Posted on 09/17/2009 8:48:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The election of Barack Obama was supposed to be the bright new dawn of a post-racial America. His swearing in on the steps of Washington's Capitol building seemed to represent a historical watershed, a full stop at the end of a chapter in United States history that included segregation and slavery.
So what has gone wrong with America since that frigid January day? Turn on the news now and we are assailed with reports of disgracefully racist placards being carried at anti-Obama rallies nominally billed as opposition to health-care reform.
A virulent campaign by the so-called "Birthers" is being waged, in which it is alleged that Mr Obama was really born in Kenya rather than Hawaii and is therefore not qualified to be commander-in-chief.
A white Congressman from the Deep South shouts, "You lie!" at the first black president and refuses to apologise to fellow members of the House of Representatives. Democrats and their media allies mutter darkly that Congressman Joe Wilson really meant "You boy!"
This is not a fringe accusation. Even former President Jimmy Carter, himself a son of the segregated South, stated baldly that Mr Wilson's intemperate outburst was "based on racism" and ran "deeper" than mere policy opposition. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president," he said.
But wait a minute. Mr Obama convincingly prevailed over John McCain in last November's election, an event that many American liberals argued could never happen in "racist" America. He has, moreover, not been shot by a redneck, giving the lie to an almost routine pre-election assertion in Europe that a black man could never be elected President, and if he was, he would be assassinated.(continued)
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No we don’t hate 0bama because he is black. It would not matter a whit if her were purple with yellow stripes. We dislike him for who he is and what he stands for. We did our homework and know of his Marxist views and hatred for America.
They fear us.. They know we aren’t racists.. They know we threaten their free-ride.
The race card throwing crap is getting really, really old......
Fergawdsakes, that's not racist - that's a pun.
The left wants to intimidate America into supporting 0bama with threats of being labelled a ‘racist’ if you don’t.
They’re trying to hold America hostage, but it won’t work.
These are the desperate actions of a party and an ideology that has wore out its welcome.
Carter and Obama, like two peas in a pod!
> Does white America hate Barack Obama?
No.
Red, White, and Blue America hates RED Communism, regardless of the ancestry of its adherents.
> They just don’t get us at all.
Oh, they get us, alright. They just want to paint us all as pie-eyed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing racist morons.
We hate Chuck Schumer’s politics, too, so that must make us anti-semites.
It ain’t personal at all.
I just don’t really care for Fascsim, in any form, and certainly not in my Federal Government.
0bama is the only race-baiting pimp that I can see.
0bama is the racist.
He hates white people.
Glenn beck was right as usual.
I don’t hate Obama because he’s black. I hate him because he’s a communist and he is hell bent on destroying America. My uncles died in the war to keep America free and this sorry pos comes along and spits on their graves!
Yea we hate him...not because he is black but because he is an IDIOT!!!
NO....FREEDOM loving Americans hate SOCIALIST loving Administrations....and Parties
Guy’s so stupid that he doesn’t even realize he’s perpetrating the very thing he’s railing against.
White America hates the constant questioning of whether or not we hate Obama. Maybe we just hate his politics and his judgment and his choices of friends and his uber-leftist politics and his following of Alinsky rdicalism and his utter disdain for real American traditions.
All of America should hate Obama. His skin color has nothing to do with it.
“Red, White, and Blue America hates RED Communism, regardless of the ancestry of its adherents.”
BEARS REPEATING!!!!
Clueless Commies have been dumbing down young Americans for over forty years and have deluded themselves into thinking there is now a groundswell of support for turning the USA into a socialist welfare state. Well, IT’S NOT WORKING, and they’re in meltdown mode. Take THAT, Commies!
It is quite enough that Obama is a socialist autocrat determined to impose socialism on the U.S.A. while utterly trashing what remains of the U. S. Constitution.
To Quote: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America.”
Were we not hearing? Do we not understand those plain English words?
95% or more of African-Americans voted for him. It would be nice if more of them would give up the benevolent slavery offered to them by liberal Dems and join the Tea Party movement.
It would also be really nice if our president would stop making speeches that sound more like campaign speeches appealing to his base. I thought the president was the leader for all America.
Policies
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Pigment
Does white America hate Barack Obama?
No, but many of us are getting quite tired of him.
Commies the world over are getting all “wee wee’d up”. Their race card doesn’t impress people anymore. Race cards are now a dime a dozen and everyone, including loonie leftwing honkies, are playing them. Forget it Toby. You are a loser.
No Toby, we don’t hate Obama.
We don’t hate anyone.
But I have to wonder about a person who bears false witness as reckless as yourself.
