Haywood, you have a deep seeded and subconscious bias I think you are completely unaware of.
This isn't just about you. The overwhelming reaction to Obama's first election by his opposition has been nothing like anything in or political history. I have never seen or heard of either side ever, making statements like the GOP did even before he took office after his first election that the were going to make it their job to make him a one term president.
The mudslinging in our political history is par for the course and has existed since the ink was dry on the Constitution. But the level of fear mongering and paranoia upon his first election this nation has never seen aimed at one president. It is as if our entire country mentally is still stuck in the 60s and Jim Crow.
All that despite the dept being cut, job growth going up. Despite that he took out Bin Laden. Despite that he took less vacation time than Bush. Despite he has made the fewest executive orders than either party ever. Despite that there were more attacks on overseas outposts under prior presidents.
There is a deep seeded fear of change in humans, that is evolutionary that most humans are unaware of. Our country is still mentally stuck in the past in spite of all the progress for minorities including women, gays and Latinos. There is still a unfounded fear of whites, and Christians in America, realize it our not, of the truth that in the future they will become the new minority. Obama's presidency has nothing to do with his policies being right or wrong, and everything to do with our species xenophobia.
Our species seeks patterns, when we gain the top spot because we think those patterns work, we do not want to lose control of that advantage. The more we realize what is really going on, the more we can reduce paranoia of the "outsider".
But to argue your objectivity is absurd considering his treatment he did not deserve one bit but got even before he walked into the Oval Office or took the Oath. No other President in our history has been treated like that. And I have seen lots of mudslinging.
This isn't just about you. The overwhelming reaction to Obama's first election by his opposition has been nothing like anything in or political history. I have never seen or heard of either side ever, making statements like the GOP did even before he took office after his first election that the were going to make it their job to make him a one term president.
The mudslinging in our political history is par for the course and has existed since the ink was dry on the Constitution. But the level of fear mongering and paranoia upon his first election this nation has never seen aimed at one president. It is as if our entire country mentally is still stuck in the 60s and Jim Crow.
All that despite the dept being cut, job growth going up. Despite that he took out Bin Laden. Despite that he took less vacation time than Bush. Despite he has made the fewest executive orders than either party ever. Despite that there were more attacks on overseas outposts under prior presidents.
There is a deep seeded fear of change in humans, that is evolutionary that most humans are unaware of. Our country is still mentally stuck in the past in spite of all the progress for minorities including women, gays and Latinos. There is still a unfounded fear of whites, and Christians in America, realize it our not, of the truth that in the future they will become the new minority. Obama's presidency has nothing to do with his policies being right or wrong, and everything to do with our species xenophobia.
Our species seeks patterns, when we gain the top spot because we think those patterns work, we do not want to lose control of that advantage. The more we realize what is really going on, the more we can reduce paranoia of the "outsider".
But to argue your objectivity is absurd considering his treatment he did not deserve one bit but got even before he walked into the Oval Office or took the Oath. No other President in our history has been treated like that. And I have seen lots of mudslinging.
