So ever since Obama was sworn into office, the Republicans have basically said we're not going to help him right this ship at all at any cost. Their Leader in the Senate basically came out and said his job was to make POTUS a 1-term President for the history books. Speaker Boehner since taking the gavel, has publicly said he wants to make a deal but then a certain faction of his party gets into his head and then all of the sudden he's the great conservative fighter from Ohio.
Now in the midst of this, I've seen plenty of conservatives on social media and in Congress repeat the phrase "It has nothing to do with his skin color, we just strongly disagree with his policies".
Policies that previous Presidents have sworn by yet they were not called socialists (Modern Day Conservative translation: Communist Dictator) and disrespected. When Eisenhower or Reagan called to protect social security and medicare, they were not called socialist/communist dictators. Don't recall Bush 43 being called that either after Medicare Part D. This is not an argument on race. If some of you think I'm playing the race card I'm not, but if you think there's a bit of legitimacy to it, then feel free to engage and discuss.
As much of a dislike I had for Bush 43 during his tenure in office, I never wished ill-will upon him. Yeah there were uneducated Liberals who said "F--- Bush" and all that stuff. If our biggest enemies (China/Russia/Al Aqaeda) ever did any physical harm to him, I would be sad for our country and I would also be sad on his behalf.
However I get the strong feeling, reading conservative blogs, websites, and facebook groups, that if Obama 44 were to be assassinated tomorrow, that there'd be a pretty big private celebration by many in our country. I don't think someone like weso or sturg would do backflips, but there are sick conservatives out there who I think would publicly (whether they be celebrity like Rushbo or just your average conservative Joe on facebook) celebrate and cheer for Obama's death. I mean most of the sad albeit hilarious stuff about Obama firing generals so he can hire generals that would attack us, Obama is using Obamacare to get all of our personal information (as if he couldn't just ask the CIA or NSA to do it for him), etc to portray him as this second coming of Hitler... it's just sad. I see a fake story on Obama every 15 minutes on Facebook, some new conspiracy theory (like him staging Newtown Shootings to enact Gun Control), and then I click the image and read the comments posted. They're so hateful, they're so ridiculous it makes me sad to know people believe in it, then it makes me even more sad when I see 80-100 people like the comment like "Get this god hating muslim dictator tyrant out of our office and put a real american in there!!" That 80-100 people can only in estimation represent a bigger demographic that's no longer just a radical fringe, but a mainstream ideology.
I don't think a portion of our country would rally together and say "You killed our President, now we're coming after you.", instead they'd probably say "Thank you for doing us a favor".
The hate or "dislike" for this POTUS is unmatched in modern times. Bush was called an idiot, but let's face it he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He had his awkward and WTF were you thinking moments. Obama is a complete 180. Even when he doesn't have the real answer, he generally remains level-headed and gives a BS answer under cool.
The fact that POTUS is basically being blamed for EVERYTHING under the Sun by the right. I mean Abu Ghirab was terrible terrible terrible. I never blamed Bush for it. I could blame Rumsfeld more than anything, but I doubt if Bush knew this was going on he'd let it continue. He's not THAT stupid. I can't blame Obama for everything Holder does, for everything that happened in Benghazi, for all the NSA stuff. I didn't pin the blame on Bush for everything that happened terribly within his administration that Cheney was responsible for, but I see BO 44 doesn't get that same slack.
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