Oh and I saw quite a few signs from the People’s Cube while at the tea party. They are pretty popular these days!

Wonderful piece. Thanks for reminding us all what we have here.

It was a great event and I’m honored to have been part of it.

As for the Obama supporter, one can arrive at only one likely conclusion: The Dead White Men were wrong, and anything is fair game to make that point.

Which leads to my final point. The Tea Partiers
were at the crawling stage, and with the Washington Tea Party, the first steps have been taken. So, I reiterate, do not regress to the crawling stage and only protest. I’m one whose birth certificate and passport are Canadian, and given the mess the world is in at this time, to
be more specific, financially and geopolitically,
the world cannot wait until a new President is in the Oval Office.

This is the scenario that has a possibility of playing out. The Repubs do well enough in the 2010 election to have a stronger hand in both the House and Senate. Obama will be as interested in co-operating with the Repubs as that Obama supporter in this piece was in co-operating with the Tea Partiers. Deadlock results.

Either a government in exile is declared, or the United States will have pretty well the same cards to play as Great Britain did at the Yalta conference when the Second World War was winding down. And this is regardless of what shape the American war machine is in.

You have masterfully captured the experience of being at the 9/12 rally. I will be forever glad that I made the small sacrifice in time and money to drive down to Washington and participate in the protest.

The atmosphere was just as you describe. It was as friendly as a church picnic. People were smiling and chatting with complete strangers. There was no concern for race or ethnicity. We were all Americans, proud of our country and eager for the government to recognize the values and principles that make it great.

Oleg, you are more American than most of us who were born here.

A602

There are 2 unspoken American ethics, so basic they are unconsciously assumed. One is “mind your own business” and the other is “lend a hand”.

From the days of barn raisings and quilting bees, Americans have helped each other, for all the best reasons, including self-interest. And we rarely interfere with each other, unless we become aware of a crime or great wrong.

The libs seem aware of neither. They want to legislate mutual help by minding our business. I wish we could send them all someplace where they could interfere with each other to their hearts content, so they would leave us in peace.

My rural valley has a food bank that has been in operation from my church forever. Because of perpetually increasing regulation, we can no longer contribute fresh produce, home-raised meat, home-baked bread, etc., and must purchase commercial products meeting “safety standards”, wrapped in miles of plastic, driven all over the country, and stale.

By interfering in a successful project of long duration, by minding our business, they severely restrict the amount of help we can offer to the hungry in our valley. Just an example.

Thanks.

I spent the first 35 years of my life in the SF Bay Area. You are correct. You will not find a more selfish, politically correct, hateful, intolerant culture in the USA with the exception of major urban areas like Chicago, and the DC to Boston belt.

The Tea Partiers are the Good Guys. The SF Bay Area rich elites are the Bad Guys.

It is a Good vs. Evil struggle and I do not believe I am over the top on that after having living in several places in this country.

I was not in Washington, but I attended two tea parties in San Diego. I agree. These meetings are celebrations of America and its principles. The american ideas have not been defeated, but they need to be defended, now more than ever.

If a Tree Falls in the Forrest,

And CBS, NBC, and ABC don’t report it,

Does it make a sound?

jd