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hey, liberal media! you might want to quit delegitimizing the president…

By American Girl in Italy on September 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM in Current Affairs, Media, Obamedia, President Barack Obama, Race Card, Racism, Sara in Italy

Let me set aside my media designated “white cloak” for a moment, and offer some advice for Obama supporters.

Every time one of you (liberal media) label criticism of Obama as racist, you are the ones hurting Obama.

miss-black-america2Barack Obama is not the Black President of America. He is the President of the United States of America.

To continually label him the Black President, and any criticism of him as racist, it implies he is only representing black America.

It’s like the difference between the Oscars and the BET Awards…
or Miss America and Miss Black America.

Obama, whether some of us like it or not, was elected The President of the United States of all America.

Quit throwing the race card! Every time you do, you are in fact revealing your self to be racist. You are the ones who demote his position, and his person. And YOU are the ones who keep seeing Obama’s skin color.

racist-signTo reduce criticism of Obama as nothing but racism you are reducing his role in the most powerful position in the world.

Is he above criticism because he is black? Is he not equal to past presidents, therefore capable of dealing with criticism? Should he be treated differently or special, because of his skin color?

Treating him differently, not as an equal, to past Presidents, is in itself racist. Isn’t it?

As President of the United States, Obama is now in the position to execute the duties and responsibilities as awarded to any other POTUS in the history of America. And with that responsibility comes power, luxury, and criticism.

Yes, Obama was the first African American man elected as President. Yes, the country celebrated. (I even got a little misty, as mad as I was, seeing all the tears the night he won, seeing the sheer pride on African American faces.) But, enough! MOVE ON! You need to stop relegating Obama as the black President.

He is either President of the United States of America, or not…what’s it going to be? If all he is to you is Black Student Body President, then we need to elect a President of all America…

Obama is like the Denzel Washington of politics. He won the Oscar for Best Actor*.

denzel-oscar

Why do you keep giving Obama the Daytime After School Special Award for Best Black Actor?

Are you going to stop revealing your own racism, and stop seeing Obama’s skin color? Will you call him President, with no more caveats? You are, after all, his supporters…

*Denzel won the second Best Leading Actor award ever won by an African American. Sidney Poitier won the first in 1963 for Lilies of the Field. My point is Denzel won Best Leading Actor – not Best Black Actor.

  • Ladydawnelle

    Well, I was not a part of America that voted for a thespian named Bwaaak!! His theater name SUCKS!

    lol I’m voting for the BEST FEMALE in a LEADING ROLE (next time I hope)

    at one point I thought it might be Hillary (now in a best SUPPORTING female role no doubt)

    but SARAH may fit the bill for me by 2010! She’s a quick study, tough yet mui compassionate! Perfect for the role required it seems! hehe!

    Great analogies! PUMA W00T!!

    (oh but then my daughter made me watch a movie called Zeitgeist last night and my whole world is now fuzzy) sigh
    some of the info I knew and believed and some of it seems fantastical but what HASN’T lately?) check it out if you dare

    • tek

      There’s a lot I like about Sarah Palin, and I deplore the sexism that’s been directed toward her and her daughters, but recently I’ve seen some interviews with her that give me pause. She is a very strident neoconservative in many ways. I don’t think that’s what this country needs, another very partisan occupant of the WH.

      • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

        no doubt i need to examine her politics further. it was the attacks that were unfounded. if she chooses to run, i will research her positions and platform.

        when i did while she was VP pick, I discovered a lot of criticism was unjustified, and plain old lies (about the rape kits, and her position on abortion, etc.) I am not crazy about super religious people injecting their religion on policy, but not sure if she does. It’s one thing to have your beliefs, but another to force them on others. So far, I don’t see Palin doing that. That doesn’t guarantee I would vote for her, but she is NO WAY deserved the attacks she got.

        She appears very quick on her feet, and she ws quite successful in her own right. And she kicked Bidens ass in the debate. And I loved her speeches. I would love a moderate. And an honest candidate….

        • tek

          AGI: What I always liked Sarah Palin was she had very definite values stemming from her religion but if you look at her governance of Alaska, she never let her personal ideas influence the policies of her state. She was tolerant of gays, never tried to outlaw abortion, etc. I think she has a lot on the ball and I think she’s way more experienced than Obama.

          So, I was disappointed to see her veering toward the far right. However, she is young and she could develop in ways we cannot now predict. I, too, will keep an eye on her.

          It’s a little sad. I’ve always been a Democrat because I believed I want to live in a democracy and the Republicans seem only interested in protecting corporate profits at any cost–throw average citizens to the wolves. But I’m starting to think the conservative ideas of protecting our heritage and traditions and culture has great value. Other countries have diversity, but they don’t throw their traditional culture out the window to accommodate newcomers from different cultures.

          • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

            totally on board with you on all counts.

            the older i get, the more conservative i get and the more value i see in it. i was thinking about the loss of respect with each other, and kids towards adults, etc.. it seems to have really gone down hill, and i think it can only be explained because of liberalism… And i hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but it really does seem that values, etc. went down hill after the 70′s. I am certainly glad we had the civil and womens rights movements, but i think somewhere things went too far. (not women and civil rights, but values) no one respects anyone anymore, and there is too much violence and ugliness.

