Right Wing Racial Panic

[Teatownclown]

Here it comes.

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/right_wing_racial_panic/?source=newsletter

An Open Letter To Obama Haters

http://www.ihtworld.com/wp/index.php/an-open-letter-to-obama-haters/

Written By Jeff

It's hard to comprehend the level of hatred that you conservatives have for Obama. Your intense hatred of him began long before he even took office and doesn't seem to stem from anything he's done as president.

From the day he was inaugurated, all over the country you began protesting Obama's tax increases, even though he had only lowered your taxes. Although he's offered more proof of his origin of birth than any president in history, nearly half of you still say you believe Obama was not born in America, 57% believe he is Muslim, and 24% said he may be the Anti-Christ.

Before Obama took office, congressional Republicans decided that they would oppose every single bill that Obama supported. They used the filibuster to prevent any legislation from being voted on, including bills that Republicans previously supported and some that they even co-sponsored. When President Obama decided to embrace a lot of Republican ideas like Cap and Trade, the individual mandate for health insurance and the Dream Act, these Republican ideas suddenly were denounced by as Socialism and received zero Republican votes.

Even normal routine matters that Congress usually deals with on a bi-partisan basis, like a transportation bill or raising the debt ceiling, were held up by Republicans who didn't want anything to get done during Obama's presidency. By nearly letting America default on its debts, Republicans even managed to lower our country's credit rating, and then blamed Obama for it.

Although the worst recession in nearly 80 years began a year before Obama took office, when the economy began to improve a few months after he took office, conservatives still insisted the recession was entirely his fault.

You conservatives have so totally immersed yourself in anti-Obama hate speech, you can't even state the man's name, calling him O-BUM-a. You just repeat whatever you hear from Glenn Beck and the other right wingers without exercising independent thought: "Obama is a (pick one)

Socialist/Marxist/Muslim/Communist/Nazi/Fascist/Kenyan/Anti-colonialist" or "Obama is trampling the Constitution", "Obama hates America", "Obama wants to control our lives", "Obama has declared war on religion", etc.

These are not facts or even fact-based opinions; they are examples of hate speech.
I know you'll say that Democrats hated Bush just as much, but I disagree.

Back when Bush was president, we said things like "Bush allowed higher levels of arsenic and mercury in our drinking water", "Bush violated the 4th Amendment by illegally authorizing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens", "Bush used false information to start an unnecessary war", "Bush started the two longest wars in our nation's history, presided over two recessions, increasing poverty rates, a collapse of our financial system, and turned a huge budget surplus into a trillion dollar deficit".

These criticisms of Bush were fact-based. They resulted from things he actually said or did... not by what we thought about him personally.

Every President of the United States has been loved by some people and hated by others and progressives certainly criticized Bush harshly. But that criticism was not out of a personal hatred of the man, it was about his policies and his actions as president.

But you actually accuse Obama of hating white people, of siding with the terrorists who attacked our country and wanting to euthanize the elderly, even though you have no facts or even a rational argument to support these claims.

You conservatives even go so far as to attack Obama's wife. There is nothing she can say or do that you don't condemn her for. If, God forbid, she suggests children should eat healthy and get exercise, you attack her for trying to "control" our lives. Even her physical appearance inspires vulgar insults from conservatives. I don't recall these kinds of attacks on Laura Bush when her husband was in office.

You don't seem to see the difference between hate-driven opinion and fact-based opinion. For that matter, you don't seem to see a distinction between fact and opinion.

Most of you still worship at the altar of George W. Bush and refuse to acknowledge that he was anything less than God-like in his perfection, while you attack Obama as "un-American" for doing some of the exact same things you praised President Bush for doing.

It's fine to be a conservative who disagrees with Obama politically. He is a fallible human being. Like any politician, he deserves criticism now and then. Progressives criticize him all the time because his policies are more conservative than many thought he would be.  If you could simply say "Obama is wrong on this issue and here's why", I could respect that. But it's something else to be a hard-core Glenn Beck parroting, Bush-was-God, Obama-is-Satan, damn-the-facts, anyone-who-disagrees-with-me-is-a-communist, conservative.

