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[W:48]Obama: It was about race, wasn't it?

Obama: It was about race, wasn't it?

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Dans La Lune

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Obama wasn't remotely radical. Hell, barely broke left on the best day of his life. He was your standard centrist Democrat who bent over backwards to break bread with Republicans on every policy, including his signature healthcare policy. So what was the right-wing FREAKOUT actually about?

I get that Republicans will call everyone up to and including Joe Manchin a radical socialist, but there was a special tinge that pushed criticism of Obama way over the edge compared to what he actually represented in terms of policy.
 
Dans La Lune said:
Obama wasn't remotely radical. Hell, barely broke left on the best day of his life. He was your standard centrist Democrat who bent over backwards to break bread with Republicans on every policy, including his signature healthcare policy. So what was the right-wing FREAKOUT actually about?

I get that Republicans will call everyone up to and including Joe Manchin a radical socialist, but there was a special tinge that pushed criticism of Obama way over the edge compared to what he actually represented in terms of policy.
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Of course it was about race. But not just Obama's. Righties vote the way they do in part because they don't want "those people" to gain public benefits that would improve their lives.
 
1. He was blackish.
2. His wife was a male.
3. He had a fake birth certificate.
4. Before becoming President he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, a civil rights attorney, and a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. All of those things were strikes against him.
5. He was a bit uppity.
6. He was good looking, still is, but has aged. He was good looking at the time though.
7. He freaked out White Nationalists, and you just can't do that!!
8. And despite what you think of him being centralist, he was a woke far left socialist who hated America.
 
Dans La Lune said:
Obama wasn't remotely radical. Hell, barely broke left on the best day of his life. He was your standard centrist Democrat who bent over backwards to break bread with Republicans on every policy, including his signature healthcare policy. So what was the right-wing FREAKOUT actually about?

I get that Republicans will call everyone up to and including Joe Manchin a radical socialist, but there was a special tinge that pushed criticism of Obama way over the edge compared to what he actually represented in terms of policy.
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Yes, of course it was. It obviously wasn't ideology, because Trump has shown there's zero actual ideology in that party. For a party that cries constantly about identity politics that is pretty much all they have.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
1. He was blackish.
2. His wife was a male.
3. He had a fake birth certificate.
4. Before becoming President he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, a civil rights attorney, and a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. All of those things were strikes against him.
5. He was a bit uppity.
6. He was good looking, still is, but has aged. He was good looking at the time though.
7. He freaked out White Nationalists, and you just can't do that!!
8. And despite what you think of him being centralist, he was a woke far left socialist who hated America.
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You forgot his 'Murica hatin' church!"
 
His color didn't matter. It was his ideas the right didn't like. However, he probably would not have won if he didn't pull in votes because he would be the first black president.
 
Lord of Planar said:
His color didn't matter. It was his ideas the right didn't like. However, he probably would not have won if he didn't pull in votes because he would be the first black president.
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"His color didn't matter.


But he wouldn't have won if he wasn't black."
 
Lycanthrope said:
"His color didn't matter.
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In regards to the OP saying: "So what was the right-wing FREAKOUT actually about?"

It was because he was a democrat. It is because of his policies, None of it was because of his color. Not enough to matter anyway. Yes, there are some actual racists. Not enough to matter.
Lycanthrope said:
But he wouldn't have won if he wasn't black."
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This is because of the extra black votes he brought in. Non voting blacks became voting blacks. His race clearly brought more blacks to the polls.
 
Remember in 2008 when Limbaugh couldn't get enough of Paul Shanklin's parody "Barak the Magic Negro?" Yeah, racism wouldn't exist in 'Murica if the damn libz didn't keep bringing it up.
 
2008 was also the first real indication we got that the Republican Party was not about serious leadership, and rather was kicking off their fascination with big, outrageous personalities.

McCain was a good man, and would have made a good president, although I prefer the Democratic agenda. But FFS, Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from POTUS? Republicans don't care who is in charge, as long as they have an R next to their name on the ballot. Romney, a serious candidate, was a throwaway in 2012. After that, serious leadership took a back seat to crazy.
 
Dans La Lune said:
Obama wasn't remotely radical. Hell, barely broke left on the best day of his life. He was your standard centrist Democrat who bent over backwards to break bread with Republicans on every policy, including his signature healthcare policy. So what was the right-wing FREAKOUT actually about?
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So, you think that if he'd only been White, Republicans would have suddenly adopted the Democrat agenda?

Sorry, but that sounds pretty racist.
 
Taylor said:
So, you think that if he'd only been White, Republicans would have suddenly adopted the Democrat agenda?
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Of course not. But there were a lot of Republicans that would never vote for a black candidate - even a Republican candidate. They probably outweighed the extra black voters that Obama gained.

There was (still is) a weird tendency of righties to include his middle name when they speak of him. And the strange phenomenon of the same people both liking the ACA and hating Obamacare.
 
Obama ran on hope and change but delivered neither. Instead he dropped about 72 bombs per day on foreigners for 8 years and imposed unconstitutional mass surveillance.
 
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