            • http://www.madinthemiddle.blogspot.com churl

              Remember those bill boards telling us to get a haircut or leave America? I also remember that quote about lazy, slothful youth being plastered around until someone discovered it was Socrates complaining about kids. I don’t think it is any worse; it just seems that way– how we could have a generation anymore annoying or obstinate or self-important than the kids of the 60′s or 70′s? Of course, after the killing in SE Asia slowed down, everyone became a Reagan supporter and a conservative it seems. Today we have baggy pants and nose rings to annoy us. And some really gawd-awful music.

        • http://www.madinthemiddle.blogspot.com churl

          I absolutely agree with your position on Palin. I thought she was truly sure-footed until she made that stupid comment about death panels. I’m still with her but I will not vote for someone who simply echoes right-wing nonsense.

          • maryann

            That would be assuming HR3200 does not reflect death panels, which unfortunately it does.

          • IndieDogg

            PALIN was referring to the implicit “effect” of the mechanism set up in the bill. In response to her comment and the uproar it caused, the provision was REMOVED from the bill.

            If you followed her recent statements on the (non-existent) Obama HCare proposal (he’s apparently referring to a blender mix of whatever Democratic bills are out there but who knows), including her Wall Street Journal Op Ed piece, she still uses the term, in “quote” marks.

            She said what she meant and meant what she said.

            She wasn’t echoing anybody. She speaks for herself.

            And, she was right.

            Just as she is on Health Care Reform: Guaranteed coverage, interstate competition for companies, serious litigation reform, and so forth.

            Do the research. Don’t take your talking points from CNN or MSNBC or wherever they’re coming from.

            She’s a straight talker and she speaks for herself, no one else. That, at the very least, should be clearly evident by now.

            She’s the real deal. And she resonates with ordinary people like no one has in a very long time.

          • don tufts

            if you think sarah was wrong then why was it that the senate group huuried to change the wording in their bill.also i suggest you read some of rahm’s brothers medical writings and consider that in all likelyhood he will be on the panel of experts that sey policy.i think once you do you will find there is good basis for sarah’s statement.btw i am a former dem who maxed his contributions out to hillary in the primary.

            • ConfusedAmerican

              From what I understand they took that whole section out…
              and it could be very misconstued….

              but any part of the bill could be a bit of a death panel…
              if the money not there who is getting the kemo me and the other 65 + cancer patients or the 50 year or younger cancer patients. ????

              I know insurance does play some games with cancer treatment, but I think some countries do too.
              I mean look at the cancer survival rate in some other contries.

      • wbboei

        trek: you may be right but we may not have that luxury. If this system fails the reaction will be strident, whether you or I like it or not. Consider that possibility in light of what Walter Russell Mead said recently:

        It isn’t a liberal or a conservative thing in the end. It’s that the American people are losing faith not only in the promises of the liberal society but in the experts and the professionals who design, administer and explain it. Increasingly, the lower middle class and the middle middle class want to fire the snooty upper middle class know it alls who collectively have gotten the country into such a mess–Walter Russell Meade

        If you want to know why elitists in the Georgetown Social Set, and even the great Messiah himself obsess about Sara Palin, well . . . there is your answer.

        I can tell you for a fact that there is more uneasiness among elites over the potential rise of a populist candidate than at any time in the last 80 years. I have talked to a couple of them since this crash, and both of them independently expressed apprehensiion over the rise of a populist candidate who “will not compromise”.

        They are comfortable with Mr Obama because he will deal on their terms, not ours.

      • Prime Obot

        With all due respect, what on Earth is there for a Hillary Clinton progressive to like about Sarah Palin? She is savagely right-wing on every known political issue and frankly, quitting her job when the going got tough — when tax revenues start declining, government subsidies slow down, and Alaska really has to make tough budget choices — does not reflect well on her character. Like, at all.

        Of all the things I don’t get about NQ, the infatuation with Sarah Palin is the one I get the least.

        • Prime Obot

          btw, yes, i did note that you said some of the same things. I meant to go back to that point and distracted myself. ;)

          I just really believe that all progressives must band together to push back against the Rush Limbaugh Universe that perpetually threatens to swamp all rational political discourse in this country. And I guess that’s why I continually wander back to NQ to get beaten up by folks here. Yes, I like Obama. I also like Hillary. I also liked her husband. I like all smart, committed progressives who are willing to fight for a better America. And I just can’t get how people who truly love Hillary Clinton can so easily (for instance) support John McCain over Barack Obama. That makes no sense to me.

          Just for the most obvious reason, btw: Obama’s successful presidency will be the most likely launching pad for Hillary’s eventual presidential run. I still think she’ll be our next president in 2016, and I will work my butt off for her.

        • destardi

          Sarah Palin is the closest to “one of us” that there has been in a long time.

