Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests

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Is the Pope Catholic? Just as much as the teabaggers are racists. They hide behind the sham of "I want my country back"....the country they want back is from the 18th century. Grow up...this is 2011.

ZV of OR 3:31PM March 30, 2011

Willie Davis has an IQ of 10. Such an ignoramus! There are absolutely no facts to back up his outrageous claim.
I wonder how many entitlement programs he's feeding on!

Citizen of WI 3:14PM March 30, 2011

If I am a liberal and I like Harry Reed and disagree with Obama or make some ignorant remark, I'm still a nice guy that misspoke.
If I'm middle of the road or a Republican that disagrees with Odumba, I'm a racist. If I make an ignorant remark I should be jailed for a hate crime.
All this crap is getting a little stale.

Brig Boring of WA 12:03PM March 30, 2011

Calmly, candidly, and with typical intellectual precision, ?? Another media person in love with Obama. 'nuff said.

Rob of CA 11:01AM March 30, 2011

i agree with the president totally concerning the tea party they are racist and bigots in my family people who are so one sided with the tea party they refuse to read about the truth.only what their freinds say and to them i say stop sending me that tea party garbage..

willie davis of TX 9:50AM March 30, 2011

Funny, reading many of the comments here I see that there is still a lack of truth coming out of the Tea Party. Many of them just can't look inside themselves and see the true racist nature of their actions. They would rather be serfs to Corporate America as most of the owners of Corporate America are white; so, it is okay to believe everything they say and do even if it means they are destroying the middle class and turning the country back to the 1800s. I guess that is what they mean by "taking our Country back."
The Tea Party are not only racist, but seem to love Fascism as well, just look at Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Texas, etc. The sad, but ironic thing is, they can't take off their hate glasses long enough to see it.

Tree Hugger of CO 9:29AM March 30, 2011

The tea party is openly using race and hate as a tool to divide Americans and persecute minorities. Undeniable! They're the first to admit it.
The tea party has no interest in maintaining our democratic republic - they are mercenary to the Kochs to impose some fascist totalitarian dictatorship.
Folks, Right wing radicals are domestic terrorists. These bums want to bring back the Confederacy with all its feudalism, and they want to kill the Union, that being the United States of America. These guys are not libertarians, as much as they like the cute disguise. The tea party is following the Lyndon LaRouche brand of hate and anti-government, with an agenda that hates this country for its freedoms and egalitarianism.
The tea party is ungovernable, ripping the Republican party apart, leaving only nutjobs and racists leading their destruction. The tea party has no interest in governing, they are anarchist brownshirts who want to oust our government for worse. The bums want to bring back slavery, starting with working class Americans and what's left of the middle class.
No one is disputing the tea party is racist. What many don't see is that the tea party so hates this country, its getting to the point of treason.

Jane of OH 2:06AM March 30, 2011

...but Lord help you, you racist, even if you "think" to call Obama the Spanish word for bla ck!
My rubber rojo nose!!!!

Icanseeclearlynow of WI 11:08AM March 26, 2011

You know I didn't see much "diversity" in those crowds at the labor union rallies in Madison Wisconsin that Obama supported.Wonder what the difference could be hummmmmmmmmm.

Sully of GA 5:38PM March 21, 2011

New International Version (©1984)
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
7:1-6 We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a camel. Not that there is any sin little; if it be a mote, or splinter, it is in the eye; if a gnat, it is in the throat; both are painful and dangerous, and we cannot be easy or well till they are got out. That which charity teaches us to call but a splinter in our brother's eye, true repentance and godly sorrow will teach us to call a beam in our own. It is as strange that a man can be in a sinful, miserable condition, and not be aware of it, as that a man should have a beam in his eye, and not consider it. Here is a good rule for reprovers; first reform thyself.

Observer of WA 7:22PM March 20, 2011