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Offline marv

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Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« on: November 27, 2013, 10:06:50 PM »
Obama called TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'.
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How Obama referred to Tea Party protesters as 'tea-baggers' in handwritten letter to Texas teacher complaining about health care law

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Responding to an angry constituent’s letter about the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama allegedly used a sexually charged derogatory term referring to members of the Tea Party movement.

Thomas Ritter, a fifth-grade school teacher from Irving, Texas, has sent the president a note criticizing Obamacare – the controversial law offering health care to the uninsured, which has become the butt of jokes following a disastrous launch last month.

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'I watched you make fun of tea baggers and your press secretary make fun of Ms. [Sarah] Palin which was especially beneath the dignity of the White House,' the teacher fumed. 'Do the right thing not the political thing. Suggest a bill that Americans can support.'

To his surprise, the 49-year-old teacher got a reply written on official White House stationary in which Mr Obama supposedly stated that while the health care law was 'certainly not the smart "political thing," it will be the right thing for the country.

The president also took umbrage with Ritter's claim that his administration has been cracking down on Republicans and conservatives.

‘I... appreciate your concern about the toxic political environment right now. I do have to challenge you, though, on the notion that any citizen that disagrees with me has been “targeted and ridiculed” or that I have “made fun” of tea-baggers,’ Obama allegedly wrote.

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He didn't put "tea-baggers" in quotes, so he must be fairly comfortable with the term.

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Re: Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2013, 10:09:17 PM »
Old news.  Barry has been using that term for a while.

Yeah, he's an asshole.
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Re: Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2013, 10:22:51 PM »
Obama is an overgrown kid who never grew up.
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Re: Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2013, 12:20:35 AM »
Wishful thinking on Obama's part, I'm sure. That he could get one of us to "tea bag" him, that is. :puke:
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Re: Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2013, 11:25:13 AM »
You should hear what the people around here call him.

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Re: Obama calls TEA Party protesters 'tea-baggers'....
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2013, 02:00:17 PM »
If I received that letter I would take it to a handwriting expert.  First to verify he wrote it and second to analyze his mental state. 

Handwriting experts can tell a lot about a person.  It's considered a branch of Psychiatry.

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