Tea Party Float Depicts Obama Whipping A White ‘Future Tax Payer’ Pulling A Wagon

[proud2BlibKansan]

At the annual Sportsman’s Day parade last weekend in Naches, WA (a small town southeast of Seattle), a tea party group called “Remember Us We The People” — which is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots — sponsored a float that many local residents are “calling offensive and in bad taste“:

Local members of the Tea Party sponsored a float, decorated to look like a Radio Flyer wagon, pulled behind a truck. In that truck a number of people sat holding signs that read everything from “Obama Care” and “Healthcare Take Over” to “Wasted Tax Money.”

But the thing that got people upset was a man in shirt and tie wearing a mask of President Barack Obama. In one hand he held a sign that read “Hey Kids! Thanks for paying out debt!” In the other hand he held a horse riding crop which he snapped at a young teen in front of him pretending to pull the wagon by the handle wearing a shirt that read “Future Tax Payer.”

Watch a video of the float:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/14/tea-party-float-obama-whipping/

[BlueJazz]

1. If there are any Aliens out there and you are leaving earth soon, Please, Please take me with you.

I don't deserve to be here.

[Orrex]

2. But the MSM told me that TeaBaggers aren't racist!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Check out the guy in blackface!

They couldn't even find a real black guy to be in their float. Unbelievable.

[blondeatlast]

4. "Why does everyone think we're racist?"

Because you aren't even ashamed to be, you asshole nitwit slugs.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Unbelievable

I can't get over how blatant this is.

[Merlot]

7. Why is it unbelievable?

All they are looking to do is be as outrageous and provocative as possible. I say we let them go full steam ahead. No more guessing about how people really feel.

And it's time we stop being surprised and outraged by their behavior.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Shock and outrage a facets of disgust and perfectly legitimate.

You would probably do well, and serve your point more efficiently, to invest less time in telling others what they should feel.

[Merlot]

10. And you'll stop telling others what to do?

"to invest less time in telling others what they should feel."

[McCamy Taylor]

6. "Pull, Whitie! Pull!"

Aquateen Hunger Force.

[Generic Other]

8. You know what's saddest about this?

The most liberal Supreme Court justice of the 20th century, William O. Douglas, had a cabin not far from Naches. I had the honor of meeting him there one summer.

I don't think he would have been very impressed by this event.