Posted on 05/19/2012 11:02:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It has been suggested that the Republican war against President Obama is not being waged because of political ideological differences, but instead, is a thinly veiled disguise for racism against the first black president of the United States.
If this is true, no one should expect anyone on the Republican side of the aisle to actually admit it. But actions do speak louder than words.
There has been a rebellious trend in government since Obama took office that has brought both governing and Americans' view of Congress to historic lows.
Compromise has surrendered to hardline conservative views and deliberate Republican threats and acts have been so profound, they have actually harmed the entire county. Evidence of this can be found in the 2011 debt ceiling battle. Why would any governing body take their own nation to the brink of economic disaster with the threat of credit default, when money was available to pay the country's bills with what has historically been a routine vote?
More than dirty politics
On Thursday, the New York Times uncovered a 2012 Republican campaign strategy designed to inflame American voters and promote hatred against the sitting Democratic president. It was called, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama."
The $10 million dollar advertising blitz was to include negative images and inferences to a decades-old relationship between the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and President Obama, who formerly attended his church in Chicago.
Funded by billionaire and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, the "Plan to End His Spending for Good," quickly became a political hot potato no one wanted to touch, since the implications of such an advertising campaign contained racial overtones that were hard to escape.
The "Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama" plan that was under consideration by Ricketts, included references to "race-bating" and "black liberation theology." It also suggested hiring an “extremely literate conservative African-American,” as its spokesperson, "who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”
Truth vs. Fiction
How President Obama has actually governed during the past three years often has little or nothing to do with the claims that are being made against him by Republicans. He has in fact, been fiscally far more conservative since taking office than his Republican predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
So why do charges of over-spending persist?
One reason for a variety of the exaggerated or false claims by Republicans against President Obama, lie in the effectiveness of scare tactics on the public. Obama has been often compared to Adolf Hitler by his conservative critics. Yet there is a striking similarity to Nazi Germany and Republican anti-Obama propaganda.
Both used fear and misrepresentation to stimulate public support for their causes.
Then there is the "Birther" movement which has been resurrected in recent days. It attempts to place doubt in voters' minds as to the nationality of President Obama with claims that his birth certificate is fake and he is not an American.
However, this still does not answer the question of why the Republicans have been fueling division and refusing to govern since Obama took office. But this does; Republicans have admitted that their main goal has been to keep Obama from being a successful president and to defeat him in a second term at all costs.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
What makes Barack Obama such a target for Republicans, when they have never so openly admitted their adversarial position against other Democratic presidents?
Changing the rules
More evidence of the Republican war on Obama is surfacing in legislation that has been passed by Republican governors since the last election. New laws, some of which have been declared illegal, have been focused on disenfranchising minority voters, and stripping unions of their strength. Both are aimed at keeping money and voters away from Obama.
There have also been suggestions for a return to segregation by some Republicans, like Kentucky's Rand Paul.
"Paul explained that he backed the portion of the Civil Rights Act banning discrimination in public places and institutions, but that he thinks private businesses should be permitted to discriminate by race," according to Politico . Racism still exists in America in the 21st century. But until Barack Obama became president, few politicians would so openly advocate the promotion of segregation.
Beyond the political undertones for a revival of racism, there have been openly inflammatory, race-based images and remarks made about President Obama that show a diminished respect for the Oval Office. During his State of the Union Address, the President of the United States was called a "liar" by Republican Congressman Joe Wilson.
Would Wilson have said that to Obama if he were white? Conservative bloggers have made no secret of the fact that they are using the color of Obama's skin to arouse and incite the far right fringe of the Republican base. Perhaps the most disturbing element of this segregationist revival is the way it has morphed entire Republican Party into a radical movement driven by big money corporate interests, who seem determined to turn America into a separatist nation that caters only to wealthy white people, and their quest for domination of all political and social behavior with far fewer "united" states.
I said back in 2008 that criticism of Obama would be considered racist. It doesn’t matter if the criticism has merit.
As of Thursday, May 17th, the federal debt was almost $16 trillion. To be more exact, it was $15,712,823,135,725.84, as provided by the U.S. government's Treasury Direct website.
At the rate that it is increasing, it should break $16 trillion around the election in November.
As to GDP, according to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Commerce Department, it's at $15.462 trillion (that link is to an Excel spreadsheet at BEA rather than a webpage.)
The U.S. federal debt is already in excess of its GDP.
Was Watching the Military Channel last night and they were showing the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and the Strategy they used to Gain Power. They were in the Streets creating unrest and Chaos every way the could,Riots ,Beatings, huge Mobs,they were causing it all and then telling everyone elect us and we will solve it all. Sound Familiar? The Republicans are the Racists ,the Bigots causing all the Problems,Debt,Loss of Jobs because they are Spending all the Money with their rich Friends and Bankers and Wall street. Of Course the Government causes NONE of this,all the trillions in Giveaways over the Last 50 years,This Continued LIE that Wall Street caused the Housing Collapse when the truth can be found on You Tube any hour of the Day,Cuomo as Head of HUD announcing the Program of giving Mortgages to People who cant afford them is going to Lead to More Defaults!Wall Streets Fault? Barney Frank,Jimmy Carter and The Community Reinvestment act, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno and The Community reinvestmnt act. Wall Street was just trying to Protect itself from the NAZIS in the Governments Insane Policies but you will Never hear that,NO ONE NOT EVEN SARAH PALIN told the truth from the Beginning, so Now THE LIE is repeated over and Over ,New regulations are implemented on the basis of the Lie,Dodd,Frank Obama Campaiging on JP Morgan losing Billions Of PRIVATE MONEY,but saying Nothing of John Corzine Losing a Billion of Money he controlled,this is the Guy Obama and Biden Called On to Spend the Trillion In stimulus Money,Heard anything about that? Folks I just wish we had someone on Our side in a Position to do something about all this but I am afraid we are Screwed
I’m not a fan of President Obama.
He’s way too leftist and marxist.
Reagan won the Cold War arms race against USSR.
Ever hear of the Ohio Class Submarine? M1 Abrams Tank? A-10 Warthog? Apache Helicopter? Ticonderoga Class Crusier?
This woman is insane !!!
She needs to get laid.
Again, I think it’s Bush’s fault along with the bitter/angry, haven’t been laid in ages, women machine that Cheney and Rumsfeld diabolically devised., manufactured by Halliburton, engineered by Rove.
I found...this as a possibility, located in Florida.
As are most liberals.
Is this woman 10 years old or has she never before paid attention to politics? There has ALWAYS been a rebellious trend in American government. It's called DEMOCRACY!
Evidence of this can be found in the 2011 debt ceiling battle. Why would any governing body take their own nation to the brink of economic disaster with the threat of credit default, when money was available to pay the country's bills with what has historically been a routine vote?
More like a routine chance for grandstanding and attacking the other party's spending priorities. These votes were only routine when there was not a fight about spending and fears about the debt.
Author is just more proof that our biggest enemy is the WHITE LIBERAL
Satire .... right ?
“”this still does not answer the question of why the Republicans have been fueling division and refusing to govern since Obama took office””
Refusing to govern - I guess that includes the Republican failure to pass a budget in the past 3 years!
Lock her up with Cynthia McKinney!
I just sat down here and two articles of this tripe in succession is reason enough to leave the computer for the rest of the day.
Thax for the update
I do have some contentions with the republicans, but i also believe that if you have to kill a rattle snake or a rat do it any way you can.
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