Tea Parties, Racism, and Reality

Recently a woman said that the people attending the Tea Parties across the country were all racist. Some may have been, most were not, but she said it anyway. When confronted on it she continued to say "where were they during the Bush spending?" She said since they did not appear during the Bush administration they were there solely out of racist feelings against Barack Obama. Time bring some realistic observations to the table.
Many in the Bush era saw the spending at first to be a legitimate response to the wars. Then towards the end it was unwanted as much as it is now. They felt defeated by the Bush administration. They felt he was unresponsive to complaints, Bush didn't care about those who had an honest concern about the spending. Bush had essentially defeated their will to stand up by allowing himself to be presented as deaf to all opposition.
Then Obama ran for president as a man of the people with a campaign funded from the grassroots America. The people would soon have a voice and his administration would right the wrongs of the Bush administration. This was to be the man speaking from the people, not a greedy special interest group.
Then he failed to do that in their eyes. They saw Obama take the Bush record debt in 2008 and quadruple it for 2009. The line of debt became a virtical line upwards on the chart for the next ten years based on Obama's budget. When the man of the people does not hear the people what are the people supposed to do? They certainly were not going to be defeated in their hopes and dreams promised by Obama. So they decided to shout louder than they have before.
The tea party protests were not an act of racism. They were a call to Obama to do as he promised on the campaign and bring the corruption of spending in Washington to an end. They were and still are a representation of the freedom American's have to voice their opinion. These protests were not racism against a black man, they were frustration against deficit spending. Until the Democrats realize this the anger will continue to rise in America and 2010 will be fast approaching for many of them.