WHY is the right so terrified of President Obama?

They appear to be literally shaking in their boots at the prospect of 4 to 8 years of Obama and the progressive movement. They are calling him every nasty name they can spit out, and they act as if America was somehow threatened with total destruction. THIS after the 8 most evil and corrupt years in our history.

Are they REALLY this terrified? Or is it simply hype designed to send all the dumb asses into a panic?

What the hell is it that frightens them so bad that they're wetting themselves?

is piggybacked onto the red scare of the 50's. Ignorant people will believe what specific sources tell them over ALL logic and rationality.

(I think their biggest fear) he will end their precious war.

he will actually help regular people to better lives, and may further decrease the GOP's list of supporters. If they didn't have the media in their pocket, they would have been done already.
Yesterday, there were several GOP talking heads complaining about Obama's terrible spending....but they were followed by the news that several of the TARP banks are now prepared to repay that money...

Then they said that the GOP had had a better plan for the stimulus package, but now we are hearing that the economy is doing better than expected and may be on the way to recovery late this year....

Then they complained that their play would have prevented all the recent job loss, and put people back to work, but Obama announced programs coming to provide 600,000 new jobs...

They hate him because he allows them to make themselves reveal how little they really have to offer, and morte people are starting to realize it.

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It took them 30 or 40 years to erase the progress he made.

I think that's why they so viciously went after Clinton and why, even if there was no conspiracy to kill the Kennedys, the right has been assassinating their character since they were murdered.

They really see this country and the world as their private possession, with the rest of us here to serve them. Anyone who comes along that might successfully challenge that kind of economic royalism (as FDR put it) scares the hell out of them.

FDR: Sing it, old girl!
ER: Here goes, 'Everything thing old...'

And FDR is satan.

They react to EVERY Democrat this way; there is nothing about Obama specifically that makes them do this. It's the mere fact that he is a Democrat occupying the Oval Office that makes them simultaneously pee and froth at the mouth. They've been at it since Carter at least. You may as well get used to it, they are going to get more and more outrageous in their attacks over the next 3 1/2 years. For them, this is how they win. Stop at nothing and tear down the opponent. It's absurd, dishonest, and it demeans the national discourse but sadly it often works.

Many of the rushbots and other right wing cultists seem to be going over the deep end with their rhetoric and actions.

Some of the right-wing crowd (think Palin mobs) are OVERT racists, but others are discovering their hatred of Obama is indeed quite simple: he's a black man.

They wouldn't have admitted -- or perhaps even identified -- that they're racist before, but they are embracing it now.

Anyone leading this country other than a white male is anathema to their existence. It threatens them. With the election of Obama, the world as they knew it came crashing down and they're terrified.

That's why they're doing all the "reverse racism" talk now. It's why they're clinging even more desperately to all the "this is a Christian nation" bible thumping and bringing up all the Moral Majority talking points again.

They are afraid.

They have a completely different worldview than we do, and they are afraid because theirs is disintegrating.

But, in the meantime, I believe they are very dangerous.

that the same vitriol was hurled at Clinton.

I wasn't paying as close attention back then as I am now, but I do recall they were rabid and hated Clinton, too.

I still have no doubt race plays a huge part in the current hatred. Maybe it's as simple as them hating "libruls" and any leader with a (D) next to his/her name for many reasons, but largely due to the inclusiveness of the progressive ideology.

So again, it comes down to them being racist, sexist, homophobes. Obama is simply the biggest slap in the face to them thus far. LOL.

Even if you are a right wing DINO they will find something to froth about.

spout all kinds of crap just like small time bullies wanting their way all the time...

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Sorry, but honestly I really think that's the bottom line. Everything else is just a a conduit for what really lies beneath.
And yeah, I'm white.

who think the Bush family is going to blow the country for Paraguay, but they are certainly neither as mainstream or as the crazy ass stuff said about Dems.

FDR was crippled because he caught VD - as if that made people crippled - from Eleanor who'd gotten it after having sex with a black man. Really. Folks said that shit.

Going back and reading the Chicago Tribune from the '30s and '40s it's STUNNING the shit they made up and threw at the Roosevelts.

Folks here see the Clintons as total criminals. People here believe the right wing mantra of 'Clinton fatigue'. I was in polling in the late '90s and early '00s. There was no such thing. Clinton would have been either Bush or Gore mano a mano. He would have been both in a three way. He would have been elected mayor of NYC. His approval rating on leaving office was 70%.