I know it would be unfair for me to conclude that all the hatred for Obama is based on race. But Republicans hated Bill Clinton too, yet we didn't see quite this level of revulsion from them. Republicans did not filibuster every single bill to keep it from being voted on. They did not actively work to halt the economic recovery like they are doing now. When Clinton was president, Republicans actually did reach compromises with him. When Obama pleads with Republicans to work out a compromise with him, they outright reject even the use of the word "compromise".

Your hatred of Obama is not an act of patriotism. In fact it's quite the opposite.

By immersing yourself in all your right wing Obama-hating web sites you're unable or unwilling to have any kind of meaningful political discussion. You are preventing this country from making any kind of positive progress by letting your personal hatred of this man allow anything positive to get done in this country. And you are doing your country great harm.

[Teatownclown]

Romney Campaign Encourages Voters To Consider Drudge's Race Video
By Igor Volsky on Oct 3, 2012 at 9:15 am

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/03/946891/romney-campaign-encourages-voters-to-consider-drudges-race-video/
Senior Romney adviser Kevin Madden refused to dismiss the race bating tactics of the Drudge Report, Fox News, and the Daily Caller, during an appearance on CBS This Morning on Wednesday, saying that voters should decide if a racially charged 2007 video of then-Senator Barack Obama discussing Hurricane Katrina is "relevant" to the election.
In the speech from June 2007 at Hampton University, Obama said the federal government should do more to rebuild New Orleans, including waiving some requirements of the Stafford Act, as the federal government did after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and Hurricane Andrew.
The Drudge Report, which had been touting the "bombshell" speech all Tuesday afternoon, described the address as the "other" race speech, noted his "accent" and the presence of Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the audience. Drudge, along with Fox News' Sean Hannity and the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson, argued that in linking the rebuilding of Katrina to a history of racial discrimination, Obama was brewing African American resentment against white people.
But given the opportunity to distance the campaign for this sentiment, Madden demurred, and said that voters should decide if the discussion is "relevant" to the national conversation:
NORA O'DONNELL (HOST): I want to ask you about that video that Jan just showed in her piece. A speech Obama made in 2007, which was covered by all of the networks who had reporters there at the time. Do you think that video is relevant?
MADDEN: Well, I think a lot of people — voters have make that up, they have to look at that video and have to make up their mind on that individually. I think what's much horse important to this debate right now are the president's policies. [...]
O'DONNELL: Kevin, Sean Hannity said last night he thinks this video is a bombshell. Do you think it is a bombshell and will the Romney campaign will use it in television ads as the Obama team has used that 47 percent video in television ads?
MADDEN: Well, I think that it was covered in 2007. I think a number of folks will continue to cover it today. How they cover it in that context I think a lot of that is up to individual voters and whether they think it's relevant to the conversation that we're having today. We believe as a campaign I think Governor Romney believes what's most relevant are the president's policies.
With just 34 days before the election, and polls showing the Romney campaign losing ground to Obama, the GOP presidential candidate is far more willing to employ racially charged attacks. Back in May, the Romney campaign shut down the attempts of one Super PAC to revive the Wright narrative, with Romney himself saying, "I want to make it very clear: I repudiate that effort," Romney told reporters after a campaign stop in Florida. "I think it's the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign. I hope that our campaigns can be respectively about the future and about issues and about vision for America."
Linking Hurricane Katrina to America's troubled racial past is far from controversial. President George W. Bush himself noted that "poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America...So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday and let us rise above the legacy of inequality. When the streets are rebuilt, there should be many new businesses, including minority-owned businesses, along those streets." Condoleezza Rice expressed a similar sentiment immediately after the storm. "Mr. President, I'm coming back. I don't know how much I can do, but we clearly have a race problem," she said.

bombshell....right (wingie)

[Conan71]

That first screed has got to be our own Soccer Boy.

