Since late in the last Presidential campaign, it has been in vogue for the chatterati and the self-appointed cognoscenti to tell us how any opposition or criticism of Candidate, then President Obama was racist, even in light of many rational and real reasons to dislike and oppose him.
If anything, this chorus has gotten louder and more shrill, especially since it is getting increasingly difficult to pretend enormous debt incurred for little to no benefit was a good idea, or that the President’s grueling schedule of golf and fund-raisers in a stalled economy where the official (and fictional) unemployment numbers haven’t dipped below the 8% mark for his entire Presidency. And having to whistle past the graveyard daily is clearly taking its toll on the most fervent water carriers, if Chrissy “Tingles” Matthews’ latest psychotic break from reality is any indication. The situation has deteriorated to the point that the President either needs to plan a getaway for he and Tingles, so Chrissy can fulfill all of his fantasies for he and “the perfect President”, or the President needs to get a restraining order and authorize the Secret Service to shoot him on sight.
But when I saw this earlier this morning, it really drove home the projection and hypocrisy that has underscored the blatant racism of the people who have been screaming the loudest about the “racism” of Obama opponents.
I’m sorry that I had to waste 2:29 of your life that you’ll never get back. But I think you probably get it now, too. That nagging fact that we all witnessed, but people didn’t want to talk about: that hundreds of thousands of people voted for him not because of his great record (he has the thinnest resume of any President ever), not because of his comprehensive plans to fix the economy (paying of big donors and bundlers with taxpayer money and spendulous cash frittered away with pure undistilled bullshit about jobs “saved or created” is not a plan), but because he is BLACK, making his election somehow “historic” and “unprecedented”, two descriptions that history will also use, but not in a favorable way.
This has been observed before, in various places and forms that all essentially match this bumpersticker wisdom:
If you voted for Obama last time to prove that you aren’t a racist, vote for Romney this time to prove that you’re not an idiot.
I’ve gotten to the point where statements like this leave me torn between a laugh and a tear. It might be truly funny if it wasn’t so damn tragic. I don’t know who I blame more…racists like Charles “Sex Machine” Blow, Eugene Robinson, Juan Williams, or those white liberals who think that black Americans are so incapable of making it on their own that they have to step in, and make the way for them…like all of NBC news, PBS, and the Democratic Party. You know the ones. They are the ones who keep telling us how blacks can’t. How they can’t find a job without government. How they can’t keep a job without government. How they can’t make it without government even if they have a job. How they can’t ever have a business of their own without government. How they can’t get into college without government lowering the standards and expectations for them. And then set out to prove it.
Increasingly, I find that my overall irritation factor is turned up to 11 as this campaign season progresses. This is a condition made worse by the fact that these shrill carnival barkers are half-right, and refuse to be honest with themselves or the rest of us about it. Race is a factor in this campaign, just as it was in the last one. But it is the largest factor to the ones screaming loudest about it. But we also have been chided about avoiding a frank discussion of this factor, by someone who himself has chosen to hide from difficult questions and scrutiny behind the specious and unprovable claim of “RACISM!”.
Contrary to the opinion so often on the lips of the President’s biggest cheerleaders, I do find it sad that the first black American President is such a failure, and that such a milestone has to be tainted in that fashion. I also find it sad that instead of being a man of character who overcomes race, he so eagerly uses it as a tool to divide, rather than unite. The wasted potential is a tragedy beyond measure.
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What did I do to deserve waking up to this drivel? First, if you didn’t have such a hard-on for the military you would easily concede that Zachary Taylor was less prepared to be POTUS than was Barack Obama.
Second, your criticism of the Charles Dutton film simply shows that you still don’t get it. People who felt the Presidency was a glass ceiling that would never be broken by a black man were genuinely inspired by Barack Obama. From the trailer, that appears to be what the film is about. As usual you confuse recognition of racism as racism itself. It’s the latest ploy of conservatives and you should know better …”anyone who calls me a racist is therefore a racist”. Pure bullsh*t. I believe I’ve told you this before but I’ll repeat it. While my Dad was no fan of Obama, I was still moved to tears on election day that my Dad lived to see a black man become President and I mourned the fact that my Mom didn’t live to see it.
