In a recent article it was noted that a survey of Republicans 64% felt Obama was a racist who hated white people.
The survey, while conducted by a liberal front group and reported by a liberal hack does raise an interesting issue.
While you cannot judge a persons most private thoughts, you sure as hell can and should judge their actions.
President Obama spent 20 years under what he once called “mentorship” by an avowed racist minister, Pastor Wright, who several times honored Louis Farrakhan, who often wrote about an evil scientist who created the white race in a lab. While Obama at first reluctantly distanced himself from “his mentor”, after more and more light was shown on Wright, Obama aggressively threw his mentor under the bus.
Were this a conservative under the 20 year mentorship of a David Duke, racism would be assumed by all, left and right, making him unelectable.
I personally do not believe President Obama to be a racist.
I would like to introduce a new word to our lexicon, RESENTIST.
I believe our President has shown by his actions that he resents successful white men of European backgrounds and the foundations they stand on, namely capitalism and constitutionalism.
Over and over Obama has shown respect, even humility to the Muslims, Africans, Non-European Communist and has shown arrogance towards the leaders of white European nations. The stories are too many to list here, but a quick LexisNexis search will show any seeker that his arrogance has offended France, Italy, England, Germany and The Netherlands as evidenced by front page news in their countries. Yesterday French President Sarkozy landed on the front page of a major European publication, stating Obama insulted him and France, refusing a personal interaction and generally disrespecting the entire European Union, being the 1st president in recent history to “snub” an invitation to attend the US – EU summit.
I’m not saying he resents everybody, The communist and Muslims get regular flowers and candy for every occasion, and the illegal’s, unions and federal workers can always expect a personal Christmas card.
Racist, no. Resentist?
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George
I simply asked if your comment applied to Bush as well. From your reply I see that it only applies to Obama.
J Byron
You are right. Back to topic. The irony is the accolades he received as candidate Obama when he toured Europe to bolster his international credentials. If I remember correctly there was big talk about his re-energizing our image internationally. Sarkosky is miffed publically, more than usual for a Frenchman. England was left out to dry. I don’t think it’s a resentment based on race. I think as you stated it’s a Narcicistic tendency that hasn’t surfaced in his character as much until lately. I could be wrong, but in relation to Wright I think Obama was just paying lip service to religion as opposed to actually listening to what the good reverend had to say. It’s fair to point out that since taking office the President hasn’t gone to mass or selected a church. I would think that a religious man would have that on his to-do list.
Et al,
Sadly the point of the article went into left field quickly by friend and foe.
The whole point was that our President may have internal resentment against “white anglo establishment”, as evidenced by the recent EU snub and countless disrespects toward EU countries, all the while grovelling and self depreciation to non-anglo nations and leaders.
It’s a poser to me if he’s not.
True leadership would have been to define the debate and not give the Speaker/Majority Leader free reign. What the American people wanted was for President Obama to step up and really define exactly what it was he was after, rather than trying to keep selling a bill of goods when absolutely NOBODY knew what was in the package.
When I go to an estate sale, there are often sealed boxes for sale. You have no idea what’s in them, and more often than not it’s nothing but a bunch of junk. I am no more willing to buy into the whole heathcare scenario (sealed box and no one is exactly sure what it contains) than I would buy one of those boxes at an estate sale.
Consti,
Again, trees for the forest- no wonder why you are so lost…Delusional….
W had his shot, for 8 whole years, and he failed miserably in the eyes of most Americans. He had 6 years with a GOP Congress and ended his term with a 14% approval rating. We looked back through the rearview mirror and made our judgement.
Youe comment about health care doesn’t even make any sense. Unless he could pass it all by himself and didn’t, or did not even bring the issue up or try, you might have a point. But neither of those were the case, so how is that a campaign promise broken? Any excuse to knock the man from you, which is EXACTLY what I was talking about.
George
“Let’s let the ones we’ve got in office do what we asked them to do first and stop riding up their backsides for trying to do what we told them we wanted them to do by electing them. Maybe then those with real vision and principles may see that they actually may get somewhere for caring and trying…”
Let me ask you a simple question then… did that apply to George Bush as well? Or just Obama?
“Unless I’m mistaken, healthe care reform, which has been a major priority for him this year, was a major policy plank in his election campaign.”
Something which he promised 8 TIMES to fully televise debate over yet only let CSPAN run 1 HOUR of the reconciliation of the bills. I would say that’s a campaign promise broken. And that’s just ONE example.
J Byron,
I think you hit the nail on the head. Narcissist for running off to pick up his Nobel then running off again to loose the Olympics bid. If he had any real character he would have refused the Nobel sine he was nominated BEFORE being elected. And he really deserves it doesn’t he since he is spending on Nuclear weapons now.
