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Tea party group's Obama float draws controversy
KOMO ^ | Sep 14, 2010 | KXLY-TV

Posted on 09/15/2010 7:09:03 AM PDT by epithermal

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The organizers of a Naches parade say they've heard criticism about a float that depicted President Obama cracking a whip over a youth who was pulling a wagon and sporting a shirt labeled "future tax payer."

The tea party-affiliated group "Remember Us ... We the People" sponsored the float in the annual Naches Sportsman's Days parade. Leader Kirk Groenig told the Yakima Herald-Republic that the group is trying to bring attention to overspending and the growing national debt.

He says he rejects the contention that it contained racial overtones.

(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: teaparty

1 posted on 09/15/2010 7:09:06 AM PDT by epithermal
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To: epithermal

Will Obama Back Coons? LMAO!


2 posted on 09/15/2010 7:10:07 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: epithermal
Good - I'm glad they're criticizing. It means we've got their attention.

And we mean to keep it.

3 posted on 09/15/2010 7:10:33 AM PDT by Allegra (Flank steak is very lean.)
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To: epithermal
Manufactured criticism.
4 posted on 09/15/2010 7:13:21 AM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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To: epithermal

Obama has no “slave” heritage,, except likely as the people who sold fellow africans into captivity. Get used to being offended,, A-holes. The game has changed.


5 posted on 09/15/2010 7:14:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: epithermal

Obama be a cracker.


6 posted on 09/15/2010 7:18:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
Obama be a cracker

... well, at least half a cracker.

7 posted on 09/15/2010 7:20:44 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: epithermal
Uhlmer was outraged over the float, saying that the float was seen by dozens during a parade meant for fun, not political agendas.

For fascists/socialists/liberals it's always in bad taste to question their One. How long before this is considered hate speech?

8 posted on 09/15/2010 7:28:47 AM PDT by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: epithermal
We have GOT to start steeling ourselves against this stifling PC that no doubt the leftists in society will try to heap upon us. There is NOTHING wrong with this float, and as soon as we even hint that we might apologize for some aspect of it, we lose.
9 posted on 09/15/2010 7:30:32 AM PDT by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: epithermal
The Oboma supporters see nothing BUT his race. Our world is so much bigger than that.

It sounds like a good float. He's enslaving the tax payers of America to fulfill his fathers Marxist nightmare. People should find creative ways to expose that, so other people understand what he's trying to do. The chaos he's created is not just an accident of an inexperienced man. He's doing it on purpose.

10 posted on 09/15/2010 7:31:11 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: nhwingut
Will Obama Back Coons? LMAO!

Yes, he can always be counted on to support Coons.

11 posted on 09/15/2010 7:37:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: epithermal
He says he rejects the contention that it contained racial overtones.

LMAO...Everything has racial overtones. Good God when will whites tell all who whine about 'racial overtones' to stuff it?

12 posted on 09/15/2010 7:42:16 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: epithermal

I don’t see one bit of racism. What has the libs angry is it shows what is happening to our youth (their futures being completely robbed). The float must have had some people thinking and presented a powerful message if the “race criers” came out.


13 posted on 09/15/2010 7:43:08 AM PDT by momtothree
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Why are the tolerant-types so obsessed with race?

It's all they ever think about.

14 posted on 09/15/2010 7:43:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: epithermal

Thats not obama. His ears are way too small.


15 posted on 09/15/2010 7:45:10 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why are the tolerant-types so obsessed with race?

That’s easy it’s the only tool they have to distort the facts and truth so they use it often,see mem.


16 posted on 09/15/2010 10:01:49 AM PDT by Vaduz
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