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Do you think Hoffa's speech calling the Tea Party members "Sons of Bitches" and saying let's take "them out" to union members was wrong?

Asked by bkcunningham (18496points) September 5th, 2011

Just prior to introducing President Obama at a rally in Detroit today, teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa told a group of union members, “We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face—a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party,” he said. “And there’s only one way to beat and win that war—the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight….President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march,” Hoffa said. “But everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out.”

In light of the Democrats’ plea for an end to hate speech and asking others to stop the rhetoric after the shooting of US Senate Gabrielle Giffords and the death of six others in Arizona in January, do you think Hoffa was wrong saying these things which Obama endorsed?

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