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sheshe2

(83,792 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2015, 08:16 PM Feb 2015

Why Does Barack Obama Love America?

While most Republicans are either keeping mum on Rudy Giuliani's remarks about President Obama or are doing their best to distance themselves from them, Kevin Williamson at the National Review goes all-in on defending him with an article titled: Rudy is Right.

In reading Williamson, I got stuck on this paragraph:

Does Barack Obama like America? The people around him certainly seem to have their reservations. Michelle Obama said — twice, at separate campaign events — that her husband’s ascending to the presidency meant that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.” She was in her mid 40s at the time, her “adult lifetime” having spanned decades during which she could not be “really proud” of her country. Barack Obama spent years in the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church as the churchman fulminated: “God Damn America!” The Reverend Wright’s infamous “God Damn America!” sermon charges the country with a litany of abuses: slavery, mistreatment of the Indians, “treating citizens as less than human,” etc. A less raving version of the same indictment can be found in the president’s own speeches and books.

What grabbed me was to wonder what about this country would make a black woman who's ancestors were slaves and had to flee the south due to Jim Crow proud. And why the history Rev. Wright describes would lead a black/brown person to say anything other than "God Damn America!" Perhaps the racism of people like Giuliani and Williamson is actually rooted in exactly that kind of unconscious projection. They know how horribly this country has treated people of color and can't imagine themselves being patriotic under those circumstances.

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For those whose equality was guaranteed at this country's birth rather than through subsequent struggles, the commitment to continue the process of perfecting our union is something that can only be grasped via empathy. Those who lack that skill can't understand what makes a man like Barack Obama love America.

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Why Does Barack Obama Love America? (Original Post) sheshe2 Feb 2015 OP

TeaPubliKlans are confused that Obama and Democrats COULD love Americans TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #1

TheKentuckian

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1. TeaPubliKlans are confused that Obama and Democrats COULD love Americans

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Sat Feb 21, 2015, 08:24 PM

Feb 2015

Yes, I get the confusion. Unlike Walker, Romney, the Bush clan there are occasions where Obama and Democrats seems to.
I believe this causes TeaPubliKlans to have involuntary conniptions.

If they could be certain Obama and all Democrats would reliably hate America, the American people, and our peace, prosperity, and self determination deeply, truly, and completely like they do then they would feel lots better.

Communist, Socialist, liberal...all that shit means when they spit it is "caring about the welfare of and the will of the people".
Hell, they probably generally think Democratic pols hate the country and people too but they just disagree on the best means to sell us out but there is the gnawing doubts that the crumbs thrown aren't just for the benefit of the system are hard to keep in reasonable and patient perspective and they boil over.
Most also think a slaughter at the barricades would be a more efficient and less risky way to go anyway and have little patience for these indulgences Democrats pile upon the useless eaters so every hint causes doubt...does this Democrats really hate Americans or not because sometimes it doesn't seem they really do and that cannot be abided from the death to democracy crowd, at best it is an insufferable example to the world they have plans for.

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