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Originally Posted by 2+2

I'm the one that referred to the pres being black and I probably shouldn't have. Race is the elephant in the room in any political discussion and probably best not referred to by either side (especially in an online forum imo). If you're interested in some good reading though I found this by googling "republican southern strategy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Now if you'd like to talk about W and the Constitution I could have some fun with that.

Any political dicussion in a public fourm such as this is going to be contoversial at best.
When discssiong Obama, race has to enter the conversation simply because it is a integeral part of the issue.

Personally, I have had quite a few co-workers, who I thought were not at all pregidious, slowly begin to relate to me that they absolutly did not like a black man as president and they would not support him no mater what.

Never in my 62 years have I seen an outpouring of such extreme hate for a president to the point of calling for a violent revoution because "it is no longer America as we knew it". In other words it is no longer the domain of white men. They are seriously outraged becase there is a black man in charge.

They are simply making things up about Obama becases they absolutly hate him. All this talk about spending etc and refusing to see the truth about anything is just a smoke screen for the real underlying issue: race!

The fact is, Bush Jr disreguarded the constitution, spent mony like a drunken sailor, didn't give crap about the middle class and constantly lied. Where were the protests then? I repete, where were the protests?!?!?

They continue to try to bring obama down becase of his race and when someone points out the obvious, they call them a racist? This is like calling someone a thief because they caught someone else stealing.

I fully expect to get flamed for this but It does not alter the truth.