just a few months ago. I'm talking at EPIC, levels.
Assauge-o-rama.
Feel better after the cluster fuck, now?
On Apr 26, 11:11 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [DailyKos] A Voyage Into The Racial Code Words Used To Attack
> Obama's Americanism
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> A Voyage Into The Racial Code Words Used To Attack Obama's Americanism
> April 26, 2011
> By Rmuse <http://www.politicususa.com/en/author/rmuse>
>
> During last year's midterm campaign season, many pundits on the left were
> asking why Americans would vote against their own self-interests on issues
> like Social Security and Medicare privatization. Even with revelations that
> corporations and the oil industry are receiving tax cuts and subsidies while
> social safety nets for poor and elderly citizens are being eliminated, there
> are elderly and poor Americans defending the GOP and their rich corporate
> benefactors.
>
> Is it that conservatives are cognitively challenged and automatically
> support anything the Republican message machine tells them, or is there an
> underlying reason to vote for self-defeating policies? Since most Americans
> are literate enough to understand which policies are for their own good,
> there has to be another factor that drives intelligent people to vote
> against their own interests.
>
> When Fox News pundits were fighting health care reform, their favorite
> derogatory term describing President Obama's plan was that it was socialism,
> and they beat that drum unmercifully. Although opponents of the health law
> learned that police, fire, schools, and roads were socialistic, they still
> opposed anything Republicans called socialism; even if they benefited from
> it. Many of the Republican candidates in the 2010 midterm elections were
> straightforward in their promise to repeal the health care law as well as
> privatize Medicare and Social Security. So why did voters elect Republicans
> who promised to eliminate programs they depend on to exist? It is racism,
> pure and simple.
>
> The birther movement is not about whether President Obama was born in
> America, but that he is not American because he is Black. When the teabags
> preach returning to the Founding Fathers' intentions for the country, it is
> not because they are Constitutional ideologists, but because the Founders
> were white. There is a dysfunctional thought-process in many Americans that
> refuses to believe America is not a white Christian nation, and the thought
> of a Black man in the Oval Office is intolerable. Birther devotees are able
> to say Obama is not one of us because he is not American, but their real
> message is the he's not American because of his race, and Republicans are
> using that race-hatred to their political advantage.
>
> Donald Trump is riding the birther sentiment for all it's worth because
> although the man is a carnival freak show, he knows that racism is alive and
> well in America. Trump has demanded to see President Obama's birth
> certificate every time he opens his mouth regardless that it has been in the
> public record since before the 2008 elections. Trump's response as of late
> is that the president is hiding something as if he is a criminal. The
> implication that President Obama is illegitimate or an alien who is sitting
> in a place he doesn't belong is not lost on Americans who harbor racist
> sentiments, and Republicans are dancing around the birther issue to keep the
> racial divide intact.
>
> Whether or not Republicans in Congress are racists, they know that President
> Obama is an American but they are complicit in keeping the birther movement
> alive. If they were decent Americans, they would put the issue to rest once
> and for all, but they desperately need a wedge between Obama and voters with
> racist tendencies. If Republicans let voters make decisions on the merits of
> the president's policies, they would lose every battle. Most Americans need
> health care, but Republicans branded "Obamacare" as a foreign, socialist
> policy that originated from an alien man in the White House and they got the
> opposition they wanted. Republicans kept the issue alive for the midterm
> elections with promises to repeal the socialist takeover, and they won
> landslide victories. If a white president provided health care for 30 – 40
> million people he would be lauded as a hero and have his image enshrined on
> Mount Rushmore. But it was a Black man, an alien, an interloper who provided
> health care to millions and that is too much for half of America.
>
> President Obama is about as Centrist as any president could be, and he is a
> staunch defender of the military as well as business, and yet Republicans
> have made it their goal to limit him to one term. For two years Republicans
> obstructed and voted no to every proposal that benefited Americans and they
> still won big in the 2010 midterms. They campaigned on issues that would
> damage citizens and benefit big business and the wealthy, and voters
> supported them because Republicans opposed President Obama. There is no
> doubt that Republican supporters voted against their own self-interest
> because they were voting against Obama the Black president, and not his
> policies. However, it seems now that many Republican voters are looking past
> their racist tendencies at the real possibility that the candidates they
> supported are really going to steal their retirement and health care.
>
> There has been talk that Republicans have overreached by attempting to
> privatize Medicare, and based on the reactions they are getting at town hall
> meetings to sell the privatization scheme, that may be an understatement. It
> may be that inadvertently, Republicans have dealt a serious blow to racism
> in America in their attempt at robbing seniors to pay corporations and the
> wealthy. President Obama stated categorically that he opposed the
> privatization scheme because it was un-American, and thus far, Americans
> overwhelmingly concur. President Obama has always had the American peoples'
> interests at heart, and hopefully now the voters will see it for themselves;
> because a foreigner would never fight for the American people or their
> interests the way this president has.
>
> Republican voters are also getting a glimpse into the real agenda the GOP is
> promoting and it is not beneficial for Americans. The real un-Americans are
> Republicans who are waging war on the people, and they are predominately
> white and rich. Hopefully, America has reached a crossroads and the people
> will look at a president, a senator, or a neighbor based on his merit and
> not his race. If Americans judged a political party or race by its actions
> in the political arena, they would have abject hatred for white Republican
> males. However, Americans should follow the lead of our Black president and
> not promote hate, but look for common ground to work for the good of the
> country. It is what a good American would say; regardless of race.
>
> http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-race-code
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