I hope this shit doesn't stick to 'Bam and MO.

the repigs have a deep hatred for Dems and what they stand for.

Here are several reasons

www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=96460

The GOOPer lives in a world of absolutes. No doubt we're the greatest country ever ever ever and everything we do is right (even torture)..."American exceptionalism". They think they are the moralists...waving their bibles and jumping up and down about rule of law...but only when it serves their agenda. They think of themselevs as the fiscal wizards...the party of big business and only they know how to make and keep money...the rest of us are freeloaders and spendthrifts. It's a self delusion that has been pounded in by politicians and hate radio acolytes for the past 3 decades and it's an assumed among the coven. No question...especially from those who aren't "one of them".

President Obama doesn't play the right wing games...or at least the way they want him to. They try to tag him as weak, and he shows strength in both winning the election and sheparding a lot of important legislation through. They try to tag him as being immoral while their ranks are headed by a serial adulterer, a grfiter whose "family values" is reality show material, Thurston Howell III with the common touch of a slug (appologies to any slugs who may be offended) and a country preacher who thinks the world was created in 7 days. Yep, a real tough bunch to play with...and Obama not only does it all the time, he does so with ease.

A lot of the right wing blunderbuss is for their own ears. What sounds so off the wall and ridiculous to a majority, when filtered through the right wing codewords and dog whistles generate lots of money. They're not wetting themselves...they're feathering nests.

Cheers...

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I did visit Bozo's Circus...I hate to say what year it was, but we didn't have to wait for tickets.

Cheers...

No spring chicken myself. ;)

Cheers!

If he is successful the GOP is fucked beyond measure.

For the first time in a generation, the right faces total annihilation and doesn't have the inclination or imagination to find new ways of promoting it's message. They have policies, ideas & political tactics which have failed utterly, and they have no clue what to do or how to proceed.

Obama is the guy who just happens to be leading what the rights' political leadership sees as their opposition, and their dogma says that they must attack that opposition. Unfortunately that also means they must attack the 70% of the population supporting Obama, they must attack the foundations of the American economy & they must therefore attack the United States itself.

The right has set a course of a descending spiral of lies, hatred, fear & failure without end.

Of course, we all know that America's not in danger from Obama.

The conservative movement is in danger. Reaganism is in danger. Neoconservatism, dominionism, the Southern Strategy are all in danger.

They know that if things keep going as they are, they're gonna be wondering in the wilderness for 40 years.

about the country nor its people.

He makes sense and he keeps his cool. He's a new standard for what people aspire to be. A good father and husband, highly intelligent, rational, athletic, funny, popular and totally cool. He's young and energetic and has ideas and does things they can't predict. He reaches across the aisle for real by appointing people who are Center Right which they perceive as him undermining their party.

And they can't quite pin him down. All these things apply to all of us, so President Obama has to win people over by walking the talk. Plus the Republicans don't get him. Just like they don't get Democrats. They're convinced all of humanity is in it for personal gain, because that's how they function. Spreading the wealth means there's less for them

We'd do the same thing over here if even the most moderate of Republicans had a good chance of being President.

The only way around it is for someone to be able to rise above that fray, and I think that's why President Obama does things the way he does them, even if it does piss off some part of the base.

Indictments.

by very wealthy people who want to keep America as an oligarchy with them running things. They don't like a guy who works for Americans and the real ideals of America. They only want flunkies who give lip service to democracy while making sure the people don't have a voice.

The pundits and pols are paid to do the bidding of those doing well with the status quo.

Limpballs every day and WILL NOT think for themselves. They do whatever their Master tell them to do and in this case, its to fear.

there's the right-wing power brokers (if only in their own minds) and the right-wing sheeple.

I think the right-wing sheeple, fed incessantly by the Faux/Limbaugh crowd, hate based on their fear, which is based on racism, sexism, rabid nationalism, and homophobia.

The Others....Cheney, Gingrich, et al....perhaps they fear Dems because they're afraid that they may actually do the right thing and hold people accountable. They could go off script easier than a republican, and that's very dangerous for them.

Just imagine the criminal activity (granted, on both sides of the aisle) since Reagan years alone that they're terrified will be exposed.

So, they must ridicule and dehumanize all "libruls" and especially those holding executive office. As I said above, Obama is the biggest slap in the face thus far. Everything about him (on the surface, at least, as that's all they can deal with) is a slap in the face to that crowd.

