I never, NEVER said that everyone who has a problem with President Obama is a racist. I have LOTS of problems with President Obama and his adminstration so far.
But I don’t launch into a littany of rightwingnutalk or teabagger talking points in public and use that good ol N word when I figure I’m with MA kinda folks!
I am sure there are teabaggers who aren’t racist. But they sure keep their mouths shut and there heads down when ever there’s a gathering. Anytime you see video from one of their HUGE(snark alert, snark alert) get togethers scan the signs. Go back through the archives and scan the signs.
There are individual republicans who are not racist. There are individual Teabaggers who are not racist. I just haven’t met or seen or heard from any of them lately.

There you go LL. Education is the key but I’m not sure how it helps.
The common strain among the tea-baggers IMO is anti-intellectualism. Sarah Palin is their champion and there is no thirst for knowledge among this set.

They see themselves as ordinary people whose values come from cultural experience of hard-work, as Christian common folk who regard more than rudimentary schooling as unnecessary.

In other words, what they do not know is applauded. These are flat earth people. Creationists. They value blind faith over intellectualism and thought and critical analysis. Racism could be lurking just around the corner.

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I don’t doubt that the group you have run into are as you describe because as we have all seen there are certainly some of that bred among the TP. Sometimes resentment is not about race it is about not feeling like you are getting a fair piece of the pie.That is why I think we are at a place where all government aid programs like college grants should be decided on economic need. Universities still need a diversity program so college students get exposed to people from other cultures and backgrounds,it’s part of being educated

“Digby has a good post up about primary challengers.”

I have not yet read Digby’s column but for years now I have felt that if we progressives took all the money we spent on petitions and used it to seek out and fund talented candidates WITH CONVICTION — people willing to stand and fight for what they believed in no matter what — instead of becoming boneless wonders as soon as they took office, we progressives would be far better off.

We need more Alan Graysons.

This is may be true of some, but not everyone is racist who has a problem with Obama, secularh. Repeating this continually is counterproductive, as Lake Lady said.

Frankly I HAVE no common ground with folks who make coded racist, straight from the repug/teabagger talking points script posts. VERY happy I don’t have any common ground with them thank you very much!

L.L.:”I’m not talking about bi-partisanship here either. Average people and by that I mean all wage earners no matter the salary and small business people.All are getting screwed by a system rigged to benefit a very small number of people.”

I have no arguement with you there. But freaking reality is we all get FAR less screwed under Democratic administrations and SOMETIMES we even have our needs met!!

LL:”Vocabulary is a place to start. There has been so much misinformation put out there we need to establish a defined set of facts.Many Tea party people show an astonishing amount of ignorance of the basic facts”

AAAAAAAAmen sister!!!

” but they have good instincts,they know they are getting screwed and they are pissed about it.”

I don’t know how many teabaggers you personally know. I had the misfortune to become aquainted with several when they first got started at the resturant at the Ice Skating complex next to where I drive a school bus. Stop in there for lunch quite often, GOOD food at low prices AND I get to watch Olympic hopefulls and competitors practice their routines.
ALL of the ones I PERSONALLY know don’t have “good insticts”. What they have is an abiding hatred of President Obama. And most of them have a VERY racist hatred of President Obama. They refuse to recognize his election as legitimate. They to a person are also Birthers. They to a person are FAR rightwing, so much so they have left the repugs behind, partially because of the skin color of the head of the RNC.
I have NOTHING in common with these people other then being a member of the same species…and I have my doubts about that.

Vocabulary is a place to start. There has been so much misinformation put out there we need to establish a defined set of facts.Many Tea party people show an astonishing amount of ignorance of the basic facts but they have good instincts,they know they are getting screwed and they are pissed about it.

Too bad there isn’t some local grass roots organization laying in wait for Obama at NorthEastern University this PM ready to disrupt his speech with chants of:

GIVE US THE PUBLIC OPTION AND WE WILL GO OUT TO VOTE.

OR,

NO PUBLIC OPTION, NO HEALTH CARE REFORM.

All the people claiming Coakley and Obama’s “far left” agenda hurts working families isn’t paying attention to the politics here in MA. If anything, it’s the other way around- not enough change we can believe in.

“The Dems are in trouble NOT because they went to far in their “socialist”(you missed that one by the way)agenda. They DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH.”

What do you mean they didn’t go far enough?

They NEVER even STARTED.

The problem with your argument is that you are using the wrong vocabulary.When you say that policy crafted by lobbyists and special interests hurts the middle class you are correct. When you call that European style socialism you are demonstrating an ignorance that undermines your concern. Obama is as about as far from a socialist as a Democrat can get. If you used the term corporist or supporter of the established power structure then you would be getting closer to the problem.I dare you to name one true European type socialist on the President’s economic team.

When you use terms like crossaint-eater you betray where you are getting your information. The right and Republicans are not your friends!It behooves you to learn more about what European style socialism really means. If you are a blue collar worker you might even like it.

BTW, it’s pretty silly to announce what it costs for the POTUS to travel and then suggest he stay cloistered in the WH.

Racist! Rape! Rich guys! Teabaggers!

I am simply observing what’s going on in MA. Those “poor stupid rubes,” like the PA voters Obama insulted, actually can understand that a far-Left agenda, crafted by special interests, lobbyists, identity groups, and the croissant-eaters, is bad for their pocket books.