The Tea Party aren't Hobbits by any stretch of the imagination - hobbits are more like 1970's back-to-the-land hippie organic farmer types.
No, the Tea Party seems to be much more like the Easterlings, who's society has been thoroughly corrupted by promises of power regardless of the decency or lack thereof of the individual members. And Obama seems to be playing the role of Denethor, trying to hold back the tide but not really being able to do so and kinda ambiguous about where he's loyalties really lie.
There are Hobbits and then there are Frodo and his friends. The Hobbits pretty much kept to themselves, eating six meals a day, drinking, doing the minimal work, not really advancing the world is what we would call a productive manner. This is pretty much the Tea Party, whining because thier entitlements as white americans are going away.
This is really about entitlement. The US was founded based on the idea that birth did not define one's future. This was basically started in England with the Civil lis
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:49PM (#36911860)
Nice.. this is essentially racism under the guise of decrying racism. So the tea party is all about rich whitey trying to oppress the black man, hmm. If that's all you glean from them you don't understand anything about them and this is just a nasty smear tactic.
What they want is for the Federal government to reduce it's burden on people (everyone) and stop growing like crazy. Simple. They may be inflexible and hardheaded about it to a fault, yes, but as to who cries the most about deserving entitlements and what they feel they are "owed', it ain't the tea party, it's liberals. Oh, and if pulling one example of teh net serves to represent the entire party, then here: [bvblackspin.com] She sure doesn't look white or filthy rich to me.
Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story (Score:5, Insightful)
The Tea Party aren't Hobbits by any stretch of the imagination - hobbits are more like 1970's back-to-the-land hippie organic farmer types.
No, the Tea Party seems to be much more like the Easterlings, who's society has been thoroughly corrupted by promises of power regardless of the decency or lack thereof of the individual members. And Obama seems to be playing the role of Denethor, trying to hold back the tide but not really being able to do so and kinda ambiguous about where he's loyalties really lie.
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This is really about entitlement. The US was founded based on the idea that birth did not define one's future. This was basically started in England with the Civil lis
Re:Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story (Score:0)