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Did Obama Refer to Tea Party Patriots as "teabag, anti-government people?"

By Duane Lester - - 20 Comments -

According to the New York Times, President Obama recently used a sexual term to refer to Americans attending tea party rallies across the United States:

Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats’ newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens’ conservative rival.

Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

This is a quote attributed to the President by a third party who either agrees with the term being used and sees no problem with the President using it or doesn’t understand the negative, sexual usage of the term to disparage the protestors who decry the bankrupting of America and the dramatic left turn the country is taking.

Either way is troubling.

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20 Responses to Did Obama Refer to Tea Party Patriots as "teabag, anti-government people?"

  1. Thanks for the post. I was trying to track down this very statement last night for a blog post over at ThePalination.com. All I could find was a similar statement, with the use of “Republicans” for the opposition term. I think the net is being washed of the links.

    President Obama loves to tout how we are all one big group of people in America after the same things…but he is an expert at pitting us against one another.

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  2. Thanks for the post. I was trying to track down this very statement last night for a blog post over at ThePalination.com. All I could find was a similar statement, with the use of “Republicans” for the opposition term. I think the net is being washed of the links.

    President Obama loves to tout how we are all one big group of people in America after the same things…but he is an expert at pitting us against one another.

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  3. The teabag movement is made up of mostly white men and women who have healthcare but just want to yell about a darker man being elected.

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  4. The teabag movement is made up of mostly white men and women who have healthcare but just want to yell about a darker man being elected.

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  5. Martin — You really believe that?! Wow… that’s sad. I would be against Obama’s policies if his ancestors came over on the Mayflower or he was a woman or a priest. The people against this bill ARE NOT (read that again please) ARE NOT against health care REFORM! we are against the complete rebuilding of the system. The Republicans have 4 different policies of their own that deal with health care REFORM. Did you know that??? No because the Democrats are ignoring them because they have the power. There’s alot that needs fixed.. but you don’t tear down the house if you want to remodel a few rooms!

    So please.. stop using that tired argument of race… it’s ridiculous. Aren’t we allowed to disagree with our president? or do we have to go along with everything he says because he’s black. That wouldn’t be right now would it.

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  6. Martin — You really believe that?! Wow… that’s sad. I would be against Obama’s policies if his ancestors came over on the Mayflower or he was a woman or a priest. The people against this bill ARE NOT (read that again please) ARE NOT against health care REFORM! we are against the complete rebuilding of the system. The Republicans have 4 different policies of their own that deal with health care REFORM. Did you know that??? No because the Democrats are ignoring them because they have the power. There’s alot that needs fixed.. but you don’t tear down the house if you want to remodel a few rooms!

    So please.. stop using that tired argument of race… it’s ridiculous. Aren’t we allowed to disagree with our president? or do we have to go along with everything he says because he’s black. That wouldn’t be right now would it.

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  13. You do realize it was the tea party protesters who first used the “tea bag” term to describe themselves right? So how is the President’s use of the term that they use to describe themselves bad?

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  14. You do realize it was the tea party protesters who first used the “tea bag” term to describe themselves right? So how is the President’s use of the term that they use to describe themselves bad?

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  19. Supreme Court – Multinational Corporations do “Victory” Dance.
    The Robert’s U.S. Supreme Court decision changing the interpretation of the Bill of Rights from meaning “We the people” to mean “We the multinational corporations” on January 19, 2010 will live as a day of infamy in the history of our (what was our) Constitution. In one day, the Supreme Court has set themselves up as the “Fathers of a New U.S Constitution” and moved Americans from a “Representative Democracy” of individuals to a “Corporate Plutocracy” representing the rich and powerful.
    Congress is in the bag, of course, and will not move to overrule Robert’s Supreme Court. The time for Justice and action passed by when impeaching Bush for War Crimes and nullifying his appointed (planted) neoconservative Supreme Court Justice appointees was possible. What George W. Bush blew-away of our American Democracy and Independents (Free Trade) in 10 years; it will take at least 100 years of struggle (probably 300 years) and millions of American lives to regain.
    Today, the seemingly driver-less steam roller of Bush right-wing “your either with us or you are the enemy” unethical opportunist (no one can be identified as the driver) are on an itinerary. Follow the money, mass media propaganda, slander attacks, CASH-root organizations (Tea Baggers) and their Totalitarian agenda become apparent. 2010 is going to be one ugly year; the Dupes August assault on the Capital will be spectacular.

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  20. Supreme Court – Multinational Corporations do “Victory” Dance.
    The Robert’s U.S. Supreme Court decision changing the interpretation of the Bill of Rights from meaning “We the people” to mean “We the multinational corporations” on January 19, 2010 will live as a day of infamy in the history of our (what was our) Constitution. In one day, the Supreme Court has set themselves up as the “Fathers of a New U.S Constitution” and moved Americans from a “Representative Democracy” of individuals to a “Corporate Plutocracy” representing the rich and powerful.
    Congress is in the bag, of course, and will not move to overrule Robert’s Supreme Court. The time for Justice and action passed by when impeaching Bush for War Crimes and nullifying his appointed (planted) neoconservative Supreme Court Justice appointees was possible. What George W. Bush blew-away of our American Democracy and Independents (Free Trade) in 10 years; it will take at least 100 years of struggle (probably 300 years) and millions of American lives to regain.
    Today, the seemingly driver-less steam roller of Bush right-wing “your either with us or you are the enemy” unethical opportunist (no one can be identified as the driver) are on an itinerary. Follow the money, mass media propaganda, slander attacks, CASH-root organizations (Tea Baggers) and their Totalitarian agenda become apparent. 2010 is going to be one ugly year; the Dupes August assault on the Capital will be spectacular.

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