Now this chump of a President and self-appointed Sunday-School Teacher to the World (TM) has added mind-reading to the list of his bogus "talents" and pronounced that...
"...an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American."
This all-purpose cover for Obama's selling out everybody except a few billionaire bankers was quickly echoed by sleazy proponents of "identity" politics like the despicable M.J. Rosenberg of TalkingPointsMemo, who announced that "in Obama's case, 99% of the criticism is race based."
99%!
So all you progressive or liberal "racists" who were even thinking about criticizing our Dear Leader should just shut the fuck up and drink the koolaid!
And that includes you, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, with your crazy racist claims that Obama once pledged to "dump" the Patriot Act... and it gets even worse!
Obama justifies keeping nearly all of Bush's terror war provisions in place with the standard rationale that the government must have all the weapons needed to deal with the threat of terrorism, even legally and constitutionally dubious weapons. That, of course, was the Bush and Cheney stock line.
Racist! (But isn't this great photo anyway? I love that guy!)
And that also includes those Ku Klux Klan vipers at Black Agenda Report, which is featuring this screaming "racist" headline...
Distracting, Dissembling, Disappointing; Barack is Back!
Why don't they just call him "uppity," and quit trying to find excuses to hate him?
Other prominent "racist" scumbags who pretended to be progressives but finally showed their real bigotry by criticizing Barack Obama include David Sirota at OpenLeft, and Matt Taibbi, with his foaming-at-the-mouth "racist" claim that Obama and Rahm Emanuel accepted a "Big Bribe" from Big Pharma, and Robert Scheer, just another loony crypto-racist who pretends that...
Obama "has blundered into a deepening quagmire in Afghanistan, has continued the Bush policy of buying off Wall Street hustlers instead of confronting them and is now on the cusp of bargaining away the so-called public option..."
Racist!
Racists everywhere!
...except for Jimmy Carter, M.J. Rosenberg, Barack Obama, and Eric Holder, who "told it like it ain't" about this "nation of cowards," where hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers once sacrificed their lives to abolish slavery.
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He grew up in deep south Georgia during Jim Crowe. I believe he knows a thing or ten about racism.
Pot calling the kettle "black"? You come off as sanctimonious.
http://www.c-span.org/presidentialsurvey/overall-ranking.aspx
Carter got the Peace Prize for arranging a camping trip for Egypt and Israel at Camp David, so that Egypt could turn into Israel's partner at penning up Palestinians in Gaza, where Egyptian guards watch the fences on one side, and Israeli guards watch them on the other. Meanwhile, Gaza's water supply has been permanently compromised, on top of all the rest of that nightmare, and isn't the rest of the world incredibly lucky that Jimmy Carter didn't "earn" a Nobel Prize for helping them, too, the way he "helped" the Palestinians in Gaza?
Thanks for posting, Billy Glad!
Nice link, Blue.
Blue's link leaves out all polls conducted before 2000, which is a little more than 20 years of polling, and Carter still comes out near the bottom of 20th Century Presidents, with an average ranking of 23.5 on CNN's two "surveys of surveys," in a virtual tie with "great" Presidents like Calvin Coolidge, instead of coming in 26th on the more comprehensive list of surveys I used.
Why bother to post your completely unsupported opinion, Rich, like nothing more than an inarticulate goon?
Who are you, that anybody should care what you blather out with no evidence whatsoever?
sorry, I've heard all your bullshit before
same shit, different names
Got to disagree about Carter comment. I would hope you could stay cool enough to understand that Carter and many of us are pointing out that the far-right wingers who are screaming "Give us our country back" simply seem incapable of citing any factual evidence for their anger. Not everyone who disagrees with Obama is being painted as a racist, but it is apparent with this one segment of our society. I'll take Carter anyday.
Reading racism into the souls of everybody on the far right is just as irrational as any of the claims that Obama's far right opponents can dream up.
You don't know, and Jimmy Carter doesn't know, either, what any of "those people" are thinking, beyond what they say, and what they say isn't racist, on the face of it.
There are plenty of reasons to suspect that Obama isn't working for the best interests of ordinary people, without assuming a phantom racism which hasn't manifested itself except in a vanishingly small number of cases.
First, thanks for a civil and rational reply. Secondly, I am going to take the liberty of quoting myself from a recent post about critical race theory in a brie attempt to highlight how it's not necessary to be a mind reader in order to see what's happening.
"Racism has been practiced, defined, studied, discussed and debated for centuries. It’s not just a white against black attitude and/or practice, although the white power structure in America tends to see it that way. It is way more complicated and complex. For a number of years I was an education professor at a “Historically Black College/University .“ While there I became exposed to critical race theory. One tenet of critical race theory is that the white power structure will allow those in the minority to do just about anything until it threatens their very own (aka “white”) way of doing things (aka “power”).
The fact that President Obama is non-white is the tipping point for many white Americans. Their power and way of life has been threatened, and they are responding in kind (“Give us back our country!!”) This is sad but appears true."
Thanks.
So leaving aside whatever the latest wave of nitwit commenters may be chattering about, go back to the diary and...
Take a look at Earl Ofari Hutchinson!
Obama looks and thinks like an anchor-man in some middling media market like Baltimore...
...but if anybody was actually looking for a President, then Earl Ofari Hutchinson is just about what they would hope to see...
...and Earl Ofari Hutchinson not only looks like a President...
... he also thinks like a President, and still has a full set of principles after living in the same cruel world with the rest of us for quite a few years.
So how did we end up with a half-bright news-reader in the White House, and Hutchinson writing articles for HuffPo?
This was a very big mistake!
I don't have any doubt that hard times and unscrupulous agitators on both sides could create a racial divide out of thin air, or any other kind of divide that anyone wants to postulate. The Stanford prison experiment is constantly buzzing around in the back of my brain, and you don't really need any kind of visible marker like color to set one subgroup against another... but visible markers make it easier, for sure.
About Obama's speech piped into the schools...
I don't care how many other Presidents have done the same thing, it sounds like Big Brother to me, and I'm against it. So what if Reagan or whoever got away with it?
The speech itself may have zero political content, but it's "cult of personality" right from the get-go anyway.
Amigo, if somebody were trying to inflict one of the few American political figures whom I actually admire, like Kucinich or Wesley Clark, on a captive audience of school-children, I would still hate it, and at the same age as those kids, I would have walked out myself, and never mind getting a pass from my parents!