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Open Letter to Tea Baggers


Posted: Dec 1, 2009

http://airamerica.com/really/12-01-2009/letter-tea-baggers/

Dear Tea Baggers,

I am convinced that close to 90% of you have no clue what you're even protesting.

If it's the debt or the deficit, where were you the last eight years? You scream about ignoring the Constitution, but when pressed for specific examples you stutter on about Socialism. Most of you don't even know the definition of socialism, it's just a buzzword your rich corporate sponsors injected into the debate to further their own agenda.

You shout people down in town halls while they talk about loved ones who were denied care by health insurance company "death panels." Classy.

And stop calling it a "government take over of health care," if anything, the current bills are the opposite, driving more people into the free-market health care system and making those insurers even wealthier. Shouldn't that make you happy?

Also? Please stop bringing up the founding fathers. You did not know them. You do not have some sort of special access to their views on the current debate if they were alive today. For all you know, they would have voted for Barack Obama.

If you want to go back to the days of the founding fathers as your misspelled signs and civil war garb suggests, you will also have to give up the following:

  • Cars
  • Sneakers
  • Fast food
  • Telephones
  • Chocolate chip cookies
  • Fox News
  • Medicare
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Automatic weapons

I knew those last two would change your mind. Oh, and the founding fathers read....a lot, and not books by Glenn Beck.

Maybe you should start by reading the Constitution, I suggest Article I Section 8.

Sincerely,

Coffee Filterer

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Hasn't it been discussed on this board - how offensive calling people

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Tea baggers are. You think it's funny? And why is that. Do you enjoy calling people a derogatory name especially when you've been told how offensive it is. That sounds like the bullies that were in school.

And on top of it you post an article from Air America???? Sieg heil! Sieg heil!

We The People - anon

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It's what libs do. They are quite aware that the term is derogatory.

Read above posts. It is a political term. Get over it! - Colleen

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nm

No, it's an offensive term and that's why you like it - anon

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That's like calling someone the "c" word but since it's (t.b.) not legally a swear word you can get away with it.

All people ask for is common courtesy. (i.e. Don't call me a "c" and I won't call you that). I thought as adults people would get through this and talk to others in an adult fashion, but I guess not. It's like watching a pack of bullies in school, and when asked to stop they keep poking and poking and punching and then stand there and tell you you should take it and "get over it".

Thanks, I know where you stand on this.
As if Teabaggers are polite? - You have got to be kidding!
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Yelling down politicians at town hall meetings is polite and mature?
No, I use it because there is nothing wrong with it in this context - and for some reason you
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can't understand this simple fact. It is like getting upset everytime someone uses the word "balls" because you choose to see the more offensive term when the person saying it is talking about what they are getting their dogs or kids for Christmas. I don't do things for shock value. It is just a silly argument that does not hold water.
About this term - SM - Moderator
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According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the term "teabagger" is defined as "a person who protests President Obama's tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as "Tea Party" protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)."

Stop with the accusations that it is anything other than this meaning on the Politics forum.

Moderator
Thank you nm - Colleen
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nm

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, you don't know us! - Get a life!! Oh, life means nothing to libs unles

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Oh and rapist and murderers, etc.

its a terrorist! - nm

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GREAT Post! - Thank you

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You are so right.

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