The opposition against President Obama is not like what we saw against Clinton and Bush. It comes from a darker, more dangerous place. It expresses itself in a more troubling form.
People disagreed with Bush and Clinton. They questioned their character and intelligence. The Republicans even tried to bring down Clinton by impeaching him. But through it all they continued to respect the office of the presidency – even if they did not like the man holding that office. That is how Americans have been. Not so with Obama. A line is being crossed.
That line was crossed when Congressman Joe Wilson said “You lie!” in the middle of speech by the president to the country, openly disrespecting him.
That line was crossed when Sean Delonas of the New York Post drew a cartoon showing the president being shot dead (as a chimp).
Before Obama no one has doubted the president’s right to be the president, not in living memory.
Bush in 2000 lost the popular vote, winning only through a questionable vote count in a state where his brother was governor. Yet there was no movement that continued to question his right to hold his office.
Reagan in 1980 won by less than Obama, destroyed the power of the labour unions and pushed through much more extreme policies than Obama’s. Yet you did not hear about people “taking their country back”.
Further, none of these men had their Americanness questioned. None were required to show their hospital birth record because suddenly the one from their state of birth would not do.
The only thing that makes sense of all this is that some have a hard time accepting a black man as president. So they question his right to be president or act towards him like he is not the president.
If so then it is coming from a dark and dangerous place in the American soul, a place of whips and chains and hangings. Dangerous because no one knows how it will end. It could do more than simply take down a president, it could divide the country to a dangerous degree. Already it seems like racism is becoming much more open and naked than it was even six months ago.
Unlike a president’s sex life or bad English, race is one of the few things that can tear the country apart.
The Republicans hammered Clinton. Even in 1996, two years before Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress, it seemed like Clinton might not make it through another four years. It seemed like sooner or later the Republicans would find something that would stick.
Yet the worse it was ever going to do was to bring down Clinton. It was not going to shape the nature of the country. Its damage would be limited.
If Republican opposition to Obama was based mainly on stuff like ACORN and Tony Rezko, then it would be like what they did to Clinton. But it is not. This is something different.
See also:
Abagond 
Before Obama no one has doubted the president’s right to be the president, not in living memory.
Well:
http://www.amazon.com/George-W-Bush-Stolen-Presidency/lm/2UU3YPIJVCQP5
2,250,000 hits on Google for Bush stole the election:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=bush+stole+the+election&aq=0&aqi=g5g-m2&oq=bush+stole+&fp=ee36edbd3c16a1c5
Reagan in 1980 won by less than Obama, destroyed the power of the labour unions and pushed through much more extreme policies than Obama’s. Yet you did not hear about people “taking their country back”.
Under Reagan, well yes you did…. but it was from the left which was failed to gain traction against him. The B movie actor was America’s original Teflon President and had an affable avuncular style as he was doing his deeds.
This was for Bush but:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/dudewheresmycountry
That line was crossed when Sean Delonas of the New York Post drew a cartoon showing the president being shot dead (as a chimp).
Aside from how linked the cartoon was to Obama we have the following for Bush which make no mistake of their intentions:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wjS9h5E5OQk/Rjf2eBC1EAI/AAAAAAAAAIY/UTrlRNRXZ7I/s400/kill%2Bbush.bmp
http://ginacobb.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c2c6053ef0120a5621363970c-320wi
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Yet the worse it was ever going to do was to bring down Clinton. It was not going to shape the nature of the country. Its damage would be limited.
Disagree, Clinton energized the right.. also think of Nixon and Watergate.. and how in the aftermath the nation was decidedly changed.
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The Kill Bush pictures did not appear in the mainstream press, as far as I am aware, unlike the Delonas cartoon.
I am sure there are all kinds of terrible, sick things said about any given president on the Web and in bars. But many of these same people would never dream of doing it to his face or do it knowingly in front of millions. Simply because he is the president, simply out of respect for his office. That is what makes Joe Wilson and Sean Delonas different.
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As far as I know tens of thousands did not come to Washington to protest Reagan asking for their country back. But I could be wrong.
Neither is Michael Moore a protest movement. As far as I know he is not bringing thousands to Washington. Though, granted, he is part of the mainstream culture. So half credit on that, sotospeak.
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The Kill Bush pictures did not appear in the mainstream press, as far as I am aware, unlike the Delonas cartoon.
