THE REALITIES OF RACISM

                            Why we vehemently defend President Obama

He is subjected to a level of disrespect, treachery, betrayal and sabotage from within that no other president has ever experienced. Still he succeeds and his success makes American lives better.

Facebook posting

Buried in this Liberal posting I found on Facebook is the underlying, and quickly becoming very annoying, theme of racism. These mid-term elections have found the candidates, most worried about losing one of the cushiest jobs in America, are back to pulling the race card out of a well worn deck. Let's just take a trip back in time, short time, to see if , "no other president has ever experienced," the Obama level of disrespect.

There was so much disrespect for President Bush, they came up with a name for it, the "Bush Derangement Syndrome". It began with the left's belief that Bush was an illegitimate president, stemming from the bitterly contested results of the 2000 election. Inauguration Day protesters wielded "Hail to the Thief" signs and chanted "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Bush and Cheney go away!" "We want Bush out of D.C." and, "You're not our president."

Michael Moore's 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11 mixed making fun of Bush with a poop load of conspiracy theories concerning the Bush family's ties to the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. In 2006, the movie Death of a President, a mockumentary of sorts, purported to follow the investigation of the unsolved assassination of George W. Bush. (Get that, a movie about the assassination of a sitting president. Try that today.) The Liberal entertainment industry loved any Bush bashing and gave Death of a President the International Critics Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, and Moore's film the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The intellectual elite didn't want to miss getting a piece of Bush. The 2005 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, British playwright Harold Pinter,  wrote, "The Bush administration is the most dangerous force that has ever existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany because of the range and depth of its activities and intentions worldwide." When Nobel Peace Prize Winner Betty Williams of Northern Ireland, in the keynote speech at a Peace Conference in Dallas, said, "Right now, I could kill George Bush, no problem. No, I don't mean that. I mean—how could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would LOVE to be able to do that." That, my friends , was the PEACE prize winner.

While these intellectually superior folks were vomiting this hatred, the common folks were at anti-Bush rallies with signs that read : "Bush = Satan," "Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush," "Hang Bush for War Crimes," "End the Illegal Occupation in the White House," "Bush is the Disease, Death is the Cure," "Bush is the only Dope worth Shooting," "Death to Extremist Christian Terrorist Pig Bush," and "Kill Terrorists, Bomb Their House, Kill Bush, Bomb His F---in House." While of course calling him little endearing names such as: Shrub, Bushie, and Junior, while comparing the president to Hitler and calling for his impeachment ,

Not to be left out some "local" voices were also heard from. " MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann called Bush a fascist on air, while Moveon.org conducted an online advertising contest where two contributors offered Bush = Hitler comparisons. Harry Belafonte traveled to Venezuela and called President Bush the".. greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world.." Then there was anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan who compared President Bush with bin Laden. Lest we forget the Dixie Chicks in London saying they were ashamed that President Bush was from Texas.

Wrapping up the " disrespect, treachery, betrayal and sabotage" Bush experienced, he was also blamed by the extreme left as having caused Hurricane Katrina and being responsible for 9/11. All the while President Bush was the subject of comedian's "dumb" jokes even though he had degrees from Harvard and Yale and was a trained fighter pilot.

All of this I think we could safely call "disrespect," and President George W. Bush was, and still is, WHITE!

Of course there are some people who do not like the President because he is black. I'm also sure there are some people who didn't like Bush because he's white. Those are outliers. I sometimes feel bad for myself because when somebody doesn't like who I am, what I do, or what I say, as a while male I have nothing to blame it on. (I am now aging myself into a minority, and that will take the pressure off some what.)

Let's look at some obvious race facts:

In 2008 Barack Obama won the largest share of white support of any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976. A remarkable 54 percent of young white voters supported Obama, compared with 44 percent who went for McCain. In the past three decades, no Democratic presidential nominee has won more than 45 percent of young whites. What aspect of racism is that?

If anyone says racism swirls around Obama, I will agree, but it's the kind I'm sure he counted on. Consider that 93% of   African-American voted for Obama the second term, down 2 percentage points from 2008, with 96 percent of black women supporting him. Now, that's racism. 

The Liberal who posted the words at the top of this post, when confronted with a fact or two said basically it didn't matter because she voted with her heart. I think voting with one's heart is good when voting for American Idol, but when you are voting for the leader of the free world, maybe a fact or two should be considered. Liberals lead with emotion. Having a black president, even with limited experience and a sketchy past, feels good, and being consistent with the times, if it feels good, let's do it.

Please Liberals, stop calling racism at every Obama criticism. He has been disrespected no more than every other president. Let's face it, about half the people in the United States at any one time will not have their president in power. The current president happens to have a built in excuse generator, but all of the Conservatives I know don't care if President Obama is black, white or orange. We sincerely believe he is a poor leader and his policies are detrimental to America. That's it.

I contend Barack Obama won the presidency, not in spite of being black, but because he is black. Maybe Liberals should ease off, racism may not be their enemy.