Obama both victim and perpetrator of autoerotic racism
Barack Obama may be his own worst enemy when it comes to matters of racism and xenophobia. Speaking to a Springfield, MO crowd, he said:
Nobody thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, ‘He’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name.’ You know, ‘He doesn’t look like all of those other presidents on the dollar bills.’
Here is a video clip of the remarks.
Neither Bush nor McCain has challenged Obama’s patriotism, called his name “funny” or brought up his appearance (read: racial makeup) as a detrimental quality. These aren’t real attacks that Obama is referencing. These are attacks that Obama is himself launching — against himself.
He’s trying to play the persecuted messiah. And if Bush and McCain won’t fit into the “white Republican” stereotype and start launching racist and xenophobic attacks of their own, then by Zeus, Obama will act it out for us, complete with a backwoods Southern drawl accent, and then claim it as fact. As is unfortunately the case with much of the civil rights movement post Dr. King, the only thing that is apparently less tolerable than racism is the conspicuous lack of it.
This is essentially a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s victim act — pretending that she was being picked on and attacked because she was a woman (and not, gasp, because she was the frontrunner).
I find it tremendously lame for Obama to stoop to inventing racial attacks. If anything, the story here is that the American public is, on the whole, indifferent about Obama’s racial makeup. He’s polling higher than his vanilla-white opponent. Even if McCain were inclined to run racially charged attack ads against Obama, he’d be stupid to do so. The backlash would be catastrophic to his campaign. Americans, on the whole, have little stomach for racism. Obama knows this, and this may be why he’s launching false accusations of racism. He knows that the “racism meter” of most Americans is more sensitive than their “bullshit meter.”
Note: before the Obamamaniacs inevitably pile on — I am not a Republican. I am not going to vote for John McCain.
Actually, since Obama was referencing that McCain is the one who brought up the fact he didn’t look like the Presidents on the dollar bills, he was simply responding.
I agree with WereBear. Whomever you decide to vote for is your business. You simply have an opinion. Always first consider what was said and in entertaining Obama’s idea?? would Obama’s idea on gas sound anything like the Stimilus Tax thing the Bush administration did? Who do you think is going to pay for that? Why did McCain say anything about Obama not looking like the others?? And how does he not look like them? Is it his race, after all he is male? I’m not an Obamananiac but what makes us different is our opinion.
First one must find fault. Its when people run out of things that are not quite right about you that they reach for straws..Its what drowning people do. In their campaigning they have been reaching for straws and Obama merely addressed this straw.
He was referencing something that never happened. McCain didn’t say that about Obama. Obama just made it up. That’s my whole point — Obama is inventing racism.
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It’s not easy to put your beliefs out there for everybody to ramrod, so you get a pass. Here I was poking around your site because of your wordpress plugin and I see you trashing Obama. Just great…
Obama was referring to Bush and McCain’s campaigns and staff. Do you recall the page on Obama’s site that refuted all the disinformation about him? (For your convenience: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome ) This stuff didn’t make up itself. White people know how to smell and see through victimization strategies, and it certainly wouldn’t work at this level.
I also feel you’re being disingenuous by your implication of Obama playing some sort of racial card (”inventing racism.”) Again, providing you the benefit of the doubt you’re not so unintelligent to really believe that….
Hey Mark, you’re quite right that “neither Bush nor McCain have questioned Obama’s patriotism…”, but this isn’t directed at them.
I’m thinking you should prolly tune into Fox News for a few days, and if you’re the least bit critical-thinking, I guarantee you’ll get the top of your head blown off by the opinionated vitriol that passes unchallenged for “news” over there, proferred by otherwise seemingly intelligent people.
Then I think you’d understand whom the Obama “attacks” are directed at.
Here’s a hint: a network (previously mentioned in this comment) that repeatedly perpetuated the myth that Obama was Muslim while KNOWING it was untrue.
Here’s another hint: how about a network that repeatedly slammed Hillary for being “whiny” and “shrill” in defence of their misogynist attacks against her, while doing a complete 180 and branding any Palin critic as sexist?
Yup. That’s what you call a double-standard.
Dub, a plain reading of Obama’s quote is that he is attributing these quotes (or sentiments) to Bush and/or McCain. There is no proof of that. I’ve not even seen any proof that anyone in McCain’s campaign has entertained such racist notions.
It’s up to Obama to provide evidence of this alleged racism.