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Horrible! Obama Blames Racism For His Lower Approval Ratings
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 19, 2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 01/19/2014 12:54:01 PM PST by Hojczyk

Obama blamed his sinking popularity on racism in his latest interview with the >New Yorker.

It couldn’t possibly be his failed economic policies, the fact that he lied to Americans for years about Obamacare or his destructive foreign policy. No, it’s racism. Bloomberg reported:

President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today.

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.

“Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,” Obama said in his most direct comments on how race has affected his political standing since he’s been in office.

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To: mrsmel
In the South, black people using “folk” when the topic is race, is a well-known euphemism referring to white people with intent to demean. I’ve heard it used that way all my life by blacks in the South when setting themselves against whites. They used to think we didn’t know what they meant when they did it, I’m surprised Hussein still seems to believe we don’t. Maybe I shouldn’t be.

He's so arrogant he probably believes that we don't. In his mind, he's smarter than all of us. But only in his mind.

181 posted on 01/19/2014 7:18:39 PM PST by Rainbow Rising ("If America was a house, the left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Hojczyk

So he must be racist about himself. Is it the white side or the black side that is racist.


182 posted on 01/19/2014 7:20:49 PM PST by jetson (THE)
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To: Texas Songwriter
Don’t you love the visual of Obama coming off of Air Force One, styling, with his fists clenched, shaking them up and down, like an idiot teenager showing off. I have prayed, just once, Lord, just once, please let that emaciated prick do a header on those stairs. I’m sorry, Lord, I should not say that. But, if you allowed Jerry Ford do it, can you let the Muslim do a facesmash while the cameras roll?

If he did, he would probably blame the stairs. They were probably constructed by a racist who hates the idea of a black president walking on them.

183 posted on 01/19/2014 7:21:38 PM PST by Rainbow Rising ("If America was a house, the left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: mrsmel; Rainbow Rising
In the South, black people using “folk” when the topic is race, is a well-known euphemism referring to white people with intent to demean.

Around here (NorCal) it's "smiling faces."

184 posted on 01/19/2014 7:29:54 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Hojczyk

Number 1: Obama is not black. Nothing black about him, except some of his chromosomes.
Number 2: By practicing race baiting continually and setting race against race, he has set back race relations in the United States at least 75 years.
Number 3: With his bogus jobs bill and rise in unemployment and cataclysmic health care plan debacle, he has harmed the economic and medical well being of Blacks throughout the United States.
Number 4: Americans had been looking forward to a Black president, not the president from Hell, no matter what color the president Hell.


185 posted on 01/20/2014 2:49:21 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Hojczyk

Racism plays a big part - he and his fellow racists have disgusted much of the Nation with their overt racism...


186 posted on 01/20/2014 3:00:25 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Nowhere Man

“Racisim”? Guess who has caused the largest divide between the races, it sure as hell hasn’t be the whites. Odumbo has set race relations back for close to a hundred years thus emboldening blacks to go over the edge. The worse is yet to come. Lock and load folks.


187 posted on 01/20/2014 6:02:59 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: SeaDragon

ping, per our discussion


188 posted on 01/20/2014 2:39:16 PM PST by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: TigersEye
We don't have the actual transcript, so we don't know what questions or comments Remnick made that led to Obama's response.

If Remnick asked, "Aren't most of the people who oppose you motivated by race?" then a response that some people may oppose him because of race and others favor him because of race doesn't seem to be entirely out of place.

It's the kind of answer politicians like -- not exactly an affirmation, not exactly a negation, not especially gracious or ungracious, more a brushing away of a question the politician doesn't want to answer than an actual response.

Of course, that may not be the context, and the blogger may be right about this -- it might be Obama hiding behind race again and lashing out at his opponents -- but that's not the only answer. If he really wanted to lash out, he could have gone further.

Some politicians avoid the New Yorker because it doesn't let their remarks stand as written, but works them into contexts that are the writers' own creation. To be sure, Remnick and Obama are on the same side politically, but Remnick is hung up on a particular narrative here and he's going to write his article to reflect that story.

189 posted on 01/21/2014 2:44:56 PM PST by x
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To: x
What a bunch of sorry excuses for the Jug-eared Emperor! We do know the context. He was explaining why his poll numbers were down. Period.

It is clear as crystal that 0bama is a racist and a whining excuse maker.

190 posted on 01/21/2014 4:06:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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