Posted on 02/06/2010 5:21:54 AM PST by iowamark
They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement...
The anti-Government, anti-Establishment movement, which has splintered in the past week with many boycotting this gathering, has billed itself as a revolution born of the widespread disgust at Washington and the way that the nation’s politicians are bankrupting America’s future.
Yet the speech that opened the Nashville event yesterday, an address greeted with whoops and cheers from the mainly white audience, reflects a movement that also appears to have a less attractive side to it.
Tom Tancredo, a former Republican congressman who ran for president in 2008 on an anti-illegal immigration platform, said of the voters who elected Mr Obama: “They could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English and they put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — Barack Hussein Obama!”
Decrying America’s multiculturalism, Mr Tancredo said that Republicans and Democrats had voted for a black man because they felt they had to. To a standing ovation, he shouted: “We really do have a culture to pass on to our children: it’s based on Judaeo-Christian values.”
“This is our country,” he declared. “Let’s take it back!” He added, to applause: “Cultures are not the same. Some are better. Ours is best!” The crowd, some wearing recently purchased T-shirts saying “Keep the change — I’ll keep my FREEDOM my GUNS and my MONEY”, loved it...
One featured speaker, a “Patriot Pastor” named Rick Scarborough, told The Times that he was not against legal immigrants “but God has ordained that you are not a nation if you don’t have borders”...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
sadly, I think that is why those Baptist missionaires are in a PaP rathole prison- cultural sensitivity about shipping Haiti kids out to better lives
“Tim Reid, the author, is still blind to his nation’s open borders policy that is bringing the most radical enemies of freedom inside their nation.”
The irony did not escape me.
That's your typical low-rent, no-class, Welfare/Affirmative Action minority sense of entitlement on shameless display for the world to see as the bile rises in their collective throat at the unmitigated gall of it.
Anyone with half a brain, or any class at all, would be mortified to have the entire world watching them showing their "I-ME-ME-Mine" naked-emperor butt like this. But not this ass-clown. He's too stupid, and too bust staring at the photos of himself that he hea plastered all over the White Houe (I'm NOT kidding!) to know any better. And his ignoramus Dembicile posse just cheers him on with equally lacking moral certitude. It's like Jerry Springer week at the White House.
The history books are going to torch this rumpwad, and his legacy will be "Too Ignorant To Be Ashamed, BO Snatches Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory By Being STOOPIT."
;-/
America haters, liberal scum and all registered Democrats aint see nuttin yet!
Thank you. The Tea Party movement is something I feel *very* strongly about. I just want the real philosophy and purpose to be shared and understood far and wide so that the real movement maintains its immense positive influence and doesn’t turn into parochial, partisan nonsense. That’s my take on it, anyway.
I agree. However, those seeking "leadship" in the Tea Party are being assisted by the MSM to assist the left. The MSM want "leader figures" available so these Alinskyites can more easily -'Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.'
The MSM is making every attempt to attach a "person" to the Tea Party movement so they can find a weakness in that particular person and attach it to the movement.
Alinsky's rule won't work if Tea Party members continue to embrace the most "decentralized" concept, i.e.
"I am a Tea Party member. I am a Party of One.
I choose to be led only by MY values, and to work with those who share them."
Your note triggered a thought had never crossed my mind in 35 years as an amateur historian. There is one significant difference between the United States of America and every other nation in the New World; a non-Roman Catholic foundation. Even Canada has been influenced by the Church in Quebec.
It has been affected more so recently with the advent of Liberation Theology and the Catholic Left. Compare the politics and lifestyle in Europe under monarchs and bishops up to the Age of Enlightenment and today in the Roman Catholic New World; a suffering underclass which accepts its position in life, awaiting Heaven’s Reward and an upperclass of privilege.
Thank you
Where’s the BARF alert?
Yep. And you can't fight in an organized way against a foe that is shapeless, massive and both everywhere and nowhere at once. Except at the ballot box where we materialize and overwhelm the opposition.
I love the Tea Party movement! We're winners. :0)
If we address the influx of illegal immigrants who are not only swamping state and municipal budgets to the point of going broke but changing the very fabric of this nation, we're condemned.
If we address the wrongness of racial set-asides and affirmative action and say were for a color-blind society, we're condemned.
If we dare stand up and say enough is enough, that we're proud of our heritage and we want to protect it, we're condemned.
With all due respect, Mr. Reid, you can go straight to hell. This is OUR country, and we are SICK AND TIRED of watching it being destroyed from within. We ARE going to fight back, whether or not some limp-wristed pansy from across the sea gets his panties in a knot over it.
Good day, Sir.
How do you think the state of Maryland began? Who do you think built the majority of first hospitals, schools, etc, here in the USA?
This idiot’s enitre article is an exercise in anti-American xenophobia. But leftists are incapable of seeing their own hypocrisy, so this is no surprise...
What's even more despicable is that he attempts to draw in the Tea Party movement as being behind all this alleged "racism" so as to discredit it. I haven't even seen very many American liberals try that yet but I'm sure they will in time, though it's sure to backfire.
God Bless Tom Tancredo.
Accused of being "dark underbelly of xenophobia "
Accused of being "anti-Government, anti-Establishment movement"
Accused of being racist by "whoops and cheers from the mainly white audience"
Accused of being undesirable by "appears to have a less attractive side to it."
Recognizes that "voters who elected Mr Obama: “They could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English"
Likes "Lisa Mei Norton, who sang among other songs one entitled Where Were You Born?"
Understands "We don’t want to become like the UK where in places you have Sharia"
I would say that the author of this bit tried pretty hard to portray a undesirable movement but only succeeded in stating the Tea Party case.
Typical.
No matter how hard the “liberals” try to make their communist views appear "correct" they trip on their own shoelaces...
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"I am a Tea Party member. I am a Party of One.
I choose to be led only by MY values, and to work with those who share them."
The difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism demands people act like adults and take charge of their own lives. Socialism allows many people, like the women you talked to, to remain children.
I know this kind of guy. He lives in the basement in his mother’s termite farm.
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