The Delonas cartoon wasn’t released in a vacuum… certainly it was in poor taste and insensitive but cops had just killed a chimp who had mauled a woman.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/17/2009-02-17_911_tape_captures_chimpanzee_owners_horr-2.html
I have definitely seen cartoon images of the murder of some president or politician’s policy. The stimulus policy was being pushed by a wide variety of people and unlike the Health Care bill was not heavily associated with Obama.
The Joe Wilson outburst, yes that seems unique. Unfortunately it was also effective, there is now widespread discussion about illegal alien aspect of the Health Care bill.
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I agree, Nixon and Watergate did change the country. For one thing, it destroyed the good faith the government had enjoyed, with the public and the press. It is much closer to what I am talking about in regard to Obama than either Clinton or Bush.
With Clinton or Bush it is personal and party political, with Nixon and Obama it is more institutional.
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Neither is Michael Moore a protest movement. As far as I know he is not bringing thousands to Washington.
No he isn’t… but of course there were huge protests against the Iraq war which inevitably had hanging effigies of Bush and Cheney and signs that said “Impeach Bush”.
Here’s a fun one… a human Impeach Bush sign on the beach:
The Reagan era had ongoing protests about his budget cuts, military buildup. A fun anagram of Reagan’s name was Ronald Wilson Reagan – Insane Anglo Warlord.
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With Clinton or Bush it is personal and party political, with Nixon and Obama it is more institutional.
I tend to think it’s a little early to tell…. there are some serious changes occurring within the country. On a stock blog and among friends I am calling the current recession a game charger. US debt (Public and private..) expanded at a rapid rate under Reagan/BushI and Bush II. (Private debt expanded under Clinton…) And under the current administration public debt is rising at a very rapid pace. The US is approaching a tipping point.. our biggest creditor…the Chinese have repeatedly expressed displeasure about US spending habits. I doubt a McCain presidency could have done any better. The dynamics facing the Obama administration (and which predated it..) are larger than the institution itself and setting a stage for a new place for the US on a world stage. Debtor nation and world power do not really go together.
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Uncle Milton, you’re absolutely right about the changes.
I see hard times coming. What effect they will have on the Obama presidency and black people in general remains to be seen.
Seeing how hard times played out in the past and the growing angry, racist mood of the far right and libertarian sectors…I think it could be bad for us.
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I have often said this to friends. The only way that race relations will come to a tolerant level here in America is if these old school baby boomers who are still stuck in the Jim Crow era die off.
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“SHANI” thats the only thing can happen.
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Very good article. Alot to think about. Some of the protests have clearly crossed the line of respect and decency.
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reading this article about the hypocrisy and racism directed at obama reminds me of how many white americans dont want to see us blacks as american, other than to just bitch about the term “african american”…and then hearing europeans refer to us as american, usually when a white person did something bad…i know its off topic…but it is annoying how that seems to happen so much…and for some reason, this article reminds me of that.
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2 Timothy 3:1-5
That’s why it’s different.
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I am 71 years old, never in my lifetime have I seem such Radicals as I saw with the Tea Party Groups, Carrying their Gun while shouting out nothing but hate for the President. What I see coming from this group, is another Civil War in America. But, they better remember, we still have good white people in America who will Defeat them with God’s Help! I was a Republican all my life, but watching their actions, I’m ashamed I Ever called myself Republican.
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Reply to Uncle Milton: Don’t know where you got your information, maybe you should think again! Check this site which has the government link included.
http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
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Reply to Uncle Milton: Don’t know where you got your information, maybe you should think again! Check this site which has the government link included.
http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html
Well the chart above confirms my statement, perhaps you misread something. I’ll elaborate in a later post.
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— “2,250,000 hits on Google for Bush stole the election…”
Hmmm… Obama’s “right to be president” has nothing to do with any closely contested election, so, on that standard alone… THIS ANTI-OBAMA STUFF IS UNPARALLELED!
Obama won the election hands down. Obama has not perpetrated any arguably impeachable offenses (warrantless wiretapping, LYING to go to an “elective” war, WAR CRIMES/torture, etc., etc., etc.).
In the absence of Obama beginning a war ON FALSE PRETENSE, etc… THIS ANTI-OBAMA STUFF IS UNPARALLELED!
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I agree the racist attitudes are unreal. I wish people would just call it like it is. America is a racist country, always has been, I’m tired of folks sugarcoating and acting like it doesn’t exist. That’s not to say that there are not people who legitimately disagree with his politics, but when you start to draw racial caricatures and disrespect the man’s family we can’t pretend to be so innocent anymore.
