Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their Rhetoric »
Posted By TimALoftis 4 months ago in Political Opinion
An interesting pattern has emerged in the last few weeks, as President Obama's ratings have started to come down to Earth: You can really see a type of Obama-hatred out there that really does cross over into a purely racial territory.
This has gotten especially worse in the aftermath of Obama's comments and subsequent mea culpa on the Henry Louis Gates arrest, but the pattern has been there all the same. You can look back to the 2008 campaign, with the Jeremiah Wright controversies, the phony rumors of a tape of Michelle Obama defaming whites, and the slow but steady emergence of the Birthers. And these days, the Birthers seem to be getting more and more bellicose.
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scott42614 months ago
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Racism is MOST DEFINITELY a part of the equation here in the hills of Northwest Arkansas. Wal-Mart's headquarters is here....Tyson's too. And JB Hunt....amng others. I work in the most Republican area of this state, and have come to realize that many of the racists that opposed the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 uprooted their families and moved away...many to my area of the state. Now many would deny their racism to your face, just as many here on propeller do, but it's there....
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mesodude4 months ago
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They can't get minorities to join the GOP so they've decided to beat them--as in beat them over the head with the race card and hope something sparks a race war that divides the electorate). They tried to go the blue collar vs the "elites" in the lead up to the election. We saw how effective that was...We had Joe the homophobic tax dodging pinhead plumber. We had John (I can't remember how many houses I have or where they all are, in fact) McCain. And then we had Saks 5th Avenue Sarah Palin. Soccer mom by day and six-figure spending fashion model by night.
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Have you noticed how cons chernobyl when they're accused of being racist? Exactly...They assume that everyone walks around with a guilt complex about race just because they do. Someone needs to tell them attacking minorities for fun, entertainment, and political gain *isn't * working. ;-( -
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scott42614 months ago
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And one more thing....before you you nutcases start negging me.... NO, I'm NOT saying all Republicans are racists.... not at all. But to deny that racists are a part of your party in 2009 is to deny a bold glaring reality. And spare me the lectures about Robert Byrd and the Klan (an issue for which he has shown acceptable repentance, in my view)...or Abraham Lincoln....or how the Republicans from the north helped push through the Civil Rights Act despite resistance from southern Democrats. I know all that. And it is NOT RELEVANT to the state of the GOP in 2009....except to point out that many racists went to the Republican Party before LBJ's ink was even dry on the paper. I know this. ...and you do too.
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UnusualSuspect4 months ago
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Agreed...not all Republicans/conservatives are racist...
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I would think the percentage is quite low, really, but when they have leaders like Limbaugh and Beck, who may not necessarily be racist but certainly don't step away from the plate when making rude or disparaging remarks, it's not hard to see why this situation continues to stay around.
But blacks and other minorities have had to put up with this kind of thing for centuries, and it's not going to go away any time soon.
Once the economy gets better (the stock market is growing, albeit slowly, new housing for June was good), I think we'll see a lessening of this kind of behavior. -
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Endoscopy4 months ago
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What liberals like to ignore is the raceial things in the liberal camp. Gates was the racist in this example but what did a lot of liberals do? Rant about police thuggery. They ignore the fact that this particular officer teaches how to handle these situations. He did it right and a lot of liberals just ranted about how bad he was. To me that is racial bigotry in and of itself.
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ice_water4 months ago
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And it is NOT RELEVANT to the state of the GOP in 2009....except to point out that many racists went to the Republican Party before LBJ's ink was even dry on the paper. I know this. ...and you do too.
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Yeah, republicans look like idiots when they invoke that bull****. And they wonder why we're called the stupid party. Slavery ended a long time ago and so did the Republican party's identity as the party of Lincoln.
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Charlson4 months ago
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jordan114 months ago
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rbiii4 months ago
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Obama keeps the race card handy for when things get sticky.
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He did it all through the campaign trail and he did it last Wednesday in order to deflect from his problems with getting a Health Care bill passed.
And if you don't think his response to the question was a calculated move to add something else to the news cycles, you are too naive to be discussing politics.-
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rumple4skin4 months ago
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rblll - ya think that racism is a soccer game and when some foul bigot crawls from under his cover ... ya think the President cannot or should not red-card the *********?? You clearly have problems greater than not being able to comprehend the need for comprehensive healthcare reform. You need help ... seriously ... in my opinion.
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Newperson4 months ago
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There will always be people that are radical and full of hate.
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But most of the people in our country have moved past all that. Lets not let a few sick minded ones ruin it for our kids and there kids.
If we teach our children one thing that will help them make it in this world.
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Jeboba4 months ago
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The problem is that the racists are those in a position to influence others....brainwash them if you will. The Becks, Limbaughs, etc. spew the most hateful if not carefully veiled form of bigotry. And who is it that listens to their lies and drivel? Republicans! Republicans!
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VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2010!
