no, thank you. i remember everything you mentioned.
i DO NOT remember a congressman calling a president a liar during an address to congress.
Nope. At the same time, I don't MULTIPLE congressman booing a President during the State of the Union Event. So what's worse? A single congressman stating "You Lie" while the President addresses Congress about Health Care or an entire large contingent of a party interrupting and booing a president while addressing congress and giving his State of the Union?
i don't NOT remember cries of "kill him" at a presidential rally
Nope. However I can remember people here, and elsewhere, remarking how it was "too bad" it wasn't a grenade instead of a shoe thrown at him. What about Protestors holding signs calling for Bush "Dead or Alive" with the "Alive" X'ed out? Or signs of Bush with a gun to his head? Is it somehow worse if some idiot screams it instead of putting it on a giant sign? Or how about Nobel Prize winners saying, to wonderful applause, that they would "Love to kill" Barack Obama right now?
and i do NOT remember people calling our first lady a gorilla. do you?
No, the monkey references was saved for Bush. Whore was used however.
Oh, and lets not say race fueld insults was only present on one side
Has Obama been called a Terrorist in a wide spread fashion yet? Have they accused him purposefully allowing a terrorist attack for political aspirations? Called him a war hero? I think he may actually have joined with Bush in regards to images of him relating him to a vampire (Bush sucking on the statue of liberty, Bush sucking on a baby, etc). Has there been an entire Television series dedicated to insulting Obama yet? And don't worry about those links to Obama being the anti-christ, while Bush undoubtably had some, everyone knew from multitude of bloggers and leftists that Cheney was "the devil". What about people going on live national TV on a non-political show and telling the world that they feel that Obama hates an entire segment of the population? (and that Beyonce's video was the best ever! The Best Ever!
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No, I'm sorry, but you're wrong and looking at this completely and utterly with hyper partisan glasses on. The hate was there and has been there, on all sides, for some time now. What we're seeing is two fold:
1) The other side is in power which brings it more to the attention of that side as its now more targeted at them
2) We have increased amount of technology, and simple access, over the past 10 years. There wasn't dozens and dozens of cameras at every political rally, now i think it'd be impossible to find many rallies that don't have at least 3 video cameras of SOME form. Internet message boards and blogs weren't as proflic and the spread of information was not nearly as wide spread or quick. The world, in regards to information and how its discovered, distributed, and discussed is largely different now from 2000 or even 2004.
jokes aren't off limits, racial jokes should be off limits. but that's just me, and millions of other civilized people.
And can you prove or assert with certainty that somehow that was done because "OMG She's a black woman" and not because "wow they look alike"?
Cause obvious I mean, everyone doing the "warchimp" thing or the "no see, no hear, no speak" thing with Bush obvious was thinking "Haha, this'll teach that midnight white nigger whats what!". :roll:
COULD it be racist? Definitely. But in and of itself is it inherently racist? Absolutely not.