 1772?

Further:
1. Obama has already shown his birth certificate. You folks REALLY need to let that go because you sound like crazy conspiracy theorists.
2. The Obamas actually DID release their tax returns...­WAY back in the primaries.
3. It was WIDELY advertised that he was a community organizer.
4. Spain wanting to prosecute people in the Bush administration has NOTHING to do with Obama's visit there and EVERYTHING to do with torture and the Geneva Convention.

[Akat1973]

We are a Christian nation,really huh?WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF RELIGION??
Well Jesus seemed to like poor people in the Bible&Obama wants to help the poor.SO WHY DONT THESE PEOPLE GO(VOLUNTEER)WORK IN A SOUP KITCHEN FOR A DAY AND ACT CHRISTIAN!There was a tax cut on April first that went to 95% of working Americans.­If we were really a Christian Nation we would be acting as the body of Christ would-and we would want to insure sick children,help people get educations,Fix New Orleans,volunteer at Nursing Homes,orph­anages!ect­,ect! (kind acts)
BUT We are IN FACT A GREEDY NATION!!!!­.SO WHEN THEY SAY CHRISTIAN I SUPPOSE THEY MEAN The GEORGE BUSH type"CHRISTIAN" YOU KNOW THE GUY WHO ALSO ALLOWED ABORTIONS,COMITTED WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, AND KILLED ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD,OH RIGHT,THOSE TYPE OF CHRISTIANS!
FUN FACT- GEORGE BUSH PRAYED DAILY WITH HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTER WHO WAS PREACHING AND RAILING AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY,ALL WHILE HIS PASTOR WAS HIRING MALE PROSTITUTES AND USING METHAMPHETAMINES! HYPOCRITES!
I am glad I think for myself. these people are so dumb its scary and FUNNY!

[Rosie2]

What is with the SIGN? People know that the Obama family are Christians and so what an idiotic way to try and cover their bigotry.

[Bobertbobert]

Jesus Christ said, if you love me keep my commandments; people who posture as Christians need to identify with their namesake.

[Dustee]

Yeah, most Christian wing nuts don't do that.