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Originally Posted by starlitelady
It is really sad when older Black Americans are telling me that they are hearing comments from main-stream media, that they haven't heard since the 50s and 60s. What's worse is that a lot of them are saying President Obama is our generation's Martin Luther King Jr. Under more desirable circumstances, this would be a compliment, or a positive comparison. However, they are making that association to refer to the negative energy, and tone in America before and during the Civil Rights Movement. Now, there is this Tea Party. Am I the only one who sees that this is a way to express racist ideologies, and opinions, and hide behind a so-called movement that is supposed to seek out and support real change? Tom Tancredo said that America should bring back Literacy Testing in order to register to vote!
The Obama administration is under a microscope! Pres. Obama can't stop to tie his shoe, without it being major news on CNN! FoxNews will say he's not tying his shoe properly, and will find a way to convince their loyal conservative fan-base that this is somehow leading to the failure of their beloved country.
When I register to vote, I think I'm leaning more toward being an independent. There is no issue that I am completely to the right or left on. How can anyone be 100% conservative, or 100% liberal on every issue facing this country. Our Senators and Congress Men and Women are obviously not. They can't agree on anything-even in their own parties! Well, the Republicans seem to have a collective agenda: "Take Obama down, no matter what it takes!"
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Like others have said before, Pres Obama IS going to be criticized and disliked because of the position he is in. Deal with it, because it is not going to change. You don't have to mother the President, he's a full grown man. If Obama couldn't handle it, he wouldn't have been in politics in the first place.
If you think that the people involved with the tea party movement are racists then you MUST think that Obama supporters are in the "Black Power" movement, right? While I'm sure there are some people involved that are racist, to paint such a broad brush on a group of people is unfair and unreasonable.
I remember last summer hearing people say things such as, " You don't like Obama cuz you're racist". I can't tell you how much that bothered me seeing real people with real concerns get shot down and stigmatized so easily. I have nothing against the man personally, but some of his policies have to go. I felt the same way about Bush and Clinton.
I don't know the reasoning behind Tancredo wanting to bring voter testing back, but I don't see the harm in educated voters. I think since it was a tea party they where most likely bitching about Acorn taking people to the polls to vote for Obama.
I've said before that in my opinion, only tax payers should be allowed to vote, or at least have their vote mean more. Not because of racist ideologies, but I believe that tax payers are the ones who are truly vested into this country and really affected by certain tax policy. I saw a story on CNN a few months back that only 47% of working Americans paid taxes. How is it fair for the tax-payers to allow the non tax payers to vote on issues or candidates that affect taxes when they don't pay any to begin with.
I'm an independent voter myself. I've typically voted D in the past but I've been slowly leaning to right as I get older. Reminds me of the quote by Winston Churchill,
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Sorry for the scattered rant, busy morning!