          She is cutting through the bullshit, and with all due respect, obama is full of bullshit, made of bullshit, and wreaks of bullshit.

          I guess that’s what Chicago does to a person (trust me, I’ve lived there).

          I know what I saw during the primary, and obama’s allowing his campaign to use ‘racist’ allegations against Hillary Clinton was the bottom of the barrel scum, and for that matter, people who still continued supporting him.

          You must be blind…just as gwb’s followers are and were blind to his disgusting ways.

          Sarah Palin stands for something; she doesn’t compromise her beliefs, but also doesn’t force them on other people. Stop acting as if she’d institute draconian changes in the Country.

          No, she’s not nearly as well-rounded as Hillary Clinton….but she’s not freakin uhbama either.

          • don tufts

            well said,bottom line sarah is one of us and probably has more compassion in her little finger than dr utopia has in his entire being.

    • susan

      Playing the race card so often NOW is a transparent attempt to end all conversation regarding the Healthcare reform bill, and , guess what, it is not going to work. And, do you know why? It is because the play has been overdone, it’s no longer effective, we are wise to the “race-card-maneuver”, so you can put it away until the next policy debate. OKAY??? That goes for your leader, Rahm Emanuel, as well. Take a break; it’s not gonna work. If anything, being racist angers us more and makes us that more resolute in our beliefs that we, as Americans, have a RIGHT to question our government. We elected them to represent us, and if they fail to do so, they WILL be fired.

  • Ladydawnelle

    oh and you can watch that movie on line

    pardon my typos and parenthetical mess ups – blech

  • Tammy

    American Girl:
    Thank you thank you thank you for this article.

    I’ve been saying the same thing to other friends: How do you end racism when you constantly bring it up?

    He’s the President(as much as I hate saying that).
    Period.

    • Scout

      Unfortunately, he got the job. But, keeping things real: he was selected. Yes, he won the general, but he never would have had the chance if the DNC hadn’t outright selected him and delivered to him the election.

      • Prime Obot

        If the DNC “selected him,” why did HRC begin the primaries with over 100 superdelegates (mostly Congressmen), while Obama began with zero?

  • Ferd Berfle

    Savvy commentary, AGII, and thanks for posting it.

    This monotonous cry of racism each time a legitimate criticism is leveled at the President only serves to underscore the simple truth that irrelevant ad hominems and wedge issues are really all they have left with which to defend him. Rather than roll up their sleeves and actually work to make whatever hope and change they feel compelled to believe in real, rather than working at convincing us their brand of change is needed, they resort to the easy way out by making it all about the opposition. Their mantra appears to be, “You have to believe what we believe because our opponents are racist and if you don’t believe the way we believe, you’re a racist, too”. False dilemma, false generalizations, unknown facts, ad hominem abusives, and other fallacious arguments are all they have left.

    • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

      OH gawd!! I just saw this video:

      who is this hack?

      • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

        ok, that was weird. i thought i was posting a link. i didn’t know you could do that. hahaa

        Anyway, another race card is thrown.

      • http://syd4.blogspot.com/ SYD

        She is a hack. And an ignorant one too. She even admits:

        “I wasn’t around, but I did a little research.”

        Wasn’t around? WTF?? She fell off of a turnip truck fully grown?? Doesn’t remember ANY of the previous protests … against Bush, Clinton….

        Anyone that ignorant has no business being elevated to the level of “pundit.” Not even at MSNBC.

      • tek

        Just because Joe Wilson voted for some bill under Bush, has no bearing whatever on the current bill and whether Obama is telling the truth. What convoluted logic.

        Yes, the issue is about more than healthcare. It’s not about racism as the black journalist suggests. It’s about the balance of political power. Wilson voted for Bush’s bill to help the illegals because the Republicans were pandering to corporations and hoping to get an amnesty to give them an unbeatable majority.

        Now Obama is trying to amnesty the illegals to give the Obot Dems an unbeatable majority. Real journalists would focus on the unconstitutionality of both these parties in allowing a president to abrogate the law of the United States to manipulate the population in a play to gain unConstitutional executive power.

        But the Obot Dems are people who saw that Dubya had expanded Executive power to illegal levels and wanted to cash in on that trend. So, no attempt to impeach Bush–they’re trying to prosecute him now that they’ve used his incompetence to get their black, inexperienced man in office.

        Interesting how heated the exchange becomes as soon as the issue of illegal entry and amnesty comes up. I still predict if Obama attempts to push through an amnesty, it will blow this country apart. Notice that the journalists say it’s only conservative Republicans who object to coddling the illegals. That’s framing. These people will get a huge surprise when it all hits the fan.

        If the Dems muscle a Democrat only amnesty, it will be the end of Obama and I believe it could lead to Americans starting to take the law (or remedy) into their own hands.

      • HC123

        Yikes, this woman is a horror. The real question is why is she on TV?

      • Ferd Berfle

        She is journalist in name only. The spots are so worn off that race card, I’m surprised she could find it in her deck of hackneyed cliches.

