Obama blames racism for his Approval ratings

[NYcarbineer]

What did he say wrong?

The truth.

The truth about race is not an excuse for failure

The President didn't make any excuses based on race.

You obviously didn't read the article. It's amazing how willing you people are to wallow in the muck of your own dishonesty and ignorance,

just because it makes you feel good.

 

[hazlnut]

Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports - Bloomberg

What a. ******* pathetic scumbag

Too bad the full quote doesn't back the title of the piece or this thread.

The only scumbag it Bloomberg blogger so pipe the **** down.



He clearly says that it works both ways, that people give him the benefit of the doubt because he's black.

 

[NYcarbineer]

What the President did say in that article, that of course no rightwing nut wants to hear because it disrupts their hatefest, is:

“There is a historic connection between some of the arguments that we have politically and the history of race in our country, and sometimes it’s hard to disentangle those issues,” he went on.

“You can be somebody who, for very legitimate reasons, worries about the power of the federal government—that it’s distant, that it’s bureaucratic, that it’s not accountable—and as a consequence you think that more power should reside in the hands of state governments.

But what’s also true, obviously, is that philosophy is wrapped up in the history of states’ rights in the context of the civil-rights movement and the Civil War and Calhoun. There’s a pretty long history there.

And so I think it’s important for progressives not to dismiss out of hand arguments against my Presidency or the Democratic Party or Bill Clinton or anybody just because there’s some overlap between those criticisms and the criticisms that traditionally were directed against those who were trying to bring about greater equality for African-Americans."

For you simpletons on the Right, the translation is that the President is telling progressives not to play the race card where the race card doesn't apply.

David Remnick: On and Off the Road with Barack Obama : The New Yorker

 

[jknowgood]

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said

“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 I’m a black president,”

I can tell you that the people that didn't like obama because he is black is no different than when he was elected. People are disaproving him now, because of his polocies and constant lying to the american people. His approval low ratngs are his fault and his fault only. Heck if the media reported on him like they did bush, his approval rating would be ALOT worse.

 

[NYcarbineer]

bullshit, 15% of the govt was shut down by obama, the republicans in the house do not have the power or authority to shut down any govt functions.

Obama shut monuments to make the 15% shut down as painful as possible, after refusing to try to find a compromise solution to the budget stalemate.

It took Ryan and Murray to finally do what obama was incapable of doing.

Worst president in history is too mild.

You are truly ignorant as to how our government functions. For your edification, it requires public funding, of which, the Congress controls the spending budgets. When they [Congress] failed to pass a continuing resolution, that caused the shutdown. So for you to claim the Republican-led House, which is where ALL spending bills originate, did not have "the power or authority" to shutdown the government, you don't actually make that point. All you do is demonstrate abject ignorance of the U.S. Constitution and American civics.

LOL, coming from someone who knows nothing of either. All of 18% of the government was shut down. You know what Obama did? HE shut everything else down. By himself.

Everything else didn't shut down.

 

[jknowgood]

I wonder if the mlk monument was shut down.

 

[cutter]

Aren't his low approval ratings were Bush's fault? You mean he finally has a problem he can't blame on Bush? Maybe if he would start making decisions based on being an American instead of being some Socialist dictator he would have a higher approval rating.

 

[whitehall]

Unemployment among the Black community is almost double the statistics thrown out by Barry's boys. What has he done about it besides offer them more handouts?

 

[Faun]

Unemployment among the Black community is almost double the statistics thrown out by Barry's boys. What has he done about it besides offer them more handouts?

Why don't you prove your claim before you rely on it to make demands of others? Prove that unemployment is almost 24% among the black community ....

 

[jknowgood]

Unemployment among the Black community is almost double the statistics thrown out by Barry's boys. What has he done about it besides offer them more handouts?

Why would obama do anything for the black community ? They worship him anyway.

 

[Erand7899]

Ummm, the sequester had nothing to do with the monument closures. Just sayin'.

No it didn't. He did. He made a pinprick out to be a mortal wound.

I'm just pointing out that westwall is an imbecile who doesn't know the difference between the sequester and monument closure, even though that was the reason westwall cited for disparaging Obama.



As far as the monument closure, it was Republicans who forced the shutdown. Y'all reap what ye sow.

Republicans did not, and do not, have the ability to force a shutdown all on their own. Only non thinking, partisan hacks believe that one side of a debate can create an impass.

It takes two to tango. It takes two differing opinions to have an argument, and it takes two sides of a political debate to shut down a government. It only takes one incomptetent boob to shut down open air monuments for the purpose of making a political statement.

 

[Erand7899]

I'm just pointing out that westwall is an imbecile who doesn't know the difference between the sequester and monument closure, even though that was the reason westwall cited for disparaging Obama.



As far as the monument closure, it was Republicans who forced the shutdown. Y'all reap what ye sow.

bullshit, 15% of the govt was shut down by obama, the republicans in the house do not have the power or authority to shut down any govt functions.

Obama shut monuments to make the 15% shut down as painful as possible, after refusing to try to find a compromise solution to the budget stalemate.

