The race card...again

Pulitzer prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson goes back to the race card one more time. He asks:

One thing that struck me from the beginning about the tea party rhetoric is the idea of reclaiming something that has been taken away.

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Take it back from whom?...Again, who's in possession of the government right now, if not the American people? The non-American people? The un-American people?

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I have to wonder what it is about Obama that provokes and sustains all this tea party ire. I wonder how he can be seen as "elitist," when he grew up in modest circumstances -- his mother was on food stamps for a time -- and paid for his fancy-pants education with student loans. I wonder how people who genuinely cherish the American dream can look at a man who lived that dream and feel no connection, no empathy. I ask myself what's so different about Obama, and the answer is pretty obvious: He's black.

The words that come to mind when reading this column are predictable, un-insightful, un-imaganitive, and unoriginal.

Here's a clue Eugene. Before he was elected, the President said he wanted to "fundamentally transform the United States." Once he got into office and started governing, it became apparent to many that he meant it.

The tea party movement is opposed to this "fundamental transformation". The tea party wants limited government.

As Chris Christie says, "That's the fight." It's a fight between people who want government limited, and the people who believe there should be no limitations on government power. It doesn't matter what color the President is. That has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Now I am going to go vote for the Latino for US Senate and the black guy for US Congress.