Searclight Tea Party ... Americans have had enough of OBAMA ??
Posted by: Geoff P on 19 August 2010
So is this going to have the impact it is trying for? They estimate more than 10,000 people turned up to this small town with a normal population of just 500 so I guess quite a lot made a special effort.
Friends of mine from several locations around the US are all hoping this will have an impact.
Geoff
Posted on: 20 August 2010 by Peter Dinh
quote:Originally posted by Paper Plane:
The impression I get from the media is that Americans are obsessed with 'taxes' (of all types) and don't want to pay anything. How do they expect to have a police service/fire service/public administratio/etc if no-one pays any taxes?
As for Palin, the thought that she could ever become the leader of the world's most powerful nation (at the moment) frightens the life out of me. Her lack of awareness of the world outside of the US and the narrowness of her views are terrifying.
steve
Nobody in the USA can avoid tax, in fact I recall that somebody here said that two things in life that you cannot avoid are death and tax.
I like Palin as a person (except her political view) but it is extremely frightening that she could become the President. However, I do not think that would happen because the American public are not that naive despite that fact that some world media have been trying to portray that image.
Posted on: 20 August 2010 by Jet Johnson
quote:Originally posted by Jet Johnson:
.....I guess we (i.e generally liberal caring persons) always knew that corporate America would never allow Obama anything like a fair crack of the whip once elected to carry out his pledges
...Obama frighten's the hell out of the Fox news / Tea Party cartel and has (and will) be targeted as no President ever has previously...let's just hope there are enough decent Americans around to ensure a 2nd term is secured to allow Barak to push through the bills so many previously disenfranchised Americans desperately need.
Posted on: 20 August 2010 by fred simon
quote:Originally posted by Paper Plane:
The impression I get from the media is that Americans are obsessed with 'taxes' (of all types) and don't want to pay anything. How do they expect to have a police service/fire service/public administration/etc if no-one pays any taxes?
Steve, you're absolutely on target here. However, it's not all Americans who don't want to pay taxes ... many do so willingly because they understand that it's part of the bargain in a society with common needs. It's just that those who astoundingly don't get it are overly vocal, and many like to pretend that they're "patriots" in the 1700s throwing tea into the Boston harbor. They haven't yet put it together that the ones who are screwing them over are the same ones they vote for. They're angry because the unbridled predatory banks have been foreclosing on their homes, but when Obama's administration wants to institute stronger regulation of the banking industry, why, that's SOCIALISM doncha know! We can't have that!
quote:As for Palin, the thought that she could ever become the leader of the world's most powerful nation (at the moment) frightens the life out of me. Her lack of awareness of the world outside of the US and the narrowness of her views are terrifying.
Needless to say, I agree, although many felt the same about Bush Jr. and we know what happened there. Palin is a dangerous demagogue, and in this regard she makes Bush seem, well ... bush league by comparison.
I've often thought that the best way to ensure Obama's reelection would be to run Palin against him, but then again, 36% of the American public now ignorantly thinks that Obama is Muslim (as if that would somehow be terrible and un-American if he were), so I guess we can't always depend on the inherent common sense of the American public.