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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 10, 2016 at 5:29 am
Largely because he's a black democrat. He's a corporatist, and we've been at war during his entire run as a president. They don't like that he made peace deals with Iran and Cuba. They don't like that he implemented the affordable healthcare act, despite that it's a largely republican plan. They don't want the first black presidency to be successful, so they've been fighting him nonstop. And some people fear they'd do the same thing to "socialist" Bernie Sanders. Although I think Bernie has more of a spine than Obama, and would make sure more got done, because he'd be more likely to whip democrats into shape and drag republicans through the mud for their obstructionism.
I'm afraid he'd wind up getting assassinated, though.
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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 10, 2016 at 6:19 am
Probably, ya know, the whole race thing.
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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 10, 2016 at 8:35 am
Nothing new, they always have talked like that.
“Like thieves who operate under the cover of night, there are in our midst those who operate beneath the cloak of protected auspices to steal our liberty, our peace and our autonomy. Frederic R. Goudert is one of these. ‘The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies’ is a high-sounding name composed of high-handed gentlemen who are leaving no stone unturned to throw everything precious to an American to the dogs of war. Frederic R. Goudert organized this Committee. Sneakingly, subversively and un-Americanly hiding behind a sanctimonious stuffed shirt named William Allen White, these men form the most dangerous fifth column that ever set foot upon neutral soil. They are the Quislings of America. They are the Judas Iscariots within the apostolic college of our nation.
“They are the gold-protected, Government-protected, foreign-protected snakes in the grass who dare not stand upright and speak like men face to face. Eighteen prominent bankers met secretly on the 29th day of April in New York to set up this Committee. They were called together by Frederic R. Coudert, the legal adviser of the British Embassy and one who helped lead us into the last World War.”
June 23, 1940
The same sort of things were being said about FDR at that time.
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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 11, 2016 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2016 at 3:07 pm by Lek.)
Why do the Republicans hate Obama so much? For the same reason they hated Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter; they were Democrats. Why did the Democrats hate Ronald Regan and the Bushs? Because they were Republicans. That's our wonderful two party system at work.
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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 11, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Because he's a secret Muslim who was born in Kenya. There are Republicans who actually believe this - the orange shouty guy who is currently running was a big voice in the "birther" movement a few years ago.
When a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans are going to shit their pants no matter who it is. They tried to impeach President Bill Clinton, they believe Hillary Clinton is a lying murderess with cankles (as a local columnist in my town called it), President Obama is a secret Muslim born in Kenya and so on.
Let's face it, the Republican fringe element are fruitcakes who thrive on crazy.
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RE: Why do Republicans hate President Obama so much
June 11, 2016 at 6:10 pm
(June 11, 2016 at 3:05 pm)Lek Wrote: Why do the Republicans hate Obama so much? For the same reason they hated Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter; they were Democrats. Why did the Democrats hate Ronald Regan and the Bushs? Because they were Republicans. That's our wonderful two party system at work.
The saddest fact of all is that the two party division is not a division at all. In fact, both parties are supported and controlled by the same corporations.
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