Racism, Even Fox News Recognizes

by Chevalier de Pas | September 17, 2009 at 06:05 am
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Racism, Even Fox News Recognizes

President Carter have pointed out to what Marc Lamont Hill,  a Columbia University professor and FOX News contributor ,calls a huge elephant in the room. I personally believe that the press coverage on Obama's administration is going too far away from the conventional.

By identifying the racial dimensions of the current political moment, President Carter has pointed out a huge elephant in the room. Until the rest of the Democratic Party musters the courage to do the same on a regular basis, President Obama will continue to take unnecessary hits. And so will our national character.
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Roy C

You need to take Social Psychology 101 and learn about how extremists distort the truth.

Racism exists on both sides and will have to be quantified to understand to what extent it affects opinions and the perception of others' opinions.

Basically, Obama has lost and is on his way to having to recant another "promise" due to his own inability and unwillingness to come up with a detailed health care plan.

So, when we scream out his deficits, his centralization of power, his unreviewed "Czars", his misstatement of whether or not illegals will be able to get health care under the existing legislation, and all his other screw-ups, the Idol Worshippers can't "comprehend" what "Oz" has said might just be plain wrong. For the half-wits, unable to shake off the reality of the evidence against this idol worship, they play from under the deck, and we become "racists".


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Chevalier de Pas

Roy

Arrogance is the stamp of the Republicans, are you a Social Psychology Professor trying to sell your online courses?

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Roy C

C de Pas, I was raised in a working-class neighborhood and my father was a democratic city committeeman for a while.

I never heard that kind of vile stuff from him. But, like me, he has known people of all political persuasions and seen good and bad on all sides.

I went to a private Quaker school where the teachers were annoying super-libs, while the students were from republican families.

Some were arrogant and some weren't. Even now, in my job, I get to talk to some very big names in politics as I drive them around. You couldn't tell the democrats from the republicans by "arrogance".

Your statement is without factual basis. It is the stuff of demagoguery. I won't ask what you are trying to sell. I see it.

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Chevalier de Pas

Saying that I need to go to school you made your arrogant statement, everything else is just adding up. Your words are part of the chorus of desperation, there is not runoff, sorry but  Obama is the President, no matter if you like or don't .

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Roy C

Arrogant or firm? Even Obama disagrees with you about his opposition. He says it is not due to racism.

I am a member of the opposition. You have called all of us "racists". That is arrogant.

Fox News reported that statement. Fox News does not agree with that statement.



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Chevalier de Pas

Call it the way you want, if we don't agree in big matters, how would us agree in irrelevant verbiage?

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Karen Hatter

Racism, as relates to this President, is indeed an elephant in the room that fuels a portion of opposition to him and his agenda.

But, as has been demonstrated here at this site, and as would happen wherever and whenever the subject is raised, almost everything would screech to a halt as cries of denial of the existence of racism seek a position of dominance. 

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QueensHart

  This place is hardly a measure of the USA!  Who is crying the denial of racism?  It is a very small minority that view Obama as a "black man".  My God Amighty , we elect him and we are supposed to just follow every stupid idea he has?  Even many very liberals are jumping his ship . 

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Karen Hatter

Queenshart, I did not say this site was a measure of the United States. But, it can serve as an indicator of the reactions that might be offered when one approaches the topic, given the commentary that has arisen from the number of race themed pieces that have been posted.  

For the record and for whatever reason, 43% of White America, when merging all of the various demographics within the group that voted, voted for Barack Obama for president. 57% voted for someone else, for a variety of reasons.

Looking at it another way, 18 million voted for then Senator Hillary Clinton. The PUMA(Party Unity My Ass) refused to get with the Democratic program for whatever reason. Who knows how many of them dismissed their Party's call for party unity or their motives, when they voted behind a closed curtain.

57 million voted for Senator John McCain and still others voted for candidates outside of the two major political parties. Of the totals from the major parties, together, 18 million + 57 million = 75 million.

No one can state with any true assurance who among the 75 million voted against Barack Obama for reasons of race.

It would be illogical to claim there were none among the millions with racist views of now President Obama. The question is what percentage of the millions they represented. That is an unknown that may never be quantified.

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Roy C

So, why don't you argue the merits of his policies?

Then, after you win that one, you have to prove that the critics operated in bad faith and have a history of accepting or not rejecting similar proposals from white politicians.

With the Tea Party crowd, you cannot do it. This began with talk radio-inspired opposition to Dubai Ports, the Harriet Myers' nomination, the two illegal alien amnesty bills and the general opposition to Medicare D which was a sellout to the pharma companies and left us a bill we can't pay without going broke.

