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   gordo to tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
   Re: The main motivator for the Tea Party   
   06 Nov 10 17:12:53   
   
   From: grmerrick@shaw.ca.remove   
      
   On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:00:09 -0700, Tim Howard   
    wrote:   
      
   >Let's face the fact that few people have been willing to say--and   
   >certainly not the Republicans who have benefited from the Tea Party   
   >movement.  The main motivator for them, the main reason for all their   
   >anger is not really health care reform, taxes, gun rights, government   
   >regulation, or budget deficits.  All those things are part of the   
   >equation, but they have always been issues for the right-wing and the   
   >libertarian conservatives that now make up the Tea Party.  Sure they   
   >used these issues as excuses for their movement, but the main motivator   
   >is simple:  The Tea Party members (almost all of them white) hate the   
   >fact that the USA elected a black president.   
   That is how they see it.The truth is that he is half European descent   
   and half African.Scientifically there  is no such thing as a black   
   person or a white person.When is the US tea party goons going to learn   
   that bigotry is wrong and causes much terrible suffering in the world.   
      
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