Obama should be their cup of tea


March 16, 2012 · Updated 3:35 PM 

I don’t understand why the “Tea Party” seems not to like President Obama.  They claim to be for family values; for reduction in taxes; for an improved economy; for Protestant Christianity.

President Obama has a wonderful family with a loving wife, two adorable daughters and a dog; has reduced taxes for the “middle class;” has brought the economy back from the abyss with no help from the Republicans in Congress; and is a practicing Protestant Christian.

So why don’t they like him? Oh, I get it. Old prejudices die hard; they don’t like him because he’s Irish-American!

John C. Stone
Coupeville

 

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