The attempt of these right-wing zombies to portray their angst with this administration as having to do with reducing taxes, increasing liberty, or even reforming government based on firm conservative beliefs is farcical. If it were so, where were they when their Republican leaders were manufacturing consent for the Iraq war; doubling the federal debt; conducting a massive and illegal searches of Americans telephone conversations, emails, and sent mail; eliminating habeas corpus rights; and instituting torture as the first and last resort to any national security issue? No, their objective is nothing less than having this administration and equally America fail. Unable to articulate or even fiend a cogent argument based on facts and reason (not that they ever have) they reach deep into their primeval brains and vomit out voluminous buckets of venomous bile. To them Barrack Obama is considered a foreign agent who is hell-bent on destroying "their" America. To them he is simultaneously a socialist, a fascist, a Muslim, a Marxist, a communist, the Anti-Christ, and all things un-American.
Doublethink, the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time, has become the basis of the tea-baggers/Republican base's political ideology. As such, they are free to espouse the most ridiculous conceits without ever having to accept their inherent ignorance or bigotry.
When James Earl Carter, America's 39th president and Nobel prize winner, called a spade a spade, it was the mandarins of the mainstream media, too embarrassed by their own intellectual shallowness and outright pandering to those ignoble elements of American society, who first went to defend and then obfuscate the debate on the indecency of these tea-baggers and their right-wing accomplices. Despite the fact that the Republicans have been a party whose public philosophy, since Richard Nixon, has been that of ginning up white-alienation, race-baiting, persistent religious zealotry, and overt bigotry to win elections, we are told by the MSM and Republicans that their objections with Mr. Obama are honest. That and not the act of racism is the real news here.
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Follow Up: McClatchy Press has a good article on this subject in, "There's no denying Obama's race plays a role in protests." The article gives a broad outline of the increase of racial taunts emitted by the standard culprits and also to the growing extremism in right-wing circles that have resulted, in what author Ron Kessler describes in his forthoming book on the US Secret Service, "that racists and white supremacists probably account for more than a third of the estimated 30 death threats that Obama allegedly receives every day, about four times as many as were directed at former President George W. Bush."
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