Rightwingers have NEVER been respectful to a Democratic President

In my lifetime:

President Obama
Vicious and constant attacks.

President Clinton
Vicious and constant attacks.

President Carter
Vicious and constant attacks.

President Johnson
Vicious and constant attacks.

President Kennedy
Enough said.

But yeah, FDR, too.

Its only a matter of time before, well, I hate to think of how far they are willing to carry it.

Calling us sore losers during the Bush years.

what's going on now?

Were they teabagging with guns. Telling children don't listen to the president?

Okay here's what I notice. With the exception of Kennedy on your list, they at least respected procedure and process with the others. Sure they went after Clinton, but through the legal process. With Obama, they think it's okay for armed revolution. Even in Kennedy's case, the vitriol was not carried by the mainstream as okay and acceptable behavior. The media itself creating and carrying the hate beyond the hovels in whch they existed.

I don't get this constant need to continually deny that we are dealing with an added dimension with Obama.

I also don't get the attempt the constantly tell people to stop pointing out the racism that we are literally drowning in. As far as I'm concerned, given the history of the country, anything that looks like racism, is presumed until shown otherwise. It's the only thing I know that can walk like a duck, quack like a duck, but not be a fucking duck.

But I still see a huge factor in anything that helps the common man rather than the rich, religious, and corporations as well as the military complex.

Racism? Dude. I live in Florida. I know racism is involved. I also know that right-wingers can't stand to lose, and they REALLY can't stand that they lost to a black man. The Democratic party used to count on the south as a stronghold. We lost the south, pure and simply, due to racism, because of civil rights. At the time, Lyndon Johnson even said something to the effect that we'd lose the south and be out of positions of power for a very long time.

If you really look back, a lot of the vitriol has always been racism. Lester Maddox in Georgia, George Wallace in Alabama, oh lord, I've seen the hate.

I guess, my point is that so much of the hate has ALWAYS been about racism. So, now, of course it has ratcheted up into unprecedented hatred and sneers. It's what I feared would happen and it's what IS happening. Nevertheless, I campaigned for President Obama, and proudly voted for him.

So, no, I do not have a constant need to continually deny that racism is involved.

It is. It always has been.

I'm going bonkers. Some people are obsessed with it. Succession after succession of racist things going on, but none of it is racist. It's always really something else.

We're on the same page.


I remember the Kennedy sign on our lawn and people driving by screaming out that we were "N-lovers". I was six years old. I didn't even know what that meant.

or called them "usurpers."

noted, also Bobby Kennedy, MLK and others?

They all supported helping common average Americans in living better lives and achieving the American dream not profit for corporations.