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Old 03-03-2011, 05:39   #3
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Tea Party's kind of a complex entity - here's an article worth reading from the current issue of Foreign Affairs.

The rise of the Tea Party movement has been the most controversial and dramatic development in US politics in many years. Supporters have hailed it as a return to core American vaalues; opponents have seen it as a racist, reactionary, and ultimately futile protest against the energing reality of a multicultural, multiracial United States and a new era of government activism.

Richard

The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy (atchd pdf)
WR Mead, Foreign Affairs, Mar/Apr 2011

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest.

So, voters who deem Obama a failure and want to fundamentally change the situation in which they find themselves now are racist, but those who did the same to Bush aren't?

You can't have it both ways.
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