    • Touchet

      OH my GOD! someone using logical debate! This man here is telling truth. Logical truth. Unfortunately most of America has never had any formal training in this. It need to be taught in High school.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Thank you. It isn’t difficult and enables one to see through a great many things, e.g., the incredible amount of patently false advertising on the TeeVee; the equivocation used by both parties to justify bills that would otherwise fall flat. And that is just a start.

  • Yeah Right

    American Girl

    You made REALLY good points!!

    Good article

  • http://syd4.blogspot.com/ SYD

    I believe there is an element of the Dem party that longs for the strife of the 19602 to return. They began their race baiting during our primary season and continue to this day, unabated.

    It’s a shame, really. We could have come so far with a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket. Instead … they labelled the Clintons “racist” and with it branded all Clinton supporters.

    Now what do we have? The race card is played incessantly and the rhetoric is spiraling out of control… to the point where on MSNBC they actually change their stories… and lie about what color an Obama protester’s skin was.

    Despicable. That is what they are.

    • tek

      SYD: Point well taken. I do believe all Americans need to understand the Obot Dems have an agenda, an evil agenda. They destroyed (or attempted to destroy) the Clintons because they needed a puppet to implement their evil agenda. That’s why I have no confidence in any promise Obama makes, or anyone else in his cabal. They are going to railroad through legislation that increases their power and destroys this nation, especially the general society of this nation.

      I lived through the ’60s. It was not the romantic, exciting, enlightened time historians and politicians make it out to be. I attended lots of marches and demonstrations. There were absolutely communist organizers who were not students at any college pushing the protests in violent directions. Notice that as soon as anyone becomes a far left liberal, they immediately start dissing the U. S. as a whole, and especially the government. That’s the Marxist playbook. These Obama people are dangerous.

      • http://www.madinthemiddle.blogspot.com churl

        Please. I was there too. There were few real commies running around. Mostly it was people getting high and trying to get laid. The violence was more often engineered by the government. The Weathermen, of course, being a notable exception. (Granted all my protest marches were in the South and I was more of an observer than a marcher [no, I was not committed]).

        • don tufts

          wake up the kgb and the cpusa had many front organizations running things especially in the antiwar movement where in was especially strong on either coast and in chi town.see any paralles now?

        • Ferd Berfle

          Mostly it was people getting high and trying to get laid.

          You’re right, churl. They were the origins of the “me” generation. I remember that they were mainly too bombed out and too into their music to wreak any real havoc. The few political organizations, the SDS, Panthers, and Weathermen, et. al., were spreading their banal crap but were never as popular as the “turn on, tune in, drop out” response urged by Timothy Leary. Monterey and Woodstock, among others, were not a collection of Marxists getting together to overthrow the government.

          • oowawa

            Yes, Ferd. Your point is well-taken. I lived through the Summer of Love (had an apartment in the Haight district of SF), and the main thing that everyone studying that period must understand, first and foremost: there were two distinct currents in the so-called “hippie” counterculture, and they were often at odds with each other. The first was political and activist, as represented by the Weather Underground and the SDS. The second was mystical and psychedelic-fueled, as typified by the Timothy Leary “turn-on, tune-in, & drop-out” citation: “Heaven Is In Your Mind.” I remember representatives from these two factions verbally clashing over whether or not to “get involved” and try to instigate a revolution, or whether it was better to peacefully withdraw and seek the mystical path to enlightenment within (aided by LSD, of course).

            And then you throw in the Hell’s Angels–what a grand mixed-up circus that was!

            • oowawa

              Of course, the Beatle’s song “Revolution” is all about this duality within the “hippie” counterculture:

              You say you’ll change the constitution
              Well, you know
              We all want to change your head
              You tell me it’s the institution
              Well, you know
              You better free you mind instead
              But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
              You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
              Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right

              • Ferd Berfle

                I love the Chairman Mao quote. Even the Beatles knew, beneath all the posturing, that it was a load of crap.

            • Ferd Berfle

              Afternoon, oowawa. Yeah, I was a young at the time but old enough to remember my father muttering under his breath about the god damn hippies and Yippies (Youth International Party, I believe–Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman).

              Yeah the Yippies eventually became greedy capitalists. Jerry Rubin spoke at my college in 1981. What a difference 13 years made, although he was still selling snake oil.

              • oowawa

                Ah yes, the yippies. They were of course in the activist stream of the hippie dualism. From Wikipedia:

                They employed theatrical gestures — such as advancing a pig (“Pigasus the Immortal”) as a candidate for President in 1968 — to mock the social status quo.[2] They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian and anarchist[3] youth movement of “symbolic politics.

                So who would have guessed that they would have finally realized their theatrical vision in 2008. Thinking of “Pigasus the Immortal,” I am reminded of the NQ citation, “It’s not his pigmentation, it’s his pigmentality.”

              • oowawa

                Ooooops–Almighty Spam Bot smote my response. Please rescue from the damnation files, American Girl. Thanks very much.

                • Ferd Berfle

                  I am beginning to think the Spam Bot has a sense of humor and only wants to read the cleverly derisive comments attending each such flushing.

