Quote from traderNik:
I wish i had the time to go back over the past 8 months and compile the posts I've read re: Obama from the right. Even leaving aside those from members whose main problem with Obama is that he's a 'fucking nigger' (and there are quite a few of them on here, as we all know) the tone I have seen is something approaching hysteria. He's being blamed for every conceivable problem, from the economic meltdown to Iran's intransigence to the state of health care. They're questioning whether he's an American citizen (and seriously, Lucrum, can you tell me that you think this is a rational objection?). They're questioning his academic cred (the fucking guy was editor of the Harvard Law Review). They're calling him a Muslim infiltrator. Things that he couldn't possibly have anything to do with are being laid at his black-ass doorstep. That's not 'watching with bemusement'. That's rabid hatred masquerading as politically informed dissent.
Palin is a laughable figure and it's easy to laugh at her. The 'relevant' thing about her, as I said, is that there is an apparently considerable faction within the Republican party that thinks she should be run against Obama in 2012. That's news, no matter how you lean politically.
Possibly you have a different take on it. That's how it looks from here.
Maybe you want to read about how he got to be the Editor.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74877
Black firebrand law professor Derrick Bell was demanding that the Harvard Law School appoint a black woman to the law faculty.
This protest would culminate in vigils and protests by the racially sensitive student body, in the course of which Obama would compare the increasingly absurd Bell to Rosa Parks.
Feeling the pressure, HLR editors wanted to elect their first African-American president. Obama had an advantage. Spared the legacy of slavery and segregation, and having grown up in a white household, he lacked the hard edge of many of his black colleagues.
"Obama cast himself as an eager listener," the New York Times reported, "sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once."
In February 1990, after an ideologically charged all-day affair, Obama's fellow editors elected him president from among 19 candidates. As it happened, Obama prevailed only after the HLR's small conservative faction threw him its support.
Curiously, once elected, Obama contributed not one signed word to the HLR or any other law journal. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time."
Also, Obama got 96% of the Black vote, and 44% of the white vote. Who is the more racist group???
Whites put Obama into office.
John
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