Guess what I just learned!
I am a racist, not only because I do not support President Barack Obama and the miserable direction he is taking this country, but in particular because I said no to a Facebook question, “Should President Obama be allowed to do a nationwide address to school children without parental consent?”
At least that’s what one person, who is a white liberal, wrote in on my Facebook page. This is the same accusatory, dimwitted, finger-pointing mentality most people have been thinking recently. Former President Jimmy Carter and comedian Bill Cosby among them, especially if they are white, who say they are against President Obama.
“It’s clearly a case of conservative, white, (if not completely racist) idiots in Texas,” wrote this person on my Facebook page. “They wouldn’t mind if it were Bush, who advocates torture, or talking to their kids, but it really eats them up that we’ve got a black president. Let’s face it. The real issue is racism hidden in the cloak of avoiding a so-called “socialist message.”
As of this writing, the results of that Facebook poll question are extremely close, with 48.3% saying yes and 47.9% saying no.
It never ceases to amaze me at how the minute someone says they are not “for” something, if the person they disagree with happens to be of a different color, it means that person is “a racist.”
Earlier this year, former “Law & Order” actress Angie Harmon had to stand up for herself against accusations of being called racist because she was against President Obama.
“If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist. It’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as president and anybody should be able to feel that way,” Harmon said in a March 2009 article on Fox.
“But what I find now is that if you say anything against him, you’re called a racist. But it has nothing to do with it. I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing, and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay…I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy, and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my president, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with “W”, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it. It is ridiculous.”
My point exactly.
When people criticize President Obama and his policies, it’s not about race. It’s about being against the direction he has taken this country so far. His stimulus package is not going to work and has likely already failed. Cash for Clunkers failed as well.
The unemployment rate that President Obama promised he was going to fix stands at over 9 percent, and it will go into the double digits next year. He wants to stop CIA officials from carrying out water boarding on terror suspects when in fact, such procedures kept this country safe in the eight years since 9/11. He thinks we can have sit downs with the country’s enemies, like Iran, as though such discussions would have worked if only, we sat down with Adolf Hitler and Japan during World War II.
His decision last week to scrap former President Bush’s plan for a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic basically sends a message to our allies, such as Israel, “Screw you.” If the time ever comes when we need those countries’ support, they are probably going to say no and, honestly, give we just stabbed in the back last week, I can’t say I blame them.
When it comes to his government-run health care proposal, President Obama told Congress and the nation Sept. 9 that it will cost $900 billion over 10 years.
“Less than we have spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,” he said.
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out who is going to be fronting that $900 billion bill if government-run health care passes.
This country is in so much debt now that the one thing this administration has in common with most, if not all Americans, is they have no idea how to control their spending.
So, tell me, all you accusing racist finger-pointers who dare call me racist, where in the above few paragraphs did, I say I am against the president because of his skin color?
It doesn’t matter if the president is male, female, white, black, conservative, liberal, Muslin, Asian, an alien from outer space, cat or a dog (though I am convinced a dog can probably run the country better than any human).
If I don’t like the direction he is taking this country, then I, like anyone else who is for or against this person, have a right to my opinion. This is America with a “c.” Not Amerika, with a “k,” though I feel that will be what this country will be called before President Obama’s term is up, with the socialist agenda he keeps pushing with the help of the biased liberal drive-by media.
I have two words for such people who, every time they hear someone say something negative about this president that they don’t agree with, they feel compelled to reach into their wallet and pull out this little thing called “The Race Card.”
GROW UP!
©9/29/09
I am a racist, not only because I do not support President Barack Obama and the miserable direction he is taking this country, but in particular because I said no to a Facebook question, “Should President Obama be allowed to do a nationwide address to school children without parental consent?”
At least that’s what one person, who is a white liberal, wrote in on my Facebook page. This is the same accusatory, dimwitted, finger-pointing mentality most people have been thinking recently. Former President Jimmy Carter and comedian Bill Cosby among them, especially if they are white, who say they are against President Obama.
“It’s clearly a case of conservative, white, (if not completely racist) idiots in Texas,” wrote this person on my Facebook page. “They wouldn’t mind if it were Bush, who advocates torture, or talking to their kids, but it really eats them up that we’ve got a black president. Let’s face it. The real issue is racism hidden in the cloak of avoiding a so-called “socialist message.”
As of this writing, the results of that Facebook poll question are extremely close, with 48.3% saying yes and 47.9% saying no.
It never ceases to amaze me at how the minute someone says they are not “for” something, if the person they disagree with happens to be of a different color, it means that person is “a racist.”
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| Angie Harmon |
“If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist. It’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as president and anybody should be able to feel that way,” Harmon said in a March 2009 article on Fox.
“But what I find now is that if you say anything against him, you’re called a racist. But it has nothing to do with it. I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing, and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay…I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy, and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my president, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with “W”, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it. It is ridiculous.”
My point exactly.
When people criticize President Obama and his policies, it’s not about race. It’s about being against the direction he has taken this country so far. His stimulus package is not going to work and has likely already failed. Cash for Clunkers failed as well.
The unemployment rate that President Obama promised he was going to fix stands at over 9 percent, and it will go into the double digits next year. He wants to stop CIA officials from carrying out water boarding on terror suspects when in fact, such procedures kept this country safe in the eight years since 9/11. He thinks we can have sit downs with the country’s enemies, like Iran, as though such discussions would have worked if only, we sat down with Adolf Hitler and Japan during World War II.
His decision last week to scrap former President Bush’s plan for a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic basically sends a message to our allies, such as Israel, “Screw you.” If the time ever comes when we need those countries’ support, they are probably going to say no and, honestly, give we just stabbed in the back last week, I can’t say I blame them.
When it comes to his government-run health care proposal, President Obama told Congress and the nation Sept. 9 that it will cost $900 billion over 10 years.
“Less than we have spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,” he said.
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out who is going to be fronting that $900 billion bill if government-run health care passes.
This country is in so much debt now that the one thing this administration has in common with most, if not all Americans, is they have no idea how to control their spending.
So, tell me, all you accusing racist finger-pointers who dare call me racist, where in the above few paragraphs did, I say I am against the president because of his skin color?
It doesn’t matter if the president is male, female, white, black, conservative, liberal, Muslin, Asian, an alien from outer space, cat or a dog (though I am convinced a dog can probably run the country better than any human).
If I don’t like the direction he is taking this country, then I, like anyone else who is for or against this person, have a right to my opinion. This is America with a “c.” Not Amerika, with a “k,” though I feel that will be what this country will be called before President Obama’s term is up, with the socialist agenda he keeps pushing with the help of the biased liberal drive-by media.
I have two words for such people who, every time they hear someone say something negative about this president that they don’t agree with, they feel compelled to reach into their wallet and pull out this little thing called “The Race Card.”
GROW UP!
©9/29/09
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