Posted on 09/15/2009 1:07:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) A southern conservative lawmaker breaks decorum and hollers "You Lie," at the president in Congress. Protesters display guns at venues where the president is speaking. And a movement arises alleging that the president's birth certificate is forged.
To some, it is clear that the burgeoning opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in racism, driven by whites' discomfort with the fact that the United States is now led by an African-American president.
A series of Democratic lawmakers and political columnists have pointed to the trends -- the heckling, the gun-toting, the preachers leading congregations in prayers that Obama will die -- and warned of the danger therein.
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To New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, the South Carolina Republican's cry of "You lie!" showed that Obama is "at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension," she wrote.
"This president is the ultimate civil rights figure -- a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe."
Searching for the root of angry outbursts by white, middle-aged to elderly Americans at lawmakers' town hall meetings on health care reform over the summer, Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel also pointed to racism.
"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?'" said Rangel earlier this month. Other black Democratic lawmakers have concurred.
But to Obama opponents, whenever a Democrat cries "racist," it is nothing more than a political ploy to muffle dissent.
"It is an intimidation tactic. When you make that attack and call someone racist or homophobic it is a way to kind of silence them," said Brendan Steinhauser, grassroots coordinator for FreedomWorks which organized the first large-scale protest against Obama in Washington over the weekend.
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The only blackness I dislike about Obama, is the severe dark state of his soul ...
Obama is a one-trick pony. He speaks well; that is the end of his list of skills. He does not have a good education. Like his now-departed buddy, Van Jones, Obama got the degrees from apparently good institutions without the education the degrees apparently stood for.
But Obama's one trick comes from the white side of his background. It is not racist for me to point out that Obama's white half is not fit to be a dog catcher in Dover, Deleware, now is it?
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "A Million People Prove that NPR Doesn't Count"
Uhhhhh, the black guy in Arizona is a racist who doesn't like 0boner's skin color?
Good grief, this isn’t any race card, it’s a snare drum that the liberal media are tattooing. Parrots aren’t embarrassed at echoing everything everyone else says, but journalists ought to be.
Let's see.
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Only if these people are racists.
and this woman.
I could go on, but why? It's clear race ain't what its about.
And, y'know...
>>Not just racist, but misogynist!<<
As the Lewinsky affair taught us, there is no misogyny if the perpetrator is on the Left (which is certainly all cRappers).
next time the left picks a race-card candidate maybe they should find someone not raised by his white momma, and has slave blood
If they haven’;t figured it out yet, they are quicklywaearing ou the race card. I don’t care what adjective you call me, I hate Obama’s policies! They are bad for America. I don’t care what color he is, his politics are red! The sooner he is out f officve the better for our economy!
If they haven’;t figured it out yet, they are quickly wearing out the race card. I don’t care what adjective you call me, I hate Obama’s policies! They are bad for America. I don’t care what color he is, his politics are red! The sooner he is out of office the better for our economy!
What does she call that column? Here's a suggestion: "Hot Flash: Maureen's reflection on all things around her")
Anyway, she called me a lunatic as well as a racist, which is hurtful. Besides, what's wrong with crazy people? Maureen , don't throw stones in a glass asylum.
Final question: When is somebody going to bring a lawsuit for defamation and slander? One good case could stop this sh!t, or at least set a legal standard.
What does she call that column? Here's a suggestion: "Hot Flash: Maureen's reflection on all things around her")
Anyway, she called me a lunatic as well as a racist, which is hurtful. Besides, what's wrong with crazy people? Maureen , don't throw stones in a glass asylum.
Final question: When is somebody going to bring a lawsuit for defamation and slander? One good case could stop this sh!t, or at least set a legal standard.
What does she call that column? Here's a suggestion: "Hot Flash: Maureen's reflection on all things around her")
Anyway, she called me a lunatic as well as a racist, which is hurtful. Besides, what's wrong with crazy people? Maureen , don't throw stones in a glass asylum.
Final question: When is somebody going to bring a lawsuit for defamation and slander? One good case could stop this sh!t, or at least set a legal standard.
Fixed it.
Independents and Repubs both dislike health care, so they must all be racists, too. We just have 60% racists in the country now.
Also, would it be anti-Semitism to point out Rahm Emanuel's thuggish Chicago-style politics that truly set the tone of the current regime?
These factors have nothing to do with patriotic protest except in the twisted "minds" of progressive apologists who, btw, like to point out the skin color and age of those same patriots while hurling other choice stereotypical epithets.
Who is trying to use intimidation here?
They never bothered to learn that COMMUNISM fueled the so called antiwar movement.
Just as it lead the protests against the US in the Vietnam War and against the US entering the war against Nazi Germany.
......would it be anti-Semitism to point out Rahm Emanuel’s thuggish Chicago-style politics......
It might be ok to point out the brothers might be the reason for the next holocaust
Is that Agence France (get those Jews) Press? Does racism drive allowing Muslims to beat up Jews in France so that they need to give credence to such baloney to distract us? Has AFP done any stories on the black racism behind the One’s annointing and takeover tactics?
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