Someone hand him a hanky.

[TulsaRufnex]

That first screed has got to be our own Soccer Boy.

Someone hand him a hanky.

Sorry, wasn't me.    Kinda reminds me of 2007 when TNF thought I was......

A)  Greg Jennings (or clone thereof...)
B)  A paid political hack of former mayor LaFortune.
C)  A person who was being paid off by Global Development Partners.
D)  A person who stands to gain financially by an East Village/East End project...
E)  An outsider from Illinois who has no right to express his opinions...
F)  Tulsa Soccer Club founder and former NY Cosmos' player Keith Eddy

While we're at it... I also shouldn't be mistaken for Andrew Sullivan....  

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/

Funny how the first group of non-pols that Obama sat down with were leading conservative writers, like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer (the liberals came second); that he asked Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration; that his stimulus was a third tax cuts (the only big tax cuts Republicans have ever voted against in my memory); that his healthcare reform was not single-payer, but one modeled on Mitt Romney's moderate version in Massachusetts; that he has given Israel more military and technological support than any previous president; that his foreign policy is now praised by his opponent; that he killed bin Laden; and gave a speech urging freedom in the Arab world in his first few months, and that popular democratic revolutions broke out in Iran, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya on his watch. Funny also how one of the first things Obama did was to extend the Bush tax cuts - such an obvious partisan move designed to shut Republican ideas out of his agenda.
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I naively believed that just as a group of Democrats had supported Ronald Reagan's massive tax cut because they thought he had a mandate for one, a group of House Republicans might put country before party and give the man who ran on bipartisanship a chance.

Instead, they set out from Day One to destroy him, because they knew that if his moderation and modern cultural identity succeeded, their reactionary radicalism would be sidelined for good. And Rove's method is always to see what your party's own worst flaw is among the public and, with a straight face, accuse your opponent of it.

You know what we're fighting in this election? That cumulative, snow-balling, post-modern, cynical faction of deceit and partisan amnesia. If we are to get past the Cold Civil War we are in, the defeat of the rigidly ideological and theiological GOP is vital.

....or Bill Cosby.   

http://blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=240390&cid=10

COSBY: I'm disappointed that people who don't look at the woes and the trouble given to this man, people blatantly speaking out against his color, wasting time, starting up new stories about whether or not he was born here, saying things that they can't prove.
And this man — I feel sometimes — not all the time — that it's like watching — his job is — people want to make it as difficult as the one that Sisyphus had.
And then when you see that he made promises and said things, the people who were supposed to be working with him didn't. The people who are supposed to be working — even for another party — didn't care about the American people. They wanted to get him.
When people make statements like, "I hope he fails," you can't color that any other way except the way it's said. And yes, OK, gays, lesbians, blacks, illegal aliens — pardon me — people like that are right. It didn't happen. But look at why it didn't happen. It's a man trying to go about doing his job, and a ton of other people voting against him and regardless of what he says.

[guido911]

On the subject of race, let's hear from the religious figure that spoke at Obama's inauguration:

All white people are going to hell, longtime African-American civil rights advocate Rev. Joseph Lowery told an audience at a get-out-the-vote event held Oct. 27 in Georgia.

Lowery, who gave the benediction at the January 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, told the audience of up to 300 African-Americans "that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell. Then he mellowed and just said most of them were. Now, he said, he is back to where he was," according to an Oct. 31 report in the Monroe County Reporter newspaper.

"I don't know what kind of a n—– wouldn't vote with a black man running," Lowery also told the audience in the St. James Baptist Church in Forsyth, Ga., according to the Reporter.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/31/all-whites-are-going-to-hell-says-civil-rights-icon/#ixzz2Awk5EeLN

Terrific.

[Teatownclown]

On the subject of race, let's hear from the religious figure that spoke at Obama's inauguration:

Terrific.