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Related: About this forum"Some Folks Don't Like The Idea of A Black President" - President Obama
Rut - roh - someone give me a Scooby Snack. He just triggered a shit storm for stupidity from the right wing wingnut talking heads.
Per his interview in The New Yorker as reported by Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-19/obama-says-racial-animus-may-soften-support-new-yorker-reports.html
Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because Im a black president, Obama said in his most direct comments on how race has affected his political standing since hes been in office.
Obamas second term has been marked by controversies including a partial government shutdown in October, revelations that the National Security Agency has gathered personal mobile phone data and the troubled rollout of health-insurance expansion.
Obamas approval rating among all voters is 39 percent and his disapproval rating is 53 percent, according to a Gallup Poll conducted Jan. 14-16. In the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney won 59 percent of the white vote, compared with Obamas 39 percent, according to exit polling by a consortium of major news outlets. Obama won 43 percent of the white vote in 2008 against 55 percent for opponent John McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona.
How long before some of our fellow DU'ers make it all about them? Because he not talking about them - he's talking about dimwits that voted for Romney, McCain, IndieTeaPublicans, Teahadists, etc. etc.
But can we all admit it's true? That there are people in America that he could id himself as Jesus Christ, Santa Claus,The Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy all wrapped up in one - and they would still hate him?
Number23
(24,544 posts)Racist liberals are convinced that racism only applies to conservatives. Racist Yankees are convinced that racism only applies to Southerners. Racist conservatives are convinced that racism only applies to liberals. It's whatever group that a white person is NOT a member of that can only be racist.
When a few brave individuals here noted that white liberal support for the president has always fluctuated and been among his lowest numbers (because white people AS A GROUP have always had less support for this president), oh you should have heard the howls. When Melissa Harris Perry had the UNMITIGATED gall to actually discuss this even further, oh the fury she invoked! Folks are still talking about this today.
These folks exhibit every single day why so many black people see only the TINIEST of differences between white liberals and white conservatives. Add on to the fact that we still get the "it's not race! It's class!12" clowns, the desperate and ever so quick support of the (of course, white) anti-Obama who says that the only good thing the president has done is be black in office, and the pot heads that wail about racial discrepancies in prison sentencing but ONLY when it applies to marijuana (fuck the murder, rape, jaywalking, and every damn thing else discrepancies) and all you can do is shake your head and not walk, but RUN to get the bloody fuck away from these people.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)When I read the subject line . . . okay - off to read what you wrote! Love you!
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)And you are so bang on. Some days I want to write -
It's not me. It really is you. You aren't a wonderful person with a lot to offer another woman. We have to break up! I'm sorry, but it has to be that way.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?cat=417
Just a little more source material. I wanna laugh, but it isn't funny. As far as DUers making it all about them, I hope to see less. As Number23 said to me on a thread:
Your ignore list is obviously well and appropriately stocked.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024250704#post65
That it is.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)But especially for that graphic!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)But it would be going too far off the topic of the OP, I guess. And right back at ya, JAG: