Posted on 04/24/2011 9:31:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cokie Roberts: People Call Obama Muslim Because They Can't Say 'I Don't Like Him Cause He's Black' By Noel Sheppard Created 04/24/2011 - 12:06pm
By Noel Sheppard | April 24, 2011 | 12:06 Noel Sheppard's picture
ABC devoted its entire "This Week" on Easter Sunday to "God and Government," and not surprisingly the question of President Obama's faith prominently entered the discussion.
When it did, Cokie Roberts said, "The bad part about this is that it's acceptable to say that he's a Muslim because the same people won't say, 'I don't like him cause he's black'" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
STEVE ROBERTS: The word Muslim is a code word, and it's a metaphor. It's a metaphor for racism. It's a metaphor for he's different from us, he's not like us, he's got this funny name, which he says all the time. And it is - and he's an alien on some level. But this goes back to our earlier discussion, that there has always been a strain of America that wants to exclude the other. Exclude someone who's different...
(CROSSTALK)
COKIE ROBERTS: But - but - but the bad part about this...
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, S.: But in the long run, the forces of...
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, C.: Right. But - but...
(CROSSTALK)
RICHARD LAND, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: Forty seven percent of white people voted for him.
Actually, it's 43 percent, but still a spectacular point by Land that most on the panel missed and most in the country ignore. They also forget that shortly after his inauguration, Obama's favorability rating was around 75 percent. That includes a lot of white people as well.
What the media just can't get their hands around is that disapproval of Obama today isn't because he's black - it's because of his policies. Or do the 70 percent of the country that now believe the nation is on the wrong track also feel this way because the President is black?
ROBERTS, C.: But - but the bad part about this is that he - that - that it's acceptable to say that he's a Muslim...
EBOO PATEL, INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: That's right.
ROBERTS, C.: ...because the same people won't - won't say, "I don't like him cause he's black." So it's - it's - and - and the fact that it's acceptable to dislike him because he's a Muslim is the problem that you were talking about.
Calling Americans racist, despite there being an African-American in the White House, is acceptable on Easter Sunday.
I doubt I'm the only one that felt this was highly inappropriate on such a holy day.
Cokie, I would be delighted to replace him with a REAL black man like Herman Cain. See my tagline and STFU.
I don’t like obama because he’s an anti-American POS.
She can stuff her racist canard up her glory hole.
No Cokey,I don’t like Bama because he is a socialist leftist whose policies are ruining our economy, our heritage, history and values. BTW Coke, would you vote for Alan West or Tim Scott, both conservative blacks??/ No, because you are a racist????????????
Driving Miss Cokie.
Stupid beeitch!!
Imputing motives to others is, more often than not, a dangerous business.
Remember when socialist like this idiot points their finger of [blame], they have three (3) pointing back at them!
Why do these same people like Herman Cain?
Please, Cokie, tell us what Obama’s Easter message was this year?
Oh, he didn’t even mention it?
Well Im sure he won’t forget Ramadan will he?
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs.
Given that, going by Cokie is understandable.
She's been snorting herself again.
Ah, Cokie, maybe you better check what orthodox Muslims really think of Africans. Go see what Mohammed wrote about Africans. Subhuman. “Shriveled raisins” was also a term he used.
Cokie Roberts says she is a pro life Christian, yet votes for the party of infanticide, gay marriage and basically anti Christian values.
Cokie give us a break!
“..........doubt I’m the only one that felt this was highly inappropriate on such a holy day.
NOT appropriate anytime, NOT just Easter Sunday, because it is a lie.
There’s nothing racist about calling the black President a Muslim, a POS, or any other derogatory remark when he deserves it no matter his color.
He’s a Muslim at heart, and a Communist through, and through. What’s so racist about that?
When they start playing these cards more than a year before the election you know that they know they’re guy is in trouble.
Her brain died when she went through the Change!
Didn’t Cokie Roberts used to be smart?
Black, Muslim, who cares...? He’s a Marxist and a douchebag....
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