Its been about two weeks now since the town hall meetings on health care reform (health insurance reform or whatever they call it today) started to remind people that they can do something to help shape policy change in between election cycles. Everyday citizens, most of which have never been involved in any form of protest, took to these forums to have their voices heard and questions answered. What they were greeted with was nothing short of utter contempt by some in the news media, congress, senate, and the President himself. They accused us of AstroTurfing, said they we carried swastikas to the meetings and that we were Un-American. The only things I have seen that are unwarranted was Rep. Frank Kratovil hung in effigy and the earlier mentioned supposed swastika carriers. Now I don’t condone outrageous behavior from either side but I do think the left has no standing in getting that upset over it considering all the atrocious and wanton protests that occurred during George W. Bush’s administration. Protests that were actually vicious but were glossed over by the MSM and given a happy face. Do they really want to go tit for tat because they would do so at their own peril.
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I can’t remember in my short 31 years on this planet of ever having read or heard about a POTUS referring to regular people who have had honest disagreements with them as “angry mobs.” I am just a concerned citizen who didn’t like the out of control government spending started by George W. Bush and increased one thousand fold with Barack Obama. I got involved with my local Tea Party group under my own volition and I met other regular people who did’nt like the out of control spending and failure of our elected officials to listen to our concerns. These people, just like me, are simply just regular folks who are concerned about the path our country is headed down. Most of us have never protested before, been to a rally or joined a march. We aren’t racists or bitter because we lost the election. Our anger is not manufactured or funded by high end concerns. Finally we are a real grassroots movement not an Astroturf brigade with pre-made protest signs, group t-shirts, hats, pins, buttons and chants.
Tea Party 2009 – Phoenix, AZ
Apr 15
What a grand time we had in Phoenix, AZ today on the lawn of the State Capital. It was the first time I’ve ever been to a protest and it was so awesome. How many thousands of people were there??? And these protests went on all over America.
This Clown President needs to listen up and take notice…people are tired of the same old thing. Change? They wanted change and I don’t see it happening. This Clown President has given 1.2 Trillion Dollars to the richest failures in America and completely ignored the poor, the working poor and the middle class.
But, I had a great time today and met some really good people. The FOX News helicopter took film of the crowd for the 10 o’clock news, but it was before the event even started and many more people showed up after they took the film.