Third, if Obama came to the microphone sounding like Stepin Fetchit, I might agree with you that hundreds of thousands of people voted for him simply because he was black. But the fact is, whether you want to admit it or not, the 2008 Obama sounded like no candidate since John F. Kennedy. His delivery was stunning. He was a black man who appeared to have “the goods”. Being black was a plus for many but insufficient. He needed to be able to inspire, and he did.
It seems you are as preoccupied with the racial aspects of Obama as any devout Obama supporter. I think you need a little introspection. If you want to get Romney elected, get off the racial theme and dedicate your time to repeating again and again (with examples) what a poor POTUS Obama has been. (You might also throw in a word or two specifically about what a Romney presidency means for our future.)
First, if you didn’t have such a hard-on for the military you would easily concede that Zachary Taylor was less prepared to be POTUS than was Barack Obama.
40 years an officer in the Army, moving from Lieutenant to Major General, with scores of successful campaigns left him less qualified than a pretender who never wrote a paper at the Haaaaaavad Law Review, years of “community organizing”, a year or two of lecturing at University of Chicago Law, a handful of largely undistinguished years in state office and a term in the US Senate where he courageously avoided taking a stand on anything other than maintaining the right to make sure that babies who survived their mothers’ attempts to kill them died? Are you serious?
The former required leadership skills, tactics, and management.
The other provided having lots of doors opened for him, and the money to get him into office.
Second, your criticism of the Charles Dutton film simply shows that you still don’t get it. People who felt the Presidency was a glass ceiling that would never be broken by a black man were genuinely inspired by Barack Obama.
Then they were fools.
It was never a matter of “if”, it was only a matter of “when”; anyone in my generation could have told you that, but then, the appointment of Thurgood Marshall should have been clue enough to anyone paying attention.
It seems you are as preoccupied with the racial aspects of Obama as any devout Obama supporter. I think you need a little introspection.
Do you NEVER get tire of those points whizzing past your head, and you never seeming to grasp them?
I’M NOT THE ONE THAT THIS MATTERS TO.
I’m not the one who made it a reason for voting for him.
I’m not the one who told people it was the reason they DIDN’T vote for him.
I’m not the one who told the country that they don’t discuss it enough.
I’m not the one alleging it whenever anyone voices a criticism of him, his staff, or his policies.
I’m not the one filling every @#^$%! Newspaper, talkshow, editorial, and opinon piece with it.
BUT I’M HAVING IT TOSSED IN MY FACE CONSTANTLY BY THOSE WHO DO, BECAUSE IT IS A GREAT WAY TO AVOID TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER AND WHY HE’S BEEN A TERRIFFIC FAILURE AT EACH ONE.
Oh I left out one other detail …. I was also moved to tears that when it comes to a black man being President, my daughter would be the first generation of kids to say “so what?”
R, I didn’t think it was possible for you to lower your own standards on intellectual honesty. You proved me wrong. And proved BiC’s point in the process although you’re too deluded to realize it.
BiC, well-put.
Since much of my response was emotional in nature and not intellectual, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Would you like to defend Zachary Taylor’s preparation to be President?
And she’d be right.
I grew up watching Star Trek TOS episodes in reruns. Multiracial crew, white captain and black com officer kissing? Any of this ringing a bell? Seriously, you could fill the Grand Canyon with all the shits I don’t give about Obama being black. You could also fill it with all the charges that my opposition is about race, which are made by people to whom race matters far more than it ever will to me.
Yes Uhuru and Kirk kissing is certainly a harbinger of a black man being elected President of the United States. 🙄
I can’t argue with you that it was a question of when, not if. But when can be a damn long time. I thought I MIGHT live to see it. I never believed my Dad would.
You’ve articulated more than enough reasons over the years for why you believe Obama to be a failure that I would never insult you by chalking it up to racism. YOU should dismiss those who do and stop wasting your valuable time writing about it. All the time you spend being aggrieved over false accusations is time wasted, not articulating Romney’s vision.
But ahhhh, there’s the rub heh? What is Romney’s vision? If he can’t articulate it, how can you?
Rutherford, would you have felt the same way if the first black president had been Colin Powell in 1996?
You’ll have to take my word for it … but yes. My satisfaction would have been matched by my utter disbelief that the GOP did it before the donkeys.
In 1996 it might have been remotely possible but nowadays Powell is considered a RINO so all bets are off.
Then how about Cain?
C’mon Tigre, Cain doesn’t count. All he did was become successful at business, and everyone knows that business owners owe the government credit for that. (But government isn’t as quick to take credit for all the business failures….go figure.)
