Why I am a black Tea Party patriot opposed to Barack Obama

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Obama was marketed as a "new" kind of politician.

Hogwash! Black America has suffered the devastating consequences of numerous Obamas, mostly whites ones, for many years.

Here is my personal story.

A urine smell permeated the stairwell. In the darkness due to smashed light bulbs, the sound of broken wine bottles underfoot echoed off the concrete walls. I was nine years old. With the elevators out of service half the time due to vandalism, I was forced many times to take the scary trek into the shadow of death up the stairwell to our sixth-floor apartment in the projects of east Baltimore.

This was a far cry from the brand spanking new building we had moved into just two years earlier. I remember our excitement when my parents, three younger siblings and I moved in our apartment. It was a dream come true – moving from our leaky-roofed ghetto into a place where everything, including the appliances, were new.

We were one of the first in the 11-story, all black residents building. While a few people kept their apartments lovely, most seemed committed to destroying the building.
Lloyd Marcus as a child Lloyd Marcus as a child growing up in Baltimore

All I kept hearing was that everything was the "white man's fault". Even at the age of nine, I sarcastically thought to myself, "how can we stop these evil white people from sneaking in here at night peeing in the stairwell, leaving broken wine bottles, smashing the light bulbs and attacking people?"

So, my early experience living in the government project taught me that some folks simply have a ghetto mindset. I also witnessed the trap of government welfare. And why were so many around me angry and violent – despite getting free housing, food and healthcare?

It was the late 50s when my dad was one of the first blacks to break the colour barrier into the Baltimore fire department. The sight of him in his crisp blue firefighter's uniform made everyone proud, though none more than me. With dad's new job, the government raised our rent to $72 per month. I remember my dad saying, "Seventy-two dollars! They must be crazy. We're movin'!"

We moved to a suburban black community. I truly believe I would not be who I am today had we stayed in the projects.

Several of my cousins stayed enslaved to the system and the bigotry of low expectations. Because true self-esteem comes from personal achievement, they possessed very little. They lived angry and bitter lives, consumed with serial impregnating, out-of-wedlock births and substance abuse. An outrageously high number died prematurely.

So, when I hear politicians, such as Barack Obama, pandering to the so-called poor of America, it turns my stomach. I've witnessed the deterioration of the human spirit, wasted lives and suffering that happens when government becomes "daddy".

• Lloyd Marcus, who is riding with the Tea Party Express, will be blogging the midterms election campaign. Follow all the Guardian's midterms coverage and Inside the Tea Party special reports
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Now this should be interesting to follow. Nothing the left hate more than coconut sellout who refuses to be victimised and stigmatised.
 
seventhson said:
It bugs me Obama got a peace prize.
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To be honest i think it bugs him that he got it too... that's why they made the reception of it such a low key affair. Not his fault the Norwegiens wanted to make a statement.

I still look at bush and McCain... and smile that their type ("drill baby drill" and "shoot em all") are not in charge. Do ppl really think McCain would do better than obama? We know all presidents have their faults... but I think Obama is doing a better job than the others did (Bush) / would have done (McCain & Palin).
 
Quoting teabagger stuff... roflol! God thats desperate.

I suppose you either are a Sarah Palin or you are not.
 
shogun said:
To be honest i think it bugs him that he got it too... that's why they made the reception of it such a low key affair. Not his fault the Norwegiens wanted to make a statement.
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Then he should have refused it.

McCain is respected on both sides and has a history of working compromises unlike Obama.....
 
Alan said:
Then he should have refused it.

McCain is respected on both sides and has a history of working compromises unlike Obama.....
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Can you imagine the disrespect caused to the Norwegians and media frenzy around refusing a Nobel Peace prize? I don't think anyone in history has done so. Rather, accept is modestly, don't make a big thing of it, and let it disappear.

As for McCain... I suppose you'll get ppl that will support anything. He's useless on a global stage (was riding on his war record - highlight was that he was a POW), way too old for president, and chose an idiot of a sidekick / deputy presidential candidate. Wow, feels like we're in the run up to the elections all over again. Wonder when this is going to build up on MyBB for the local elections? Should be some more interesting debate again.

EDIT: oh, and he used the words "flip flopping" WAY too much:P
 
shogun said:
Can you imagine the disrespect caused to the Norwegians and media frenzy around refusing a Nobel Peace prize? I don't think anyone in history has done so. Rather, accept is modestly, don't make a big thing of it, and let it disappear.
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Don't make a big thing over the Nobel being awarded on petty political/ideological grounds? That's worthy of a frenzy. The prizes "respectability" has been trashed and all Obama did was lose respect for taking part in the charade.



As for McCain... I suppose you'll get ppl that will support anything. He's useless on a global stage (was riding on his war record - highlight was that he was a POW), way too old for president, and chose an idiot of a sidekick / deputy presidential candidate. Wow, feels like we're in the run up to the elections all over again. Wonder when this is going to build up on MyBB for the local elections? Should be some more interesting debate again.

EDIT: oh, and he used the words "flip flopping" WAY too much:P
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You obviously know nothing about the man.

The public seem to be ruing their mistake. Democrats don't even want Obama campaigning for them. Took Bush 6 years to sink that low :erm:
 
Alan said:
The prizes "respectability" has been trashed
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On that note i'll agree a little. I think they're starting to award based on what might shock more these days, rather than who deserves it. Take the chinese guy they just gave it to. Perhaps deserving, but I can't help wondering if it had more to do with making a statement against china.

Alan said:
Took Bush 6 years to sink that low
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Actually, he was doing worse / roughly the same over the same period... then Sept 11 hit, which pushed his support up to around 90%. If not for Sept 11, his honeymoon phase would have dwindled much the same as it does for all presidents around this time after elections that don't start wars.

Go here (http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx), then click on Bush's picture to add his graph.

On that note, add Obama, Clinton, Reagan and Carter, the most recent presidents not to start a gulf war, and compare their results:P
 
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