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Obama Should Defend the Tea Party

dennis1144 Wrote: Jul 23, 2010 7:03 PM
What bothers me about the NAACP meeting is that the blacks sat there and laughed as she was relating her handling of whitey. They are a bunch of racists, period.

The NAACP’s intemperate denunciation of the Tea Party movement presents Barack Obama with a stunning and powerful opportunity; the fact that the president has so far refused to seize it reveals the sad limitations of his leadership.

Outsourcing this task to Vice President Biden (who denied the racist charges and said the president agreed with him during a weekend interview on ABC News) hardly makes up for the presidential silence.

However much mainstream media figures may admire the Veep, he lacks two crucial qualifications that Barack Obama would bring to any Tea Party defense: 1) He isn’t president of the...

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