Many white people do not like seeing blacks in leadership positions. It threatens their faulty sense of superiority. They feel like less of a man. They have passed lies and hatred for generations and Barack Obama is the embodiment of a strong black man – that’s scary for them. This country is not going back, it’s moving forward and they are fighting tooth and nail to send us back to the 1950s.
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1. I agree with
– Uncle Milton on the debt,
– Shani on the dying out of Jim Crow whites (the mortality of Jim Crow whites gives me great hope for this country) and
– Nquest about how the opposition against Obama is unparalleled, and
– Arianna on sugarcoating, on how whites refuse to get real.
2. The protests against Reagan, as far I understand them, were party political. No one was doubting his right to be president.
3. Burning the president in effigy is standard procedure. It is acceptable in American political culture. It is not seen as a wish for the president’s physical death, but a disagreement with what he stands for politically. It does not rise to the level of what Joe Wilson or Sean Delonas did.
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The laws of the land allow a black person to become president, but that does not seem to be matched by a CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING among some whites. So, like with abortion, the law is out of step with what a sizeable part of the country feels and believes.
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And until someone can show some woman crying about a past president speaking to their school age children and taking them out of school because those past presidents made school targeted speeches…
Well, it clear that there are NO COMPARISONS!!
Oh and I hear the number of death threats Obama gets are (you know) … UNPARALLELED!!
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From CNN:
A CNN source with very close ties to the U.S. Secret Service confirmed to me today that threats on the life of the president of the United States have now risen by as much as 400 percent since his inauguration, 400 percent death threats against Barack Obama — quote — “in this environment” go far beyond anything the Secret Service has seen with any other president.
More here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/12/780953/-CNNs-Rick-Sanchez-in-a-startling-video-reports-threats-against-President-Obama-are-up-400-percent.
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Hathor has come to the same conclusions as I have independently. She was in her twenties when Martin Luther King was killed and our times reminds her of then:
“I’m at my last nerve. I feel as I did then. There has been a line crossed, the consequences are unknown.”
More here:
http://hathor-sekhmet.blogspot.com/2009/09/we-should-have-burned-down-this-sucka.html
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Hotchimera at the Daily Kos:
I did not want to write this diary but the nastiness is rising so fast out there that I have to share how I feel.
The other day my daughter and I were walking to the PO and someone yelled
‘Black Bitches” at us from a driving truck.
I even worry about standing at the bus stop alone waiting for my daughter to get off the bus. The only place to stand is right on the corner of the mains street and it is very quiet and empty.
There is a Confederate flag hanging prominently on our way out of the neighborhood.
The school speech given by Obama was banned by our kid’s school with no notice sent out and my daughter really felt hurt by it.
What am I to tell her? I told her the truth.
Everytime we turn on the tv we see people ranting and raving and hating our President.
I go to bed with a feeling of disquiet every night and I go through the day with the same feeling and it is not going away.
I feel as if something is in the air: as if something is imminent.
There is a Preacher calling for the President to die.
The President is treated like a boy in Congress and the person who did it is now a hero.
Obama signs with him posed as a witch doctor.
Signs of him compared to a Gorilla.
Prominent politicians and radio personalities are spewing racist invective daily and all I see is a rabble of white angry faces screaming in support.
Then I turn on the tv this morning to see Morning Joe with Peggy Noonan and Pat Buchanan saying Democrats are playling the race card.
With no black guest to respond and share how they feel about these events, as they gloated in front their all-white audience, I felt as though my feelings were dismissed and trampled upon by Joe and his friends.
WHAT?????
More here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/14/781824/-I-am-scared-for-my-black-husband-
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The threats against Obama are disturbing.. but they are comparing the threat level that Bush had (who had Cheney as his ace in the hole.. kill Bush and you get Darth Vader..) I know the threats against Clinton were very high. All I can say to Nquest and Abagond is that we disagree.. I remember the right being as bad and in some cases worse against Clinton. (although we potentially have 7 1/2 more years for them to get worse..)
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But it goes “far beyond anything the Secret Service has seen with any other president”
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From the Times in London:
“In the state of Virginia, which Obama won, 70% of Republican voters believe he is not legitimately president because he was, they believe, born in Kenya. Last week, a staggering poll found that a third of Republicans in New Jersey believe that Obama was not born in the US.”
And this has nothing to do with his race? This is ordinary stuff?
