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Black president is reason Tea Party exists
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Feb. 24, 2010 11:03 pm
I get exasperated hearing about these Tea Party people.
Where were all these patriots when the previous administration committed torture, wars of aggression, illegally spied on American citizens, read your e-mails, reviewed your public library books, exposed CIA operatives, cut taxes for the rich, financed wars on credit cards, ignored enforcement of laws that protect us and allowed the wealthy to ransack the treasury and implode the world economy?
I suspect that the Tea Party movement will dissolve when we no longer have a black man as president. That's the only reason it exists.
Floyd Johannsen
Marion
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