Who are the people watching the protests gonna believe-the racist protestors or their paychecks?

[jenmito]

No matter WHAT these crazy conservatives say with their signs today, every working American making less than $200,000 will see an increase in their paychecks, and those making $250,000 or more will se NO changes in their paychecks. So the teabaggers can do and say whatever they want-nobody's going to believe them-not even the "low information voters." (The racists who never did and never will support Obama will remain in denial, I guess.)

[azmouse]

1. When Pres Obama says "95% of workers get a tax cut"

the RW hears "5% are getting their taxes raised".

Their minds do not work properly.

[jenmito]

3. But not even THAT is true...

Only the top TWO percent will have their taxes raised from 36-39%. The remaining 3% will see no change.

[azmouse]

8. It doesn't matter to them.

All they hear is 'taxes raised'. They rest of the words just shoot through their heads without stopping.

[jenmito]

9. I know...

they shouldn't even be allowed to vote.

[customerserviceguy]

2. OK, being as I'm an early poster on one of these threads...

I expect I might get an answer. What is racist about trying to be cheap? It may be skinflint, but I don't get what makes it racist. If Hillary Clinton were our President, would it be sexist instead?

[jenmito]

4. They had a poster of a white hand giving cash to a black hand so you tell me. n/t

[Thrill]

6. maybe its signs like this.

And the fact there isn't a non white face in these crowds :)

[customerserviceguy]

10. Ok, I will give you

that the people carrying racially charged signs are indeed racist. Does that apply to everyone at every tea rally today? Is it an overly broad brush to use?

And if there were only five men at a tea rally on tax day under President Hillary Clinton, would that automatically make it sexist? Seeing no nonwhite faces in the crowd just reflects the people the tea partiers normally hang out with. A lot of rural people are not politicially aligned with the folks of minority groups who live in their midst.

I'm perfectly fine with calling it cheap, skinflint, misguided, and erroneous, but hurling the racist label doesn't seem like it's going to win any points in this game.

[stillcool]

13. Did you see any Palin rallies?

These protests have nothing to do with taxes, and everything to do with the scary black man in the White House. If these people gave a hoot about taxes, they would be protesting military spending and the Bush Tax Cuts for the top 2%. White supremacist groups are recruiting tea-baggers at their parties. It's like a clan meeting. You see any faces other than white ones?

[customerserviceguy]

14. She didn't go to any major cities

as I recall, she went to the boondocks. There are just not a lot of minorities out in the woods, and the vast majority of them are not interested in Republican candidates. That doesn't automatically make the people who attend any sort of political gathering that is not explicitly about race into racists, just because the people at the event all look like them.

President Obama has wisely called for us to come together as a nation, and the simple fact that he received more white votes than nonwhite votes in the election is a sign that he recognizes that perhaps we have gotten past the heated politics of the 1960's, at least as far as racial issues. Labelling people as racist or sexist when they're talking about another subject is bound to backfire. It's the folks in the middle who decide elections, and the last time around, those people decided to end a string of Caucasians in the White House, hoping that we could get past the days when racial politics dominated the conversation.

If we apply the label of "racist" to people who are vocally opposed to taxes and even spending bills, how long will it be before that label is applied to people who refuse to spend money at the mall to shore up the economy? If the threat of being labeled a racist is a constant, dominant weapon in the tactics of progressive people, you can expect the backlash at the polls in years to come. I'm old enough to remember when the "law and order" candidate was able to use fear of nonwhites to vault himself into the White House after one of the most progressive decades in American history. We don't need a repeat of Richard Nixon.

[Orsino]

17. When the mob of angry white men can articulate specific grievances...

...we could consider the possibility that they're not just incensed against their new black president.

For all the contortions they're going through not to sound racist, there's no other there there among all the blather. And some of the pinheads don't even bother trying to hide it.

[Thrill]

5. They'll believe Obama. These protest are just another McCain/Palin rally

[Cha]

7. mccain-palin hate inciting

riots' rally.

[jenmito]

11. I bet you're right! n/t

[polichick]

12. These fearful nuts aren't fooling anyone.

[TheKentuckian]

15. There is certainly a racists element but I believe the glues that holds them together

are their deep, unassailable stupidity and anti-social batshit insanity.

[Peacetrain]

16. Jen I was just getting ready to thread on this about our local "tea baggers"

Turned out their main focus was the gay marriage issue,(heard it on the news this AM) not so much taxes.. I think a LOT of that is going on.

This was a RNC funded base raiser under the guise of grass roots..