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The mainstream media will not show you pictures which illustrate the vastness of the Tea Party movement.

This is a view of Senator Harry Reid’s hometown this week-end during a Tea Party Rally. This town of 500 voters was the site where at least 10,000 Tea Party Patriots came to hear Sara Palin speak. The town was so crowded the police stopped people from exiting the interstate highway. People were turned away because the town could not accommodate any more Tea Party visitors. Evidently Harry Reid thinks Tea Party people can be bought off just like some of the Democrats. His supporters were offering Tea Party visitors free donut holes and tea at a small stand.

Since the mainstream media will not show scenes like this, perhaps Americans should distribute this picture of Harry Reid’s home town over the Internet. Harry Reid is the fearless leader of the Senate who crammed government controlled health care down the throats of Americans though Americans told him “No, thank you!” Harry Reid’s approval rating is eight percent (8%), right behind Nancy Pelosi’s approval rating of twelve percent (12%). He is running for re-election, but he is beginning to wonder if the president will be able to get him re-elected as the president promised. He is counting on Americans having a short memory. He believes Americans will love being “controlled” once they get used to it!

Please help do the job the mainstream media will not do. Send this picture to people on your e-mail list who have been told by the mainstream media that Tea Party groups are composed of just a few radicals and the movement will never amount to anything.

10,000+ Patriots Descended Upon Harry Reid's Hometown

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. … [I]t is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!” — Patrick Henry

Washington Post

All politicians have their verbal tics — say, John McCain’s “my friends” — but few resort to their crutches as often as Obama relies on his “let me be clear” set-up. He deploys it in formal speeches as well as in impromptu remarks, meaning that the White House speechmakers have keyed in on the boss’s security blanket.

“Let me be clear,” Obama said when he introduced himself to the country at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. “We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued. And they must be defeated.”

Talking about health care in July: “Let me be absolutely clear: Medicare is in place, and as long as I’m here, Medicare will continue to be in place.”

And when he got word of his Nobel Peace Prize in October: “Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments.”

Plenty of others have taken note of this habit, but they usually dismiss it as a standard time-buying device, like Bill Clinton’s “make no mistake” or Richard Nixon’s eerily similar “let me make one thing perfectly clear.” But Obama’s declarations of clarity are far more than a little presidential throat-clearing.

When Obama is being “clear” these days, he is saying something quite different than when he was being clear in 2007 and 2008. His shifting use of the phrase traces the arc of Obama’s time on the national stage, from campaign sensation to a president beset with challenges that rhetoric alone cannot overcome. In a presidency in which everything is murkier than Obama could have imagined, the “let me be clear” preface has become a signal that what follows will be anything but.
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In the halcyon days of the presidential campaign, candidate Obama was “absolutely clear” in driving home his main points and asserting himself against his rivals. Perhaps acknowledging that his rhetoric could be opaque at times, he used the line as punctuation that said: Here’s what I really think, without equivocation or ambiguity.

Obama employed it in the summer of 2007 to make the case for his candidacy: “Now, let’s be clear, it’s not enough just to change parties in this election. . . . If we hope to truly transform this country, we have to change our politics, too.”

He used it to rebut doubters: “Some folks say, ‘We’re just not sure America is ready for an African American president,’ ” he said in South Carolina in November 2007. “Let me be clear: I never would have begun this campaign if I weren’t confident I was going to win.”

He used it to contrast his opposition to the Iraq war with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s record. “She tried to suggest that, well, my opposition was just a speech in 2002, and since that time I’ve been inconsistent,” he said in March 2008. “Let me be absolutely clear here. I opposed this war in 2002. I opposed it in 2003, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06 and ‘07.”

And he was just as unequivocal in late 2007 about the Iraq troop buildup: “On Iraq, we hear that the surge is succeeding. Let me be clear: The surge is not the solution to Iraq’s problems because it is not achieving the political benchmarks that were the stated purpose of our troop increase.”

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