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Survivalism has been a white movement, and the ones participating have usually been the libertarians and so-called patriots, usually right wingers. It’s a movement that has been lately catching on with the mainstream.
History shows us that change is not only a possibility, but often a certainty. I’m not saying be paranoid, rather I’m saying we need to be ready try to be prepared for all contingencies. How are we going to survive any significant adverse changes?
The white libertarian survivalists are the John Galt (a la Ann Rand) type and want to hole up somewhere with an arsenal to protect themselves from the inferiors while watching the inferior people die or be killed off.
They will be like the white sheriffs that cordoned off escape routes from New Orleans using guns. They will be like the white men in New Orleans who shot black men simply walking down the street to an escape route.
We need to realize that in many ways blacks are in a similar situation to the Jews in Germany decades ago. I’m not talking about the forties, but the twenties and early thirties. Jews did quite well, having prominent positions in the arts, science and even industry.
Then things went sour and even the most respected German Jews such as Albert Einstein fled the country to the U.S.
A lot didn’t believe it could ever happen. It was crazy to think it. Even when it did happen, it was so incredible, it didn’t sink in. But the ones who stayed, died.
How many of us are able to leave this country if need be?
Seriously, how many of us are willing to pick up our passports and have the means to get out of here if things start to seriously sour? We can’t be like the white survivalists, thinking we can hole up in America and be left alone to survive.
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wildflower, i would not be surprised if america is the location of the next holocaust…because white peoples irrational fears and stupidity and their reliance and believing of propaganda is growing, they are becoming the Germans of Hitler’s time….
and you are right, none of us who are in danger are able to escape…
the worst mistakes many of us in the world can do is believe history WON’T repeat itself.
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unless you include russia, which is getting worse by the year…so maybe they will be the next holocaust (ironic, isnt it?), and then after that maybe america (and possibly europe?)
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We need to keep the possibilities in mind. Stranger things have happened. We need to start getting ready for worst case scenarios.
What we need to do have a passport and the mindset to be able to pick up and leave if need be. Many people have started over in a new land–even with nothing or very little–and we can too. But the thought of leaving all they know will stop the majority of people from getting out in time.
We also need save our cash instead of spending it. Instead of following the white folk’s worst case strategy of buying supplies and guns, we need to be hoarding our cash so we have the means to get outta Dodge if need be.
Even if we never need to do so, having cash on hand for unexpected contingencies is a positive thing.
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I agree with Wildflower about genocide. America has already had one genocide (American Indians) and came close to a second one (Japanese Americans). Do not fool yourself: blacks could be next.
The way blacks are dehumanized in the States IS NOT NORMAL! It is a huge red flag of something very bad going on in the heads of white people. The thinking that allowed them to make slaves of black people is still there – in a weakened but still dangerous form. Dangerous enough to lead to genocide.
Countries that have committed genocide in the past are the most likely to do it again.
The Jews never dreamed that Germany would try to wipe them out despite all the hatred they were getting. Germany was “too advanced” for that! As if technological progress equals moral progress. Hardly.
A country goes through certain steps before it starts killing thousands of people. If you live in America and are not white, or if you live in any country where your kind is seen as less than fully human, then you should know what those steps are:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/the-eight-stages-of-genocide/
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Move to Canada!
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Germany was “too advanced” for that! As if technological progress equals moral progress. Hardly.
On the subject of progress, the thing that gets to me when politicians and talking-heads talk about “the progress we’ve made” in terms of race-relations — which is always meant to compliment White Americans and their change in racial attitudes — is how said “progress” has come with little effort then and even less work after the 60’s era protest movement (which most White people opposed, to say nothing the immediate and ever-present backlash against) as far as most Whites are concerned. So the whole thing strikes me as White people, by and large, taking credit for something they didn’t do and/or patting themselves on the back for something that happened as a consequence of eradicating Jim Crow — i.e. a series of actions that happened in the recent past but in the past, nonetheless, with few if any of them contributing much to it.
Hell, it’s hard to get most White people to do more than pay lip service to the continuing presence of racism and institutional racism at that. The way a lot of them (Black and White) talk, you’d think the majority of White folks in the past 50 years were of the Tim Wise variety given how so many are quick to point to the “progress we’ve made” — a statement that’s often a pathetic, knee-jerk response to people like Pres. Carter and Rev. Jeremiah Wright who merely make observations about the racism that exists today which Myth Keepers (like Obama) consider an insult to and a direct statement against the kind/amount of “progress we’ve made” essentially contradicting their own argument by erecting the strawman in the first place when “the progress” issue was never in dispute.
