White House aide: 'Tea party' protesters 'wrong'

[Kadie]

White House aide: 'Tea party' protesters 'wrong'
Sunday, September 13, 2009

By Sean Lengell

A top White House aide said Sunday that the thousands of conservative "tea party" demonstrators who marched in Washington on Saturday were "wrong" because they represent only a fringe section of society.

"I don't think it's indicative of the nation's mood," David Axelrod, the president's top adviser, said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "My message to them is, they're wrong."

A major catalyst of the rally -- as well as the many protests staged at congressional town hall meetings nationwide last month -- was President Obama's push for health care reform, which conservatives have blasted as an egregious example of government expansion and intrusion.

"I don't believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully, that were constructive," he said.

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"The president made it very, very clear that he wants to build on the system that we have," he said. "We ought to focus on what it's about and not on distortions of it."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/13/wh-aide-tea-party-protesters-wrong/

[bluestateguy]

1. Obama's hero, Abraham Lincoln, would have had such agitators thrown in jail for treason

for protesting against their country in a time of war.

[JonQ]

2. Generally speaking

aren't most protests the product of a fringe group?

When you see 150+ million people protesting then yes, they represent the majority.

Otherwise it's just a vocal minority.