Obama is Black? I thought he was Bi? Biracial that is. ;-)
This is their campaign strategy. They know they can’t run on their accomplishments, so they have to try to scare their base into coming out; it’s all they have now.
This tactic will backfire big time in November. 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. I know many people who voted for Obama and who generally support him but are really starting to get pissed off by the way the race card is being played. Between that and the tax bites set to take effect, many of my liberal friends are starting to really have second thoughts/
Liberals are more racist than conservatives. As many liberals see their wealth go down the tubes they might become much more vocally racist. Gee. what a fun place liberals are turning my once great nation into.
Funny...~I~ see a wife whose beloved man just had triple bypass, is -forced- to have Medicare and the terrifying possibility of being denied [God forbid] future treatment.
Where’s the “race” in that?
I’d detest this fascist bastard just as much if he were an ultra-conservative -albino- tyrant ramming intrusive, unconstitutional legislation down our throats.
This is so preposterous as to be laughable.
It was the whites that elected him!!!
Frank Rich is a moronic putz. He and the NYT are perfect for each other.
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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The author has it right.
I don’t take them as loony. They know exactly that this is a way to demonize the opposition. This is Alinsky 101.
Well people HATE ObamaCare in Florida.
Only 34 percent of Florida voters support the new law while 54 percent are against it, according to the poll. Opposition is significantly strong among two crucial blocs: those older than 65 and voters with no party affiliation. Seniors disfavor the bill by a 65-25 percent margin, while independents oppose the law 62-34.
This is a real poll from Mason Dixon not that fake poll CNN is spewing all over.
“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.”
This is excessively generous to the race-baiters. I think they are cynical demagogues who know exactly how phony their claims are.
I was just educating a liberal on another board to this fact.
The left's fantasies about the right never require validation by external reality. Facts that don't fit the template are simply discarded.
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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.
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.
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...)
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.
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.
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.