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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 11:05 AM
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Don't Blame the Hobbits- Blame the Mad Hatter Tea Party Siths!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Don-t-Blame-the-Hobbits-B-by-James-Murtagh-110730-203.html

This week Senator John McCain derided the "tea party hobbits" in Congress who are blocking debt ceiling legislation.

McCain should have said the Mad Hatter Tea Party belonged in Alice in Wonderland. McCain wronged the Hobbits. Hobbits are the opposite of the Tea Partiers. It is the "Tea Party Siths" that are the real face of our true enemy.

J. R. R. Tolkien described Hobbits main virtue was that they had no interest whatsoever in having political power. They were the only ones who could be entrusted with the one ring of power because they could not be corrupted, and they would destroy the ring. Hobbits, as opposed to Tea Partiers, loved tea and would never throw tea or food overboard. Hobbits loved comfort, and loved the simple life, and loved green forests and communed with nature and with ancient tree people. Hobbits would be naturals for the Green party, but otherwise they are homebodies.

Hobbits don't like to fight, and the Hobbit hero, Frodo, only joined to defeat evil because there was no other choice, and no other way to protect their beloved homes, in the Shire. Hobbits would never take to grandstanding or the politics of personal destruction. They would conciliate this debate, and they would throw the Tea Party into the fire of Mordor to end the existential threat that the Tea Party now poses to the honest, average middle class who live in places like the Shire.

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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:48 PM
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1. I Agree. McCain Was Being Grossly Unfair to Hobbits
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