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I further agree with Eyecu2
I grew up with black friends watching TV in the 50s at our home, and have always had friends who were Black, probably more so than did Obama. I respected those who earned it, as with any person I knew. I detest Obama for his Marxist anti-American views, for his posing and lying, for his goal to destroy capitalism - and I do not consider him Black! He is half white, raised with citizenship of Malaysian origin with Muslim loyalties. He would not know how to be a Black man if he had to, he never lived on the streets or was discriminated against. If you are a Marxist, own it, if you are gay, own it. I detest liars. Same goes for white gal Hillary.
I generally support President Obama, and it's not because of race or sex. People oppose him for policy reasons and b/c of the left/right thing that made people hate President Bush. It's not about race.
"Race" has become a useless term, played when the left is losing the fight to end it. Talk to a liberal, they'll use it when they have nothing of value to counter facts.
I believe in public policing because it's hard to deny the benefits to those who want to opt out of the benefits of policing.
Similarly, I think limited programs to help the needy benefit all of society, and it's hard to deny the benefits of social justice to those who want to opt out of its benefits.
In some cases, helping people provides a direct and less expensive alternative to more policing and jails. It's simplistic to say that most crime is caused by poverty or to say that most crime is unrelated to poverty. In the cases where you can make things better for everyone by helping people, we should do it for the very same reasons we act on cases where we can improve society by punishing bad people. The left/right sell large doses of one of these, but we really need small doses of both.
We´re all different, not only in the surface. No two are alike, and that´s just in my opinion. It´s rather great, I might add that as well. Loved it when the US Olympic Team won over in Berlin, leaving Hitler and his ridiculous Arian Army out in the cold. Race, stripped down plainly, is no guarantee of any theory whatsoever. Stastics usually end up wrong when using race facts from sheer observation.
As for Obama well, it´s true that there is racism. But that´s what helped him win the election, partly at least. The first "black" president of the USA, who is much more a mix than pure African Blood, had advantages I believe based on his skin color. But that´s partial, for he´s no fool either. An extremely intelligent man, Obama has proven many times that he can defy the powers that call him out to be a puppet in a suit. A clear example is his strategic and intelligent delay of the inminent attack on Syria. Bush was a neanderthal compared to this brain, sorry to put it this way. And as for Reps and Dems...that´s just jungle talk to me. The two party system is a keen distraction made by "the man".
The only reason that I said nearly everything instead of everything, is that I did like that he mobilized the young voters more than anyone else in recent history.
However, I do think that most people who oppose Obama don't give a crap about the fact that he's black (half-black, anyway – his mother was white), and oppose him simply because they actually dislike his policies.
Of course there's also a significant percentage of the population who overestimate the President's power, and they use whoever is in that position as a scapegoat for whatever economic or social problems the country happens to be facing, regardless of whether or not the President was actually involved. I still remember when the BP oil spill happened, and immediately afterwards people were waiving signs saying that it was Obama's fault and that he had ruined the livelihoods of all the fishermen in the Gulf Coast. The fact that BP is a privately owned corporation which Obama has literally no control over apparently didn't matter. Something bad happened – Innocent people were negatively impacted – Blame the President. That seems to be the train of logic followed by many people. Too many, if you ask me.
Instead, I’ve got to search for the Leader of the Free World between two ferns on youtube??
You can try to bait me with an argument based on assumptions of how I would respond to what this President will or won’t do, but at the end of the day, I walk away with the smug knowledge that I am far from alone in my opinion. My belief these last few years that the Commander In Chief is absent --is beautifully validated and demonstrated by the now well-known image of an empty chair. (Courtesy of Clint Eastwood. Hubba-hubba)