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Can Obama survive? [Hate-filled Americans who will never accept a black man as president](Unreal)
The Globe and Mail ^
| August 28, 2009
| Gerald Caplan, Special to The Globe and Mail
Posted on 08/28/2009 7:21:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The campaign against health-care reform fuels a huge number of hate-filled Americans who will never accept a black man as president.
Barack Obama seemed remarkably upbeat the other day as he left for his first formal vacation as president. It's true that this is one of the coolest cats the world has ever seen, always apparently comfortable in his own skin, unflappable, dignified, whatever the winds swirling around him.
But that doesn't mean he's always right, and there are plenty of reasons to fear that he's very wrong if he doesn't think he's in big, deep trouble.
It's hard when discussing American politics not to want to break into constant superlatives, as in the craziest this or the most extreme that. I saw a clip the other day of conservative bloviator Charles Krauthammer asserting as a matter of indisputable fact that if Obama lost the health-care battle his administration was over. Full stop. Over. May as well turn the keys of the White House over to Sarah Palin. Yet it's barely half a year since his inauguration and 3½ to go. This is as preposterous a comment as is conceivable you see, superlatives are already inescapable yet his fellow pundits on the panel all mindlessly agreed.
What is true is that the U.S. President and the presidency are in great jeopardy, but not from the health-care battle as such. There are an abundance of dire warning signs.(continued)
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: angrymob; banglist; canada; canadian; healthcare; horsepuckey; ndp; obama; obamacare; palin; racecard; socializedmedicine; townhall; townhalls
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To: madison10
REAL, 100% BLACK, 100% AMERICAN MEN WHO SHOULD BE PRESIDENT:
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:06:07 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: headsonpikes
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
The liberals just cant stop playing the race card! And here in New York State, our hapless Governor Paterson isn't even capable of playing the 'race card' properly ... he was rebuffed by the WH in his lame attempt to blame all his political problems on 'whitey'
PEEVED OBAMA TRUMPS PATERSON'S RACE CARD
To: Da Coyote
"Obama is - quite simply - a simpleton."
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:09:19 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"....one of the coolest cats the world has ever seen..." Anymore cheezie smoke blowing where the sun don't shine and these closet projecting racists at the daily snail will be embarrassing, even to themselves.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:12:35 PM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unreal, but entirely predictable. Your average American community can’t fire a corrupt school official if they happen to be black without the cry of “racist” being raised to frighten off responsible action. It’s going to get a lot uglier.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:13:42 PM PDT
by
Poincare
Anyone who is a critic of any of 0bama’s policies is a racist. Please try to keep that in mind. Emails sent to snitch@whitehouse.gov may appear to bounce, but I can assure you that everything is not as it seems.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:15:59 PM PDT
by
KarinG1
(You're just jealous because the voices don't talk to you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can Obama survive? [Hate-filled Americans who will never accept a black man as president](UnrealObama's not even black - he FAILED at that!
Heck, my moreno son gets darker than he is. These racist bastards need to be expelled from this nation. I don't see a reason to wait.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:20:59 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gerald Caplan needs to get back on his meds!
To: headsonpikes
"“Gerald Kaplan is a sanctimonious chickensh*t Canadian socialist...”" These people live in a bubble. I swear..they make up their own propaganda and then turn around and start believing it.
Hey GK...read this...Hurry up now! A totally helpless individual needs your superior intellect to save them!/s
Open Letter to White Liberals from A Black American
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325262/posts
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:28:11 PM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: Mr_Moonlight; 2ndDivisionVet
What a hate filled piece that was!!
It’s not the color of his skin that worries me!
June K
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:30:34 PM PDT
by
June K.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
ROTFLOL
Are they still using the race card?
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:42:10 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: the OlLine Rebel
I'm up here in the (soon-to-be) frozen north, watching with interest Col Allen West running again for the house seat for District 22 in Florida. Polls show a one point difference between him and the incumbent. Check him out.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:47:44 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Sprit of '76)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sometimes, it’s good to be feared.
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posted on
08/28/2009 8:49:17 PM PDT
by
Mariner
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'd vote for Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Herman Cain -- even Alan Keyes (despite his ill-considered call for reparations which he'd probably rethink if nominated). I'm sure there are other folks of color out there with actual, functional brains with RIGHT lobes. (Ecclesiastes 10:2 "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Obozo probably never read that one as it's not in the Koran.)
My problem with Obozo AIN'T racial. It's PHILOSOPHICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL. The fool is a marxist puppet for Soros and his leftist oligarchs.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that CAPLAN is the freakin’ racist.
These guys playing the race card would be funny if that card weren’t the JOKER!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/28/2009 9:37:05 PM PDT
by
LibraTango
(hithvptv)
To: Man50D
All about being a Black Man, HA!
How about being a FAILED MAN!
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posted on
08/28/2009 9:43:21 PM PDT
by
TheDailyChange
(Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’d accept Thomas Sowell, or Alan Keys, or many others. I’d accept Clarence Thomas except I wouldn’t want to trade decades of work on SCOTUS for 8 as POTUS, and I don’t think he’d like all the negative media attention he’d get, either.
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posted on
08/28/2009 9:54:18 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
To: madison10
Hes so RED he poops hammers and sickles.Sounds painful. He needs to seek health care for that.
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posted on
08/28/2009 9:56:18 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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