Tea Party Protest Republicans Trash President Obama

Tea Party Protest-Republicans Trash President Obama

posted on 18th of september, 2009

In all my years of living in Washington D.C. I have never seen such a mean spirited campaign against a president such as the the Republican Party sponsored Tea Party Protest at the U.S. Capitol on 9/12/09. There was a sea of people each one carrying a sign trashing the president calling him everything from a communist, a dirty diaper, and a terrorist. These people represent the 49% vote of the last election and promise to vote him out in 2012. Hindsight is 20/20 but no one is sure if the president is doing the right thing by supporting a controversial health care bill as well as a 13 trillion dollar government spending program.

The question what you do if president of the United States? How could these complex problems best be solved? Would you spend money to get the economy going or just let banks, auto companies and other businesses fail? Would it be best to let people suffer without adequate health care even though government healthcare may mean rationing? All of these government programs cost money-13 trillion dollars. The problem is that this 13 trillion dollar deficit does have to be paid off otherwise the United States will face the same problem that many auto owners face with the repo tow truck coming to take their car away. In this case the entire United States would be repossessed or towed to the creditor's holding lot. Perhaps some of you have seen the TV show called Operation Repo which follows a group of auto repossession people as they take people's cars away in the California area. Often times fights break out between auto owners and this team.

Feel free to comment on this article even if you are from abroad. Does socialized health care work in your country or is it a bad idea? Is the European socialized system a good idea? Let us hope the president can solve these problems. The Republican party's trashing of Barack Obama may be a result of racism. This is after all the United State's first black president. Wish him good luck-he is going to need it!

I took many of these photos with a compact camera not only focusing on the crowd but individual people as well. Sometimes if lighting was dim I used the flash and put on forced fire.

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	Posted by Peanutroaster on January 03, 2012 Mean, selfish, racist, greedy - they are all represented.
	Posted by Irisangel on September 20, 2009 To suggest that this protest was somehow "Racist" is soooooo wrong, This has to do with the government taking over health care and the out of control spending.
	Posted by Saorsa on September 19, 2009 I'll tell you what. In all my years of employment, I had many opportunities to select my health care plan from a variety of vendors. In every case, the insurance salesman was able to present me with a Summary of Benefits which was never more than 5 to 10 pages long and a one page summary of cost options (Individual, Spouse, family, etc). So far, I haven't seen anything but 5 different 1000 page bills which don't actually seem to say much about what is actually covered Another small piece of bad news, the last time I was in DC the Post had an article which said that 35% of people felt the democrats represented their views, 23% felt the republicans did. That leaves 42% (which is larger than either 35 or 23) feeling that neiher party represented their views. It looks to me like that number is growing and that all this movement needs is a charismatic leader to knock both the established parties off the block. You might also note that Democrats control both houses of congress and...(More)
	Posted by Davidwattsjr on September 19, 2009 Have to disagree Richard. Regular Americans opposed to Obama's policies. Many did this when Bush was in office. Its a great testimony to our nation that each side gets to publicly protest things they don't like. If we can't limit one side's ability to protest while preserving the other side's ability to protest.
	Posted by Noonie on September 19, 2009 PS. There was no violence and they didn't even leave a mess!
	Posted by Lightart on September 19, 2009 Hmm, interesting article. Although after reading your text I thought I was going to see examples of virulent protest and anger and vitriol. Instead what I saw was a lot of people, dressed for the most part in bright and creative costumes, expressing their opinions as guaranteed by a democratic and participatory form of Govt. The crowds looked pretty tame and in a good mood for the most part. Even your image labeled 'Mean Message' was not directed at Obama (as you suggest) but towards politicians in general. I seem to recall when Bush was in office that many people, including members of congress used terms, and quite freely, like 'Nazi' 'Dictator' 'criminal' and 'idiot' to describe him and his minions. You must not have lived in Washington then or you probably would have come to the conclusion that mean spirited-ness has no single party affiliation.
	Posted by Noonie on September 19, 2009 One term in office and one in jail. Love it! :))) The pay is good and the benefits are great....they should be willing to put up with the jail term in order to retire with full benefits.
	Posted by Patl on September 19, 2009 Both Republican or Democratic congressmen sholud be have a two term limit. One term in office and one in jail. The majority are in it for themselves as opposed to thier constituents. We need to vote most of them out of office at each election until they all learn that they work for "we the people".
	Posted by Creativei on September 19, 2009 Well to recover one trillion dollar, its very simple, just wage another war with a OIL RICH ARAB COUNTRY, you get more than one trillion. Finally never believe any of the politicians, and their promises, they are bunch of lies. they want to protect their party and themselves that's it.

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