Barack Obama
In reply to the discussion: What has Barack Obama done that gets so many people angry? [View all]Moostache
(10,180 posts)As was the disdain for Carter....the hate for LBJ's Great Society....the assassination of JFK
There is a single immutable fact that the GOP and its ideological drivers and financial policy makers (that is an INTENTIONAL juxtapositioning on my part...the way the GOP is run now, the $$$ makes the policy and the ideologues drive the bus...it used to be closer to the other way around in my mind)...they HATE the New Deal policies of FDR, anything that seeks to maintain or expand them in practice or in principle and have spent the last 70+ years trying to undo them and "take back" their vision of the country.
Barrack Obama is merely the racial embodiment of all their warped views.
I do not discount one bit the hateful treatment and disrespect he has endured - he is so much better a man than I could ever aspire to because I have no doubt that I would have choked McConnell and Boehner more than once if it was me dealing with them and not President Obama...but things are ALWAYS like this for Democrats in the White House...my bigger gripe is that the Democrats do not repay the treatment even 50% when the roles are reversed.
The Republican Party would rather burn the country to the ground and "win" the argument than govern. Everything else is just outward projection of the inner nastiness inherent in their worldview. To be surprised by their racist, homophobic and xenophobic rantings would be akin to being shocked that a wild Lion would kill domesticated livestock.