cbabbman wrote:
jraeyre wrote:
No, John, the "black man"  comment was pathetic.  I either agree with the bending and contorting of the intent of some of these tools or I am a racist.....Absolutely sad and pathetic.

Jra
No jra, unfortunately, and as much as I wish it weren't true, there is no other explanation for the level of vitriol, hate and pathetic disregard for the office of the president as there has been since Obama was elected. Not even Bush was disparaged in this manner.

You can pretend otherwise or believe that we left that kind of shit in the 60's, but the actions of a great many now, seem to demonstrate that it is all alive and well in this century...and it seems to be almost strictly coming from the right, whether you like it or not. And the moderates seem to want to hide their heads in the sand and pretend it is coming from some small, way out there faction... and is not any responsibility of theirs...

But until those like the people to the right of left here, start to hold those accountable... accountable, it will continue until this president is shot down like RFK and MLK...
Nothing like a little bit of optimism...

The fact is, this kind of crap was already going on in the spring of 2008!  And it was started by the REPUBLICANS, like Palin, when they started "hinting" about Obama not really being Christian, not really being a citizen, and "palling around with terrorists".  And THAT was when people started being interviewed on TV and saying that they BELIEVED all that horseshit.  That was proven beyond any doubt when they started to YELL OUT shit like "He's a terrorist" and "KILL HIM!"  And when that woman stood up at one of McCain's little gabfests and told him she was worried because "He's an Arab"... and McCain at least took the mike back from her and had the spine to say no, he wasn't.

But I'll guarantee he didn't really change her mind.

Well they've had two more years of hearing more and more of the same kind of horseshit, and NOBODY telling any of them that no, it's not really so.  What the fuck did they expect?  "Tell them shit, tell them until they believe it, hell tell it enough that WE even believe it, and then deny that what they say and DO is our fault."  That's what they expected.

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