As we know, our patriotic brothers and sisters (sarcasm) from the Republican Party have been working hard to try and portray President Barack Obama as being “different” and “not really one of us” throughout the campaign and even now into his presidency. How many times have we heard conservatives make the “slip” of confusing Obama with Osama (as in, Osama bin Laden)? At some point, you begin to lose count of all the “slip ups” with the name confusion. It’s all part of an effort to try and portray people of color of being more alike than they are different - terrorist or otherwise. These individuals will attack anyone, even our president and commander in chief (remember when George W. Bush was president and this was considered anti-American?).
Now comes this from Think Progress:
After accepting illegal and unethical behavior for years from President Bush, the right wing has finally come around to advocating for the impeachment of a President. On Sat. March 21, more than 4,000 people gathered in Orlando for a “tea party” protest to denounce what they called “wasteful Washington spending.” The Orlando Sentinel quoted one attendee saying, “They need to shove that bum out,” referring to Obama. The signs that were distributed said “Obama Bin Lyin’ IMPEACH NOW”
It is indeed amazing how much those on the right wing are advocating impeachment and it is especially interesting they fought it the last eight years (for former president George W. Bush). They ignore any lies or half truths from Bush (that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and thousands of casualties), but now they want to impeach President Obama after a little over two months (a period in which he has been working to clean up the mess left by G.W. Bush and ignored by conservatives who now apparently believe the current economic crisis started on Jan. 20 … Inauguration Day). This story shows the hatred of President Obama that is more than political … there is a lot more to it and people have to read between the lines to see the hints of racism (anti-black and anti-Arab/Muslim racism) under the surface. I doubt there were very many people of color at that rally.
Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/23/impeach-protest-obama/
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