If over a million people go to D.C. shouldn't the media report on it?

[Haiku]

Look at those photos. Those aren't a bunch of ignorant hillbillies like many would like them to be perceived (although I do understand the desire/need for liberals to spin it that way).

 

I will never, ever disagree with people's right to protest.

 

And you're right ... these aren't a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. They are a bunch of hate mongers who think it's perfectly acceptable to compare Obama to Hitler, who gassed millions, starved children, performed horrific medical procedures for fun, and had as his goal the annihilation of an entire ethnic group.

 

If people who make this comparison are "the cream of the crop," heaven help us.

 

Tara

[TXMary2]

Having seen many , many photos of the signs being carried at the event I am again saddened to see unabashed support for what is clearly the ugliest side of humanity. Although I disagreed fervently with many policies of the Bush administration I never, ever would have shown the office nor the gentleman holding it, such disrespect. Having also listened for weeks to Beck the fact that so many deny that fear of the "other" also known as racism is the driving force behind "Going back to the way the country was unified" on 9-12 is in fact driven by the real underlying concern . Before ...the neocons lost credibility and had to deal with an African American President and losing their previously held majority in the House and Senate. If unity was in fact the goal no way would the hate mongering signage carried by so many have been seen all over the world.

 

Say again???

 

[OnTheBrink]

Having seen many , many photos of the signs being carried at the event I am again saddened to see unabashed support for what is clearly the ugliest side of humanity. Although I disagreed fervently with many policies of the Bush administration I never, ever would have shown the office nor the gentleman holding it, such disrespect. Having also listened for weeks to Beck the fact that so many deny that fear of the "other" also known as racism is the driving force behind "Going back to the way the country was unified" on 9-12 is in fact driven by the real underlying concern . Before ...the neocons lost credibility and had to deal with an African American President and losing their previously held majority in the House and Senate. If unity was in fact the goal no way would the hate mongering signage carried by so many have been seen all over the world.

 

If staging a protest is showing disrespect, then call me disrespectful. I'll wear that term with pride. Protesting is a RIGHT all Americans have (at least, so far). The one unifying aspect of the US is that we all have the right to protest something our government is doing. The fact that so many lately are so "disgusted" by the exercising of this right is disturbing.

 

I am also disgusted how Obama's race is CONSTANTLY thrown into the ring by the left as a reason so many disagree with him. It's sickening and it's racist. People disagree with him because of what he's wanting to do with this country, not because they "have to deal with an African American president." To even accuse such a thing is insulting and makes the accuser look small-minded.

[TXMary2]

I will never, ever disagree with people's right to protest.

 

And you're right ... these aren't a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. They are a bunch of hate mongers who think it's perfectly acceptable to compare Obama to Hitler, who gassed millions, starved children, performed horrific medical procedures for fun, and had as his goal the annihilation of an entire ethnic group.

 

If people who make this comparison are "the cream of the crop," heaven help us.

 

Tara

 

Wow. How offensive. Yet oh so hypocrtical. Again, I present:

 

[Haiku]

Wow. How offensive. Yet oh so hypocrtical. Again, I present:

 

 

I can't view YoutTube videos, so you'll have to tell me what the video is about.

 

How is it hypocritical to call hate mongering what it is? If someone carried a sign of your conservative political figure of choice defaced to look like Hitler, I'd say the same thing. I don't care about political "sides" in this. Hate disgusts me.

 

Tara

[Erica in PA]

:iagree:

 

Anyone who holds a picture of the president (any president) defaced to look like Hitler has immediately and completely lost my respect.

 

Tara

 

You must have been horrified during the Bush years, then, as well. If anyone has forgotten that comparing the President to Hitler is nothing new, just try googling the names Hitler and Bush together. It's been done many times before.

 

That said, it doesn't horrify me if people make those comparisons. I may not think they're accurate, but it doesn't horrify me. There was more to Hitler than the atrocities he committed in his later years, policies and views of the role of government that he held to that may or not be similar to today's politicians. To me, saying someone bears resemblance in their policies to Hitler's doesn't imply that person wants to kill millions of people. It means that person thinks something about that person is similar to something about Hitler, which again, I may agree or disagree with.

[PineFarmMom]

I will never, ever disagree with people's right to protest.

 

And you're right ... these aren't a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. They are a bunch of hate mongers who think it's perfectly acceptable to compare Obama to Hitler, who gassed millions, starved children, performed horrific medical procedures for fun, and had as his goal the annihilation of an entire ethnic group.

 

If people who make this comparison are "the cream of the crop," heaven help us.

 

Tara

 

I don't agree, either, with Hitler comparisons. I didn't agree with it when libs did that to Bush either, and please don't deny that it was! We had the wonderful, noble Michael Moore types to bring utter humility to some movements on the other side. The people I know that are involved in the tea party ARE the cream of the crop. I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to do better than that if that is your argument. In every movement, no matter how strong or right, you are going. to. have. a. few. nuts. Please, cast your stones at the people, as a whole who are protesting the nonsense that is going on in our nation right now. I can remember some extreme nut jobs involved with the libs. (above-mentioned is only one). As a whole, this movement is right and being rightly done, despite the Hitler comparisons.

