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"Anyone But Obama"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/richard-cebull-judge-obama...

Loren asked a question the other day, wondering if the real reason for the anti-Obama sentiment was race related. i'm starting to think that is the most likely cause. the linked article discusses 2 cases of GTP (formerly GOP) authorities caught forwarding blatantly racist Obama hate emails.

additionally, an Alaska man is suing to keep Obama off of the Presidential ballot because he is black, and he believes that the 14th Ammendment was ratified improperly or illegally. (http://www.politiscoop.com/us-politics/wisconsin-politics/760-alask...)

besides the color of his skin, what has Obama done that is so hateable? ok, there is the debt issue. of course, it might have happened no matter who was elected President, but i'll give them that one.

what else? not enough drilling? stopping the Canadian pipeline? oil prices in general? taxes?

i can see not liking the current President, no matter who he is, for all sorts of reasons. but the immense hate that you get from the anti-Obama crowd is delerious. they would vote for the Grand Wizard of the KKK before voting for Obama. actually, the Wizard might beat him in a landslide.

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Permalink Reply by matthew greenberg on March 1, 2012 at 2:08pm

yeah, i saw that. but he's not racist. he just forwarded an admittedly racist email to family and friends. maybe he's right and he just associates with a lot of racists, and he thought they would get a kick out of it.

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Permalink Reply by booklover on March 1, 2012 at 9:04am

The last few sentences you wrote are spot-on. The Obama haters hate SO MUCH, they aren't rational. And yes, it's because he's black. I wonder if the human race will ever evolve.

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Permalink Reply by Sandi on March 1, 2012 at 1:09pm

Spot on booklover.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on March 1, 2012 at 9:23am

Thing is, Obama isn't just black. He's demonstrated thoughtfulness and levelheadedness, despite what his barely-thinking detractors want to say about him. He's pragmatic more than idealistic; he wants solutions that WORK, not just for democrats or republicans but for as many as possible and to the detriment of as few as possible. He does things less for show than to get them done; his nickname wasn't "No Drama Obama" for nothing. Further, if there is ANY mean-spiritedness to Obama, he really hasn't shown it to me, and even considering his occasional jabs at opponents, his rhetoric has been NOTHING like the invective aimed at him.

Obama works at being COMPETENT ... and that must gall the daylights out of those who, for whatever reason, see his position as president as somehow anathema to their mindsets of how this nation should work. The only thing I can hypothesize is that they react to Obama at some unconscious gut-level where reason and rationality simply don't exist.

What's frightening to me is the level of their vituperation and the lengths they seem willing to go to unseat him from his office.