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Sorry for the all-caps. Just reposting. This was a letter to the editor of a local paper.

"ANYONE WHO THINKS "TEA PARTYISM" IS ANYTHING ELSE THAN AN ATTEMPT TO
LEGITIMIZE RACISM BY DISGUISING IT AS CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION
HAS SPENT TOO MUCH TIME AT THE PLAY TABLE CONVERSING WITH ALICE AND THE MAD HATTER.
WHERE WERE THESE "PATRIOTS" WHEN GEORGE BUSH TOOK ONE OF OUR LARGEST FEDERAL
SURPLUSES AND RAN IT INTO ONE OF OUR LARGEST DEFICITS?
WHERE WERE THESE "PATRIOTS" WHEN OUR NATION WAS PLUNGED INTO AN ILLBEGOTTEN WAR BY GEORGE BUSH, A MAN AWOL-ED FROM THE MILITARY SERVICE?
WHERE WERE THESE "PATRIOTS"WHEN GEORGE BUSH REPEATEDLY TOLD US THAT OUR ECONOMY WAS SOUND AS HE STOOD BY AND WATCHED GREEDY, UNREGULATED, UNSCRUPULOUS BANKS AND FINANCIAL FIRMS LED US INTO A REECESSION AND DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT?
ALL ONE HAS TO DO IS LISTEN TO THE RHETORIC OF THIS GROUP TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE REALLY UPSET ABOUT. THE PRESIDENT, WHO BY THE WAY WAS ELECTED BY A MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IS NOT A WHITE MAN, AND THEREIN LIES THE RUB.
IF WE OBJECTIVELY ANALYZE THE DISTORTIONS AND HALF-TRUTHS OF THEIR "SO CALLED"
LEADERS, WE SOON REALIZE THE APPETIZER AT THESE "TEA PARTIES" IS NOT CRUMPETS, IT IS
IGNORANCE. "

KENNETH J SELTMAN
NEWBURGH, NY