Thanks to a brief but irritatingly unpleasant battle with food poisoning, I wasn’t able to attend the Montgomery area tea party myself – the Montgomery Advertiser says about 500 people showed up, far better than the 100 the woman I spoke to was hoping for but not quite as impressive as the thousand or so that turned out for the April event.
The pictures aren’t terribly exciting, but I wanted to share my favorite quote from the story.
“I do believe that in electing Barack Obama, blacks feel like this is a ‘get back’ so they don’t want to speak out against him,” [Keith Elkins of News Radio 1440] said. “But we have to look past the emotional attachment to Barack Obama.”
Elkins said the administration is making decisions he doesn’t agree with, starting with the bailout plan and the proposed health-care program.
“When a government can tell you every aspect of your life, you no longer have freedom and that’s what this is about.
“It’s not just about talking about Obama — our job is to defeat him through ideology and in the end, logic wins out. I’d rather be poor and free than taken care of and a slave and this is just high-tech slavery,” he said. “And you can quote me on that.”
Yeah. I’m almost not disappointed I missed it.
