Originally posted by beezzer
That implies I was being stupid previously.

Yes, yes it does. Very good for you.

I never called myself anything but a Tea Party member. Those small minded progs are the ones that gleefully used the term. I guess it was the best they could do because they couldn't use the term, "n****r".

I could really care less what you ever called yourself. You completely missed the point, twice now and your response could only have come from a complete lack of understanding - IE being stupid.

You call yourself whatever you like. The teabaggers called themselves teabaggers first and got stuck with it. If you want to try and pin that same thing on the OWS then you need to find an insulting name they used for themselves first or else you are not making any sense. You are just trying to argue because you do not want to be called a teabagger. Good for you. I never called you a teabagger. I am more than happy to point out there are plenty of them out there though. Ask Andrew Breitbart or just read is his "PROUD TO BE A TEABAGGER" rant.

Now if you do not understand the difference between a group calling itself something and you picking a different name for said group then there is probably very little anyone can do to help you. Maybe next time you should find a friend who can read and think and let them respond to me.

Originally posted by Mcupobob
I'm done kidding myself, the OWS has been taken over by the left, they no longer speak for the 99%, now there just the boot lickers of the liberals and democrats.

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You people are so full of crap. You had a whole gang of Republicans running as TEA partiers. I see not one politician campaigning as an OWS candidate.

Originally posted by whaaa
No wonder the conservatives are scared

I'd like to see OWS's actual Certificate of Live Birth!! Not a copy!
I heard from a friend that they were all test tube children of Moammar Gadhafi.

OK, OK...then how about we just claim they are communists? What?..too 1960's?

Hmmm...OK let's sex it up...the OWS are Fascist-Globalists-New World Oder puppets, funded by George Soros!! No proof necessary…I’d rather just find a reason not to listen to them than answer their questions. Keep it easy for me!

Does that work?...as long as they aren't actual Americans...neighbors, teachers, plumbers....because if they are real people with real complaints then that means they might be like me and I might actually have to listen to what they are saying.

It is not other peoples ideologies or views that offend me, it is the lack of honest debate about those views and ideas.

In a democracy, our government has no need of a dictator to "crack down" on citizen dissent.

We "the people" do more to discredit, demean and ultimately invalidate our fellow citizens than any dictator ever could, and then we complain that we do not have a voice in our government.

In order for the American People...the TP, OWS and everyone who quietly suffers in between...to reclaim power, all that is needed is for all of us to validate of our fellow Americans' voice not their opinion just their right to be heard.

When will change arrive in this country? When the TP supports OWS right to challenge the status quo and have their grievances heard, even if the TP disagrees that wealthy capitalists are to blame, and for the OWS movement to support the TPs right to challenge the status quo and have their grievances heard even if the OWS movement disagrees that it is the “social safety net” that is the root of our ills.

Until then the TP, OWS and everyone in between spend their time discrediting one another and the status quo persists.

In my American Dreamland...Fox and CNN co-host a nationally televised debate between the most articulate and rational leaders of the TPM and OWS movement...and the topics center around unemployment, education, healthcare, social security, income distribution, financial regulation and in general the economy...Our future.

And never is the topic of racism or communism raised and no one speaks the word Hitler during the entire debate.

That...a debate of "we the people"...disagreeing, but united in their right to be heard, would be extraordinary...it would be a contemporary discussion amongst the "gentleman farmers" before they became "founding fathers". I am tired of hearing politicians, I am hungry to hear the people, whatever their opinions.

Let’s stop silencing one another.

....The Founding Fathers disagreed on almost everything with the exception of one truth.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.