I did address your comments.
What “conspiracy theory” are you referring to? I don’t recall mentioning one.
Eric,
Your comments don’t even really address anything I said, especially given that they were written in context to J’s comments.
Unless I’m mistaken, healthe care reform, which has been a major priority for him this year, was a major policy plank in his election campaign. If it weren’t for the Party of NO and the misuse of the Tea Party by health insurance company lobbyists, he would have achieved that. It was not due to lack of effort on his part. That’s just one area from his campaign policy. Since when is a guy who hasn’t managed to do everything he promised in his campaign in the FIRST YEAR after 8 years of a opposing party administration while fighting two wars and a major recession judged as some kind of liar or failure?
You are suffereing from unrealistic expectations and I’m not even going to give the rest of your conspiracy theory airtime. Since all politicians are nothing more than puppets, we should not even bother to elect anyone and just hand everything over to the shadow interests that really control everything…LOL Why are you, or any of us, even bothering? LOL Why criticize Obama? He’s only a puppet- you don’t shoot the messenger…LOL
George,
Are you implying that Obama is not human?
The point is that Obama is not doing anything that he promised and/or for what he was elected to do. Don’t you get it? He is the most recent of a long line of puppet presidents who has a previously-established agenda that is being carried out at the public’s expense, literally and figuratively.
Anyone who runs for President understands that all of the mud-slinging comes with the territory. However, with Obama, it isn’t necessary to make anything up or even exaggerate it. The media can only take so many bullets for him.
J,
You have to be a bit self-serving, narcissistic or a zealot to deal with all the bashing and backstabbing that goes on in politics today. It is not for the gentle, the true altruist or one without ego. If we want “nice guys or gals” in office, then people like Consti, Rush, FoxNews and company, and Olbermann need to get off their asses and give them some room along with some benefit of the doubt without condemning them for trying to make things better. A person can only put up with being attacked but so much before they say “Screw this” to themselves. Look how many people only look out for themselves with far less provocation from even just the ones on here.
Our insistance on digging for dirt, real or manufactured, keeps decent people out of office, or good people who have flaws like the rest of us. We get the politicians we ask for. Look at Colin Powell and those like him- true public servants. They wouldn’t touch Congressional office or the presidency with a ten foot pole and I can’t say as I blame them. Why should they if it’s “damned if they do” try to do something and “damned if they don’t?” If no matter what you do, how hard you try and how good your intentions and motivations are, you are guaranteed to have someone screaming at you, calling you names and treating you like dirt, despite the many sacrifices you make. These people we have asked to serve in office are penalized for caring as much as they would be if they didn’t. For teying to work for the interests of others as they would be for lining their own pockets. Heck, it’s assumed that they are lining their pockets whether they are or not. And ironically, the people who scream loudest and ugliest are people who have never stepped up to the responsibility of public office in their lives.
You couldn’t pay me enough to run for public office and any decent person with eyes wide open and an iota of common sense- the very kind that need to be in office- wouldn’t either. Again, we get the kind of politicians we ask for. We vote for the ones who tell us what we want to hear, look like what we want them to look like or share the same opinion as us on one or maybe two issues. As a whole we don’t dig any deeper but pillory the ones that let us see deeper. At this point in time we don’t DESERVE any better because we aren’t ready for a real human being to serve in office and wouldn’t elect them even if they came along. And since no more than 60-65% of us vote anyway at the best of times, who are we as a people to talk anyway. Local elections and runoffs get MAYBE HALF of that in turnout. But you can find a lot more than 65% who have an opinion on what the pres or any other politician SHOULD be doing…and what they are doing wrong or how horrible a person they are.
Let’s let the ones we’ve got in office do what we asked them to do first and stop riding up their backsides for trying to do what we told them we wanted them to do by electing them. Maybe then those with real vision and principles may see that they actually may get somewhere for caring and trying…
D.
Interesting you know how much he loves the white side of his fam.
Because he let his black brother rot for years on a dollar a day in a mud hut well after he’d been a long time millionaire, and his poor aunt living in the projects in abject poverty.
Hell, I help my fam and I’m not a millionaire.
Your right, maybe it’s not that he has resentment against white establishment, maybe he’s just a self serving narcicist.
“Resentist”
Is it that you resent the fact that he is the POTUS?
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Obama racist? That it a silly notion. His mother. His beloved grandmother. His favorite uncle. The people who raised him.
His accusers should look into their own eyes and judge their own hearts.
Wow! Is that the daily Outrage?
I like that word – “Resentist”