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EDITORIAL: Obama's white-flight problem
The Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 03/29/2010 7:37:49 PM PDT by topfile

Desperate Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media are busy trying to whip up a race war.

"The health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It's merely a handy excuse," Frank Rich wrote in a recent New York Times column. Their line is that all those opposed to the president's radical agenda are racists who resent having a black man as president. It is a moldy, old smear, but as approval ratings for Mr. Obama sink below 50 percent, it is being revisited with increasing fervor.

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Race plays a much stronger role in the liberal mindset than for most of America. Mr. Obama and many liberals of his generation grew up being taught that America is at root a deeply flawed country, and it is their mission to "fix" it. Those pushing the "racism" argument to explain the strong opposition to Mr. Obama's policies do so because they can't escape looking at issues through a racial prism. As America has become post-racial, they are intellectually and emotionally stuck in the 1960s. So they recycle images half-a-century old and wait, forlornly, for a random lynching to justify their worldview.

There is much to dislike about Mr. Obama's America: high unemployment, monstrous record debt, economic sluggishness, a terrible health care law, higher taxes, a rigged census, fast-tracking illegal aliens to the franchise, growing government at home and increasing weakness abroad. It is not mean-spirited racism to take a stand against the daily destruction of the American dream; it is simple common sense.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010midterms; bho44; blackvote; dncstrategy; racewar; whitevote
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To: topfile
Race plays a much stronger role in the liberal mindset than for most of America.

I was just educating a liberal on another board to this fact.

21 posted on 03/29/2010 7:52:15 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Happiness doesn't come from owning something; it comes from being a part of something)
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To: milwguy
"The one thing most middle of the road whites will abide the least is the implication that if they don’t support Obama, they are racists."

The new definition of a racist is "anyone who doesn't agree with a liberal"... And I'm a racist...

22 posted on 03/29/2010 7:52:39 PM PDT by libs_kma (If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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To: Oceander

That is GOOD!


23 posted on 03/29/2010 7:52:47 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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To: LUV W

Thanks!


24 posted on 03/29/2010 7:54:19 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: milwguy
This tactic will backfire big time in November

Fraid So! It even turned off folks in Massachusetts. He is alienating vast numbers of voters with it. It is really petty and disgusting and the press only propagate it in an attempt to save their sorry hides. The only trouble is that we see right through it for what it is; an attempt to manipulate us rather than to persuade us.

The press has no clue on this matter either. They are hemorrhaging readers and viewers constantly with no clue at all.

25 posted on 03/29/2010 7:54:58 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: topfile
As America has become post-racial, they are intellectually and emotionally stuck in the 1960s. So they recycle images half-a-century old and wait, forlornly, for a random lynching to justify their worldview.

The left's fantasies about the right never require validation by external reality. Facts that don't fit the template are simply discarded.

26 posted on 03/29/2010 7:55:13 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Kartographer
Obama is Black?

I don't think so; he certainly looks white in this picture...


27 posted on 03/29/2010 7:57:06 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: topfile

...

Among people who attend church weekly, Mr. Obama’s support has dropped from a high of 60 percent in January 2009 to 41 percent, and affinity for Mr. Obama has fallen in double digits among religious denominations across the board. An exception is the “None/Atheist/Agnostic” category, in which Mr. Obama enjoys 67 percent support. He is also highly supported by those with graduate degrees, young people, single people, poor people and blacks.

(yes, the godless stil love Obama!)

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There is much to dislike about Mr. Obama’s America: high unemployment, monstrous record debt, economic sluggishness, a terrible health care law, higher taxes, a rigged census, fast-tracking illegal aliens to the franchise, growing government at home and increasing weakness abroad. It is not mean-spirited racism to take a stand against the daily destruction of the American dream; it is simple common sense.

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Yes, it is NOT a RACE ISSUE as they will try and make this out to be.


28 posted on 03/29/2010 7:57:31 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: topfile

The only black people I don’t like are the ones that bitch about racism all the time. And even then it is because they are so damned bitchy than because they are black.


29 posted on 03/29/2010 7:58:51 PM PDT by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: topfile

It’s because they can’t see any flaw in their political opinions and theories. This is a narcissistic attack at the root because there surely can’t be anything wrong with their IDEAS. It MUST be because the people who disagree with them are _______! (racist, homophobic, etc...)


30 posted on 03/29/2010 8:01:07 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: milwguy

I never really understood how conservatives can have liberal friends. I guess that some other commonalities transcend political philosophy. But, I prefer to spend my free time with other conservatives as opposed to liberals as I don’t have to tolerate their phoney indignation when I say something that both I and they know is true. (Political incorrect as they would define)


31 posted on 03/29/2010 8:01:25 PM PDT by Entropic
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To: aquila48
"It was the whites that elected him!!!"

Obama knows that he tricked many of the people who voted for him and that it was only a matter of time before he was revealed as the thuggish, commie low-life POS that he is.

32 posted on 03/29/2010 8:04:15 PM PDT by blam
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To: topfile

I’ve written several times that the swing vote that gave Obama the win was the white guilt vote, those guilt-ridden white folks among the large group in the middle that move back and forth between the two parties’ presidential candidates. Now that those independent or moderate white voters are realizing what Obama really intends, their guilt is lifting and Obama’s support is dwindling.

This trend needs to continue and grow even more.


33 posted on 03/29/2010 8:05:18 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Anti-Bubba182
They know exactly that this is a way to demonize

I can't disagree, but I'll recognize that some of the libs blinded by their elitism see things only through the prism of race. Therefore they are the very thing they profess to detest.

34 posted on 03/29/2010 8:06:46 PM PDT by topfile
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To: milwguy

Amen to that.

I, too, begrudgingly voted for Juan as the lesser of two evils.

I can understand but can not excuse their “lack of enthusiasm”.

This is *America* we’re talking about; not American Idol.

“Lack of enthusiasm” isn’t worth diddly-squat when your country is being slowly and surely strangled to death.


35 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:21 PM PDT by Salamander (....and I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.......)
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To: Entropic

I never really understood how conservatives can have liberal friends

You can pick your nise, but you can not pick your familly.

Many people know liberals as family members/friends,but not might otherwise associate


36 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:27 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: topfile

Obama and his ilk are doing their best to divide us into groups so they can pit us against one another: black vs white, rich vs poor, those with health care vs those without it. The more groups and classifications they can create the more strife and the more reason for them to step in and “fix it.” Divide and conquer, plain and simple.


37 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:48 PM PDT by FourPeas (God Bless America)
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To: Entropic

my wife works in an envirnoment populated by leftists and we naturally hang out with some of them. It has been interesting to watch their view change from unabashed enthusiam for Obama’s election, to a grudging realization that they may have way overestimated his centrist campaign promises. Liberals are a funny buch, they are all for equality until it starts to bite their pocketbook in the way of higher taxes.

When I saw a couple of them last week I made sure to remind them that next year Obama’s flex plan limits go into effect. Next year the max is $2500 and no prescription medications can be purchased with flex money. They asked me where I heard that and I told em I would forward the section of the health care plan to them via email. I have not heard from either of them since I sent them the info.


38 posted on 03/29/2010 8:11:53 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: topfile

It’s not a matter of black or white but of gray - gray matter, that is. And I do not like what goes on in the gray matter between President Obama’s ears. Just like I did not like the gray matter of John Kerry, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, et al.


39 posted on 03/29/2010 8:11:59 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Nailbiter

I was not refering to family. The prior post specifically stated “liberal friends”. The distinction is critical.

Although, I do feel sorry for those conservatives married to liberals. (Truely mixed marriage)


40 posted on 03/29/2010 8:16:35 PM PDT by Entropic
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