The President Declared War on the People - Portrait of a Crazy TeaBagger

[RamboLiberal]

IOWA CITY, IOWA -- He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threats, spit in faces or scream racial slurs. But Randy Millam, 52, intended to make a scene, so he woke up early Thursday morning to prepare for President Obama's visit.

Millam sat at his kitchen table in Lowden, Iowa, with 14 Sharpie markers and a piece of foam board, working to condense a year of frustration into a 3-by-3-foot catchphrase. "Chains We Can Believe In," he wrote, drawing the communist hammer and sickle on the poster's top left corner. Then he grabbed an American flag, inserted batteries into a megaphone bought on the cheap for $25 and guzzled a 24-hour energy drink. Just as Obama took off in Air Force One for Iowa City, Millam loaded into his muddy Ford Fusion and drove 50 miles across the cornfields of eastern Iowa.

"The president just about declared war against the American people last weekend," he said. And it is a war Millam intends to fight.

Millam's resolve Thursday was reinforced by the sense that he was taking part in a movement -- a rising tide of anger, fear and vitriol in the wake of the health-care overhaul signed into law by Obama this week. Millam joined a chorus of discontent surrounding the president's visit: a warm-up protest Wednesday night, a greeting party of protesters waiting at the airport and hundreds more with plans to chant outside the downtown arena while Obama spoke. In the hours before he left for Iowa City, Millam watched reports on Fox News Channel about vandalism at Democratic offices and visited a Web site of the conservative "tea party" movement, where he was inspired by a Thomas Jefferson quote about how bloodshed might be necessary to protect a country from tyranny.

"I'm not ready for outright violence yet. We have to be civil for as long as we can," Millam said. But, he added, "we are watching the infrastructure of this country crumble under our feet. The government doesn't want to hear us. We have to make them listen."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032503849.html?hpid=topnews



Media pays too much attention to these crazy f*ckers! And I'd love to ask this idiot who the hell was in charge when all this crap happened to him and his country in the past few years?

[BR_Parkway]

1. Sitting there on his unemployment check for a couple years when

Kraft shut the plant down.

And who does he blame for that? Who does he thank for him not starving due to his continuing unemployment checks?

[Bumblebee]

2. Hmmm

Don't remember such sympathetic stories in WP about people protesting Bush -- and not throwing bricks or inciting violence while doing it...

[LynneSin]

3. Maybe if we thru bricks and incited violence we would have gotten 24x7 positive coverage

But hell we were progressives and just thought it was the right thing to do with non-violent protesting.

[Blue_Tires]

4. that's another reason they use the hysterics and extremist rhetoric

it always grabs the attention of the media, and makes people forget just how miniscule their numbers are...