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Kathianne
02-08-2010, 03:32 AM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Glenn-Reynolds-Tea-Party-Nashville-was-Americas-Third-Great-Awakening--83762647.html


Glenn Reynolds: Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America's Third Great Awakening

By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Examiner Contributor
February 7, 2010

I attended this past weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and I came away feeling that I had seen something important. The Tea Party movement is part of something bigger: America’s Third Great Awakening.

America’s prior Great Awakenings, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, were religious in nature. Unimpressed with self-serving, ossified, and often corrupt religious institutions, Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith, and independence.

This time, it’s different. It’s not America’s churches and seminaries that are in trouble: It’s America’s politicians and parties. They’ve grown corrupt, venal, and out-of-touch with the values, and the people, that they’re supposed to represent. So the people, once again, are reasserting themselves....

This seemed to resonate with what I heard from conference attendees. Over and over again, I heard from Tea Party Activists that they were planning to take over their local Republican (and, sometimes Democratic) party apparatus starting at the precinct level and shake things up.

The sense was that party politics have been run for the benefit of the party insiders and hangers-on, not for the benefit of constituents and ideals. And most of the conference, in fact, was addressed to doing something about that, not to worship of Sarah Palin, with sessions on organizing, media skills, and the like....

In less than a year, the Tea Party movement has gone from a few spontaneous protests against Obama’s stimulus bill to a nationwide phenomenon rating major media coverage, with several political scalps
on its belt. And these inexpert activists are getting better with practice at what they do, with a lot of room on the learning curve ahead.

It’s fun to put on a protest rally for the first time and have it work out, but it’s even more fun to elect -- or defeat -- a candidate. Or, as Tea Party activists are beginning to do, to run for office yourself.

Over the next couple of years, these multitudes of virgin political operatives are going to acquire considerably more experience and self-assurance, which means they’re probably going to become considerably more effective, too. Politics may not be the same when they’re done.

KarlMarx
02-08-2010, 06:07 AM
This is kind of ironic... a left wing song that pretty much sums up the political climate we're in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKm65xLpwIM

red states rule
02-09-2010, 10:29 PM
I was trying to think of a song that best represents Obama losing independents and some lefties

Then I thought of Obama supporters like MFM and how they must be feeling about Obama, and this is the song that came to me

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HogTrash
02-10-2010, 08:59 AM
It has been a long time coming...I have been waiting for Americans to wise up for 20 years.

If we had paid attention to the warnings of Ross Perot during his presidential campaign we might not be in this mess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls

But instead we allowed the mainstream press and media to influence us by making fun of this funny little man with the funny little voice.

Too late we realize that Ross Perot was telling us the truth about that "giant sucking sound" that's now roaring in our heads.

In the upcoming 2010 and 12 elections we will see how many Americans will always be suckers by the votes that the democrat candidates receive.

90% of the minorities will automaticly vote democrat but the true suckers are the whites who vote with them and are the ones who will never learn.

DragonStryk72
02-10-2010, 12:15 PM
I actually liked Ross Perot, and him being an Indie would have been fantastic. Problem came when he pulled out of the election. A lot of the people who followed him felt a bit betrayed, and I kind of get what they were on about on that point, but I think that if they had looked past it, we would be in a much different place.

Even if Perot hadn't won, had he pulled enough of the vote, it would have made the entire federal government jump, and we would already have a viable 3rd party.

Binky
02-10-2010, 01:42 PM
Oddly enough, I seem to recall hearing that "giant sucking sound" when Scott Brown got elected to the senate.... That sound was dems in DC gasping for breath in disbelief, holding their chests like Fred Sanford of Sanford and Sons, saying "this is a big one." :laugh2::laugh2:

red states rule
02-10-2010, 01:47 PM
I actually liked Ross Perot, and him being an Indie would have been fantastic. Problem came when he pulled out of the election. A lot of the people who followed him felt a bit betrayed, and I kind of get what they were on about on that point, but I think that if they had looked past it, we would be in a much different place.

Even if Perot hadn't won, had he pulled enough of the vote, it would have made the entire federal government jump, and we would already have a viable 3rd party.

The onyl thing ol' Ross did was give America Bill Clinton. Like Obama, Perot was thin skinned and is not use being told "no" by anyone

red states rule
02-10-2010, 01:48 PM
Oddly enough, I seem to recall hearing that "giant sucking sound" when Scott Brown got elected to the senate.... That sound was dems in DC gasping for breath in disbelief, holding their chests like Fred Sanford of Sanford and Sons, saying "this is a big one." :laugh2::laugh2:

Or the "giant sucking sound" is our money leaving our wallets. The beast needs to be fed Binky

http://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/debt_star1.jpg

Binky
02-10-2010, 02:12 PM
:laugh2::laugh2: Sadly enough, and I sure as heck don't like thinkin' about it, but this is true. It needs to be fed, but it seems to get fed larger and larger portions......:eek:

red states rule
02-10-2010, 02:15 PM
:laugh2::laugh2: Sadly enough, and I sure as heck don't like thinkin' about it, but this is true. It needs to be fed, but it seems to get fed larger and larger portions......:eek:

Well of course if gets larger and larger portions Binky. Obama's answer will be that you pay your fair share in taxes - and then some

As several members of the administration have said, we are spending our way out of this recession

Binky
02-10-2010, 02:23 PM
Unfortunately, there is coming a day when we will be working just to hand over our paychecks to the government. :eek:

red states rule
02-10-2010, 02:25 PM
Unfortunately, there is coming a day when we will be working just to hand over our paychecks to the government. :eek:

That day may be closer then you think

http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/160094.gif

HogTrash
02-10-2010, 02:32 PM
The onyl thing ol' Ross did was give America Bill Clinton. Like Obama, Perot was thin skinned and is not use being told "no" by anyoneThis is exactly the way they want us to think...George Sr was just as much a part of the problem as Slick Willie.

Having a republican congress and democrat president probably worked out best for the nation, restricting the damage the demopublicans could do.

Ross Perot was an honest decent man who was not a politician and unaccustomed to the filth of politics, the biased media and elitest press who relentlessly smears anyone who threatens their beloved power structure.

We must stop fear voting and begin voting for what is best for America.

Kathianne
02-10-2010, 04:22 PM
Unfortunately, there is coming a day when we will be working just to hand over our paychecks to the government. :eek:

I won't.

Binky
02-10-2010, 07:07 PM
I won't.

Could very likely be we won't even be able to quit our jobs because they will make us work to pay them....Who knows? I'm sure we'll find out soon enough..... And then again, maybe I just have a very overactive imagination and everything will be just fine....

red states rule
02-11-2010, 03:27 PM
Another song that could show the love MFM, BP, and the rest of the Obama supporters have toward the Chosen One could be this one




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