        • ConfusedAmerican

          I was there too and any violence was usally because police got mad at picking up and dragging dead weight. In the south they got mad at us “whiteys” for sitting with the blacks(I will not even go into the language this 16 year old girl learned from the cops). But I did get bruised a bit.

          At demostrations we were told go limp, dont fight let them drag or carry you to the paddy wagon. Th

          One really heavy guy got almost left at a demostration, I think the cops weren’t going to try and manhandle him to the wagon. –LOL…We were in the paddy wagon singing our songs so he walked over LOL>

          Oh well those were the days…

    • b mathews

      with great disgust i actually watched the chris mathews show on sun. just to see if they would mention the tax protest. this is what i heard ” tens of thousands (uh more like 1.5 million) of “conservatives” protested because they dont like the idea of a black president” excuse me but since AA’s are only 14% of the population i dont think it was mickey mouse or adolph hitler or even acorn (tho that helped)that put him into office. they also insisted joe wilsons comment was racist!!! i think most americans are getting sick and tired of being called racist. its beginning to ring hollow. and msnbc is the worst offender.

      • b mathews

        p.s. maybe we can bring a class action suit against msnbc for defamation of character and slander. maybe that will shut them up. anyone have any ideas?

        • Ferd Berfle

          If they are ignored, they will either change their business model or wither on the vine. Either way, money shouldn’t be wasted on those fools by way of lawsuit.

      • ConfusedAmerican

        I thought I saw a singer that was black and a black speaker in some of the videos….

        Was I wrong????

      • Wisewoman

        That is my beef. I am an AA female supporter of Hillary. Just remember we blacks are about 14% of the population, including men, women and children. Conservatively speaking about a half would be eligible voters due to age and other circumstances (prison, etc.) leaving about 7%. Only about a half of the 7% are registered voters leaving anywhere from 3 to 4%. Of those 100% will not vote. Let’s say 70% will vote. That leaves maybe (70% of 3 or 4%) that is 2 to 3% voting for Obama.
        Obama knew that blacks could not win this office for him. That is why his surrogates always claimed that whites who would not vote for him were were racists. They wanted to guilt trip whites into voting for him. It worked. that is why they continually play the race card. They continue with this tactic today. Any time One disagrees with Obama they are racist. Well if that is the case, count me as a racist and I AM AFRCAN AMERICAN.

  • Craig Della Penna

    I think this is deliberate for two reasons:
    First, the racism charge is a proven winner. Every time Obama was challenged during the primaries and the general election, the racism charges were trotted out and resistance dissolved. Axelrod may be evil but he is no fool.
    Second, the cry of ‘racism’ is so highly charged in our society that is instantly changes the debate and completely drowns out whatever the subject was beforehand. This is an excellent tool to use if you want to bury the discussion and stifle dissent.

    • Yeah Right

      Very good points!

      The Race Card has been proven to be VERY effective in the past, however; I think that will soon change.
      It basically shut up the critics. No one wanted to be labeled a racist!

      It appears that the race card is not having as much of an effect anymore. The race card is no longer shutting people up! The tea party/government spending/anti Obama Movement is continuing to grow INSPITE of the race card being played.

      My question is——when the race card becomes totally ineffective (and indeed it will), what card will they try to play then?

      • Docelder

        Once Obama was sworn in, that card lessened in value. Partly, because he was sworn in, but partly because that card has Obama written all over it since the campaigns. Obama was the first to play that card. That card is a two edged sword… it did some damage to his opponents, but also it did damage to himself. I suppose he would now wish to pick that card up and undo playing it. He can’t.

        • Yeah Right

          Good point!

  • tek

    AGI: thanks for this insightful article. And yes, the Obot Dems think having a black president puts him above criticism. Face it, if this guy weren’t half black, he would never have been considered for presidential candidate, let alone the WH.

    Speaking of racism, Kanye West is the biggest racist in America. He had to have another outburst in the middle of the music awards because a top award went to a white person instead of a black singer. Like Beyonce doesn’t have enough awards yet!

    • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

      Total jack ass vs. total class. Beyonce showed true class for giving her time to Taylor. West needs to be banned from all future award shows. What a POS.

      • TeakWoodKite

        Beyonce showed true class for giving her time to Taylor,
        Funny that I turned it off after I saw what a prick he was, I am glad to hear she did that.

      • oowawa

        Oh, I’m so cynical–sometimes I can’t stand my own company: what are the chances that the entire fiasco was staged, from the rapper’s bad behavior to Beyonce’s graciousness?

        • Ferd Berfle

          Oh, I’m so cynical–sometimes I can’t stand my own company:

          ROFL

          what are the chances that the entire fiasco was staged, from the rapper’s bad behavior to Beyonce’s graciousness?

          Then we’re all in trouble, I’m afraid, as the possibilities are endless. What if that outburst during That One’s blabfest was staged to some end unknown? I think I’ve caught the cynical bug, too.

          • oowawa

            Well, we’re living in the age of the mass media “costume malfunction,” and we’re constantly being played for a bunch of chumps by master bamboozlers–hard not to be a bit cynical.