Toby, do you hate yourself? ... it might be a better question to ask. It’s okay Toby, you can use my shoulder to lean on. I’m sorry for any circumstance which might have brought you to this breaking point, but I have to admit your wanna be race baiter status is really unbecoming.
White America elected Barack Obama. Now Barack is implementing KGB tactics to demoralize and incite crisis where no crisis exists. I feel bad for you Toby. You must be retarded and not even know it. That explains how you decided to go to jounalism school and wound up a propagandist.
there... there... it’s going to be okay...
Oh they get us alright!
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No, *smart* America hates Barack Obama.
I can’t see past his Socialist/Marxist/Communist agenda to notice his skin color!
Yes, the Birthers play into this idiotic theme nicely.
Why is it that normal people don’t notice or care about the color of a person’s skin, but Democrats can’t see anything ***but*** the color of someone’s skin? Its like they have some perverse obsession about it.
As for me, I really wouldn’t care if Zero looked like Christopher Walken, I’d still be disgusted with every anti-American, Marxist/socialist/communist/muslim-coddling action he commits, as well as with his arrogant, egotistical, dismissive, elitist attitude towards the people of this country who reside outside of the Beltway. He’s a traitorous a$$.
I had a difficult time voting for John McCain because he was to much like Barack Obama politically and philosophically. It is what goes on between their ears, not the color of their skin. That makes me a graycist.
If Ronald Reagan had had black skin, I still would have voted for him - gladly - instead of Jimmah Carter.
Oh - and the racist card is just not working anymore.
I thought it was a pretty good article.
“[Joe Wilson’s] shout, moreover, reflected a manifestation of genuine anger felt by many ordinary Americans about the wholesale state intervention of the Obama administration that amounts to an ambitious and radical transformation of the country. Crying racism can be a cheap way of shutting down debate.
“By attempting to marginalise Mr Wilson as a racist, Democrats are playing a dangerous game because, as Armstrong Williams, a black conservative, lamented in his Washington Times column yesterday, “preventing people from discussing diverse ideas only stimulates hatred”.
RACISM: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Democrat Politicians..Where would they be without it?.. UNEMPLOYED!
I don’t hate him specifically, I hate most of D.C.
2010 need to be a year where we put people in office that actually care about the constitution and The American People....and not just appear to do so when a camera is pointing at them.
There is no “white america” unified in any conceivable sense.
It is a racist question to think that “white people” all share the same political beliefs or goals for America.
I have seen plenty of white Communists and Fascists and Democrats and Greens etc. who are counter to my ideology and I don’t see any reason to negotiate “common ground” with them.
I don’t even understand the public’s appreciation of house music or emo or Matt Damon movies.
The race baiters are the ones who call Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell “race traitors” because they walk a different political path.
Wasn’t it Barbara Boxer who told some black CEO that he should be supporting some climate change initiative because the NAACP was already supporting it?
Don’t call me racist for voting against Obama. I voted for Alan Keyes in the primary.
The Democrats are the guilty party not the other way around. Their race card has been used so many times it’s worn the black makeup he wears off and people can see that he is half white....something all those racist, idiots “conveniently” forget.
Someone needs to tell those elite, Harvard grads that we have read “Rules for Radicals” too...LMAO.
Excuse me? Obama is Half-white because his mama was a white woman? Why is his color always brought out yet that fact is OBLITERATED in the discussion...the real issue is that he is a traitor to American values and he has STATED that his goals are to RE_WORK our system completely. Keep to the facts - what I HEAR on the radio coming from his communist manifesto is why I am so firmly against him AND his cronies, many of those who are WHITE SKINNED and their SOULS are BLACK with the sins they commit against GOD...
Barack Hussein Obama Hates America.
What do you mean "us" kemo sabe?
Does noöne here read the actual articles?
The election was a little over 10 months ago. Has America really turned around and stumbled back into the sulphurous swamps of racial hatred?The short answer is no. Mr Obama is becoming a much less popular figure than he was when he entered office, partly because of the usual laws of political gravity, but also because of the unrealistic expectations he encouraged and the number of mistakes he has made.
What makes a person a “color”? Skin color?
Some forms permit “ethnicity” to claim “color” but if it truly is skin color, then skin color alone should be the determining factor.
Is Slash of Guns & Roses black or white? He had a parent of each.
Are we to go back to the “old” racist law that said if you were 1/8th black, you were black? (back to your grandparents I guess)
Yeah, right. Let J.C. Watts give the SOTU address in 2013 and see what Mr. "Racist" Wilson does then.
The whites elected him!!
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