Maybe it’s me but I feel like its silly to act like there’s something especially meaningful given how “it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be” — something that’s often said when “the progress” strawman is erected. I mean, I’d think it would be natural to assume that a society would move forward as opposed to stagnating or going backwards especially after the momentum of the civil rights era pushed the U.S. forward (even if against the will of the majority of White Americans).
After all, what was ending segregation supposed to produce? something almost as bad as it used to be? something worse?
Seriously.
Abagond, directly to your point, the U.S. has refused to make any real moral progress when it comes to race/racism. Otherwise, we would have the kind of discussions we have which really haven’t advanced much since the 1960’s and 70’s. Indeed, among most White Americans, the concept of race/racism remains unchanged from the immediate post-civil rights era. Matter of fact, I’d bet most Americans would be hard pressed to identify a social or political change or improvement — i.e. a specific race relations or racism problem-solving action taken (recognized as such by most White and Black people) — that has taken place since 1980.
For the record, Obama received 43% of the White vote, so even while that topped what other Democrats had done in recent history, Obama’s election which doesn’t necessarily improve anything race-relations wise, let alone for people of color. Neither is his election evidence of some miraculous transformation among Whites.
You’d have to start from a Jim Crow perspective or the idea that an overwhelming majority of Whites were racist and wouldn’t vote for any Black man for president to even begin to act like a MINORITY of Whites voting for Obama, a certain type of Black politician (see Jesse Jackson’s success as a candidate), means something [that] significant.
Seriously, what was ending segregation supposed to produce? ALL Whites holding onto the demonstrably idiotic, overtly racist and simplistic views of biological/intellectual White Supremacy?
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I agree about “progress”, etc. I was rereading bits of Eldridge Cleaver’s “Soul on Ice” not too long ago and even though it was written in 1968 it still sounded pretty current, sad to say.
Since about 1974 the only change has been the slow dying out of the Jim Crow whites and the coming of age of the colour-blind racist whites, the ones who hide their racism from themselves with politically correct noises.
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Haven’t had a chance to read all of the posts, but certainly there is a racist element from some of the voices opposing Obama. Logically, this wasn’t a weapon vs. prior presidents, all of whom were white, though there have been racist attacks vs. white presidents who supported various civil rights causes.
Conservatism as an abstract political ideology is of course not per se racist. The Republican party itself has seen black members at very high levels — Secretary of State, head of Joint Chiefs of Staff, party leader, etc. — and other than perhaps the party head these were not mere instances of tokenism.
In contrast, the Democratic party was, not too long ago, the home of southern segregationis Dixiecrats. Aside from the party’s backing of the Civil Rights Act, frankly, I can’t think of much that the Democractic party has done at an official party level for black Americans. I certainly know plenty of democrats at a personal level who have never had a black person to their home for dinner, nor been to a black family’s home for dinner; just as I know plenty of republicans who have and do. This is not to defend all republicans on the issue of racism. Certainly there are plenty of racists crawling around the republican party. Keep in mind that there are plenty crawling around the democratic party, too, though, the difference being that in the democratic party it is still uncool to be expressly racist so the racism becomes insidious.
But I digress. Obama is at the center of a sort of perfect storm. The Republican party sees this administration as a Waterloo for Democrats. Thus, it is intent on making sure the knife goes fully through the heart and the beast is killed. Obama happens to be the point man in that charge.
Though the foundations of our nation’s financial turmoil were not erected by Obama, it is in the nature of American politics that the symptoms are blamed on the occupant at the time of their occurrence. The raw date showing the likely ruionous levels of national debt and deficit that will almost certainly follow this administration are sickening. Again, I recognize that this is not entirely Obama’s doing, but it is unfortunately his inheritance.
National elections in the US are generally won and lost by the middle. That is, the hard right tends to always vote republican, the hard left democratic. The center — moderate republicans and so-called “blue-dog” democrats — are the deciders. When Obama ran, the nation was sick to death of the smug hypocrisy, the blatant cronyism, the public buffoonery and the mindless jingoism of the Bush cadre. Obama presented himself as a moderate, centrist populist, a reasonable guy who was blisteringly smart, naturally charming, a guy who could work with both sides of the aisle. This image of him is what won the election for him.
Since taking office, his party has run somewhat amok with a far-left fiscal agenda that has almost entirely excluded republicans. Reid/Pelosi almost immediately launched their pre-packaged folly known as the “Stimulus Package.” By pretty much anybody’s reckoning it will go down in history as a failure and, worse, a monumental waste of money and political capital.
