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.
“it’s because of his policies...” and the results of those misguided policies.
Cokie, I don’t like you because you’re an idiot.
How stupid is Cokie?
No one doesn’t like someone because he has/doesn’t have a tan.
They don’t like him because he has shown himself to be a poor excuse for a leader of the free world.
Most of the people who think that BHO is Muslim are Muslim themselves. Really.
I don’t like him cause he’s red — as in commie red.
1. I do not like Obama and that makes me a racist?
2. It is politically incorrect to be a racist but it is okay to be anti Muslim so I call him a Muslim?
3. If I am a racist, why do I like Herman Cain and Allen West and the intellectual giant Thomas Sowell.
4. If I am anti Muslim why did I work in the Middle East for several years and my closest friend at work is a Palestinian Muslim.
I wonder if Cookie Roberts really believes that crap she is spouting.
As others pointed out his father was a moslem. Or at least the guy he identifies as his father was a moslem. So Obama (or whatever his name actually really is) is a moslem.
But most importantly, his father was not an American. So Obama never was and is not qualified to run for or become president of the United States.
Maybe is Cookie Roberts who doesn’t like Obama because he is black...
lots of white people like Allen West.... and we like him because Allen West is genuine, intelligent and he loves this country: USA
What religion was Frank Marshall Davis?
I Dislike the one because he is communist pig.
Not caring if some politically correct washington liberal, thinks I'm racist for just calling a spade a spade..............or muslim, if need be.
They’ve got nothing.
They cannot defend Obama’s abysmal track record with the economy and foreign policy, his anti-American wealth-redistributionist behavior, his endless vacations, his arrogance and oh-so-mysterious background...so they resort to the Race Card, and the magnetic strip on the back of that is so worn out it doesn’t get read anymore.
They’ve got nothing. And it shows, Cokie! Now go pull the wings off butterflies or whatever it is you miserable libs do on a lonely Sunday afternoon.
Cokie seems to forget that a majority of voters voted for Obama and could clearly see for themselves that he was black. The Race Card is not going to work here. Obama’s popularity is in the toilet, not because he is black, but because he’s a an incompetent socialist who really doesn’t like the United States.
Steve Roberts was making me ill. He made a statement making an equivalence between tithing and paying taxes. There is no equivalence. I’m not a religion expert, but charity is based on “free will”. If one does not tithe, the church does not put them in jail. If you don’t pay your taxes, the governemnt will.
There, fixed it.
He’s black? Hs mama was white. I don’t like him because he’s a commie-dictator-wanna-be/.
Maobama is almost as white as that idiot Cokie Roberts. I despise Maobama, and absolutely love Congressman Allan West. Go ahead call me a racist!
>Does this vapid little creature even know a black person? Does she even live within 10 miles of one?<
BINGO!
They voted for buttcrack Obama because they can finally hypnotize themselves they followed the “ I voted for Obama, ergo I am not racist” logic.
Stupid liberals and their stupid liberal white guilt.
Talk about yer self fulfilling prophecies?!
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