False gods brew bitter tea

By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives February 22, 2010

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If I were Obama, I would apply the same fate to the Tea Party Movement that I would to America: Take it down from within. Knowing that the Tea Party organization is as diverse as the groups pushed by government, I would paint them with the same brush trying to portray them every one as redneck, anti-establishment, gun-toting right wingers. Already knowing of their patriotic passion from flying over their 1.2-plus million, 9/12 turnout, I would go right on pretending not to have seen them. If I were Obama I would celebrate faux leaders who sing the Tea Party a great wooing song but say little of substance. I would hold fast to the pretense of not knowing that the words, “Hello my name is the Republican Party and I have a problem, I’m addicted to spending and big government,” were just the words written by a brilliant copywriter.

I would be most pleased with gatherings like CPAC, where only one year ago a talk show host with 25 years of experience under his belt was replaced by a Johnny-come-lately drafted in by FoxNews from CNN just a little over a year ago. In fact, Glenn Beck made the transition from CNN to Fox in October 2008, just weeks before Obama’s election. Were I Obama I would recognize my TelePrompter in a chalkboard. Were I Obama I would welcome the entry of a third party in time for the next elections. With both the Democrats and Republicans being the accursed, the Dems would slide up the middle in any electoral battle where there are close races between Dems and Repubs. I would take heart to the third party theory in the straw vote overwhelmingly won by Ron Paul. If I were Obama, I would use my lapdog mainstream media to tie every incident where innocent people are killed to the Tea Party Movement. If someone from FoxNews were to come along and make that tie rather than me, so much the better. I would just love it, and have secret giggle sessions with Michelle to hear network hosts railing daily about my misdeeds without ever coming up with any solutions for we the people. But If I were Obama, the hair would be standing at the nape of my neck because Tea Party members are not so easily fooled by false gods. I would worry that independence still counts in some quarters. That disappointment in false gods are making those members even more determined to bring back the Constitution. If I were Obama I would worry that real life on the farm and in the city; real pain from job and home loss are far more meaningful and better teachers to the modern masses than the Marxist words in a little book by the long dead Saul Alinksy. If I were Obama I wouldn’t yet celebrate the effect on the Tea Party Movement by false Fox gods Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly. If I were Obama I would be starting to envision my empty world without the toy called “Amerika” because one false god is as doomed as the other.