Well for starters, they call republicans racist if they disagree with obama.
That's not true. We call certain people racists who:
- criticize the President less than 10 days after his inaugaration before he's even had a chance to do anything to be criticized for.
- make up baseless accusations just to criticize him.
- hold up racist signs at pep rallys.
- say that we need to bring back Jim Crow laws like Tom Tancredo said at a town hall.
- people who say he has a "deep seated hatred for white people".
- people who claim "he's not one of us"; "he's a muslim"; "he's not from here"; "he pals around with terrorists"'
- people who sing songs like "Barack the magic negro"
And people who simply refuse to respect the Office of the Presidency, no matter what he does.
Those are the people we call racist.
1) So we had just had nearly a year of campaigning, primaries and an election where, at the time, candidate Obama described in great detail his plans for what he was going to do during his Presidency up to and including "Fundamentally Changing" the nature of the country. But since we didn't wait until he actually started changing the nature of the country to criticize his policies we must be racist.
2) Then we make up baseless accusations to criticize him. Next thing you know we'll be hurling vague, non-specific accusations at him that contain no substance or detail. And of course the only people who've ever made up baseless accusations to criticize someone are Racists. I mean no one ever accused a Conservative or a Republican or even the rare Conservative Republican of doing that to President Clinton
3) I'm assuming you're specifically referring to Tea Party rally's, though you're accusations are pretty consistent in their vagueness. You are right though there were some racists at those rally's, any good sized gathering will have some, even Racists are allowed to support a balanced budget, and with thousands of people there and the media looking as hard as they could it's not surprising that they were able to find some racist signs. If you're looking for it, racism isn't hard to find, for example the Senate Democrats were led by a Grand Wizard for years, and I'm not talking about the 50's, I'm talking about the 21st Century.
My favorites though were when they showed white guys with scary looking guns. The first picture showed one such person standing next to someone with a racist sign, insinuating of course he must be racist as well. Then they showed another white guy with a similar gun but no sign but of course the implicatio was "same type of gun must also be a racist". Then they showed someone else decked out in camoflauge with a scary gun but they only filmed him from the chest down, implication..just another scary, racist, white gun-nut. Of course the next day when another film of the same man taken from a different angle turned up and it turned out he was actually African-American, it kind of poked a hole in the media's assumptions, but I'm sure that had nothing to do with why the media didn't show his skin color the day before.
4) Don't know much about Tom Tancredo and again it's tough to make a determination based on a vague accusation. Got a link?
5) How does the belief that President Obama doesn't like White people make someone racist? It may make them stupid, mis-informed, easily manipulated and any number of other things but it provides no basis for the belief they are racist?
6) Most of this is covered by the same response as 5 but I'll try to address them more individually. "He's not one of us" WTF does that mean? Again it's far too vague to have any real meaning...He's not an American? a Capitalist? What is he not one of?
"He's a Muslim" Again...Stupid, mis-informed, mal-adjusted and racist are all possibilities but there is no proof that racist is the right explanation, in fact you're abusing your stock material and the other Liberals are going to chastise you for it. Screaming racist is your fall back position when you're losing an argument, you don't break it out when you have the clear upper-hand like in this case.
"He's not from here"... Don't mis-interpret this, I'm quite certain he is an American citizen but this is a bizarre one on many levels. For one he could have put an end to this at any time by simply producing the BC when first asked to when registering for the NJ Democratic Primary but instead of spending $20 on a Notary which he probably wouldn't have actually had to spend because I'm sure he had Attorneys on staff, he instead spend tens of thousands of dollars to fight the NJ law requiring him to produce the BC. In La. I have to produce a BC in order to get a Drivers License or to
register to vote but he can run for POTUS without one....that makes absolutely no sense.
Personally I think it was a brilliant campaign decision. He knew that refusing to produce it, it would cause that small percentage of people who buy into any conspiracy to go absolutely apoplectic. That wouldn't have really done much for him, it's probably less than 1% of the population but by keeping it out there every time someone questioned anything he did and accused him of doing anything a little shady then he could paint them with the same "Birther" brush.
Again I do believe without question he is a U.S. citizen but I do not see how you can run for President without proving it, I do find that truly off the wall.
7) As for "Barack the Magic Negro" I guess what you're saying is that you're really upset with African-American, L.A. Times columnist David Ehrenstein since he's the one who wrote and first sang the song.
And finally "respect for the office of the President", the last Democratic President destroyed all semblance of respectability for the office of POTUS when he decided to play "hide the cigar in the intern" under the Oval Office desk, tracing maps of the world to explain foreign policy on the covers of the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom while 5 women were under them and somewhat less destructive but still fairly tasteless threw pizza parties complete with beer and people propping their feet, sometimes shod sometimes bare, on tables where international treaties were signed while scarfing down Pepperoni with extra cheese and cans of Bud. And of course there was the "Everyone grab a souvenir" ransacking of the White House and AF1 as they were leaving.
President Bush 43 tried to regain some measure of respectability where he could, like re-instituting the coat and tie policy but it's hard to make progress towards decorum and respect when members of the opposition party are constantly referring to you, not in private but on the floor of the House and Senate, as a Nazi, a moron, etc....