Those policies were all "W" policies, who, last time I looked, was a republican and a white good ol' boy from Texas and Yale.

Then, Rick Santelli on CNBC, a financial channel, called for the "tea parties" after Obama's idiot Gibbs had to talk trash to and about Santelli.

So, the energy of Dubai picked up and got shifted to its new big government target, the Obama administration.

You democrats have not learned your lesson from then. The elites ruling us, the people, that is over.

Obama know he is going to lose again, and, Obama has already covered his behind with his "I won't sign a plan that will cause a deficit" so he will look as if he got his "way" on "ObamaCare". LOL.

He knows, and damn well, having no command over the intricacies of health care provision,  that he can't argue his case and that his plan will not solve the problem of rising costs.

Basically, rising costs reflect an aging population of ever fatter people who want an ever more wonderful array of high tech care aimed at them.

Not gonna' happen.

Newsflash: if all hospitals had tested their patients in the mid 1970s the way that university teaching hospitals did, the US medical system would have gone bankrupt very quickly, in months. This crisis has been with us for decades. Nothing new. Only worse now.

Knowing the nuts and bolts of the system, the level of rational and irrational demand placed on it, that comes first. Then we talk about solutions.

But, Obama's problem goes beyond this. His Van Jones and whackjob "legal to impose abortions" czars, his ties to the corrupt ACORN organization, all reveal a man far different than the centrist he tried to portray himself as being.

His wife, friend of Bernadine Dohrn, Weather Underground bomb-setter, pushed for Van Jones. Obama thinks differently? I don't think so.

Obama comes across as radically as the right portrayed him. He used them for his narcissistic supply and now he is so addicted that he cannot use his more than adequate reason to break the grip.

When you throw in his so-called reforms of the financial sector, with the Federal Reserve becoming a de facto emperor of our country, with real de jure powers to regulate and no one to answer to, we of the center become more than concerned.

We become frightened.

His no-accountability no-transparency approach in the financial sector is actually worse than Chavez shutting down radio stations. His plan is a Byzantine plan that a narcissist proposes to another group of narcissists, the top dogs of the financial world who have taken us to and maybe over the abyss.

They like it, don't they?

Obama is very, very bad news.

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Chevalier de Pas

Roy

Tea parties crowd? The only power recognized by The United States of America is the electoral power of the people, can you stand with that? There is no runoff election in The United States.

Cost, debit, deficit, corruption, lies, mass destruction weapons, financial mismanagement, fiscal irresponsibility, torture, radicalism, blindness,  I know that you Republicans are very familiar with all these words, and I am sure that even you knows that this did not start on 01/20/2009. Don't try to fit the Republican cap at Obama's head.You are responsible for all this mess.

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Roy C

You didn't read my post and, so, I will until you have to answer your latest round of charges, Horseman of Peace.

A somewhat exalted title, no?

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Chevalier de Pas

Even with your "mea culpa" is not clear to me if you are or aren't a right wing conservative radical, if not Republican, something very equal or similar.

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QueensHart

Yep, if you had read Roy's post you would no Sir, he is far from a Republican.  Elites refers to both Democrats and Republicans. 

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QueensHart

Slam Dunk Roy.  This actually is wasted here and should be a Headline Story of

Why Obama has failed the Americans white and black................................................. who swallowed his rhetoric.

A failure making excuses for him too?  Jimmy Carter still does not have a clue.  It is such a  very mental disease to continue to believe one's fabrications and that one does not have a devil inside.(commonly called the shadow)

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Karen Hatter

The inability for some to comprehend that the racists in this country do not disagree with the policies of President Barack Hussein Obama Jr. but because of his race lies at the heart of the incredulity of those who dismiss race as a factor that causes some to oppose the President.

There is a viceral, ugly element of hate that is stoked everyday, 24 hours a day, with hundreds of thousands embracing the message over the airwaves and the internet, with many kicking around ideas and plans involving evil deeds with President Obama at the center of the discourse.

As major representatives from both parties, the Democrats but ESPECIALLY the Republicans turn a blind eye, wary of possible political fallout, a great disservice is done to the nation.

For almost two years, the incorrect belief the President is not an American, the lie he is Muslim, and all of the other nonsense that has been allowed to grow and fester have allowed him to be added to the 'He's not one of us' column, making him vulnerable to those racists who would be riled and embrace those beliefs.         

It is dangerously naive and ridiculous to entertain the belief that President Obama's receiving death threats at an increase of 400%, the highest ever since protection has been provided for U.S. presidents, is based solely on his policies and the direction he has chosen to guide the country.

The F.B.I. has warned of the "lone wolf" , who may be stoked and catapulted into violent action.

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