Cenk Uygur is probably one of those people that right-wingers deem extreme left. Truly, I don't know who qualifies for that label in reality. I just know I'm on the same page with Cenk 95% of the time, and don't consider myself extreme.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
The Young Turks: Why the Right-wingers Hate President Obama
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This lost all creditability when he said Obama is center right. Really? Center right to what? Stalin?
ReplyDeleteSaying us conservatives hate Obama because of race is like saying liberals hate Clarence Thomas because of race.
Do some people hate Obama because of race. Of course. There has been racism forever and it will never stop.
But conservatives don't hate (though I disagree with the term hate)because of race, but because of his policies. The fact that Obama was the most liberal senator in the Senate may have something to do with it.
Maybe because Obama screws up or lies on just about everything he touches has something to do with it.
Maybe because most people are not comfortable with liberals have something to do with it.
Conservatives don't like Obama just like liberals hate Bush and the liberals were much more vile with their hatered toward's Bush's minority cabinet and judicial nominees. Does that mean liberals are racist? Not sure.
So, to blame racism is just a crock and a cop out for the real reasons.
One of the most baffling things to many liberals is when conservatives label Obama a radical, hard-leftist. He just isn't. Obama's approval ratings are down across the board, but they aren't down on the left for the same reasons. WE think he's too centrist, doesn't go far enough, attempts to make nice with the right with watered down health care, watered down financial reform, etc. We wanted Single Payer, we wanted hard reform, we wanted Dick Cheney and Karl Rove in leg irons. If Obama was the radical leftist he's been portrayed to be, REAL leftists would be ecstatic (and I would be nervous).
ReplyDeleteThe reason *I* think racism is a the root of the visceral hatred is because of how QUICKLY the right hated him. Oh, they hated Clinton too (and still do!), but no "tea party" instantly sprung up against Clinton. Militias, yes, but that was far more sparse, and far less mainstream. And even though the tea party has manage to catch the media's fancy despite relatively small numbers, their message is vague. . .which makes me wonder what they're REALLY mad about. Just WHAT about Obama makes them DEMAND a birth certificate. . .has that every been asked of any other President before?
Not every tea (boy do I wanna say "bagger") partier is a racist. But they seem to be tolerant of those who are. The witch doctor picture? Even my DAD sent that to me, and there was NO doubt that was racist to the core (though the "Socialism" with hammer & sickle muddied the message).
I have to take issue with "Bush hatred" from liberals being the same thing. Bush was snickered at and joked about until 9/11. After that, he was given a wide berth, and only after considerable time did the "truther" movement form, and then later than that the left started to get really outspoken. The real HATRED didn't start until there were things about him to hate. They started on Obama from day one. Way before day one, actually.
I still disagree/ With Clinton, he was a good old boy but I have to admit, wasn't that bad but he had to work with a GOP congress and those two clicked in Clinton's final years.
ReplyDeleteBut I also see a strong hatred of Pelsoi and Reid and certainly, that is not racist and in Reid's case, it is not limited to Nevada.
Did Obama get a honeymoon get a honeymoon with conservatives? No, he didn't. but he got it from everyone else. And his agenda was in your face. He wanted things that were radical now, if not earlier. I don't even the Democrats are comfortable with him and that is starting to come out now. Liberals are starting to critize him and the love fest with the media is ending.
Racism- yeah, with some idiots, but the vast majority, no, it's policy.
Yep, you're right about Pelosi/Reid, to a degree. They're not black. Harry IS a Mormona and has taken heat for that, but that's another story. There are those who might plug Obama/Pelosi/Reid into a single entity, which doesn't preclude racism. I don't think I (or Cenk in the clip) was saying racism was ALL there is to it, only that the racist component adds fuel to this fire.
ReplyDeleteI have a hunch that whomever the Democratic Senate Majority Leader was, he/she'd be getting the same exact heat as Harry, regardless of his/her performance, especially in this economy. Remember Tom Daschle? He was a pretty good guy, but Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity and the rest had Daschle in the cross-hairs, and he was treated pretty much exactly like Reid.
I disagree with your "liberals are starting to criticize him" because he's a radical. Liberals are NOT on the same negativity bandwagon as conservatives. Liberals have been criticizing Obama for quite some time (over gay rights issues, health care, not going after the Bush Administration, continuing Bush policies, etc.).
I don't know how much left wing stuff you read, or if you watch/read middle-of-the-road stuff, but the "Obama as Messiah" stuff is mostly the invention of right-wing media. Were there some? To quote you, "yeah, with some idiots, but the vast majority, no!" You certainly won't find much of that attitude here. . .you're welcome to comb the archives. Optimism? Yep. Worship? No way.
If I wasn't clear above, I mean to say that liberals may be down on Obama, but it is not because he's a radical, it is because we see him as too centrist, perhaps even center-right, at least in his concessions to the right wing. And sorry for the typos. I don't know why I have such bad typing skills in the comments section!
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