Actually, to be more accurate, Obama should have called them ill-informed semiliterate teabaggers. "Keep you government hands off my Medicare", for example.
I cut him slack on that term in consideration of all of the bat-shit crazy righty crap about his birth certificate and innumerable other slurs all targeted toward delegitimizing his presidency.
Very satisfying when in the debate Obama stated 'proceed governor', and Romney proceeded to lose the debate and then the election.