By: Aziz Poonawalla

Or Keith Olbermann or Janine Garafolo…

4 months ago by MikeLyons on Wordpress

Aziz,

You clearly haven’t been listening to Maureen Down. Or Jimmy Carter. Or MSNBC.

Hell, just Google “racism Obama.”

4 months ago by Dave Price on Wordpress

McK,

You didn’t vote for Bush, last go around, and didn’t vote for Obama nor McCain?

But you feel badly about being a disenfranchised American?

This is like a guy purposely dropping a bowling ball on one of his feet, then complaining about the force of gravity.

Arnold Harris

Mount Horeb WI

4 months ago by ArnoldHarris on Wordpress

Not a few Americans are indeed racist. Not just white folks. Contempt and sometimes outright hatred for the strnger male is wired into the human psyche.

But I think some of them overcame these feelings because all America was looking for a way out of our growing witches’ nest of problems by means of the “Magic Negro” — a presidential-to-the-core personage typically played by Clint Eastwood’s movie buddy Morgan Freeman. Gravitas, I think was the word used by ancient Romans. Maybe the Jews would go so far as to say: “The m’shiach is here! The m’shiach is here!”

Now, 12 months after his election, we all are learning that he’s just another mortal like the rest of us. Even worse, we are learning he really was little more than a Chicago ward heeler, shoved into a US Senate seat because he become an instant media darling almost from the moment he was discovered by the national television networks. Undeniably, he is an infinitely more suave on-stage performer than Bathhouse John Coughlin or Hinky Dink Kenna. Much better educated, too. But in the fine old days of that particular kind of Chicago, law degrees at Harvard, Yale or Princeton wouldn’t have gotten you very far in Bridgeport, the Patch, or Back of the Yards.

Now this most fickle of all possible populations — the american nation — wants to give him the hook and haul him offstage so they can see the next vaudeville act, including maybe dancing girls. If we didn’t all have some stake in the outcome, this would be a humorous kind of american story that Mike Royko, Damon Runyan and H L Mencken used to write about.

Anyway, he is the duly elected president. So we all will have to cut him the same kind of slack that we did for all 43 of his predecessors.

Arnold Harris

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4 months ago by ArnoldHarris on Wordpress

I am NOT an Obama fan, think his election was basically racist, but the approval numbers don’t strike me as being particularly bad outside the context of the previous unconscionable inflation.

4 months ago by P Mike on Wordpress

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4 months ago by moomoobrowncow on Twitter

Well, the problem here is that it’s been a year since the election and polls take in likely or all voters. What I’m getting at is that there must have been a surge of radically-racist people born in 1991 to explain this. I mean, it can’t be that the American people are actually waking up to the fact that he is, at best, just another politician; and, at worst, the worst and most corrupt we’ve ever had. /snark ... See all content Hide content

4 months ago by MikeLyons on Wordpress

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