            The “You Lie!” remark? I don’t know. Joe Wilson goes from unknown to famous overnight. Another famous Joe!

            G.I. Joe
            Joe Sixpack
            Joe the Plumber
            Joe Blow
            and now,
            Joe the Truthteller

            • Ferd Berfle

              Sorry we got cut off, oowawa. The spambot is merciless.

              BTW: I agree–another famous Joe and a truthteller he is.

          • oowawa

            Almighty Spam Filter claims another victim–please help American Girl. Thanks.

            • Ferd Berfle

              Wow, your luck is even worse than mine.

  • Docelder

    The left draws it’s life from every legitimate cause it champions. So it is for race. Just like it is for environmentalism and the legitimate issues of every single issue cause it co-opts… the left is just an energy vampire. The legitimate energy from anything it touches it twisted and redirected to a larger agenda which is more fascist than leftist. The big lie is that there still is a democrat party. It has been co-opted. It no longer functionally exists. It only exists in name… DINO.

    • Ladydawnelle

      May 2008

  • http://me414.wordpress.com/ Mary Ellen (Nunly)

    Yup, it’s the same old crap the Obots have been doing since the campaign. I just wrote about a post where a blogger called all those who did not support Obama as “fat, lazy, pork rind eating, uneducated, bible thumping, trailer trash”.

    When the so-called “Progressives” don’t have an argument or facts on their sides, they resort to labeling and name calling. It’s so childish.

    Today I read four other blogs which used the label “racist” in regard to those who would not support Obama’s health care plan. It’s a constant drumbeat and it was also the discussion of the day on MSNBC this morning.

    Obama knows this is going on and there is no doubt in my mind that it is he and Rahm Emmanuel who are fueling this hateful labeling of those who oppose “The One”.

    Great post, you hit the nail on the head. ;-)

    • NoBamaNoWay

      correct; it’s bad enough when we hear the “racist” attack on so-called “mainstream,” big media sources, but if you go to Obot blogs it is 1000X worse. they don’t hold back their true feelings; anybody and everybody who opposes obama in any way is at least a latent racist, if not a card-carrying member of the KKK (and probably “trailer trash” as well).

  • I’m a Linda too

    Spot on.

    Also, every time they prove the point, if everything is charged as racist, that means Obama was elected for the same reason. hellloooo

  • MrX

    I posted an thread on reddit asking why they were so hateful and racist. Anyone that projects racism is the real racist. The Democrats don’t get it though. They think racism only applies to blacks.

    Dunno, when the first though in your head is always in racial terms, you just might be a racist.

    If you automatically think someone hates Obama because he’s black, you just might be a racist.

    If you think communist or socialist is codeword for the n-word, you just might be a racist.

    If you bring out the race card to shut the other person up, you just might be a racist.

    • candymarl

      Excellent list! Too bad it’s on the mark!

  • Sassy

    Ode to Dowd

    An old, painted strumpet
    was blaring her trumpet,
    Seeking attention, to no avail.
    Those in harmony, not discordant
    told her to zip it, and go to hell.

  • IndieDogg

    In Re: Sarah Palin and the “death panel” comment (referred to above, repeated here in case people missed it):

    PALIN was referring to the implicit “effect” of the mechanism set up in the bill. And, in response to her comment and the uproar it caused, the provision was REMOVED from the bill.

    If you followed her recent statements on the (non-existent) Obama HCare proposal (he’s apparently referring to a blender mix of whatever Democratic bills are out there but who knows), including her Wall Street Journal Op Ed piece, she still uses the term, in “quote” marks.

    She said what she meant and meant what she said.

    She wasn’t echoing anybody. She speaks for herself.

    And, she was right.

    Just as she is on Health Care Reform: Guaranteed coverage, interstate competition for companies, serious litigation reform, and so forth.

    Do the research. Don’t take your talking points from CNN or MSNBC or wherever they’re coming from.

    She’s a straight talker and she speaks for herself, no one else. That, at the very least, should be clearly evident by now.

    She’s the real deal. And she resonates with ordinary people like no one has in a very long time.

  • Patience

    Great points AGII!

    Since the POTUS’ chief asset to many people was the historic opportunity he presented to elect an AA president, it’s no wonder they focus on his race rather than his substance. But by continuing to qualify him by this distinction with near-constant accusations of racism, they’re diminishing not only him but true racism. The charge is losing its potency.

    Media are behaving like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. We know how that fable ends — do they?

  • Sassy

    Congressman Wilson will be placed in the stocks, and pelted with tongue depressors!
    I’m being sarcastic, of course.
    American Girl, you are absolutely correct!
    Since my teen years when I started observing politics, I have opposed and supported, criticized and lauded EVERY president of both parties!
    All people never agree, and good discussions bring good results!

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    playing the race card is simply a red herring. It keeps someone from assuming responsibilty and accountability and ultimately does that person such a disservice. Stop making excuses and accept the fact this president has faults just like all the others and his race is not a fault however it seems as though his race is a fault to his supporters. sad very sad.

