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!
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!
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