Obama Backers Use Race as Alibi for Ebbing Support

Townhall ^ | June 25, 2012 | Michael Barone

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Oops, found it... I previously wasn't using the right search terms. It's an "OWS" [Occupy Wall Street] thing.

So, in other words, it is indeed a "Panthers" thing. ie, revolutionary communist, "peace through Communism" thing.

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From the Wall Street Journal
NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.

Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.

Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."

The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586848318702756.html

[MayflowerMadam]

Received the following in an email:

“Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. He is the first Arab-American President, not the first black President.

Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.

While Barack Hussein Obama’s father was from Kenya, his father’s family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama’s father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father’s birth certificate even states he’s Arab, not African Negro).”

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Playing with a 52 card deck composed of nothing but RACE CARDS.

[Lazamataz]

You know what? Fine. I’m a racist. I don’t care any more.

[Lazamataz]

I mean hell, I’ve never had a racist thought in my life, but I think it’s long time past we defuse this verbal bomb. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should proudly define themselves as a racist. Whether they are or not.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Oh, reminds me of an old movie I PASSED FOR WHITE.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053933/

I’ve never seen the movie but I remember the ads for it on TV back in 1960.

Obama passed for black!

[cpdiii]

As Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney in the polls narrows, and his presumed fund raising advantage seems about to become a disadvantage, it's alibi time for some of his backers. His problem, they say, is that some voters don't like him because he's black. Or they don't like his policies because they don't like having a black president. So, you see, if you don't like Obamacare, it's not because it threatens to take away your health insurance, or to deny coverage for some treatments. It's because you don't like black people. This sort of thing seems to be getting more...

I do not dislike him because he is black. I loath him because he is a hard left quasi Marxist borderline Fascist and not a patriot. He practices the art of character assassination and politics of personal destruction with a vengeance. He has total contempt for the Constitution of the United States and the same contempt for our great nation. His own memoirs have proved him to be a serial liar. His politics are those of envy, racial division, and hate that promotes violence. He is not a good man and he is racist consumed with hate and leftist ideology.

Using the logic of the author, I can not admire and like, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West, etc. because they are black. I admire these men greatly and would vote for and support them

No I do not want to have a beer with this man.

[StAnDeliver]

"My own view is that such voters were more than counterbalanced by voters who felt that, as an abstract proposition in the light of our history, it would be a good thing for Americans to elect a black president."

This is what every Libtard I know has resorted to as their excuse for '08 when I eviscerate Bobo's many failures...

[unique1]

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose your job.
Recovery is when Obama loses his job!

[dennisw]

Liberals love to use blacks as a battering ram against conservatives and conservative American values. The immoral white libs are in charge and using blacks and cries of racism to shut us down.

[dennisw]

dittos on that!! Give Moochie and Bammy Boy the boot on Nov 6th!

[knittnmom]

I think you could be right. If so, I hope he blames everything on racism, without ever trying to find the real cause, so he loses by a landslide.