The Republican Party is the Nazi party in all but name.
They talk like Nazis, act like Nazis, and they share the Nazi attitude that only
they are entitled to total power.
Everything they say and do is designed to achieve total power.
Except they're finished.
Everyone but the contemptible plutocrats that run the party knows it.
And they're paying big money in a grand attempt to deceive their way back to total power.
Junior and his gang of neo fascists treated us to an eight year display of Republican ass.
Everyone knows they lied to get war.
Then they used the war as an excuse to plunder the economy for their cronies.
Everyone knows they're the torture party.
To a puke its perfectly moral for children's nads to be crushed with pliers.
Everyone watched as they murdered New Orleans.
No one can forget their behavior in the Terry Schaivo case.

for all the reasons you say. And they are terrified that we will find out. Now their worst fears are coming true because we ARE finding out! Most of America has come to learn the hard way what we progressives have known for years.

And now that their dirty little secret has finally come out, there is an even greater fear: What are we going to do about it? So now they really are in the fight of their lives, and for their lives. Do they really think we can't SEE the desperation behind their verbal and physical violence?

They created for themselves a delusion that their racist, sexist, homophobic views were that of most Americans. The nutty conspiracy theories are because they can't make themselves believe that the majority of Americans are on his side, such a thing is an affront to their worldview (remember the BS about the GOP calling the people in the Virgina counties that went for Obama "not real Americans"?).

The Repubs have been force fed this lie about "every man for himself", since Reagan, and the fact that the majority of the American Public has rejected this artificial reality that they have adopted terrifies them. It's like their world is dissolving around them.

they would do this, and have done it, to any Democrat elected as President....

leadership in the US. Obama is not the most ragging liberal ever. However if Obama is not only successful but perceived as successful by the public at large, the public may slowly lose the fear of responsible and responsive government. This may bring a vastly more liberal leadership following Obama. It's even more troubling when you consider that almost every voter in 2012 and 2016 well have memories of life under Republican Bush and Democrat Obama. Just not a good thing for Republicans.

...while their philosophy is 100% lies. Anything President Obama says that is truthful makes their lies apparent.

Why in the world won't Lions eat cabbages and leave those cute little dik-diks alone?

He is half black and half white. His white mother married a black man -- one of their worst fears. Then she divorced him and married another non-white man in Indonesia. And had another mixed-race child.

Both his parents got Ph.D.s. His father came to the U.S. from Kenya to study at Harvard. He was the chief economist in Kenya. His father was raised Muslim but was not religious. His mother was a sociologist. She loved living in Asia. He was born in Hawaii. We found out that the talking heads in D.C. don't know that Hawaii is a state and has been a state for FIFTY YEARS. Remember when Mrs. Greenspan said Hawaii was "so exotic" a place to vacation?

Neither of his parents were religious. Highly educated people with no interest in religion. His white grandparents accepted him and raised him much of the time. His grandmother was Unitarian (the same as being a heathen as far as they are concerned).

Intellectual, multi-ethnic, raised in Asia much of the time, learned foreign languages and lived in other countries, secular, highly educated, interested in science, interested in the arts, restrained in his speech, graceful, well-dressed, well-spoken, happily married, independent mother who married two non-white men, multi-cultural, elitist(father went to Harvard).


All those factors that shaped Obama are everything they hate and fear. He refuses to stoop to their level of name calling, like the Clintons, so they don't know how to fight him. He is always complimentary to his enemies. He makes them look like the whiny privileged brats they are.

They are cowardly bigots.

That's scares the crap out of them, because what else have they got?

or splintered, though has been thus for a long time. Separated by their own deeds which are less attune, sometimes wantonly designed as such, and so displaced back and away from a God they say they love so dearly preferring clearly instead: burnings at the stake, the wearing red letters, pilling stones atop one until crushed to death, etc, it has been for such people a culture of death and separation anxiety. Hearing Lyndsey Graham alone is an indicator of how shrill they are, like howling ghosts they remain to proclaim their fear of a world they understand even less...

I sometimes think I can see the very instant they lost their shrieking, collective, fear mongering/fear addled mind: when the native people's of this land began to step with great wisdoms and dignity right out of the deep forests - SNAP! And they've been deathly afraid of change ever since. There's nothing new under their sun