    • jwrjr

      Obot thinking – “I don’t have a legitimate counter to your criticism of Chairman Obama, so you must be a racist.” Of course this makes no sense to anybody with more than 3 functioning brain cells …

  • wbboei

    If a black president cannot be called to task as a white president always has been over policy differences or policy impact, then we should not have a black president, because the ability to freely debate issues and the right of the American People of ALL RACES to participate in the political process trumps skin pigmentation. That is where these race card whore mongers are driving the hidden consensus in this country through their incessant invocation of race. The reaction will be dismissed as racism by his supporters, and that will drive the wedge in our society even deeper. It is not racism, but the loss of liberty and the fear of reprisal which will operate to the detriment of future black candidates in the eyes of many if not most voters. Sad to say, I see no way around it at this point. This is another example of how the hard left operates, and they are behind much of what we are now seeing.

  • rosa

    MSNBC today, basically from what I saw just did as they always do…..when forced to address an issue where AA is involved such as Kanye, Serena’s bad behavour and what Acorn was caught doing on tape several times with housing,they quickly skim over it and as far as the tapes of acorn saying, it is just a small issue and that the full content wasn’t shown, kinda like the Wright issue excuse. I think, as you all seem to, the race card is dangerous to everyone. I have called the Dem. party so many times and asked them to address this issue and what division between races it is causing. the republicans demonstrations are really out there too,we need to speak out but not drown out each other. Both sides need to listen to each other ,do we need that lesson again?

    • wbboei

      Big Media has powerful incentives to promote Mr. Obama and destroy his opponents. In the case of broadcast media their support is predicated on the business interests of the multi-national companies who own them. Today, General Electric owns NBC and MSNBC, AOL Time Warner owns CNN, Westinghouse owns CBS and Disney owns ABC. Each of those parent companies has an arrangement with the White House.

      In the case of General Electric, it involves business opportunities with respect to nuclear power, cap and trade, and health care, etc. That is why the CEO of General Electric pierced the corporate veil and killed negative stories on Mr. Obama by an NBC affiliate in New Jersey. (Note: FOX is media owned and has a Republican agenda.) In the case of print media, the deal involves a possible taxpayer bailout for newspapers like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times whose business models are failing.

      Mr. Obama is willing to make Rezko-type deals to save them. Hillary would do what she believes is best for the American People, i.e. reexamine NAFTA, regulate hedge funds, alternatives to nuclear, etc. That is the difference. And it is all the difference they need to promote him and attack her through their Big Media subsidiaries.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Great post!

    In the case of people like MooDoo, she doesn’t even wait for someone to actually say something – she dreams up some racist comment in her mind, and then blames the other person for it. To quote the Church Lady, “How Convenient!”

    I have said this before – when people hurl such an inflammatory charge around, it’s like the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” – when something happens that IS racist, it’s not taken as seriously.

    And, to hold someone to a different standard than everyone else because of the color of their skin is RACIST. Period. Obama has been allowed to get away with things – like not providing ANY of his transcripts, for instance – that NO other president (or candidate) has gotten away with doing. Just sayin’…

  • wbboei

    Williams told her: “If I could, I would take this f****** ball and shove it down your f****** throat.
    ———————————–
    Pretty salty language. But in the Age of Obama this is what role models do. They had better not fine her or Chuck Todd (MSNBC) will call them OMG . . . . racists! They should apologize to her, and take the trophy away from the winner. In the old days, the response would be different. But today, the direction we are moving, the race card trumps the entire deck. This has been suggested to me by others and I have rejected the premise. I now realize it is true.

    • NoBamaNoWay

      hey, she was just keeping it real…. common decency and good behavior are tools of The (white) Man to keep everybody else down.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Indeed. But be inconsiderate and poorly behaved in kind and, voila, out comes the race card again.

    • Wisewoman

      Obama is the worst role model of all. He has significantly contributed to the crassness and coarsening of the culture especially among the younger generation. Take note of this: During the 2008 campaign against Hillary to cheers, at a rally in Atlanta, Obama referenced the rapper Lil Wayne as follows: “maybe you are the next Lil Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school”. Now he could have used any rapper but he chose Lil Wayne. Why? May be the following lyrics to his very popular hit rap song explains why Obama chose this rapper and why the young rap loving crowd laughed and cheered so wildly:

      “When I get on top
      She drop it like it’s hot
      And when I’m on the bottom
      She be Hillary Rodham”

      Also don’t forget the Bro before HO comments of his rap supporter JZ.

  • Peggy Sue

    Thanks for the article, AGI. The Obamatrons have used and abused the charge of racism against all criticism since the primaries. What they’ve ended up doing is dilute the very meaning of the word. It simply doesn’t work anymore. That op-ed by Maureen Dowd, for instance, was absolute drivel, in which she tried to “mind-meld” with with her own inner racist, adding the word “boy” to the “you lie” callout.

    Pure crap. Any wonder why the NY Times is held in such contempt?

