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I 'absolutely' suffered racism in office, says Obama: Some Americans' 'primary concern about me..
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Dec. 8, 2016 | FRANCESCA CHAMBERS

Posted on 12/08/2016 10:31:25 AM PST by PROCON

Full Title: I 'absolutely' suffered racism in office, says Obama: Some Americans' 'primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign'

President Barack Obama says the color of his skin has 'absolutely' contributed to white Americans' negative perceptions of his time in office.

The president said in a Wednesday special looking back on his legacy, 'I think there's a reason why attitudes about my presidency among whites in Northern states are very different from whites in Southern states.

'Are there folks whose primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign, the other? Are those who champion the "birther" movement feeding off of bias? Absolutely,' he told CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

David Axelrod, a senior advisor to Obama at the White House who now runs the Chicago Institute of Politics, concurred.

'It's indisputable that there was a ferocity to the opposition and a lack of respect to him that was a function of race,' Axelrod told CNN, where he's also paid to work as a contributor.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: legacy; obama; obamaracist; racism; whiner
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To: henkster

Says the racist. This freak is a lunatic.


81 posted on 12/08/2016 11:07:08 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: PROCON

Petulant child. Laura Ingraham nailed it: infantile!


82 posted on 12/08/2016 11:07:49 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: PROCON

Obama, you petulant little boy. We are not judging you “by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character.”


83 posted on 12/08/2016 11:08:46 AM PST by lombardwarrior2
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To: PROCON
"I 'absolutely' suffered racism in office, says Obama..."

Must be CNN discriminated against him too. So file a human rights complaint with the EEOC you moron.

84 posted on 12/08/2016 11:09:46 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PROCON

Racist in chief, black for a living, president claims his racist positions hurt him


85 posted on 12/08/2016 11:11:12 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: PROCON

Maybe George Bush can try the same excuse. Its possible that black americans think that if they were white that all white people would treat them well. Odd.

A man who wins two elections somehow thinks that he is victim of racism really has no scientific ability to make that claim. If he thinks there is a color of skin that is universally loved, I sure don’t know it.


86 posted on 12/08/2016 11:11:36 AM PST by poinq
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To: lonevoice
"What a delusional pig"

He's seeing his so-called 8-year legacy disappear in front of his eyes by a man who hasn't even taken over the Presidency yet.

87 posted on 12/08/2016 11:13:16 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PROCON

colour if his skin..my aunt fanny... it was the content of his character that sucked...


88 posted on 12/08/2016 11:15:49 AM PST by albertabound
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To: PROCON
It NEVER had anything to do with racism with me, Obama, one of my sons had a black girlfriend at one time and I did NOT care. My other son brought his black friend from college home for Thanksgiving. Whoop de doo. I can NOT stand you because of your ideas, your actions and your lies. Color has NOTHING to do with it. Just shut up and go away.
89 posted on 12/08/2016 11:17:48 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Madame Dufarge

His staff will pull five letters from every keyboard.


90 posted on 12/08/2016 11:18:28 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: PROCON
SO, it could NOT have been that he was just a sorry SOB like Carter.....most likely worse.....

I was not against his radical, anti-American, unconstitutional agenda, whining, belligerent, bowing to Saudi and other Arabs and clearly not proud of Americans....little pot head punk kid.
Simply a little chicken shit.....

Good Fing riddance to him!

91 posted on 12/08/2016 11:18:54 AM PST by mastertex
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To: Read Write Repeat

the melt down will come about 2-3 weeks after he leaves office when he finds out that he was only getting respect from those around him because of the power of his office. I expect to see a slow melt down with in the democrat party as a realization from rank and fill democrats that his positions devastated the party in all the states but California and New York.


92 posted on 12/08/2016 11:20:45 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Read Write Repeat

That too!


93 posted on 12/08/2016 11:21:05 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: PCPOET7

I know liberals. They will blame Hillary and continue to idolize Obama.

Actually, this may work for a good long time and we should encourage them! ;)


94 posted on 12/08/2016 11:23:15 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: Read Write Repeat

The truth is that he is very uncomfortable in his own skin!!!


95 posted on 12/08/2016 11:25:00 AM PST by Stayfree (yes)
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To: Madame Dufarge

lol

If we can get to that day without some disaster (cough) there will be lots of sad articles and sad music on MSNBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/Yahoo all about the greatest (lying) pResident ever.

Of course, they’ll leave out the constant lies.


96 posted on 12/08/2016 11:26:05 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Stayfree

Didn’t Michelle’s family give him a hard time about his heritage?

You think he’d learn by now.


97 posted on 12/08/2016 11:27:16 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: max americana

Me too!


98 posted on 12/08/2016 11:28:50 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: PROCON
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Wonderful, inspiring quote above, isn't it? Too bad I can find nothing said by Obama, ever, that uplifted or inspired anyone.
99 posted on 12/08/2016 11:30:35 AM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: PROCON

And just how does that ferocity of opposition compare to that being spewed against Trump—before Trump even takes office?


100 posted on 12/08/2016 11:31:21 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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