I mean other than the fact that you might be prejudiced, a redneck or a Republican.
Obama made my mother dance on street corners for quarters. If that seems trivial to you, I don’t want to know you.
Americans have been indoctrinated with the idea that we are the Chosen Ones. This is The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We are Rugged Individualists who can achieve anything and everything we want if only we work hard enough. We’re generous to our friends, but when it comes to ourselves those who cannot ‘make it’ are Not Good Enough. They don’t deserve to be Americans. We fear Communism and Socialism, and we see no shades of grey. You’re either with us, or agin’ us. We gladly accept myriad ‘socialist’ things. Some grudgingly accept others. But gods forbid we call them ‘socialist’! As a whole we do not understand the difference between Socialism and socialism. To many, Socialism means North Korea and Sweden doesn’t come into the picture. To others, they hate any form of non-American Socialism on the general principals of Freedom and Independence.
So when someone comes along who points out that many of the ‘socialist’ programs are very popular, and strives to make America a better place, it goes against people’s upbringing. We seek simple answers to complex problems. We are unwilling to work for the greater good. We lack empathy. We want our bread and circuses, and don’t care if other people get theirs. ‘I’m all right, Jack. Keep your hands off of my stack!’ It’s easier to hate Obama than it is to take on difficult tasks like we did 40 or 50 or 80 years ago.
It is easier and convenient to point to the man at the top for every social injustice, natural disaster, school test failure, tax increase and spending cut …just like everyone did (and still does) with George Bush.
I like Obama. But from a personality point of view? The man isn’t very interesting. Maybe he has to be that way, sort of a Jackie Robinson breaking the barrier way. Bland is easier to accept among the masses. But still, not an interesting guy. He seems nice and all, but dull.
I’m none of the three, and hate who he is (not necessarily “him,” but “who he is”) because he’s a wanna-be leftist idiot who can’t accomplish anything for anyone. His one “big picture” accomplishment is not wanted by the majority. He’s continuing Bush’s errors, and augmenting many of them.
Oh, and I’m in China now, so screw you, Secret Service; maybe someone has concrete plans to assassinate him. Except Biden would then be in charge. :smack:
He’s done things I dislike and things that have disappointed me, but nothing to inspire full-blown hatred.
Unless you’re partisan enough to blame everything about the current state of the nation entirely on Obama, the worst you could say is that he’s done a half-assed job.
So you hate him for things he’s never claimed to be and lies that others tell about him? Good to know.
How strong is the OP using the word “hate”? I disagree with most of Obama’s policies. It is unlikely in the extreme that I will vote for him again, and I feel that overall he has made a mess of things, but I don’t “hate” him personally or as a President.
Actually I sort of like the guy personally, but I won’t vote for him again. Do I count as one who “hate[s]” Obama?
At the senior center across the street from my house about 75 people switched from Democrat to republican when someone circulated pictures of his relatives in Africa. I don’t think his inability to correct the Bush economic disasters and end the Bush wars have anything to do with the hatred. The people really do hate him because of his fathers ethnicity. If you were around in the 50s and 60s you would recognize the patterns of racial hatred.
Hmmm…despite the fact that I was recently called “an obamist rat with an agenda of libtard intolerance” :D, I’m not really an Obama fan. Disagree with most of his policies, not likely to vote for him in 2012.
That said, I don’t hate the man. I respect his accomplishments, and I’d be proud to shake his hand if given the opportunity to meet him. His politics differ from mine. Rational minds can differ.
I didn’t vote for him, and I don’t hate him. If anything, I feel kind of sorry for him.
I voted for him, and I may vote for him again. He inherited quite a mess, and the fact that he hasn’t done all that much to improve things worries me.
However I certainly don’t “hate” him. That is much too strong a word.
I don’t “hate” anyone really. And I couldn’t possibly “hate” our president. Absolutely not!!!
I think I quite plainly said that I didn’t hate him.
Fine. You hate who he is for things he’s never claimed to be and lies that others tell about him? Good to know.
Better?
Yeah. As far as I can tell, there is no difference between hating someone and hating who they are. Who I am is me.
You’ll have to define your terms if you want us to think you just aren’t comfortable with saying you hate people.
No current reason to hate him, because hate is a incredibly strong word.
I disapprove of some policies. I don’t like the overall economic climate. There might be too little anyone can do about any of it – 9% unemployment might be the baseline going forward. The global economic picture has changed so much that you can’t just wait out a recession, and it’s the economy that will draw him the most criticism.
But hate? Nope. I don’t hate misguided people.
His decision to shield Bush’s torturers comes to mind. His general continuation of many of Bush’s worst human rights violations; Gitmo is still full of victims, we’re still sending people off to be imprisoned without evidence and tortured using “extraordinary rendition”. Obama’s destructive sucking up to corporate America, and his even more disgusting grovelling before the Republicans.
Yes, but you have family here and he knows where they live.
It seems like most of the hatred of Obama comes from disappointed liberals. Most conservates I know (including myself) just think of him as a weak leader with ill-conceived policies.