Unfortunately for Obama (and never mind that the republicans would have done exactly the same thing had they won the election), the blame for this will fall squarely on his shoulders. Everything he does for the rest of his tenure in office will be cited as further evidence of his fiscal irresponsibility.
The republicans are opportunistically pouncing on this. The high level of vitriol from the right comes from their earnest desire to kill liberalism and attain political hegemony.
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http://www.theroot.com/views/uppity-negro-syndrome
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/09/22/race_and_the_media/
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Has someone already mentioned this? Obama on Letterman.
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=J_buz0_hHv_i5SFzrKrNRSQlkyMx2gId&vs=Big%20Show%20Highlights&play=true
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I heard about that. I do not like how Obama backs away. Yet, in that he became senator and then president in a state and a country that are mainly white, you kind of have to assume he understands how to deal with white people way better than most – like what Joan Walsh says in the Salon piece (Thanks, Blanc2).
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Bob Herbert in the New York Times makes a good point: the Republican leadership is doing nothing to distance themselves from the racists loudmouths in their party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/opinion/19herbert.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&ref=opinion&adxnnlx=1253356241-6ewMFqbSSMqlRROzOYPvWA
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I saw that piece and it articulates a thought I’d been unable to articulate myself. Just as we in the west tend to criticize the world of Islam for its apparent failure to ostracize the murderous extremises among their ranks, the modern paleocon right not only fails to ostracize the racist loudmouths in their party, many of them actually appear to treat them as a sort of convenient presence. It’s more than just “the enemy of my enemy” stuff. It’s more like having the guy in your clique who’s a little loco — handy for scaring away interlopers.
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“It’s more like having the guy in your clique who’s a little loco — handy for scaring away interlopers.”
A lot of Republican politicians have been forced closer to the center in order to be electable. So now they have to rely on the freaks on the fringes to get the message out.
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http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2009/09/23/knig/
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All these ridiculous white people need to be ashamed of themselves and get over it Obama is OUR president and will be for at least the next three years so get over it. Its kills me how Whites try to defend all the ignorant garbage they pull but none of you are fooling me just yourselves!!
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Colbert had a good piece on this:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/250386/september-24-2009/the-word—blackwashing
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Blanc2:
That was a great cartoon. I added it to the post. Thanks.
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Abagond
As far as genocide, I believe that most elderly Jim Crow whites will die out before that happens. Remember, it was the over 65-something crowd that Obama did the worst.
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I have never seen such blatant respect for a president. I remember Reagan, the two Bushes and Clinton and how Clinton was gone after and Abagond is correct. It was NOTHING like this.
But I saw the handwriting on the wall so to speak in his election. I did not see it as the 2nd coming of the messiah and a new era of race relations at all. I knew that there would be a backlash becaues the right is racist at its core. The Republican party, the old party of Lincoln was gone in the wake of LBJ signing the civil rights bill into law. LBJ said famously after that “we have lost the South for a generation.”
Nixon courted those die hard racist with his Southern strategy and his successors picked up the rest of the dregs the religious right. Now you’ve got a hodge podge of psycho-racist-chauvanistic xenophobic nut jobs in the Rethuglican party. Did anybody seriously think they would sit by and accept a black man as commander and chief?
Hell no.
Frankly, I don’t think he would have even won again McCain, had McCain NOT picked that freaking idiot Sarah Palin. Even the wing nuts weren’t stupid enough to entertain the possibility of that woman as the vice-president. America is still deeply, deeply racist. Its like that old saying, the more things change the more they stay the same. It’s sad.
All I know is, if it gets dicey, I have a passport and I will use it.
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Calculator,
Don’t count on that. Their younger cohorts are just as racist. It gives me pause that Tea Baggers actually hold office. The nazis started off as a little rag tag group of crazies called the brownshirts. Remember that.
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Grow up; George Bush had two movies advocating his assassination, accused of being a war criminal. Children cheered when Reagan was shot.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/03/30/30-years-ago-some-children-cheered-reagan-assassination-attempt
Unfortunately, this happens when you play in the big leagues.
I’ll start taking you seriously when you defend the human dignity of those you most bitterly disagree with.
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Wow! That comic strip you found was hilarious! You are a great blogger! 🙂
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Waiting for Joe Wilson to tell Trump “You lie!” He is still in Congress.
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