    Those of us who have read Chris Hedges over the years, a man who has incredible insights about the nature of war, wrote a withering piece over at truthdig.com. entitled: Stop Begging Obama to be Obama and Get Mad.

    Is he a racist, too? Don’t think so. The screw is beginning to turn. I think even the Obamatrons know it.

    Here’s Hedge’s opening paragraph:

    “The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country’s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and even bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. He is forcing us to buy into a health care system that will enrich corporations and expand the abuse of our for-profit medical care. He will not stanch unemployment. He will not end our wars. He will not rebuild the nation. He is a tool of the corporate state.”

    That about says it all!

    • NoBamaNoWay

      i think Hedges pretty much nailed it.

    • wbboei

      Thank you Peggy Sue. Nothing is more appreciated than an honest man of the left like Hedges. That quote is an excellent summary of what is wrong with Mr Obama. It is about the right length to be reproduced on the back of business cards for those who are so inclined. In my case, I am so inclined.

  • Peggy Sue

    AGI, had another post swallowed whole by the spammy monster. Please retrieve if you can. I’m sending an email.

  • DAB

    I agree with AGII that Obama’s supporters are harming him every time they attribute viable dissent to racism. For example, I heard that the White House was very upset when NY Governor Patterson blamed his current troubles on racism and said something to the effect that the next person they’re going to go after is the President.

    With friends like these, who needs enemies?

    • candymarl

      I think even the tone deaf idealogues in the WH are beginning to realize that there is a real back lash out there. GWB ignored the protests and now no one, not even his own party, wants to own him.

      The real irony is Patterson is the Governor of NY. I thought all of the racists were in the south? If Patterson uses racism there goes another stick to beat the south with.

      I’ve lived in every time zone in the US and many states. I grew up in the north and now live in the south. Hate to say it, and yes I lived through the 60′s, but I’ve run into less racism down here.

      Northern racism is often the iron fist in the velvet glove. I’ll take in-your face-racism any day. At least I know what I’m facing.

  • J.J.

    I’m glad you wrote this post because I’ve been saying this since the primary. People forget that there are two types of racism (just like there are two types of sexism)–one that is openly hostile and denigrating and one that treats the “other” like an innocent baby and often idealizes them. Both types of racism treat the other person as less than fully human, though those that idealize the “other” often think they have that person’s best interests at heart.

    • NoBamaNoWay

      that’s true; i think that the latter type is what makes so many “progressives” excuse horrible misogyny and other extreme abuses of human rights when they occur in primarily non-white cultures. they actually take the patronizing attitude that “the poor savages” can’t be expected to know any better.

  • wbboei

    I stopped by the Whole Foods Store in my neighborhood last night. Last week there was a block long banner in front of the store, accusing its owner of discrimination because he made suggestions about Mr.Obamas health care program.

    The banner was down.

    They must be bivouacing. Obamas chief of staff (Emanuel and his flunkie Messina) tasked Dennis Rivera of the SEIU with launching a devastating ground war against opponents of Obamacare which reflects the secret deals they have made with big pharma et.al.

    • http://firefox Martha Washington Collier

      I try to shop at least one more time during the week in support of WF. Ridiculous. Glad to see people are Buycotting rather than following the SEIU clowns.

  • samb
    • candymarl

      That is priceless. Negs, Nigs, it’s all the same. After all, black folk are too stupid to tell the difference. Elitism rears it’s ugly head again.

    • http://firefox Martha Washington Collier

      Maher just isn’t funny anymore.

      My pseudo-friends have been trying to get me to tune into him again, saying that “Oh no, he criticizes Obama…he’s not just against Republicans.” And, they even claim he’s lightened up on his misogyny. No thanks. I feel slimmed every time I see his ugly mug when channel surfing.

      • http://noquarter foxyladi14

        he was never funny

  • DaddysDarlin

    Obama and his gang of thieves are the one’s who play the race card and continue to play the race card whenever it suits them.
    You want the American people to direct their attention elsewhere, play the race card.
    I don’t give a damn what race the man is, the fact remains he was and always will be too inexperienced to run our country. He is tearing it apart little by little. Obama is out to destroy our country, and black or white, man or woman, the fact remains Obama is not qualified to be our president.

    • Wisewoman

      I agree 100% and I am AA.

  • http://www.lesstalkmoreactivism.blogspot.com whoframedrudy

    Painting POTUS as the ‘poor little victim of racism’ makes him look weak to me. But his own actions do that even more than Modobot.

    Modobot says Wilson is racist because Obama didn’t lie. If he didn’t lie, then Wilson has nothing to protest because Obama’s plan fits Wilson’s agenda on immigration.

    And if Obama didn’t lie about abortion funding, that means anti-abortioners have nothing to protest because Obama’s plan fits the right wing agenda on abortion.

    Modobot writes “He didn’t lie. He really did cave in to a tiny Republican minority!” Now Obots claim ‘Obama has regained the offensive!’

    Surrender and claim victory. I’ll have to look that up in Sun Tzu.

  • Captian Obvious

    Is this the first time conservatives have criticized a liberal President? All these people who accuse of racism, act as if it is.