Posted on 05/04/2010 8:26:16 AM PDT by kristinn
Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.”
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They expected these same people to oppose the wars.
They falsely ask “where were you on spending and stimulus”. Again the conservatives were against it.
This is out of the frying pan and into the fire so it gets even more attention.
Meanwhile Obama is in some wars and yet the protests have gone largely silent. Gitmo is still open. Protests have gone silent. People are still dying yet the Leftist compiled (and erroneous) “war death list” is gone from newspaper front pages. Why is that I wonder?
They only wanted to see Americans dead in war to oust President Bush. That is IT.
We do but this guy's a doofus race baiter and he can't even make a compelling argument:
One of the things that the law says is that local officials are allow to ask somebody who they have a suspicion might be an illegal immigrant for their papers — but you can imagine if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona, your great, great grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.”
Beck nailed it yesterday when he said of Obama.
“You don’t fundamentally change what you truly love and cherish”
Yes!
Unfortunately, "language" and "words" are often picked and used to sway feelings and opinions, and that comes about by certain words and phrases having negative or positive connotations. This sort of practice seems to be getting worse these days and a lot of people have their political persuasions affected by mere words and not too much "thought" on the subject. And that's unfortunate.
But, since that's the way it is... (and with sound-bites and all...) -- the only thing to do is to take a word or phrase, and claim it for yourself and "turn it right back around" on the opposing side. That's about the only thing that works, and it takes the ground right out from under the opposition when you do that.
The other option (like is used in the "pro-life" camp) is to sling words back-at-'em, and use the same game (altough not as effective as appropriating the word for yourself). In the pro-life camp -- when they say, "pro-choice", you can say, "Oh, you mean 'pro-death', don't you?" ... :-)
Anyway, it's big game, actually, and like I said, it's too bad that it is, but that's the way it goes ... [ ... and it's the same game we learned as kids on the playground, too ... LOL ... ]
Maybe nobama da catcha not da picha and has seen teabaggin up close.
what a ‘scum bag’
He’s back to that crack again, huh? Adding to loony left, thug-0-crat, monster ping, and dip-lunacy research. [links in my profile attic].
He is a total a-hole.
The Republican Party leadership has been mostly ineffective or invisible. Michael Steele? He spends half his time taking potshots at other Republicans.
The only hopeful development since Jan. 2009 has been the spontaneous rise of the Tea Party movement, which the Republican Party had little to do with.
Lol... What an idiot...
I don’t mind the name, Ive been called worse by better people...
Its that the idiot doesn’t understand that the “teabaggers” are what forced the GOP to to offer resistance to the marxist.
The GOP did not create us, we are in the process of remaking the GOP.
UPDATE: Some liberal bloggers, taking issue with this post, have noted that some Tea Partyers coined and embraced the term "tea-baggers." That seems true, and I didn't address the coinage of the term above.
"Seems true?" He demonstrates he understands why Tea Partiers can't stand the term "teabaggers," then suggests we coined the term? What a tool....
This nast little mentally ill smartass faker of a president IS not a president. He is shallow, uninformed and unknowledgeable about America.
I cannot stand to listen or look at this smarmy flop earred freak.
I understand the sentiments and the feeling behind that, but it can also serve to "minimize" the "political power" that is really there -- in conservatives' minds.
There is political power there, no matter how much you want to minimize it with rhetoric about intelligence or being a smartass or a faker or even the sentiment that "he's not the President".
I mean, if you continue along the line of "thinking" that -- "He's not the President!" -- and he keeps changing U.S. policy, and he orders the military to do things as "Commander in Chief" and he signs legislation from a Democrat Congress, and he goes out and talks to other world leaders from his Marxist/Liberal/Leftist stance -- these are "real things" in "real life".
The rhetoric you state doesn't address the real political power, the real control he has over policty, the real interaction he has with world leaders and so on ... right on down the line.
So, I think that kind of language just serves to somewhat lessen the effectiveness of conservatives in opposing him -- instead of recognizing, right up front, that he's got all the power and he is doing things and he's doing them in calculated ways and he's using the power and machinery of the Democrat Party and the mechanisms of government to do it all.
It's time to start opposing him in a "real world sense" -- in terms of recognizing the real power and position that is there, in that office that he inhabits ...
AND..., by the way, I've never listened to one single speech that he's ever given, and I mean "ever"! ... LOL ... So I can't stand listening to him either... but I do read news articles and some quotes and sometimes the actual speeches that he has given, in order to be informed. But, "listening" -- I just can't stand it either ... :-)
(PS, the teabaggER is considered the dominant one in the relationship, so Democrats, get used to being our #@($*@( when we take over.)
When the liberals use this term, I always ask them, do you think Michelle is a teabagger? Has anyone asked odumbo?
I agree with every word you said.
Actually few of us knew enough about Gay Porn to understand that term a year ago. But we should embrace it, because it has meaning to THEM, and very clearly it gets under their skin!
Come on, tell us how you really feel about Bozo, don’t hold back.
What The First Dummy doesn't get is that you don't have to be a supporter of the Tea Parties to be revolted at the liberals' use of the term "teabaggers." This will erode what support he has left with the left-of-center crowd.
Well, considering that on February 1, 2009 -- FedUpUSA called for people to send tea bags to members of Congress -- "a Commemorative Tea Party" -- that shows where the name of "tea bag" came from... and it was very appropriate as a symbol for what the TEA Party is doing.
So, it makes sense to appropriate the name "tea-bagger" for the party and individuals, considering this big mass action that was done, sending in those "tea bags" ... :-)
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