[Haiku]

You must have been horrified during the Bush years, then, as well.

 

Let's just say that Bush being compared to Hitler was only one of the many things about the Bush years that horrified me. ;)

 

It means that person thinks something about that person is similar to something about Hitler, which again, I may agree or disagree with.

 

I am going to respectfully disagree with this. I think people use the Hitler analogy because it's shocking.

 

Tara

[elizabeth]

 

I cannot imagine ever, ever carrying such filth in my hands. Nor can I imagine any of the ladies here doing so. I await someone else to decry these depolorable tactics. There is plenty of policy to disagree with, debate to happen but these cruel, racist signs are a disgrace to our country. It is absolutely wonderful to assemble and protest. Spreading lies and hate is not protest it is merely thuggery.

[Haiku]

I didn't agree with it when libs did that to Bush either, and please don't deny that it was!

 

I have never tried to deny it.

 

Tara

[lionfamily1999]

I will never, ever disagree with people's right to protest.

 

And you're right ... these aren't a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. They are a bunch of hate mongers who think it's perfectly acceptable to compare Obama to Hitler, who gassed millions, starved children, performed horrific medical procedures for fun, and had as his goal the annihilation of an entire ethnic group.

 

If people who make this comparison are "the cream of the crop," heaven help us.

 

Tara

Not everyone was carrying those signs. Sure, there's racists in America, but it's not as though the KKK was running the rally.

 

I'm so sick and tired of people assuming that because I (or others like me) disagree with his politics and what he's doing we're racist. It is possible to LISTEN to President Obama without considering his race. It is possible to HEAR what he has to say and DISAGREE without race being an issue. It seems, imo, that race is more an issue for his supporters than his dissenters. If he was white would you disagree with him?

[hornblower]

Say again???

 

 

It seems to me that a large # of the images are foreign. Some for instance are from the Brazilian Socialist Youth organization - the placards had the website listed on the bottom. I strongly suspect they arise from the protests against the non UN sanctioned American actions in the Middle East following 9/11.

 

There are quacks everywhere. And you can make a really fancy montage of photos which doesn't show anything other than a few people made stupid signs.

 

Anyway. Godwin's Law should apply to protests as well. They should just vanish in a puff of smoke ......

[Haiku]

Not everyone was carrying those signs. Sure, there's racists in America, but it's not as though the KKK was running the rally.

 

I'm so sick and tired of people assuming that because I (or others like me) disagree with his politics and what he's doing we're racist. It is possible to LISTEN to President Obama without considering his race. It is possible to HEAR what he has to say and DISAGREE without race being an issue. It seems, imo, that race is more an issue for his supporters than his dissenters. If he was white would you disagree with him?

 

I have not said word one about race. I have never said, nor do I believe, that people who disagree with Obama are racists. I have only said that people who carry signs with a picture of the president (any president) defaced to look like Hitler have immediately and completely lost my respect.

 

Tara

[TXMary2]

I can't view YoutTube videos, so you'll have to tell me what the video is about.

 

How is it hypocritical to call hate mongering what it is? If someone carried a sign of your conservative political figure of choice defaced to look like Hitler, I'd say the same thing. I don't care about political "sides" in this. Hate disgusts me.

 

Tara

 

 

Glad to hear it! The video is Rachel Maddow in a discussion with a left wing pundit and they are going on adnauseum about the Obama bashing, racism, Hitler etc, but all through their talking is pictures from the last 8 years of left wing, dare I say it, hatemongers, with signs of Bush depicted as Hitler and signs with foul and offensive statements about our President. It's a shame you can't see it.

[Surlygirlie]

It seems to me that a large # of the images are foreign. Some for instance are from the Brazilian Socialist Youth organization - the placards had the website listed on the bottom. I strongly suspect they arise from the protests against the non UN sanctioned American actions in the Middle East following 9/11.

 

There are quacks everywhere. And you can make a really fancy montage of photos which doesn't show anything other than a few people made stupid signs.

 

 

Agreed. The other thing that I have noticed is that it perhaps took Americans (and others) 4 to 8 years to get to the point of getting angry and protesting Bush in large numbers, whereas the recent protests have happened in the space of about 9 months and the motivation seems less cohesive (protesting anything and everything--at least going by the signs that I have read on various biased AND unbiased sites) than many of the Bush protests which I think were overwhelmingly about the Iraq war.

[Erica in PA]

I cannot imagine ever, ever carrying such filth in my hands. Nor can I imagine any of the ladies here doing so. I await someone else to decry these depolorable tactics. There is plenty of policy to disagree with, debate to happen but these cruel, racist signs are a disgrace to our country. It is absolutely wonderful to assemble and protest. Spreading lies and hate is not protest it is merely thuggery.

 

Sure, I think some of the signs are repulsive. In a gathering of many, many demonstraters, there are bound to be some extremists. It doesn't mean that reflects the majority of those assembled. No one has said they agree with every sign that was carried, nor is is reasonable to assume that that would be the case.