Benghazi Will Screw Obama, Which He Deserves

[SlowwHand]

It isn't that he's black, it's that he's an idiot. I like Connie Rice still. She's black, if you don't know. Playing the race card yet again. I guess when all else fails, whip it out.

[kentonio]

It seems the vehemence you carry on with this line of attack with no degree of rhetorical or factual support indicates a large amount of psychological projection on your part.

Oh are we back on the new GOP trick of repeating **** back to people like a kid shouting 'I know you are, so what am I?'

We need a /golfclap emote for this crap.

[kentonio]

It isn't that he's black, it's that he's an idiot. I like Connie Rice still. She's black, if you don't know. Playing the race card yet again. I guess when all else fails, whip it out.

Let me guess, some of your best friends are black, right?

[giblets]

That's because you're a racist little dip**** who hasn't got the balls to admit that the scary coloured man in the White House just makes you uncomfortable.

The sheer quantity of lies that you ****ers use to defame this president are simply staggering. He could cure cancer tomorrow and you'd say that he had the cure for years and was holding it back to benefit his cronies and was actually responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths.

Seriously, there's so many things that you could oppose this president on and still maintain some integrity, but instead you attack him on literally every single thing he says, does or even implies. I was willing to give a lot of you the benefit of the doubt for a long time in case you were just hyper partisan dumbasses, but I've reached the conclusion that no, you actually are just racist ****s.

I'm impressed that your racism radar can detect what people are thinking from thousands of miles away.

[DinoDoc]

Oh are we back on the new GOP trick of repeating **** back to people like a kid shouting 'I know you are, so what am I?'

Am I to take seriously your screeching that I'm a racist ****? You demand more respect than that canard is due without more to back it up.

[kentonio]

Am I to take seriously your screeching that I'm a racist ****? You demand more respect than that canard is due without more to back it up.

I think it's pretty self apparent by this point. We're simply running out of alternative options for what else could excuse your blind hatred for the first African American President.

[DinoDoc]

I think it's pretty self apparent by this point. We're simply running out of alternative options for what else could excuse your blind hatred for the first African American President.

Since the race card is the last resort of the intellectually bankrupt (similar to when Conservatives accuse their opponents of being communists to give themselves permission to ignore what is being said), can I take this as an admission that you can not defend the Administration's actions in this incident or broader record?

[Lorizael]

Dude, DD is not a racist; he's a troll.

[SlowwHand]

Let me guess, some of your best friends are black, right?

As a matter of fact, yes, you little smartass.

[dannubis]

He is not talking about your guns, sloww.

[SlowwHand]

Those are blued, not black.

[Guynemer]

I think it's pretty self apparent by this point. We're simply running out of alternative options for what else could excuse your blind hatred for the first African American President.

Jesus tap dancing Christ, kentonio.

DinoDoc and I agree on almost nothing when it comes to politics. But do I think he is a racist? Not for a ****ing second.

Get a grip, man.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He is not talking about your guns, sloww.

[snoopy369]

Personally I don't think that the overall culture of unpatriotic strife is race-related, at least not primarily. I don't doubt that there are racists who dislike Obama for being black; but I don't think it's the driving force, in part because it began well before Obama. Perhaps that has made it a little easier for many non-racists to dislike him; don't discount the clan factor here - it's easier to dislike someone who you don't identify with, and race plays a part there whether we like it or not.

But I think the strife dates back to 1994, or perhaps a bit earlier even (Reagan years? Before my time in terms of political awareness, though). It originated for two reasons, I'd guess; one, post-Soviet era we don't have anything to band together as a nation over, so we have more internal strife, and allow it to show on the surface more. Two, the Republican party realized it could have significant success with a strategy that included fairly aggressive campaigning at the local level (in the House in particular) and staunchly opposing every policy of the President so that they could present themselves as a better option. The Democrats had to change in a similar fashion in order to counter that strategy, leading to the current divisive political arena.

Even in 1994, though, there was still a genuine desire to work with the President to accomplish their goals once Newt and co. began their hundred days (as long as they did accomplish said goals). That doesn't seem to be there, anymore, and hasn't since 2000 or so. Rather too bad that the only thing that caused people to come together was 9/11, and that mostly just ended in expanding the state and restricting freedoms, rather than any great unified vision for improving America.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Jesus tap dancing Christ, kentonio.

DinoDoc and I agree on almost nothing when it comes to politics. But do I think he is a racist? Not for a ****ing second.

Get a grip, man.

I don't think DD is a racist either, FWIW. HOWEVER, I do think (like a lot of the Republican Party these days) that he is winking at racial animus against the President.