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Are Obama's Opponents Racists

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FOX News Poll: Are Obama's Opponents Racists?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
By Dana Blanton

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Aug. 12: Opponents of health care reform voice their opinions during the town hall meeting at the Casselton Fire Department in Casselton, N.D.
Is it racism or an honest disagreement? In recent days, some — including former President Jimmy Carter — have suggested there is a racial element behind opposition to President Obama and his policies. Most Americans, however, don't see it that way: 65 percent think opposition to Obama's policies is based on honest disagreements, while 20 percent say it is mostly motivated by racism.

Black voters are twice as likely to say the opposition is motivated by race (63 percent cite racism as the reason for opposition and 27 percent say it is based on honest disagreements), while most white voters — 71 percent — say the opposition comes from honest disagreements.

Majorities of Republicans (87 percent) and independents (69 percent) think opposition to Obama's policies is based on honest disagreements. Among Democrats, 48 percent say honest disagreements and 34 percent say it is motivated by racism.

Anyone care to elaborate on the percentage of blacks in the population. Division right down racial lines from the blacks
 

Larrry

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Very interesting pigfarmer. I think anyone that has any reasoning capabilities knows the answer. But I'll bet that you won't have any lefties that give an honest straightforward answer. We'll see but I'll bet it is drivel they spew
 

I Luv Herfrds

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I grew up being taught to never judge a person by the color of their skin. It makes me mad when someone who doesn't know me tells me I'm a racist because I cannot agree with that person on spending money this country does not have.

Racisim is a double edge sword.
 

TexasBred

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I Luv Herfrds said:
I grew up being taught to never judge a person by the color of their skin. It makes me mad when someone who doesn't know me tells me I'm a racist because I cannot agree with that person on spending money this country does not have.

Racisim is a double edge sword.

So did I..way back before the Civil Rights law...seems we even go out of our way trying to ensure that everybody knows we could care less what color a man is...yet everyday the dems, libs and others constantly remind us that "this man is the first BLACK president we've ever had"...why can we look past that black, white, yellow or anything else and judge the man by what he stands for. Then if I or anyon else disagrees or dislikes somebody it dam sure ain't because he's any particular color.
 

burnt

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The terms "racism" and "racist" have become the catchphrases for attempted negation of any ideas or process the the left does not like.

It barely matters how much disconnect there may be between race and the issue at hand, those two terms are dropped like a guillotine in a lame effort to sever any meaningful engagement on the real issue.

"I don't like what you are saying (but I can't refute it) so you are a racist."
 

hypocritexposer

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Race and Obama's critics

Does racism play a role in the intense criticism of President Barack Obama and his proposals?

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Yes (186 responses)

16.3%
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No (946 responses)

82.8%
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Not sure (11 responses)

1.0%

1143 total responses

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-ed.samuri17sep17,0,3787681.story
 

hypocritexposer

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Anatomy of the "Racist" Charge—or, How to Turn a Setback into a Disaster [Victor Davis Hanson]

It is strange to see Democrats and their supporters persist in their efforts — indeed, even intensify them — to equate Obama's failing legislative initiatives, his dive in the polls, and the rise of protests against him with racism. Polls reveal that it is not just a losing tactic, but an enormously self-destructive one for Democrats.

To make the argument, they would have to prove three points. And so far they have not even come close:

1) Uniquely vicious?

Is the anger against Obama different from what we have seen leveled against presidents in the past? Americans not only know that this is not true, but that some who now charge unfair play were themselves well beyond the bounds of decorum in their own attacks. In the Bush years, "hate" was a favorite word of liberal critics, from both officials (cf. Howard Dean) and mainstream publications (cf. The New Republic). "Assassination" was the rage among liberal culture (cf. Alfred Knopf, the Toronto film festival, the Guardian). "Liar," "Nazi," and "brownshirt" were casual slurs from high-profile Democrats (cf. Gore, John Glenn, Robert Byrd, Harry Reid, Pete Stark, etc.). True, shouting "you lie" is more serious than booing the President (cf. 2005), but whereas Rep. Joe Wilson has apologized, none of the booers at Bush's State of the Union address, I think, felt that "I'm sorry" was ever necessary. (Questioning Barack Obama's birth certificate is infantile, even unhinged, but not de facto racially motivated — perhaps analogous to something like Andrew Sullivan persisting in spreading rumors [complete with purported photographs] that Sarah Palin did not deliver her last child and engaged in an elaborate cover-up of a faked pregnancy and delivery to hide her daughter's own stealth unwed pregnancy.)

