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Ok, the concensus so far is that King O is fair game. So put on you Obama mask and make fun of the idiot and chief.
Yes. All public officials are fair game for criticism and public ridicule.During the GW Bush presidency he was constantly ridiculed in the media and by private citizens. A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask did an act that the crowd went crazy for and the media and politicians are quick to condemn. The question I pose is Obama fair game just as Bush was?
Ok, the concensus so far is that King O is fair game. So put on you Obama mask and make fun of the idiot and chief.
During the GW Bush presidency he was constantly ridiculed in the media and by private citizens. A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask did an act that the crowd went crazy for and the media and politicians are quick to condemn. The question I pose is Obama fair game just as Bush was?
Okay.
Swing and a miss.
Matthews didn't hold that opposition to Obama was racist, merely that certain comments made about Obama were racial in tone and insensitive, and that individuals who ignored the underlying racial tone of these comments were dead wrong.
A far cry from the standard you've set up, wherein any criticism of Obama is considered racist.
Swing and a miss, again.
Eric Dyson held that in reference to Obama's treatment of the supreme court, use the term "bullying" to describe it was something a racist would do.
I might not agree completely with Dyson's assessment...
But again, it is a far cry from the standard you've set up, wherein any criticism of Obama is considered racist.
Swing and a miss, for a third time.
Eric Dyson characterized the GOP's blanket refusal to work with the President in any capacity as racist.
This is again a far cry from the standard you've set up, wherein any criticism of Obama is considered racist.
Hell, all of these are examples of where specific arguments or insults against Obama are deemed racist. Whether they are or are not can be debated, but none of them meet the standard you set forth in your opening post: That Obama is being untreated unfairly compared to Bush, and that any and all criticism of Obama were deemed racist.
These two aren't even worth mentioning, merely a link that ask the same question you do with no substantiative evidence to support it's position and a blog.
During the GW Bush presidency he was constantly ridiculed in the media and by private citizens. A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask did an act that the crowd went crazy for and the media and politicians are quick to condemn. The question I pose is Obama fair game just as Bush was?
Well..that and that he is a clown from Chicago that golfs a lot.NO. People that ridicule Obama are racist haters and they hate the fact that a half black man is in the "White"house.
Several of these examples like the ones cited and it becomes clear that any criticism of Obama is indeed going to be considered racist.
I mean come on; Republicans refusing to work with a Democrat is racist?
Using the word "bullying" is racist?
Give us a break.
As a general rule if you have to have taken Race and Gender 101 in order to understand why something is racist then it isn't racist.
Well no, not in the slightest. All of these are examples of specific arguments made or behavior fostered against Obama, that in a given context, is considered racist by some individual or another, and the reasoning while not always the most solid, is far away from blanket accusation of racism with no sort of logic behind the argument.
I'm sorry, is that a thing now? Race and Gender 101, a class where you have to learn how to not be an insufferable bigot?
When I look at the specific examples it's hard to imagine what would not fit in the category of "racist".
No, it's where you go to learn how to find racism where it doesn't exist.
Ok, the concensus so far is that King O is fair game. So put on you Obama mask and make fun of the idiot and chief.
During the GW Bush presidency he was constantly ridiculed in the media and by private citizens. A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask did an act that the crowd went crazy for and the media and politicians are quick to condemn. The question I pose is Obama fair game just as Bush was?