Obama 'civility' lesson--insult Tea Party people
Obama is not a respectful guy when it comes to those who oppose his point of view. He also has his facts wrong. The Tea Party movement was not following the lead of the GOP opponents of the stimulus bill, it was pushing opposition before the votes were cast. The movement opposes the debt and the deficit and Obama is reluctant to address those concerns, because he thinks his spending is more important.Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.”
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Peter Wehner has more on the incivility of Obama and other Democrats.
I think the commenter is wrong on the use of Teabagger. It was used as an insult from the very beginning. It was used as away to denigrate those who were objecting to the administrations spending agenda.
They originally called themselves teabaggers until the old people realized it meant more than it seemed. He was just being polite and using their own terminology.
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