2) Is Obama the only minority high-profile figure to have earned real anger?

No. Clarence Thomas had his character destroyed for partisan purposes, and liberals were enraged when he attributed it to a "high-tech lynching." Alberto Gonzalez was reduced to a caricature of an affirmative-action beneficiary. Former HHS Secretary Louis Wade Sullivan's race was explicitly cited by Representative Stark in a particularly nasty attack. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was caricatured in state-run Palestinian newspaper cartoons as a pregnant monkey, few on the left rushed to denounce such virulent racism. The sad truth is that if a Pres. Condi Rice or Pres. Colin Powell were now in the midst of pushing a controversial conservative agenda (e.g., a federal ban on abortions, cuts in federal spending, keeping open Guantanamo, etc.), the liberal press would be as aggressively hostile as conservatives are today against the Obama plans. The only difference would be that all in the liberal camp would be furious over suggestions of racial motivations to their own anger over conservative African-Americans pushing controversial policy. This is self-evident.

3) Do more prominent politicians on the Right engage in racially charged invective, or rather on the Left?

There have been some lunatic local and minor right-wing state officials who have engaged in racist charges. But so far the most prominent violators of our common norms of decency have been on the left, and indeed those in high positions of executive or elected authority.

Van Jones was a White House adviser — one long ago sought out and watched, according to Obama insider Valerie Jarrett. So someone must have known that in racist fashion he had suggested that whites pollute minority neighborhoods and are more prone to commit mass murders in the schools. Top-ranking officials like Rep. Charles Rangel and Gov. David Paterson of New York have accused whites of racism in lieu of honest self-examination of their own failing careers.

There was no need for Eric Holder to accuse the country of cowardice for failing to talk about race on his terms, nor for the president himself to weigh in on a local police matter as judge and jury — to condemn police in general as profilers and those in Cambridge in particular as acting "stupidly." This was especially unfortunate given the president's own racialist gaffes in the campaign, whether his persistent confusion over the morality of the racist Rev. Wright, his incendiary dismissal of Pennsylvania voters in thinly disguised, culturally biased, if not racist terms, and his flippant reference to the grandmother who raised him as a "typical white person."
The fact is that both health care and cap-and-trade simply are not going to make it into law in anything like their proposed forms, due largely to real fright on the part of moderate Democrats who fear losses in 2010, given the abandonment of these issues by moderates and independents.

The false charge of racism won't change that reality, but it may well, if pursued, turn legislative defeats into political catastrophes for a generation. How strange that with large majorities in the House and Senate, with a president who just months ago enjoyed 70 percent approval ratings, and with a compliant and influential press, the Democratic party cannot pass its own legislation and instead is detouring to label most middle-class voters of all beliefs "racists." It is as if a group of political advisers got together and brainstormed how in theory to ruin the best liberal landscape in generations.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzMwMDkzY2EwYTcwYjJmZGFmODhlZWNhOGE5YjVjNmY=
 

Sandhusker

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The gullible crowd was in denial when the clown was running for office. Now that they actually got him in office, they've got way too much invested in him to come clean.
 

aplusmnt

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I am confused if I hate Carter and think he was a horrible President and made bad policy for this country am I a racist against white people?

If I hate Pelosi, Reed and Frank more than Obama do I hate White people and women?

Why is it because I hate liberal politicians that are socialist but one of them happens to be black I am a racist!

Liberals sure bring some weak arguments to the table! And I think it will back fire on them! They may just turn people into the racist they claim them to be!
 

jcummins

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aplusmnt said:
I am confused if I hate Carter and think he was a horrible President and made bad policy for this country am I a racist against white people?

If I hate Pelosi, Reed and Frank more than Obama do I hate White people and women?

Why is it because I hate liberal politicians that are socialist but one of them happens to be black I am a racist!

Liberals sure bring some weak arguments to the table! And I think it will back fire on them! They may just turn people into the racist they claim them to be!






Liberals and the black race fosters and inflames racism. THEY are the ones keeping it alive.
 

katrina

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aplusmnt said:
I am confused if I hate Carter and think he was a horrible President and made bad policy for this country am I a racist against white people?

If I hate Pelosi, Reed and Frank more than Obama do I hate White people and women?

Why is it because I hate liberal politicians that are socialist but one of them happens to be black I am a racist!

Liberals sure bring some weak arguments to the table! And I think it will back fire on them! They may just turn people into the racist they claim them to be!

:agree:
 
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