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A sign at a US right-wing "tea party" rally likens American President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler, 09/14/09. (photo: EPA)



America's disparate army of angry conservatives assembled under one roof yesterday at the first national tea party convention in Nashville, amid controversy over an opening speech which preached bigotry bordering on racism.

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0 # Michael Sullivan 2010-02-07 10:17
The original Tea Partiers were protesting "taxation without representation". This latest group has representation; it just doesn't look like what they are used to.
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0 # Victor Berry 2010-02-08 02:31
Does Tom Tancredo's "civics literacy" testing mean that he wants to purge people with Downs Syndrome from the voter registration rolls, too?

Do the Tea Party folks realize that their calls for freedom, liberty, and smaller/limited government will only result in their freedom and liberty from Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits?
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0 # N. McVick 2010-02-08 15:25
The "Literacy test" used in the SOuth was notorious for being just a smigden too difficult for African-Americans who wanted to vote, while being dumbed-down for semi-literate white voters. Questions for the former taxed even PhDs, while a verbal affirmative to "Can you write your name" served to prove "literacy" for any white man.
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0 # Don 2010-02-08 09:46
Sadly, what is at the root of this "Tea Party" movement is the fear that America is becoming less white, less Christian, less Anglo-Saxon, in appearance, thought and deed. The bitter "silent majority" is becoming the "forgotten minority" and they simply don't like the tables being turned on them.
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