"You only hate Obama because he's black"

[Brian37]

This is one of the most obnoxious things still coming out of people's leftist mouths.

As a former theist who always voted GOP, my dislike for Obama had nothing to do with his skin color.  You could accuse me of being brainwashed by right-wing propaganda if you want to, but I find the charge of "If you're not X you must be a racist" to be very narrow-minded and a pathetic strawman.

Are there some right wingers who hate Obama because he's a black man in a position of authority?  Of course, but even after coming over to the "dark side" I still don't think most of their dislike for the President has anything to do with his African Americanism.

Same fucking dodge you get from the left "Not all"..... If you merely disagreed with his policies, I could go with that, and yes certainly there ARE those who appose him merely for those reasons.

But you are a moron if you think that party is not driven to pander to the worst. THEY DO. They SCREAMED from day one after his first election in NOVEMBER ,2 months before he took his first oath, BEFORE he did a thing. They allowed their own camp to make an issue of his birth and did nothing on any wide scale to silence it. They allowed their right wing media and followers to make issue of his middle name "Hussein" and Trump lead that charge. The only politician who did the right thing was McCain, everyone else has allowed that xenophobia to go unchecked.

Just like politically correct liberal and moderate Muslims who say "not all", it does have to be all, just enough.

Now if you really want to make the argument that you are not racist, fine, but you are flat out full of shit to claim that party does not run on selling fear. 

TRUMP is the one who called Mexicans rapists, you'd never hear that out of Hillary or Bernie. Trump is the one saying we should deny refuge to fellow humans fleeing war. He really literally might as well be saying "fear the Jews, deport the Jews, make Germany Great Again".

NO, you may not think that of yourself, but you are supporting a party that uses fear to get votes, and it only takes a few to buy that fear to hold everyone else hostage.