Posted on 12/09/2016 4:12:52 PM PST by Jim W N
Even at the end of his second term, Barack Obama is finding ways to blame others for his failures.
At the beginning of his presidency, everything was George W. Bush’s fault. After several years — and long after the Bush-blaming had outstayed its welcome — Obama finally found a new scapegoat. Suddenly, all of the administration’s shortcomings had to do with a racist electorate.
At one point Obama even claimed that racism holds all black people back, including his own family. It was an absurd argument from a man who was elected twice to be President of the United States.
But the absurdity of the argument hasn’t stopped Obama from making it again and again through his tenure as president. And he hasn’t stopped now that he’s serving his final months in the oval office.
Barack Obama has now served two full terms as President of the United States. Despite the fact that he was elected by a majority-white electorate, he still seems to think the United States is full of a bunch of racists.
In an interview aired Wednesday on CNN, President Obama described how he thinks people may view him differently than other presidents because of his race.
”I think there’s a reason attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states,” Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
Obama described how the “birther” movement, fueled in large part by President-elect Donald Trump, affected him.
“Are there folks whose primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign — the other? Are those who champion the birther movement feeding off of bias? Absolutely,” he said.
The “birther” movement didn’t start because of the color of Obama’s skin. It started because he was a man who lived his childhood in a foreign country who was, for the majority of his presidency, unable to locate his long-form birth certificate. But these real concerns apparently never occurred to Obama. He would rather call his opponents racist than acknowledge that they had real concerns.
When in Kenya, I was in a town where his cousin showed up. They said he was born in Kenya. He wrote about this in the beginning of her career. WHY didn;t he let us see his record of academic achievements if they were so glorious. IT isn;t about pigment color but about character, a VAST difference....for people who use logic and reason.
1964 called. They want their race card back.
Because he's just so much better than us.
He needs to own up to that at least.
I’ll bet those same people love Sheriff David Clarke. Odd.
It's the color of your attitude. Black is as black does.
You're WRONG again Mr. Obozo.
You're HALF BLACK and HALF WHITE which has nothing to do with whether we like or dislike you.
The DISLIKE stems from your HALF-A$$ED politics.
Southern whites (Americans) do not like you because YOU are an America-hating,commie,lying putz.
...mr. exprez...I’m not southern and I just plain don’t like you mr. ex.....go blow it out your frozzenoodle...and this is NOT fake news....
This joker was the president of the US????
Hey Jugears- I don’t like you because of your policies and anti-American hatred...Color does not enter into my equation except for the fact you are one big fat zero!
Fitting that the last gasp of this failed tyrant are excuses and scapegoats. The presidency was waaaay too big a job for a stupid little marxist idiot like this.
What an effing bigot!
And Hillary
He’s not even half black, not in the American sense he isn’t. The only connection to slavery he has is on the ownership side.
Oh not because you’re an Islamic Commie Imbecile
Southern, east west and north folks don’t like you because you are an ###hole.
He could have ended the controversy about his place of birth in one day by releasing his genuine birth certificate when it first became an issue. All we have is a form which Trump agreed to accept as genuine, whether it is or not.
My guess is that he was born in Honolulu but there is information on the genuine birth certificate he wants kept secret.
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