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orndorffter4 months ago
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I look at it this way, we are all Gods children, red yellow black and white. Why did so many vote for him? was it because they thought he could do the job or just so they could say that they saw Histoy go down in our Histoy books? I voted for Him not for the color of his skin or to say I lived to see the frist Black man to make President, I did it because I felt he was the one who could take us out of this mess we are in, but it seems congress and Senotors all have a little Racial in them, we may have enough democrates in the house and all but they dont want to work and agree with him, and they would have passed bills if it had been a Republican like Bush, and now they have to work a little harder and their not used to working because when Bush was in office he did not have that mush for them to work on.
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calitennflo4 months ago
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I do not hate Oboma, yet I would not allow him in my house! Nor would I recommend him to anyone...
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See, I see him like I see everything in front of my nose...we all belong here even though he represents something else that does not belong upon this Earth...money! -
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Beau78904 months ago
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There are conservatives calling for assassinating Obama as well, as yesterday's news about the man who was convicted for doing so proves. And I believe there were conservatives calling Hillary Clinton that same epithet you mention, for a lot longer than anyone's ever called Palin that (though I don't remember anyone using that word for Palin).
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And you don't want to get into the racial slurs used against Obama--which is the point of the article--do you?
Just face facts, alanocu. Obama haters are, in fact, becoming increasingly racial intheir rhetoric, as the headline states. You can't seriously deny that.
That's not to say everyone who criticizes Obama is a racist--it's just to say there's a lot more explicit racial rhetoric against Obama these days than there used to be.
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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Well, and the police department agrees, and so does the police union after reviewing the incident.
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Bill Cosby was "shocked" by Obama's ignorant accusation.
Juan Williams agreed:"I think it's disappointing that he waded into a local issue...and as {Obama} admitted, he didn't know the facts."
Obama attended a church that was filled with hatred toward whites. That raises a few flags.
Here are just a few of the comments..
Controversy Abounds
Several prior remarks by Obama's pastor have caught the media's attention:
Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.
Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."
Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
Wright on America: He has used the term "middleclassness" in a derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the "oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this racist United States of America."-
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cherev4 months ago
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You forgot - "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright said, according to Virginia's Daily Press. "They will not let him ... talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is."
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willottica4 months ago
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What's wrong with pointing out facts? Racism exists in America. It's not the only thing, but it's there.
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You say that there is a lot of hatred against whites in that church... yet white members of the congregation felt respected and loved by their fellow members. So you have outsiders saying there's hate within, while the insiders didn't see it... who's really going to know? -
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mark-stevens4 months ago
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Fairnbalanced keep your mouth shut when the cops come and take your guns from you... that being the second amendment.... it seems the other nine aren't important to you!!
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The cop lied on his report, he arrested someone making up a law to do it. Their state supreme court had ruled that yelling at a cop is legal... the first amendment.
If Gates had been white you wouldn't even be posting... you have a rot inside of you that consumes what little chance you have at being really happy... not drunk pinching a waitress happy
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cherev4 months ago
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"You can really see a type of Obama-hatred out there that really does cross over into a purely racial territory."
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One can find anything if one is disposed to.
"the pattern has been there all the same. You can look back to the 2008 campaign, with the Jeremiah Wright controversies,"
What does this mean? Was there a problem with the Wright "controversies"?-
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willottica4 months ago
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I saw one. I saw a Church and a Reverend singled out and taken out of context to promote an agenda of fear and mistrust of a presidential candidate. I saw hypocritical targeting of one black pastor who preached against injustice towards blacks from whites -- a problem that is historically documented in the US -- when there are countless other pastors who preach hatred against homosexuals and immigrants (sometimes remembering to target only the illegal ones) and are largely ignored. I saw a huge attempt at "guilt-by-association" attempted to be thrown on the now-President.
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I wonder if anyone said that because the white members of Wright's congregation also attended his church that they must also be racists.
Hmm... white people can attend Wright's church without becoming racists... but black people can't. White people must just not have seen the hate, but black people, including the President couldn't possibly have missed it, therefore they must have been infected by it.
Yeah. I think there was a problem with the Wright "controversies". But I don't really think it's a racist problem. I think it's a partisan problem. Partisan politics has reduced America to "us against them," willing to use any lie, distortion, or defamation in order to further their own agenda. And the media laps it up and magnifies it to drive their ratings.
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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Remember this interview? Obama is not very forthcoming..
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OBAMA: And as I said, Anderson, if I had heard any of these statements, I probably would have walked out, and I probably would have told Reverend Wright that they were wrong. Uh, but they were not statements that I heard when I was in church.
COOPER: So no one in the church ever said to you, "Man, last week you missed this sermon. Reverend Wright said this," or --
OBAMA: No.
COOPER: I mean, I think I read in your book that you used to listen to tapes of Reverend Wright when you were in Harvard Law School.
OBAMA: I did. I understand.
COOPER: So you had no idea?
OBAMA: I did not.
I think it is a good bit more than taking Rev Wrights' quotes out of context. In the end, Obama ran as fast as he could to get away for this church. And with good reason. -
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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Trinity United Church of Christ. Reverend J. Wright "advocated a redistribution of wealth that went beyond socialism. The congregation was required to embrace 'economic parity' and disavow the pursuit of 'middleclassness.'" This, folks, is the church that was instrumental in bringing Barack Obama to Christ. This was the church advocating radical wealth redistribution, "economic parity." Everybody has an equal amount of stuff regardless who earns it.
