Reply #9: This protest was rage at the current state of the economy blamed on Obama.

[riderinthestorm]

Nothing less or more.

I can't/won't comment on this being a KKK type rally in disguise but I'm dead certain that today was all about the Rethugs successfully harnessing rage about the current economic upheaval into rage against Obama.

This could swell.

This could bode very, very badly for Obama if the Rethug powers-that-be can successfully convert a very real fringe public sentiment about vague threats like "socialism", and "anti-guns", and those that are very, very frightened about our (their) economic future - into "teabagging" protests. So non-intellectual, so broad, so generally 'against" the government....

Franky, I'm worried for Obama. There are a whole lot of gun-nuts out there positively stoked. Anybody been at an anti-war rally? You come home very energized. Ready to take on "the powers that be".

These are very, very crazy times. I truly fear for our president (and the rest of the US that may be exposed to right wing gun-nuttery).