Not sure I understand Tigre. You’re asking if Cain had been nominated before Obama … would I have been thrilled? Slightly less so than Powell because Cain proved himself unprepared for the office. His election as president would have broken the glass ceiling and that would have brought me satisfaction but it would have been diminished by the intellect and character of the man in question.
His election as president would have broken the glass ceiling and that would have brought me satisfaction but it would have been diminished by the intellect and character of the man in question.
Statements like this make me blink in wonder at the fact that the weight of the irony didn’t create a singularity.
(Congratulations! This one made it into the Comment Hall of Fame, R.)
By the time his campaign was over, Cain proved to be slow on understanding international issues (embarrassingly so) and questionable in his extramarital judgments. Now for all the muck raised about Obama in 2008 fidelity was not part of the muck. He also made no major gaffes regarding domestic and foreign policy. (Point me to a video where Obama had a 7 second pause before answering an editorial board’s question.) There is ZERO comparison of the Obama 2008 campaign and the 2011 Cain campaign.
And mind you … I always liked Cain. Fun candidate … but that’s about it.
R, that was just priceless. May I jam that down your throat from time to time on your blog you racist mo-fo?
And you came here to argue BiC’s point. Gawd you can be a laugh a minute sometimes.
10 minutes later, still laughing.
Glass ceiling is more like glass house.
“Uncle Tom” Cain, right R? Isn’t that how black candidates are treated by the racial-equality-focused left?
Definitely some truth to that assuming you mean black GOP candidates. I challenge you to find any quote from me dissing Cain as an Uncle Tom. I diss Cain as an ultimately unserious candidate.
Yet exalt because he is black and have little hesitation accusing Obama’s detractors as racists. Blow me.
BiC’s point obtains.
You speak with forked tongue.
If you want to get Romney elected, get off the racial theme and dedicate your time to repeating again and again (with examples) what a poor POTUS Obama has been.
He ALREADY did (in the post – before you even asked – proving his point and destroying yours):
“it is getting increasingly difficult to pretend enormous debt incurred for little to no benefit was a good idea, or that the President’s grueling schedule of golf and fund-raisers in a stalled economy where the official (and fictional) unemployment numbers haven’t dipped below the 8% mark for his entire Presidency. “
You are such a mendouchous twatwaffle. And you also seem to be brought to tears often – too much emotions, not enough reasoning. But, then, you’re a progressive. They clearly don’t operate on facts or logic.
Comments about time spent golfing don’t constitute serious political criticism.
Comments about time spent golfing don’t constitute serious political criticism.
Of course not. After all, we have the “worst economy since the Great Depression” (his words, not mine), and in the last six months, his schedule has included 10 golf trips, 104 fundraisers, and ZERO meetings with his “jobs council”.
It isn’t like that isn’t a res ipsa loquitor political statement on its own, or anything.
Yeah. Let’s talk about Ann Romney’s horse back riding or Palin’s retarded baby.
Okay, then how about this:
“it is getting increasingly difficult to pretend enormous debt incurred for little to no benefit was a good idea, or that the President’s grueling schedule of fund-raisers in a stalled economy where the official (and fictional) unemployment numbers haven’t dipped below the 8% mark for his entire Presidency.”
And that thing you said about Cain?
“and that would have brought me satisfaction but it would have been diminished by the intellect and character of the man in question.”
Then you must have just been devastated when Obama was elected….
“They clearly don’t operate on facts or logic.” So very true.
We were having a “discussion” the other night about the obama economic plan, and it’s relationship to supply, demand, and wealth creation. One guess what we were called for doing so. That’s correct, racists.
Fact: Money, or Gold, has no caste, race, or creed.
Oh gawd….is it desperation or profound bewilderment that you were not just wrong, but hitched your wagon to a total fraud?
Which part? The profundity of “Yes We Can” or the promise of stopping the rising seas as The One promised “We are the generation….”
What you should have said is through the prism of my low black standards, personal projection and cognitive dissonance, Obama was stunning.
Almost half the country stood aghast that the rest of you were so gullible, naive, and frankly pitiful that you would be so easily hoodwinked by a complete and utter sham with no record of achievement, moral platitudes, and a lame line of bullshit.
Now the other half of the country knows it, and some of them even are willing to admit it – but not you.