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What Drives the Obama Haters
Even Obama 'doubters' are taken to task.Yet another WaPo piece. They're all in for Champ.  In both the issues of Obama's birth and of his religion, documents and common sense lead in one direction. Obama's doubters run the other way: His birth certificates must be fake; his espoused Christianity must be a cover. Another group of right-wing doubters hold on to the notion that Obama is a closet socialist, some sort of Manchurian candidate, an idea that his every move as a pragmatic liberal politician over the past 16 years has utterly disproved. Huh? We are clearly on different planets, Mr. Maraniss! They keep praying for a Romney 'macaca' moment, don't they... Some others maintain that he was not smart enough to get into Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law, I thought Ayers admitted ghost-writing the book? And when did he become a former radical? You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies, half-truths and misleading statements in just that one sentence... What about the well-written letters from Obama that are published in my book? Those, too, must be frauds slipped to me by the Obama administration. Maybe he can write letters, but he's still a socialist/Marxist. In the introduction to my book, I took note of a sick political culture where "facts are so easily twisted for political purposes and where strange armies of ideological pseudo-historians roam the biographical fields in search of stray ammunition." That cuts both ways, but of course, the MSM has more ink. And TV time. That sentence is now cited on right-wing Web sites as evidence that I hold them in contempt. If you pigeonhole all "right-wingers" with the "Obama Haters" as fitting the description above, you fit right into the "sick political culture." And you do hold us in contempt, as demonstrated by the tone of this very piece... True enough, one of the few accurate things that I've read from them. I do hold some of them in contempt, not because of their politics, nor because of their dislike of Obama. Political debate and disagreement are the lifeblood of American democracy. No, I hold them in contempt for the way they disregard facts and common sense and undermine the role of serious history as they concoct conspiracy theories that portray the president as dangerous, alien and less than American. Can we agree on dangerous? And socialist, too? While he's an American, he sees 'American' as radically different than we do. Can we make that a friendly amendment to your statement? What drives them? Some of it can be attributed to the give-and-take of today's harsh ideological divide. Some of it can be explained by the way misinformation spreads virally to millions of like-minded people, reinforcing preconceptions. And some of it, I believe, arises out of fears of demographic changes in this country, and out of racism. You knew that was coming, didn't you? 'Arises out of ... racism'. Adroit phrasing; the mouth-breathers on the Left will clearly get the beginning and end of his sentence. Posted by: Bobby 2012-07-29 |
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