Tea Party protests are still going on around the US and many are planned for the 4th of July: The national theme proposed for the Independence Day Tea Party protests is: “Repeal the Pork – Learn the Constitution”.

http://www.reteaparty.com/teaparties/
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/
http://www.teapartyday.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/
http://www.surgeusa.org/actions/july4.htm

Preparations are also being made for a major 9/12/09 National Taxpayer Protest in Washington, DC: http://912dc.org/2009/04/sign-up-for-the-protest/

Recognizing the unmet need of American political conservatives, SurgeUSA.org proposes a new “Specious American Politician” award. For those who are not familiar with the term “specious”, here’s one common definition:

1. apparently true but actually false: appearing to be true but really false
2. deceptively attractive: superficially attractive but actually of no real interest or value
http://www.surgeusa.org/actions/selectout.htm

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The Tea Parties are the first awakenings of the public to the realization of the truth.

What happened to these – did the revolution fizzle out? Or was it a storm in a teacup?;)

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@MataHarley:

I think he’s referring to the general populace perceving the cipher “as a moderate,” if I read him correctly.

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Occam’s razor:

The Won won because more people voted for him than voted for anybody else.

What were the dominant issues? In order of probable importance:

Bush is evil.

Bush is evil.

Sarah Palin is evil.

Bush is evil.

We want to be part of this historic moment–our first Affirmative Action President.

Probably contributing: Bush is evil.

How y’all enjoying the results? Iran looks like it is going to be a hoot.

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Mata, I was not speaking about those who diligently research their candidates before voting, but the busy voters who don’t have the time to, and the sheeple. All of whom are reliant on the MSM, and who are easily swayed by them. While it behooves the responsible voter to properly examine the candidates, (and there are plenty of Republicans who are also real stinkers,) the truth be known, this can be a daunting and exhaustive task. Which is why so many trust in the MSM to do their homework for them. While some are coming to the realization that the MSM is no longer worthy of such trust, many are still in denial, believing only what they are told.

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@ditto:

NICE SUMMARY!

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dunno there, ditto. Speaking with absolute certainty for myself, and based on reading other comments here on FA, I can say that there are few of us who ever viewed Obama running “as a moderate”. The only ones fooled were those who did not do their due diligence vetting a candidate (both media and the public sector), or are those who still consider Obama “moderate” today because… in their left perspective… he is.

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Obama won under false pretenses. He ran as a moderate. The “in the tank” MSM presented him as a moderate and vilified and pilloried any who dared point out that Obama’s political history was contradictory to the hype. Many of the swing voters ignore the facts about Obama, because they trusted the media that was telling them that these facts were lies and smear campaigns by “right wing extremists.” Most people don’t bother to do the homework themselves, instead they trust the news media. (Hell, even their hated FOX anchor Bill O’Reilly who refused to listen to the facts or to ask hard-hitting questions of Obama, declaring him to be a “stand-up guy.”)

In the meantime, voters had been fed hateful politically biased reporting about the Bush Administration by the same MSM for eight years, which served to paint in their gullible minds the MSM “Republicans-bad” mantra. (The same MSM neglected to remind us that both George Bushes were moderate Republicans.) Granted, some of the ire against the Bush Administration was fully justified. (Erosion of the 4th Amendment rights, the financial bailout. etc..). The MSM has been painting all Republicans with the same broad brush for years, and the public bought the propaganda.

All this deception foisted on the American public is what nudged them into marginally voting the Democrats into power. As we all know, following the elections, the Democratic party and Obama dropped all pretense of moderation, and is in a drunk-with-power race to radically transform the country before the sheeple catch on to the fact that they have been had.

The mantra by the Democrats now is “We won” which they propagandize as meaning that this is blanket justification for any far-left agenda they want to shove down our throats. Ignoring the fact that some voters thought they were voting for a moderate administration and the “lessor of evils” (MSM; Republican=Darth Vader and the Evil Empire) The Tea Parties are the first awakenings of the public to the realization of the truth.

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That will teach me to try and dash off a quick-n-snarky response to the O’bots that pass through.

I’m currently working on four different things at once and ended up fat fingering the comment as a result.

Glad I could provide you with some entertainment.

We take it where we can get it right?

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LOL! I see that, Aye. We were hitting the “send” button simultaneously. However the original error did make me laugh.

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