Comments on: President Obama: “Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are.”

By: martinac

martinac — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:55:50 +0000

If he is so sure about this question he shouldn't have asked that. He should really concentrate on things to improve the atmosphere from where people starts to love him irrespective of his cast. vitamine

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:04:25 +0000

SuperSmart says:
September 18, 2009 at 8:21 pm

It would have been a more interesting conversation of Obama spoke the truth

I knew if I hung around long enough, we’d agree on something. It WOULD be nice if he told the truth.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:08:45 +0000

Not surprisingly, you pulled out the least important quote out of everything the president said — and didn’t even finish it. So, I’ll help you out.

Right after he said, “Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are.” He then added, “That’s not the overriding issue here.” I realize adding the last part of the quote screws up your narrative, but he said what he said.

Here are a couple more quotes you left out:

“It’s an argument that’s gone on for the history of this republic, and that is, What’s the right role of government? How do we balance freedom with our need to look out for one another? … This is not a new argument, and it always evokes passions.”

…”Now there are some who are, setting aside the issue of race, actually I think are more passionate about the idea of whether government can do anything right, and I think that that’s probably the biggest driver of some of the vitriol.”

He went out of his way to repeatedly emphasize that he does NOT believe racism is driving the opposition to his agenda. I’m sure you would love it if people didn’t “happen to catch all the interviews” so you can keep flogging your phony racism angle.

By: CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:42:49 +0000

Pretty sad commentary on liberals that they keep having to play a false race card. Sure it has nothing to do with the $10 TRILLION that Obama is adding to the deficit. Sure it has nothing to do with Obama trying to hijack 1/6 of the economy. Sure it has nothing to do with Obama wanting to legalize a bunch of illegals to help the Democrats at the voting booth. Sure it has nothing to do with Obama weaking this country defensively. No, its none of those things.

Funny if JC Watts were President right now, I wonder what the liberals would be saying?!

By: ChrisNH

ChrisNH — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:51 +0000

If you don’t like Obama, how clairvoyant of the media to declare the reason why. What an amazing talent. I guess that’s why TV people have this ‘Don’t-you-know-who-I-am?’ aura about them.

By: SuperSmart

SuperSmart — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:38 +0000

… conversation *IF* Obama…

By: SuperSmart

SuperSmart — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:21:54 +0000

It would have been a more interesting conversation of Obama spoke the truth:

“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are. And Fox News and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh seem to be intent to stoke their racism to the point to where I’m dodging bullets. Yes, Fox News will feign anger that I snubbed them by not doing an interview on their network… but fuck em. Why should I sit down with people who are actively trying to harm me?”

By: CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:46:34 +0000

I’m sure there’s people out there that don’t like him because he’s white.