What if Obama...?

[DeistPaladin]

I agree that Obama has had a harder time of things due to his race, and his name, as well. Both factors feed the xenophobia that the extremely conservative Americans seem to feel.

Most of all, he's a Democrat and perceived by the right to be a liberal (in reality, he's an Eisenhower Republican). Bill Clinton encountered the same vitriol and double standards and he's a white male.

Also, the quotes you grabbed are pretty ambiguous, featuring both praise and criticism.

But they were from "liberal" MSNBC and the point is that the criticism was along the lines of "oh, that's Christie for you". It's a far cry from what it would be if it had been a Democrat or a "liberal".

I think your hypothetical scenario is not how it would play out, though. Presidents don't get impeached for getting upset. They get impeached for catching blowjobs. And that includes white Presidents, too.

If the Republicans take the Senate, you will see Obama be impeached. As other Republicans have openly said, the reasons can be found later but the important thing is getting the votes in the Senate and House to do it.

Individual media outlets have their own biases. Fox is irredeemably conservative, the New York Times irredeemably liberal,

So "liberal" that they played along with the run up to the Iraq War, offering Cheney the justification he needed. Any delusions that we have a liberal media should have been dispelled by the W administration. The media acted like cheerleaders in the run up and then swept it under the rug after the dust settled.

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Fox News is blatantly conservative,

Propaganda akin to "Pravda" of the former Soviet Union.

MSNBC is blatantly progressive.

On what planet? Sure they have Maddow in the evening but they have Scarborough in the morning for three hours. And Scarborough swings a heavier bat at MSNBC than Maddow. And did you see the clip I posted? Lukewarm liberal at best.

CNN is closet liberal.

CNN is Fox lite. Sometimes they want to be Fox so badly they can taste it.

Best thing is to take your news in from a wide variety of sources and filter out the BS.

Quite agreed. Six corporations control the media in America so even at MSNBC you will get the corporate friendly spin, particularly on matters of war since it's owner, GE, is a military contractor.