It took Ryan and Murray to finally do what obama was incapable of doing.

Worst president in history is too mild.

You are truly ignorant as to how our government functions. For your edification, it requires public funding, of which, the Congress controls the spending budgets. When they [Congress] failed to pass a continuing resolution, that caused the shutdown. So for you to claim the Republican-led House, which is where ALL spending bills originate, did not have "the power or authority" to shutdown the government, you don't actually make that point. All you do is demonstrate abject ignorance of the U.S. Constitution and American civics.

Your "civics lesson" might have some validity, if you simply recognized that congress is made up of both Republicans and Democrats. The Republican led house passed several different spending bills, none of which were taken up in the Democrat led Senate.

So, which faction caused the shutdown? Was it the Republican led House, or the Democrat led Senate? Did the President contribute to the shutdown when he refused to accept anything except his point of view?

 

[Cecilie1200]

Anyone who doubts that there are people in the country who disapprove of Obama simply because he is black, is completely out of touch with reality.

That being said, he's been a lackluster President regardless of his race.

Anyone who thinks that handful of pathetic sheet-wearing losers is relevant and needs to be brought up and shoved in everyone's face two or three times a week is completely out of touch with reality.

It is completely ludicrous and disingenuous to require a ritual acknowledgement of a statistically-insignificant group of morons every time one wishes to discuss this jackass's Presidency, behavior, and failures. I refuse to accept having to "earn" the right to treat him like any other human being by first genuflecting to his melanin content.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Isn't he 1/2 black & 1/2 white??

Who cares?

 

[Stephanie]

Boy is that Obama brilliant or what

After FIVE YEARS he realizes all this

what a pathetic little whiner of a man..but as usual blaming other's and everything else (now his skin color) for his falling in life and what he has brought onto us and our country

 

[Flopper]

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said

“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 I’m a black president,”

After a president is elected their race or religion diminishes in importance compared their actions. We judge candidates on their beliefs, race, religion, associations, wealth, and political hype because we don't know what kind of president they will be. However, once we elect a president, it's primarily his actions that determine what we think about him.

When JFK ran for president, his religion was a big factor in what people thought about him. After he was elected, it was what he said and did that determined his popularity. Much the same is true with Obama. Of course there will always be people whose judgement is based on the skin color, religion, or ethnicity.

Obama's handling of the economy, healthcare legislation, the war, and his proposals are responsible for most of his positive or negative approval, not his skin color.

 

[BlindBoo]

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said

“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 I’m a black president,”

After a president is elected their race or religion diminishes in importance compared their actions. We judge candidates on their beliefs, race, religion, associations, wealth, and political hype because we don't know what kind of president they will be. However, once we elect a president, it's primarily his actions that determine what we think about him.

When JFK ran for president, his religion was a big factor in what people thought about him. After he was elected, it was what he said and did that determined his popularity. Much the same is true with Obama. Of course there will always be people whose judgement is based on the skin color, religion, or ethnicity.

Obama's handling of the economy, healthcare legislation, the war, and his proposals are responsible for most of his positive or negative approval, not his skin color.

I don't subscribe the New Yorker so I haven't read the article and do not have the entire context of the conversation. Just quoting what I found in the link from the OP. Does he say racism is the reason his numbers have dropped recently or perhaps the number have always been skewed by the folks who really don't like him because he's black.

I just don't trust the Echo-Chamber.

The only poll that really matters happens in Nov.

 

[Vox]

Anyone who doubts that there are people in the country who disapprove of Obama simply because he is black, is completely out of touch with reality.

That being said, he's been a lackluster President regardless of his race.

so is our prez and his supporters - all in a perfect display here.

are there people who hate him becasue he is black? sure.

do they matter for his sinking ratings? - no, and only idiots can blame the CONSTANT in the equation for the change of the outcome.

last time I checked race is a CONSTANT and those who oppose him because of his race NOW weren't in love with him 5 years ago.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Why does this jackass always make it about race? He is an incompetent moron. I don't give a shit about the color of his skin.

 

[Faun]

No it didn't. He did. He made a pinprick out to be a mortal wound.

I'm just pointing out that westwall is an imbecile who doesn't know the difference between the sequester and monument closure, even though that was the reason westwall cited for disparaging Obama.



As far as the monument closure, it was Republicans who forced the shutdown. Y'all reap what ye sow.

Republicans did not, and do not, have the ability to force a shutdown all on their own. Only non thinking, partisan hacks believe that one side of a debate can create an impass.

It takes two to tango. It takes two differing opinions to have an argument, and it takes two sides of a political debate to shut down a government. It only takes one incomptetent boob to shut down open air monuments for the purpose of making a political statement.

Yet it was the Republicans who insisted on shutting down the government unless Democrats caved in on their signature legislation. Since that amounted to nothing less than extortion, they were the ones who were blamed for the shutdown. And whatever the reason being for blaming Republicans more than Democrat, every single scientific poll taken, including polls by rightwing organizations like Fox and the Wall Street Journal, indicated that Republicans were to blame for the shutdown.