Budget Deadlock Again Suggests Racist Basis for Opposing Obama (Le Temps, Switzerland)
"The advent of the first Black president of the United
States, elected for the first time in November 2008 and re-elected last year
with a majority of the electoral college and the popular vote, has already
resulted in the manifestation of quite a number of heinous events. The current budget
crisis reflects a new level of contempt for the White House tenant."
Looking like the cat who swallowed the canary, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, emerges from a meeting after agreeing to the framework of a deal to avoid default and reopen the government, Oct. 16. What is it that motivates him and other Republicans to oppose everything and anything backed byu the Obama White House? Is it politics ... or something more?
Chris
Matthews, who hosts the Hard Ball on
MSNBC, has seen this before. Yet this reporter, who was chief of staff to
Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill during the 1980s, is adamant: "Politics
does not explain the hatred of the Republican opposition to President Obama."
The
advent of the first Black president of the United States, elected for the first
time in November 2008 and re-elected last year with a majority of the electoral
college and the popular vote, has already resulted in the manifestation of quite
a number of heinous events. The current budget crisis reflects a new level of
contempt for the White House tenant.
At
a Washington rally to denounce the supposed closing of memorials honoring
veterans this weekend, founder of the organization Freedom Watch, Larry Klayman, told American television: "I call upon all of
you, to wage a second American non-violent revolution, to use civil
disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town. ... to get out ...
to put the Quran down ... to get up off his knees ... and figuratively come out
with his hands up." He raised a Quran and gestured toward the White House.
Among the guests of this extremist group were Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz, and
former muse of the populist movement, Sarah Palin, who continues to call for
the president's impeachment.
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The
day before at the White House, a protester waved the Confederate flag. The ultimate
outrage, this symbol represents the struggle of the South to maintain White
supremacy.
Congress
is no exception. There are days that people like establishment Republican Senator
Lindsey Graham call Barack Obama a "pathetic leader." During his speech
on the state of the union, a very solemn moment in Washington, one elected
Republican yelled out that the president was a "liar."
Since
these things go hand in hand, health care reform, which Republicans call "Obamacare," has attracted the full wrath of those who
in 2009, pledged to oppose anything supported by President Barack Obama, in
order to prevent him from having a second term in the White House.
