Hating Obama For the Wrong Reason

THE LADY at the senior center really did tell me that the truth about Obama will come out, and that, when it does, it will make Richard Nixon look like a choir boy, and that had Nixon nuked North Viet Nam, like he wanted to, it wouldn't've bothered her. She really did. You can't make that stuff up. The deep, dark secret that is going, at long last, to utterly discredit and bring down Obama. conspiracy theory in action. I laughed. I had to. but not to her face. I'm blunt, but not rude. It reminded me of the typical conservative reaction to Obama: extreme, visceral, blatantly negative and hateful. It doesn't add up. When the specific complaints about Obama are clearly articulated, as they seldom are, their sum doesn't add up to the hatred, indicating that something else, something hidden, is motivating the emotional response. Obviously, that something is racism, whether or not we admit it. usually the complaints are general and vague: he ruined the country, he brought racism back by talking about it. He was weak, Obama. Weak, Obama? try telling that the to survivors of the drone attacks in Pakistan which wiped whole families, including innocent women and children. it is easy, and so very clever, to try to disguise racism as policy complaints. Similarly, the hatred of Hillary Clinton is far greater than the hatred for Bill Clinton. could there be a bit of misogyny here? Undoubtedly. During the actual Viet Nam war, fifty years ago, I recall vividly that the right wingers wanted to nuke North Viet Nam just as badly as Nixon, their icon, did. Still think we should have done it, apparently. the sickness and evil of this position aside, the same ;people who harbor this belief are the same people, generally, who hate Hillary and Obama, hate government health insurance, love trump, and love this crazy new income tax law which will certainly be overturned in due course. Obama did not create racism, as our clever right wing deviants proclaim, merely by pointing it out; he helped to uncover it, wherever it happened to be, which is all across the fruited, in every community in America, embodied most conspicuously in the Trump gang, the same gang which tried to sell us the garbage that Obama was born in Africa, and was therefore not a U.S. citizen. Racists. To claim that Obama was born in Africa is to expose one's racism, and the hilarious thing is, these people can't even see it, because they never, evidently, take a look at themselves.