Fear of a Black President
JOHN’S NOTE: This has nothing to do with “fear” or anything racial. I had just been listening to Public Enemy on the way to work…and you have to admit, the headline did grab your attention. 
No, this is just a letter one of my readers sent me that I think speaks to what a lot of what we conservatives are wrestling with, wanting to support OUR President when we have a number of important policy differences with him…while still feeling the bitterness of having to deal with closed minded and intolerant “progressives” (who are opened minded and tolerant of everyone…except anyone who has a different opinion than them aboot anything) for the past eight years…
I don’t hate President Obama.
I honestly don’t. I just feel in a very precarious position right now.
On one side, the swelling throng of people cheering and loving and being inspired by what happened on Tuesday. How can you not smile a bit at those smiles? If this is all it takes to inspire thousands of people then I have to be glad something that he is our president.
The other side I see is the base vitriol of what I have seen for 8 years. Hating something before it comes out of his mouth; just because it is coming from someone they disagree with and have disagreed with for so long. Hatred plain and simple. It was disgusting and seemed to be so widely accepted.
So what do I do? How do I not fall into either category? Has a good example been set before me? Have I seen a well spoken fairly balanced logical dissenter over these past 8 years? I say no.
I don’t agree with the platform of positions that President Obama ran on. I do not want those policies to succeed.
BUT, I also do not wish harm or ill or even failure on the administration. That is petty…and worse will be bad for the country.
I cannot deny the election. The will of the people is clear. Though please note the percentage and actual votes as opposed tot he electoral votes.
See it is that, that I hate. Those little addendum. I don’t want to be that guy. I want to be someone who can disagree but still be likeable. Someone who can add to the conversation… not stop it and pull it his way. I want to weigh in… not be over bearing.
But who am I? I am just one guy… from the State of Illinois… who saw Obama’s campaign help bring out sealed divorce records to shame Jack Ryan out of a Senate seat.
Dammit… I did it again.
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“Closed minded and intolerant progressives”?
That is rich.
From Pat Buchanan:
Not only are the 18 hostile terrain for any GOP presidential ticket, Republicans hold only three of their 36 Senate seats and fewer than 1 in 3 of their House seats. “Democrats also control two-thirds of these 18 governorships, every state House chamber, and all but two of the state Senates,” writes Brownstein.
In many of the 18, the GOP has ceased to be competitive. In the New England states, for example, there is not a single Republican congressman. In New York, there are only three.
“State by state, election by election,” says Brownstein, “Democrats since 1992 have constructed the party’s largest and most durable Electoral College base in more than half a century. Call it the blue wall.”
What has been happening to the GOP? Three fatal contractions.
Demographically, the GOP is a party of white Americans, who in 1972 were perhaps 90 percent of the national vote. Nixon and Reagan rolled up almost two-thirds of that vote in 1972 and 1984. But because of abortion and aging, the white vote is shrinking as a share of the national vote and the population.
The minorities that are growing most rapidly, Hispanics and Asians, cast 60 to 70 percent of their presidential votes for the Democratic Party. Black Americans vote 9-1 for national Democrats. In 2008, they went 30-1.
Put succinctly, the red pool of voters is aging, shrinking and dying, while the blue pool, fed by high immigration and a high birth rate among immigrants, is steadily expanding.
Philosophically, too, the country is turning away from the GOP creed of small government and low taxes. Why?
Your party is a rump party my friend. The GOP apparently is the intolerant one. Catering to the aged, racist fringe of the south, that still refers to blacks as “boy” and insist that Obama is a muslim.
Start twittering…its going to be a long 8 years for you and your ilk
Awesome, my very own Troll!
“I am a trackback whore”
LOL…I love it when people tape their own “kick me” signs to their backs…
But then again, the same could be said for the entire GOP