A new book to be released May 18 by Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter quotes Obama as using the derogatory sexual term "teabagger" to refer to the tea party movement (link below). Writes Alter in the book: "Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act 'set the tenor for the whole year':' That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.' "
For anyone who's taken even an occasional look at this space, you will know that I do not identify with the conservative-dominated tea party movement (since I might as well just join the republican party), and at times I've been fairly critical of the tea partiers. But use of the term "teabagger" really rubs me the wrong way -- not so much when I see it used by some obscure far left blogger (which I've seen so many times, the effect's worn off), but instead when more prominent members of the media occasionally use it. And when the President of the United States is using it (allegedly), he's lowering himself to the level of the most vile elements of the far left blogosphere. It's classless. And it's certainly Not Presidential.
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