Why is it "racist" to say that Obama has been a lousy president?

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Dman8777

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Single-handedly saved the Gulf Coast economy. Saved the US economy. Restored competency to the US government. Gave health insurance to millions. Killed Bin Laden. Stopped invading countries on invented charges. Stopped the use of torture. Not a single scandal in six years.

Sorry, but your beliefs that he's a Muslim from Kenya and the antichrist aren't facts, and race likely has something to do with your willingness to believe.

Well put. Obama isn't the best pres in recent history but he definitely ranks solidly above average.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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So the fact that nobody questioned the citizenship of the previous 43 presidents including a candidate (McCain) who wasn't born in the United States nor will they question someone running for President born in Canada (Cruz) and Obama had a birth certificate from Hawaii means all that dark Kenyan Muslim he's one of "the others" bullshit was all a big fat sloppy wet coincidence??

Well that's a nice rant, but it has nothing to do with the post I quoted. Of course you hadn't bothered to think about that. If you like you can do a search on my username and easily find where I bought into the birther stuff. I'll call you out on that right now. Your train of logic suffered a fatal derailment. BTW, a "natural born citizen" has been considered one who is the child of parents who are citizens. That they are temporarily in another region doesn't alter the fact that it would be ridiculous to consider the alternative. What of a child is born on the dividing line between Canada and the US? Is one half Canadian and the other a US citizen? Does that make birther's legitimate? Hardly. But then again I can call a thing dumb before asking which party thought of it.
As for the rest of the rant sound like your beef is this shitty President's hasn't cleaned up all the mess left by the last President who was much better. I get it!

Well gosh gee, that's impressive. Let's see what you got right. OK, nothing.

I understand that partisan conservative mentality require criticism to be mutually exclusive. If I didn't support Iraq I was Democrat. If I find Obama to be less than worship worthy I'm in the Republican camp. Their conservative outlooks excuse Bush and blame Clinton. They look at Obama and blame Bush. Now there's a lot of blame to go around, especially about Iraq, but lo, do you chastise Obama for ignoring those perhaps half a million dead? By no means! Do directly contradict my points against Obama? No, you play the Bush card. That would be an excellent strategy to get under a partisan's skin, however you (again) have failed to notice that I wasn't a fan of Bush. Now not everything that Obama has to deal with was his own creation, but what matters is how he plays the hand he's dealt. I think he doesn't deserve the godlike powers attributed to Obama that Pony Pal seems to think he has, rewriting history and all, or are you going to say that Obama singlehandly saved the economy? The point is that the Obama isn't OJeebus as he must be to have at once saved the economy and have median income and the middle class take a huge hit. Is that all Obama's fault? No it's not. Like Bush, he's inherited problems (you do remember the collapse of the tech bubble which largely drove much of the economy, don't you?) Well Bush didn't save us, Obama didn't perform miracles and they are both first and foremost politicians who have you and your conservatively minded Conservatives and Liberals so enthralled that you'll reach entirely for irrelevancies in unrelated posts in order to defend your personal lord and savior's honor, which wasn't the point of my comment to begin with.

Now how about those post where I said I thought Obama was a Kenyan or a secret Muslim?

This ought to be good.
 

ivwshane

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So is the OP a Russian troll or a Chinese troll? Since our other Russian troll has been quiet I'm going to say Russian. It must suck living in a country whose economy is nose diving! Quick! Invade another country to maintain your relevance!
 

Hayabusa Rider

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So is the OP a Russian troll or a Chinese troll? Since our other Russian troll has been quiet I'm going to say Russian. It must suck living in a country whose economy is nose diving! Quick! Invade another country to maintain your relevance!

Hey how about Syria? Oops, that's taken :p
 

thraashman

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I guess you must be blind to those that share your ideology as there are more than a few of them fit your description to a "T". The fact be known people in the fringes on both sides have ideas that are illogical and can be be equally racist.

The problem is how so much of the GOP has become the fringe. If it were just the fringe then it wouldn't be such a big deal. But the entirety of conservative media, the entirety of the Tea Party, all of the GOP leadership, I can't think of any Republican members of Congress that don't show that fringe behavior. I know more liberals than I do conservatives and the amount of crazy shit I see posted by conservatives in comparison to crazy shit from liberals is like a 100:1 ratio.
 

Londo_Jowo

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The problem is how so much of the GOP has become the fringe. If it were just the fringe then it wouldn't be such a big deal. But the entirety of conservative media, the entirety of the Tea Party, all of the GOP leadership, I can't think of any Republican members of Congress that don't show that fringe behavior. I know more liberals than I do conservatives and the amount of crazy shit I see posted by conservatives in comparison to crazy shit from liberals is like a 100:1 ratio.

From a moderate standpoint I see equal amounts of crazy on both sides, this forum is a perfect example..
 

BoberFett

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Well put. Obama isn't the best pres in recent history but he definitely ranks solidly above average.

Did you read the post you quoted? It didn't say Obama was above average. It was practically on it's knees giving Obama a BJ for being the second coming of Christ.
 
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blankslate

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It's not racist to criticize President Obama at all there are enough legitimate reasons to do so.

However, there is a small minority who criticize the president who have made images like these
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Those particular examples are indeed extreme but the fact they have cropped up isn't reassuring.


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