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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On June 9, 2009, in an interview with the Daily Press of Newport News, Wright indicated that he hadn't had contact with Obama up to that point because "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office." Wright also suggested that Obama did not send a delegation to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva, a conference "that had devolved into an anti-Jewish free-for-all" according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,[33] because of Jewish pressure saying: "[T]he Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is."[7] Writing for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates characterized Wright's remarks as "crude conspiratorial antisemitism."[34] On June 11, 2009, Wright amended his remarks during an interview with Mark Thompson on his radio program, Make it Plain. “Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke. Let me just say: Zionists... I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists."[35]
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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NoWayMan4 months ago
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in terms of race, this Gates thing is nothing compared to the birther movement, which is rooted in racism.
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IMO we've come a long way in race relations (aside from the birthers, who should get back in thier time machines and return to the year 1837 where they belong).
20 years ago it was about the LA sherriffs brutally beating a black man for no reason and someone caught it on tape, but the cops still got away with it despite all of the ovewhelming evidence.
today its about a rich black man who is a friend of our half-black president acting with the indignance of a rich white man for being wrongfully arrested. no one got beaten. no disturbing video tape to anger a nation.
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FairNBalanced4 months ago
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What about all the slurs thrown at the lady who was good enough to call the police when she saw a break in. The far left liberals have eaten her alive. Shame on you! She was doing a service and she gets this grief. Shame on all liberals for that!
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OldHickory4 months ago
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When a group comprises about 11% of the population yet is responsible for about 70% of crimes committed in the country, I don't consider it racist if I don't have a warm, fuzzy feeling about them. And don't give me any crap about stereotyping. If it walks like a duck, etc, etc! When they, as a race, clean up their act maybe I'll have a change of heart. Until then radlibs should put a lid on who they're labeling 'racist'.
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OldHickory4 months ago
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When a group comprises about 11% of the population yet is responsible for about 70% of crimes committed in the country, I don't consider it racist if I don't have a warm, fuzzy feeling about them. And don't give me any crap about stereotyping. If it walks like a duck, etc, etc! When they, as a race, clean up their act maybe I'll have a change of heart. Until then radlibs should put a lid on who they're labeling 'racist'.
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geneveroth54 months ago
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When you have a dumb downed populous such as we now have in America.....out of frustration and ignorance the idiots only know what they have been programed to do.........pass judgement on the color of a mans skin........WHO IS HALF WHITE.
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Then.....you have the mainstream media propagandist who inflame the issue.... because this mans is.......HALF BLACK.
Its called the right left paradigm.
Which is exactly what the sociopathic Globalist Elite want.
Conservative vs liberal........Republican vs Democrat......Black vs White.......etc
They are loving this. They revel in it.
It's the fuel they need to get their work done.... to slowly enslave a once Sovereign Nation into acquiescence.
To gain control.
And so far.......they are right on schedule
You first take away the heritage of any people.....then you can easily influence.
America is being destroyed by design people.......and you better get on the same page or you will find yourself right in the schithouse......."if you are not already there".................
While we were asleep.....say hi to the Neo-Nazi America of today............
You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal
Brian Walsh
Fox News
July 24, 2009
With all the attention that’s been paid lately to long federal sentences for drug offenders, it’s surprising that a far more troubling phenomenon has barely hit the media’s radar screen. Every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law or regulation and end up serving time in federal prison.
What is especially disturbing is that it could happen to anyone at all — and it has.
We should applaud Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), then, for holding a bipartisan hearing today to examine how federal law can make a criminal out of anyone, for even the most mundane conduct............
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geneveroth54 months ago
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21st Century Traitors
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Infowars
July 21, 2009
This is an excellent video that exposes the very latest egrigious assaults on the Constitution in America, particularly the complete evisceration of the Fourth Amendment.
Every aspect of the unfolding police state is covered in this 11 minute clip.
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geneveroth54 months ago
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Texas Cop Tasers 72-year-old Great Grandmother
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David Edwards
The Raw Story
June 9, 2009
The police claim that after Kathryn Winkfein was stopped for driving 15 miles over the speed limit in a construction zone, she disobeyed an order to sign the speeding ticker, used profane language, and became “violent.” They say the officer who taserer her and took her to be booked for resisting arrest was completely justified.
However, Winkfein says that’s a lie, and the video appears to back her up.
It shows Constable Richard McCain screaming, “Get over here now!” Winkfein replies, “Give [the ticket] to me and I’ll sign it.” Instead, the officer reaches out and pushes her, and she starts complaining, “Oh, you’re going to shove me? You’re going to shove a seventy-two year old woman?”
McCain then tasers her. As Winkfein lies on the ground screaming, he orders, “Now put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back or you’re going to be tasered again.”
Video......
http://www.infowars.com/texas-cop-tasers-72-year-o...
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