Earlier today, I noted the racial epithets allegedly hurled at two African-American Members of Congress during yesterday’s Tea Party protests.
At virtually the same time, I was engaged in a Twitter conversation that started out with me saying this:
So anyone who opposes President Obama’s policies is a racist. Nice
Which prompted this unsolicited response from a Twitter user called @liberalchik:
RT @dmataconis: @OTOOLEFAN So anyone who opposes President Obama’s policies is a racist. Nice//pretty much.
I will admit that I was perhaps among the naive ones out there when I thought, after Barack Obama was elected President in November 2008, that Americans had finally found a way to start moving beyond the tired old racial back-and-forth that had been a part of politics for so many years. Very early on, though, it became clear that some of President Obama’s supporters were unwilling to give up playing the race card; and, while President Obama himself explicitly rejected the idea that there was a racial bias driving those who oppose his policies, it’s clear that on the left the “If you oppose Obama, you’re a racist” meme still persists.
At the same time, things aren’t any better on the right. The explicit racism of the birthers and those who persist in the myth that Barack Obama is a “secret Muslim” is apparent and, sadly, the Tea Party movement has done next to nothing to disassociate itself from those ideas, even when their advocates show up at Tea Party rallies.
And, the emails persist. We’ve all seen them. The one with the watermelon patch on the front lawn of the White House, the one where the Theme from The Jeffersons plays when a photo of the White House comes up, the one with Obama in non-Muslim “Muslim Garb.”
From the left, and from the right, it’s the same old crap.
Just as there are entirely too many old racists to be fully done with it, there are too many old race hustlers to be done with that.
[...] Like I said on Saturday, so much for post-racial politics. [...]
Calling people racists, add throwing in birthers, and; we are back to the same old DEMORAT blame game.
You DEMS buy a corporation,and;you complain to your stockholders for you sad,sorry performance/management? Wrong- they/we the stockholders want you gone.
You have blown trillions DEMS, and; it is not a joke. Every man, woman, and child in this country owes 42K to over 84K now.
Forget your rotten morals to Barney Franks and pals ripping off Fannie and Freddie.Forget it all. Everytime things get tough- “BUSH DID IT.” THAT IS YOUR EXCUSE.
Let me explain that when you take command of a rifle company in war you do not write the parents of your dead soldiers/marines who died following you that -”O it was that other Commander’s fault.”
Buddy, you blew the trillions- you be be men and women enough to take responsibility.