Dear Leader has spoken, Obamazombies. It’s time to give up your “reality based” fantasies that opposition to his agenda is based on racism
President Obama said Friday that he did not believe his race was the cause of fierce criticism aimed at his administration in the contentious national debate over health care, but rather that the cause was a sense of suspicion and distrust many Americans have in their government.
Government, yes, in general, but Obama and Democrats in particular.
“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,†Mr. Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.â€
I’m sure there are. I bet some Black folks do not like him because he is half white, too.
In five separate television interviews at the White House, Mr. Obama said he did not agree with former President Jimmy Carter’s assertion that racism was fueling the opposition to his administration. He described himself as just the latest in a line of presidents whose motives had been questioned because they were trying to enact major change.
While Obama may be completely unqualified for the job of Chief Executive, no one can claim his is stupid, and, I suspect he has seen the Carter comparisons, and wants little to do with the old fool.
Mr. Obama will appear on five Sunday talk shows — an unprecedented step for a president — to promote his health care plan. The television networks broadcast brief parts of their interviews on Friday evening, all of which focused on a question the White House has sought to avoid all week: Has race played a role in the debate?
He doesn’t actually have a health care plan. No wonder the networks started down different lines of questioning.
“Look, I said during the campaign there’s some people who still think through a prism of race when it comes to evaluating me and my candidacy. Absolutely,†Mr. Obama told NBC News. “Sometimes they vote for me for that reason; sometimes they vote against me for that reason.â€
True that. Blacks voted for him at a rate of 96 percent over that white guy. Interesting that the media made no racism charges out of that.
“I think that what’s driving passions right now is that health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy,†Mr. Obama told CBS News. “Even though we’re having a passionate disagreement here, we can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we’re all patriots, we’re all Americans and not assume the absolute worst in people’s motives.â€
Unfortunately, lawmakers on both sides tend to be tone deaf, so, at times, people have to be un-civil to be heard.
Anyhow, the president has spoken, lefties. Suck it up and deal with the reality of the policies, rather than your typical raaaaacism charges.
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Teach is there any racism in our country ? Is there any racism in the tea bagger groups ? Are any of the ultar right groups racist?
Of course there is racism. From all people and all parties. But, it is idiotic to call legitimate opposition to Obama’s agenda “racism.”