It would have been nice if the first conservative protest had been a little larger in number. The truth is that most conservatives have to work for a living, paying taxes to support the lazy libs who don’t work but collect a government check and get extra money from ACORN and other loon organizations to be part of a rent-a-mob. The left has had 50 years of practice and plenty of time on their hands to organize demonstrations. Mr. Obama just gave ACORN another $3 Billion of our tax dollars so they can rig the next election and organize a protest should they happen to lose.

sorry for double post. I didn’t think it went up, and had to rewrite it all.

The human cost is an attrocity, and it was a needless war. But how many people positively OUTRAGED here for money spent on American infrastructure thought of protesting the far larger money spent on bombing the sh*t out of Iraq?

I think you people should re-evaluate what makes you angry. As an impartial international observer it just seems like Republican-think tank strategies are dropped via Rupert Murdoch’s “not-so-liberal” media and people go crazy.

Chillout. Relax. Drop the talk of overthrowing the government. I liked Joe’s points (comment #21). Your elected President campaigned on these issues, he won, and now he’s doing what the majority of people wanted. It’s a healthy democracy. And if people are terrified of the evils of “socialised medicine” (we have it here… it’s very good actually) again, maybe you should consider re-evaluating what makes you angry.

It’s better than living in economic slavery under corporate robber barons. You even privatised your military… Blackwater/Xe? Largescale military in private hands?

Again. Time to stop listening to Rupert Murdoch and his media puppets and start re-evaluating for yourselves what you should be angry about. The environment for one. My state in Australia just went through the worst bushfire season ever with absolutely horrendous conditions. And because we don’t have religious fundamentalism over here, it seems like the Rapture won’t save us.

Please please please stop screwing around. Medicine, Education and Environment is good. War, Fox News and Corporate Looting is bad. I hope this helps.

Cheers.

Even if you ignore the hundreds of thousands dead the war caused in Iraq (incidentally, you shouldn’t; you should be outraged… and it’s painful to have to remind people of that) why weren’t “fiscally responsible” people organising tea parties at the obscene money Bush spent on war?

The PR/media people/Fox News seem very good in America with giving people a single line and get them all to repeat it, loudly, and angrily, although I’m still at a loss why people are so angry.

I like what Joe (#21) said. An election was held, the candidate announced his intentions, he won on that platform. And is now implementing his policies.

Seems like you have a working democracy. And if “socialised medicine” is the worst of your problems (we have it in Australia, and uhh… it’s very very good) it’s better that than economic slavery under corporate robber barons. People want to reduce the power of their government, which is essentially THEM, instead to hand it over to corporations who cannot be voted out, and no term limits. Privatising the army… Blackwater/Xe? That’s just insane. Large scale military power in private hands…

You people need to re-evaluate the topics that make you angry.

I think you may be missing the point. The idea is to NOT be centrally organized, slick, well-funded by the usual sponsors, tied to PACs or lobbyists, etc.

That gives the Democrats no easy target to demonize. It is ordinary individuals - not a top-down movement tied to Washington interests or elected officials or Republican Party leaders. It’s coming from out of the blue, and they’re not sure what to do about it, other than to ignore or belittle it and hope it just fades away. Next event: April 15. Then July 4.

Feed your ego by sitting back and criticizing what others are trying to do, if that makes you feel better. The Party leadership has made itself largely irrelevant in Illinois, or even an embarrassment. At least some people are trying to do something about it. It has to start somewhere before all the nuts at ACORN have even more resources to swing elections.

Why is there so much divisiveness, and outright hatred for Democrats? How can people here call Democrats Marxists, Socialists AND Fascists all at the same time?

I must be missing something seriously wrong that the Democrats have done. Wasn’t it the Republican government that said there were weapons of mass destruction in order to start a war that killed thousands of your soldiers, and a 100,000 Iraqi citizens? Bush ignored the Geneva convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, sanctioned torture, illegally wire tapped US citizens, and collapsed the economy.

That was your last President. Yet people fear the new Democratic President? Why?

Obama seems to want to fix education, health, and the environment. You should be estatic for such a leader! 95% of Americans will be better off with tax cuts… only people earning more than $250,000 will return to 1990s tax rates. Basically, the overwhelming majority of Americans will be better off under Obama.

The 5% of rich white men, the Rupert Murdochs of the world are exerting their anger through their media companies. That’s another thing. Why swallow all that ‘liberal bias’ nonsense about the media? It’s clearly a canard. The media is all massive corporations all owned by a tiny minority of rich, white men who are obviously Republicans. And any impartial observer can see that it’s in no way liberally biased. For 8 years the media went along with every disasterous thing George W Bush did, never questioning a thing. I don’t see how that is liberal bias.

So, help out an international observer. All this talk of violent uprisings because your party lost an election. Why are the Democrats so hated?

To contrast, things are reasonably civil in Aust politics, as traditionally, no one cared enough about it. I use to think our political apathy was bad and admired Americans for their interest in politics… but now I must admit I’m thankful for our system.

I think it’s because we don’t have Hate Radio. Again, just an observer and don’t mean offence. But people, regardless of their political affiliations, should denounce those talk back radio hosts as vile.

Best of luck with the economic recovery.

Cheers,
Brad, Melbourne Australia

My favorite line, and quite telling of the authors mindset.

Make sure it’s slick, polished, confirmed via polling, and has celeb backing for a public face before you act or the people won’t go for it!

Maybe it’s more telling of the US citizen…